8 March: Russia again bought shells from Iran, lost up to 30 thousand troops in Bakhmut

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Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Wednesday, March 8, 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

In the Luhansk region in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, on March 7, the Russians conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of Bilohorivka and Nevske, carried out artillery shelling of the Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Chervonopopivka, and Dibrova districts.

Donetsk Region

In the Donetsk region on Wednesday morning, invaders shelled Kostyantynivka, and private houses were damaged.

Also in the morning there was shelling of Avdiivka. There is a hit.

In the morning, fighting intensified in the area of settlements of the Ocheretyn community – the villages of Krasnohorivka, Kamianka, Vesele, Vodyane. The enemy fired artillery at Krasnohorivka and Kamianka, there were hits.

During the day, the Russians carried out airstrikes, used Grad anti-aircraft missiles and artillery. Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Chasiv Yar, Memryk, Kamianka, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Lastochkine were under fire.

Sumy Region

Yesterday, during the day, the Russians shelled Bilopillia and Esman communities. 45 hits from mortars and artillery were recorded. Without losses and destruction.

Yesterday evening, the defense forces of the Sumy region in the north recorded the flights of two enemy Shahed UAVs, one of them was shot down over the territory of Shostka district.

Kharkiv Region

In the Kharkiv region, in the direction of Slobozhansk, Russian troops fired mortar and artillery at at least 18 settlements, including Udy, Veterynarne, Strelecha, Krasne, Zelene, Ustynivka, Aniskine, Shevyakivka, Dvorichna, and Zapadne.

In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of Hryanykivka, carried out artillery shelling of Hryanykivka and Krokhmalne districts.

During the day, Dvorichna of the Kupiansk district and Vovchansk of the Chuhuiv district were under intense fire from mortars, MLRS, tanks, and aircraft.

Yesterday, in the village of Snizhkivka, Izyum district, a 63-year-old man stepped on a Russian anti-personnel mine «Peliustka ‘‘ in his own yard and was hospitalized in a moderate condition.

Dnipropetrovsk Region

On Wednesday morning, the enemy shelled the Marhanets community.

Yesterday, the Russian army struck the Synelnykove district. The enemy opened fire with heavy artillery on the Velyka Mykhailivka community. Damaged power line.

Zaporizhzhia Region

In the Zaporizhia region, during the past day, aggressors fired at civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Charivne, Temyrivka, Komyshuvakha, Orikhiv, Zaliznychne, Novodanylivka, Biloghirya, Novoandriivka, Olhivske, Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaki, Preobrazhenka, Chervone, Kamianske, Stepove, Stepnohirsk.

Kherson Region

In the Kherson direction, the areas of the settlements of Kachkarivka, Mylove, Zmiivka, Ivanivka, Shlyakhove, Berislav, Shilova Balka, Tyaginka, Antonivka, Dniprovske, Bilozerka, Stanislav, Kherson were affected by the artillery fire of the Russian troops.

Over the past day, the invaders carried out 61 shellings of the Kherson region, firing 309 shells from heavy artillery and «Hrad».

The enemy shelled Kherson four times. 17 shells hit residential quarters, private and apartment buildings. One person is injured.

Another 87 people were evacuated from the territories of the region liberated from the Russians.

In the temporarily captured left-bank Kherson region, the Russian invaders continue filtering measures, carry out forced passporting and prepare people for «elections» to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

UKRAINE: Hundreds of invaders and four tanks: the General Staff counted the losses of the Russian Federation in a day – the General Staff

Zaluzhnyi avoided the trap in Bakhmut, which was being prepared by the occupiers – The Economist

In recent months, Ukraine has received a «golden» part of Western weapons and is ready for a counteroffensive – The Economist

Russia struck the Kherson region more than 60 times in a day: residential areas were affected

Battles for Bakhmut: the Russian Federation lost up to 30,000 occupiers – The Guardian journalist

WORLD: The UN believes that the video of the shooting of a Ukrainian soldier for the slogan «Glory to Ukraine!» – real

Canada saved Ukraine in the first few days of full-scale war – Ursula von der Leyen

Borrell called for funds from EU defense funds to be used for the purchase of ammunition for the Armed Forces

Politico: The US wants to install Western missiles on Ukrainian MiGs

 

Russia secretly bought 200 containers of weapons from Iran – Sky News

The aggressor country Russia took 200 containers with weapons from Iran by cargo ships.

Russia exported 200 containers of weapons from Iran. In general, this is about 100 million cartridges and 300 thousand projectiles.

Sky News writes about it.

As noted, two Russian-flagged vessels left an Iranian port in January 2023. They were loaded with containers with ammunition and shells.

In general, we are talking about 100 million cartridges and 300 thousand projectiles. The occupiers received ammunition for rocket launchers, mortars and machine guns from the Iranians. The publication’s sources claim that the Kremlin paid for them in cash to circumvent sanctions.

«Russia continues to use Iran as a rear base,» the source said.

The ammunition was loaded onto the ships Musa Jalil and Begey – they sail under Russian flags. One of them left the port in Iran approximately on January 10, the second – on January 12. They delivered approximately 200 containers filled with weapons to Astrakhan.

By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News

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