Invaders continue offensive, but pace of advance slowed significantly - General Staff

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote this on Facebook.

“The Defense Forces continues to conduct a defense operation within the Southern, Eastern and Northern Operational Zones along defined boundaries. The heroic defense of the city of Chernihiv continues in the Siversky direction,” the report says.

Also, the Kyiv City Defence Forces continue to defend the capital along the outer border of the defense and in additionally defined areas.

In the Southern operational zone, the defensive operation along the state border is carried out and the sea coast is covered, defensive fights in suburbs of Mykolaiv are conducted.

“In other areas, the stabilization operation is underway and territorial defense tasks are being carried out in the designated operational zone. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repulses missile and air strikes and means of air attack of the enemy, air cover of critical objects of Ukraine and groups of troops,” the report says.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stressed that the occupiers are demoralized and increasingly looting and violating the rules of international humanitarian law on military conflict.

Thus, in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions, in the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian invaders, there are the facts of robberies, violence against local residents, seizure of civilian housing, use of agricultural hangars for parking military equipment, and firing positions in the area are widely recorded and civil infrastructure facilities.

“In the territories of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, which are temporarily occupied by the enemy, after February 24, 2022, the occupiers use units of psychological operation units to influence the local population. According to the available information, up to 10 tactical groups of psychological operations with the tasks related to conducting propaganda work with the local population have been created,” the report says.

As reported, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine and launched a large-scale invasion.

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