The advanced detachments of the People's Militia of the DPR reached the administrative border of the Donetsk region and connected with the units of the Russian army, completely cutting off the Ukrainian military access to the Sea of Azov
MOSCOW, March 1. /tass/. The advanced detachments of the People's Militia of the DPR on Tuesday reached the administrative border of the Donetsk region and joined units of the Russian army, completely cutting off the Ukrainian military access to the Sea of Azov. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov.
The military department warned about targeted strikes on the objects of the Security Service and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev and urged residents of the surrounding areas to leave their homes.
At the same time, a new round of talks between Moscow and Kiev has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 2, according to a TASS source from the Russian side. It is expected that they will take place on the Belarusian-Polish border.
TASS has collected the main events of the sixth day of the Russian operation in Ukraine.
Fighting
- Russian and Donetsk troops have cut off Ukrainian access to the Sea of Azov. Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, said that two humanitarian corridors will be organized for residents of Mariupol, along which it will be possible to leave the city until Wednesday.
- The forces of the Luhansk People's Republic, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, have advanced more than 60 km since the beginning of the operation, and they have overcome 19 km over the past day.
- In the afternoon, the military department warned about high-precision weapons strikes on the technological facilities of the SBU and the 72nd main center for information and psychological operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev and called on residents of the city living "near the relay nodes" to leave their homes. Later it became known that television broadcasting had stopped in the Ukrainian capital.
- The number of disabled military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, reached 1,325 (1,146 were reported on Monday evening). In addition, as Konashenkov stated, almost 400 tanks and armored vehicles and about 240 pieces of artillery and multiple rocket launchers were destroyed.
- Earlier, the ministry announced losses among the participants of the operation, but did not provide details. During the day, reports of dead servicemen were received from the authorities of a number of regions, including Chechnya, Ingushetia, Krasnodar Krai, Tatarstan, Astrakhan and Samara regions. In all cases, we are talking about one or more victims.
Prospects for negotiations
- On Monday, representatives of both Russia and Ukraine generally positively assessed the results of the first round of negotiations that took place on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. According to Vladimir Medinsky, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, who headed the Russian delegation, the parties found "some points on which common positions can be predicted," and Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that they "identified a number of priority topics on which certain decisions have been outlined."
- Later, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, however, noted that Kiev has not yet received the result that he would like to receive, but only "some signals." In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, he called the cessation of shelling a condition for full-fledged negotiations.
- A Russian source told TASS that the new round should take place on March 2, as planned. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba did not name the date of the talks, answering the relevant question, but said he was ready for them if Moscow did not "announce its ultimatums."
Sanctions and reaction to them
- The West imposed the main sanctions against Russia in the previous days, but these measures may not be the last: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has already stated that the EU will "certainly" add new packages, and the European Commission will propose to restrict the access of RT and Sputnik news agency to the European media market.
- French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that the European Union would launch a "total economic and financial war" against Moscow. In response, the Deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev urged not to forget that "economic wars in the history of mankind often turned into real ones."
- The UK on Monday included Sberbank, Otkritie, Sovcombank and VEB.RF in the sanctions list. In addition to them, Promsvyazbank, Novikombank, VTB and all subsidiaries are on the blacklist of South Korea.
- Anti-Russian decisions continue in a variety of areas - from the suspension by the largest American studios of their films in Russia to the suspension by the Danish company Maersk of accepting new orders for the transportation of goods to and from the country.
- Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will head the operational headquarters for countering sanctions, his deputies will be First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
- On Tuesday evening, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on additional temporary measures to ensure the financial stability of the country. According to it, it is now prohibited to export foreign cash currency from the Russian Federation in the amount of more than $ 10 thousand. There is also a special procedure for transactions involving shares and real estate with foreign persons from unfriendly countries.
