28 February: Heavy fighting in Bakhmut, paratroopers landing near Ukraine's border

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Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Tuesday, February 28, 2023.
Illustrated Photo / Photo: Zelensky’s official Telegram channel

Illustrated Photo / Photo: Zelensky’s official Telegram channel

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By Pavlo Vitenko

Summary by regions

Luhansk Region

Yesterday, in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Kreminna, Dibrova, and Bilohorivka.

He carried out artillery shelling in the areas of Novoselivske, Nevske, Chervonopopivka and Dibrova. The situation in the region remains tense.

Donetsk Region

At night – shelling of the village Shevchenkove of the Pokrovsk community. One and a half dozen houses were damaged. Also at night, the city of Sviatohorsk was shelled by rockets, previously by S-300. A direct hit to the premises of the fire department. One firefighter died, four were injured.

The situation along the entire front line remains difficult. The enemy is intensively shelling positions of the Ukrainian military and settlements of front-line communities in the area of Vuhledar, Mariinka, Avdiiivka, Toretsk, Bakhmut, Soledar, Siversk, Lyman.

During the day, there was shelling of settlements in the Kurakhove community (the village of Vovchanka, the outskirts of the city of Kurakhove, the village of Kurakhivka). As a result of the shelling, one man was injured, and one man was also killed in the village of Kurakhivka. A private house in the village of Vovchenka, one two-story apartment building and two private residential buildings in the village of Kurakhivka were damaged. The administrative building of the Starostat in the village of Kurakhivka was damaged. The electrical networks of the community were damaged.

Also in the past day, the village of Vasyukivka (damaged 5 private houses), the village of Fedorovka (damaged 6 private houses), the village of Rozdolovka of the Soledar community, Kostyantynivka, and Kostyantynivka community were shelled. Private residential buildings were damaged. Over the past day in the Donetsk region: one dead, 9 injured.

Chernihiv Region

Over the past day, there have been two shellings in the Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv districts, from mortars and self-propelled guns. Two ammunition drops from drones were recorded. Without victims and destruction.

Sumy Region

At night, the settlement of the Khotyn community was shelled from a reactive volley fire system. Also at night – shelling of the Seredyno-Budsk community. That night, three raids were recorded in the village of Baranivka, Esman community. There was no destruction of infrastructure and no casualties among civilians.

Yesterday, during the day, the Russians shelled 6 territorial communities of the region: Bilopillia, Shalyhyne, Nova Sloboda, Krasnopillia, Seredyno-Budsk, Hlukhiv. 86 arrivals were recorded.

Two private houses were damaged in the village of Porohony of the Seredyno-Budsk community. In the village of Manukhivka of the Nova Sloboda community, a house and a business premises were damaged due to shelling from mortars.

In the village of Budivelne of the Hlukhiv community, the asphalt road surface was also damaged due to mortar attacks, and windows were broken in houses.

Kharkiv Region

This morning in the village A 60-year-old man who was on his plot of land was blown up by an anti-personnel mine in Volokhiv Yar, Chuhuiv district. Hospitalized with a shrapnel wound.

Last day, the occupiers shelled the settlements of Chervona Zorya, Veterynarne, Strelecha, Hatishche, Vovchansk and Vovchanski Khutory in the Slobozhansk direction.

In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy fired artillery at the areas of Dvorichna, Kupiansk, Lyman Pershyi, Hryanikyvka, Kurylivka, Kislivka and Tabaivka settlements.

Yesterday afternoon, the village was shelled, previously with mortars. Vovchanski Khutory of Chuhuiv district, 8 residential buildings and farm buildings were damaged.

In Kupiansk, a private residential building was damaged as a result of enemy shelling. No casualties.

Dnipropetrovsk Region

Yesterday afternoon, aggressors attacked the Nikopol district – Nikopol itself and the Marhanets community in the Synelnykove region. The Velyka Mykhailivka community came under attack there. In total, the Russian army fired 5 rounds of heavy artillery. It fired 40 shells. A dozen houses, farm buildings, several cars, and a gas pipeline were damaged. There were no casualties.

At night, the residents of the region heard two explosions – it was the work of the Air Defense Forces. Two enemy UAVs were destroyed by Operational Command «Shid». By morning, the enemy hit Nikopol three times with heavy artillery. There were no casualties, but there was destruction.

A hotel, three private houses, an outbuilding and a car were damaged in the city. Broken power lines. Data on the consequences are being clarified.

Zaporizhzhia Region

During the day, the occupiers shelled the civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Chervone, Novodanylivka, Malynivka, Charivne, Zaliznychne, Gulyaipole, Bilohirya, Novoandriivka, Olhivske, Mala Tokmachka, Chervone, Poltavka, Orikhiv, Kamianske, Stepove, and there is destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling. Other consequences are established.

Mykolayiv Region

Yesterday, during the day and this morning, the enemy attacked the water area of Ochakiv community and the coast of Kutsurub community with rocket launchers and other types of artillery. There are no casualties.

Kherson Region

According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 25 settlements of the region, located on the right bank of the Dnipro River, were damaged by the artillery fire of the Russian occupying forces. In particular, Havrylivka, Kachkarivka, Beryslav, Vesele, Tyahinka, Inzhenerne, Antonivka, Berehove and the city of Kherson.

As a result, the artillery of Russian shelling of the village of Kozatske and the village of Vesele of Kakhovsky district – five objects in the private sector were destroyed.

Three people were injured in the past day due to the aggression of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region.

39 people were evacuated by motor vehicles from the de-occupied territories of the Kherson region, 10 of them are children and 1 person with reduced mobility.

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An amphibious landing took place in Belarus near the border of Ukraine

Probably, the reason for the air alarm in the Volyn and Rivne regions was the amphibious landing exercises in Belarus.

On February 28, the landing of paratroopers took place in the Brest region of Belarus, which borders Ukraine, within the framework of military exercises of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

This is reported by Brestcity with reference to the press service of the 38th Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade.

Planned military jumps were scheduled from 12:00 to 18:00.

«According to the information of the leadership of the 38th Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade, planned jumps will be made from the Il-76MD aircraft and the Mi-8MTV helicopter in the period from 12.00 to 18.00 by the fighters of this unit. Paratroopers from the military transport aviation will land at the Brest training ground «. There are no grounds for any concern,» the message reads.

Videos of the flight of the Il-76MD military transport aircraft appeared on the Internet. According to the authors, the footage was shot in Brest. The plane flew over the city at a fairly low altitude.

By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News

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