Four out of four Shahed drones downed over Poltava region overnight Wed - Air Force
Air Force Command Center says Ukraine’s forces shot down four of the four incoming Shahed kamikaze drones that the Russian invaders launched overnight Wednesday.
01 March 2023
Air Force Command Center says Ukraine’s forces shot down four of the four incoming Shahed kamikaze drones that the Russian invaders launched overnight Wednesday.
Russia started launching Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze UAVs from the Briansk region, hoping to shorten the distance to Kyiv and stretch Ukrainian air defense forces.
The enemy shelled the town of Chuhuyiv in Kharkiv region, damaging an apartment block this morning.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 149,890 Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to March 1, 2023, including 650 soldiers over the past day alone.
The Russian army killed three civilians and injured four more in Donetsk region on February 28.
The enemy fired heavy artillery at four communities in Dnipropetrovsk region - Nikopol, Marhanets, Myrove and Chervonohryhorivka.
The Ukrainian Air Force launched 11 strikes on the positions of Russian occupiers in the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian air defense forces shot down at least five Russian drones over Poltava region on the night of March 1.
28 February 2023
Fighters with the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces have destroyed five tanks and seven infantry fighting vehicles of the Russian invaders in a battle near Marinka, Donetsk region.
Ukraine's military leadership has started preparing soldiers for actions to liberate Ukraine from Russian occupiers.
First satellite images have been released showing the Machulishchy airfield in Belarus after a likely drone attack.
The United States is completing a training course for Ukrainian air defense specialists on the Patriot air defense system, which is taking place at Fort Still, Oklahoma.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Air Force has launched three strikes on enemy clusters. The Ukrainian missile and artillery units hit one Russian personnel cluster, one ammunition and military equipment cluster, and two air defense missile system positions.
Two more torture chambers have been discovered in the Kharkiv region, where Russian invaders used to keep Ukrainians during occupation. Twenty-seven torture chambers were found in total.
The explosives experts have destroyed the fragments of an Iranian-manufactured Shahed suicide drone found in the Kyiv region after Russian overnight attacks on Monday, February 27, 2023.
After Ukraine's victory in the war unleashed by Russia, democratic nations must prevent such events from repeating, break the circle of Russian aggression, and strengthen Ukraine’s security.
As of now, there are no signs that China will agree to send any weapons to the Russian Federation.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the defending nation’s Air Force has carried out more than 4,400 airstrikes on the enemy positions.
The Commander of Ukraine’s Air Force Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk discussed with General James Hacker, Commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe and Africa, the strengthening of the capabilities of the Ukrainian air defense capabilities in the context of the possible transfer of F-16 aircraft.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine held another meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Staff, where the likely nature of the enemy's actions in the near future were considered, as well as timely ammo and equipment supplies to Ukraine’s defense forces and the training of Ukrainian recruits abroad.
The threat of Russian missile attacks remains quite high across Ukraine as there are currently 13 enemy warships and two submarine missile carriers with eight Kalibrs on standby in the Black Sea.
In Kherson region, two people were killed and a woman was injured as a result of Russian shelling on Tuesday, February 28.
Russia has already deported more than 16,000 children from Ukraine.
The time between Russian missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine is growing, while the number of missiles in the strikes is decreasing. That’s because Russia’s stock of missiles is running low.
A man was killed, houses and a kindergarten were damaged as a result of Russian shelling of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on Tuesday.
In the temporarily captured part of Kherson region, the Russian military and collaborators are setting up their “administrations” on the Arabat Spit, as well as conduct military trainings.
The Verkhovna Rada this spring will draft a bill on amendments to Ukraine's state budget, which envisages an increase in defense expenditures.
Russian troops shelled Kherson city on Tuesday, February 28, with civilian casualties recorded.
Lockheed Martin's mobile rocket launcher plant in Camden, Arkansas is gearing up to boost production of the HIMARS system after its success on the battlefield in Ukraine drove up demand from other nations.
Russian invaders shelled the city of Sviatohirsk in the Donetsk region last night, hitting a unit of the State Emergency Service. According to preliminary information, one rescuer was killed and four others injured in the attack.