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29 February 2024
The Pentagon is weighing whether to tap into the last remaining source of funding it has for military aid to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia even without guarantees that those funds will be replenished by Congress.
Since the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, Russia’s overall combat losses in Ukraine have amounted to 413,760.
Ukraine’s Air Force says another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber was shot down on February 29.
During the past 24 hours, 99 combat clashes took place while Russia’s invasion forces launched a total of 105 airstrikes, 10 missile strikes, as well as 163 attacks involving multiple rocket launchers.
Ukraine will never agree to a "frozen" conflict with Russia, recognizing the occupation of its territories.
The Ukrainian delegation to the OSCE has informed members of the organization of the cases where Russian invaders killed Ukrainian prisoners of war.
The Ternopil community purchased and donated 100 FPV drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a total cost of UAH 1.335 million.
28 February 2024
During the air alert in Poltava region, a number of explosions were reported.
The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, Ukraine’s Armed Forces, pushed Russian invasion unots from Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region, inflicting massive losses on the enemy and regaining control of the settlement.
On Wednesday, February 28, Ukraine reported 79 combat engagements, most of them in the Novopavlivka and Avdiivka directions.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, north of Sevastopol, Russian troops are patrolling the sea with an Iranian Mohajer-6 UAV.
Belgium will allocate EUR 200 million to the Czech Republic's initiative to quickly deliver hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called on partners not to allow delays in the supply of weapons to Ukraine in order not to give Putin a reason to consider the possibility of putting pressure on Europe and the West.
Russian invasion troops fired off an artillery barrage at the town of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, Wednesday afternoon, killing a local woman, 61.
On the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region, the Defense Forces destroyed two drone launch pads, a military supply hub, and an e-warfare maneuver group.
Russian warplanes bombed Kupiansk in Kharkiv region, killing two local man, including a priest, and injuring a woman. More people could be affected as work is ongoing to clear the rubble.
A fire station in the town of Kurakhove, Donetsk region, was damaged by Russian shelling.
The Netherlands ordered nine DITA self-propelled artillery systems from the Czech Republic to be delivered to Ukraine.
In the Sumy region, the shelling by Russian forces caused damage to 25 private houses, an apartment block, an administrative building of the city council, a shop, a club, and a farm.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated more than 560 Russian invaders, 38 units of military equipment and 358 UAVs in the Tavria sector over the past day.
In Kherson, two residential buildings burned down at night as a result of shelling.
The Russian army is trying to take advantage of the tactical advantages gained after the capture of Avdiivka and maintains a relatively high rate of offensive operations to advance as far as possible in the city before Ukrainian troops establish more cohesive and difficult to pass defensive lines in the area.
On February 27, one civilian was killed and five others were injured in the Donetsk region by Russian invaders.
From February 24, 2022 to February 28, 2024, Russia’s military casualties in Ukraine totaled about 412,610, including 1,060 soldiers eliminated in the past 24 hours.
On the night of February 28, 2024, the enemy attacked with S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the occupied part of Donetsk region and 10 Shahed combat UAVs from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
The enemy launched 8 missile attacks and 75 airstrikes, as well as 141 attacks involving multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and populated areas.
The Canadian Armed Forces showed how they train Ukrainian defenders to provide tactical combat casualty care.
Falling debris from a downed enemy drone in Odesa caused a short circuit in the power grid of a critical infrastructure facility, resulting in a fire that was quickly extinguished.
Another 29 civilians, including 15 children, were evacuated from the Selydove community of the Donetsk region to the Zakarpattia region.
Staffers from the Russian Red Cross, the organization directly financed from the Federal budget, could abuse Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian penal colonies, including in the temporarily occupied territories.