Bob Homans February 15
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Ukraine – 2/15 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
February 15, 2023
“They Didn’t Understand Anything, but Just Destroyed People’s Lives – How Russian Invaders Unleased Violence on Small Town Residents,” by Anne Applebaum & Nataliya Gumenyuk/”The Atlantic”
The link is from Apple News. For subscribers to the Atlantic, the article is also available directly from The Atlantic’s website.
Gumenyuk is part of the “Reckoning Project.” As the article states, “Over the past 10 months, the Reckoning Project has deployed more than a dozen journalists and field researchers to record detailed testimonies of victims of and witnesses to atrocities in areas of Ukraine that are or were under Russian occupation. Lawyers and analysts then seek to verify these accounts, with the goal of providing evidence that will be admissible in future court proceedings.”
As I have been stressing in these emails, from the start of Russia’s latest invasion, that Ukraine will never accept a negotiated settlement with Russia, involving Ukraine ceding territory to Russia. Anyone doubting this assertion should read Applebaum’s and Gumenyuk’s article.
After a negotiated settlement involving Ukraine ceding territory to Russia, Ukraine will keep fighting, and NATO will have a nasty gorilla war on its hands along its eastern flank. Ukrainian partisans will have no problems being re-supplied. Some use the comparison of Ukrainian partisans fighting the Soviets until the early 1950s, without any direct source of re-supply. A better analogy is Lithuania, where Lithuanian partisans fought the Soviets until the early 1950s. As Ukraine does, Lithuanian partisans had a direct source of re-supply. Lithuania’s Baltic coastline allowed for clandestine shipments of weapons and other supplies, mostly arranged and financed by the Lithuanian Diaspora living in the United States.
Unless they want a nasty gorilla war next door, Ukraine’s Western Partners need to ensure that weapons supplies are sustained and increased, allowing Ukraine to defeat Russia and drive Russian troops out of Ukrainian territory. There is no other solution.
Some excerpts from Applebaum’s and Gumenyuk’s article:
· “Russian soldiers were not prepared to encounter widespread resistance, and they certainly did not expect to find loyal, conscientious, popularly elected small-town and village mayors.”
· This is a link to an interview with Mayor Viktor Marunyak, the Mayor of one of the villages that have been the subject of research by the Reckoning Project. The town is located the portion of Kherson Oblast that is still occupied.
· “When Russian-speaking mayors and other elected officials flatly explained that no one in Ukraine had harmed them for using their native language, or that Russian was widely spoken in the region, the soldiers didn’t have any response. Dmytro Vasyliev, the secretary of the city council of occupied Nova Kakhovka (Kherson Oblast), recalled that his Russian was more fluent and more grammatical than the Russian of the soldier interrogating him. The soldier was a Kalmyk, one of Russia’s minority groups.”
· “Unlike their Soviet Communist forebears, who could at least name the ideology that had driven them into Poland, or Estonia, or Romania, the modern Russian army seems to have no coherent theory of government or administration, no concrete plans to run the region, even no clear idea of the meaning of Russkiy mir, the “Russian world” that some of President Vladimir Putin’s ideologues extol.”
· Russian invaders appear to conception of Ukrainian Civil Society, that has become almost a shadow government in Ukraine – “Like the Soviet officials who treated Boy Scout troops in occupied central Europe like members of a conspiracy, the Russians seemed incredulous that he was just a local volunteer, working with other local volunteers; their questions made it seem as if they had never heard of such a thing. He recalled being beaten simultaneously by four different men, struck by a baseball bat, tormented with electric shocks, and hit with a hammer in an effort to get him to admit he was part of a larger conspiracy. At least one of his ribs was broken.”
· “….the interrogators’ real problem was that they feared volunteers were outside their control: “It really pisses [the Russians] off, annoys them,” he said, that anyone can be independent of the state and of the political system—any political system. This helps explain why the list of arrested and tortured volunteers is so long, and why their testimonies are so similar across the various zones of occupation.”
· “In Vovchansk, a small frontline town in the Kharkiv region, freed in September after six months of occupation, the Reckoning Project obtained a copy of a five-year education plan for schools in the city. The document runs to 140 pages of bureaucratic language, which appears to have been mostly copied and pasted from the educational plans given to schools in Russia, as if no special thought went into the needs of schools in newly occupied territories. It calls, for example, for an annual “Day of Solidarity in the Fight Against Terrorism” to commemorate the infamous 2004 attack on a school in Beslan, in Russia’s North Ossetia region; for lessons about the Nazi blockade of Leningrad in World War II; and for a course on the “basics of the spiritual-moral culture of the peoples of Russia.” The entire document contains only two lines about Vovchansk itself—about visits to the town’s “institutions of culture” and production sites.”
· “……the extraordinary number of detention centers in occupied Ukraine represent the Russian army’s attempt to fulfill its original plan, which was “to capture and kill all the leaders” of Ukraine. But as the occupation dragged on, “the idea of leaders got bigger. It was originally ‘Zelensky and the government,’ and it quite quickly, inevitably, became ‘local leaders,’ which includes everyone from military to civil servants to journalists, to teachers—anybody who had a connection with the Ukrainian state.” “
The article could not be clearer, in describing the stakes Ukraine is fighting for. Ukraine’s Partners need to fully understand, in a granular way, what Ukraine is fighting for, and that Ukrainians won’t stop fighting until Russia is driven out of Ukraine.
News From the Battlefield
“Reporting From Ukraine” and the Latest Denys describe action in Vuhledar and Bakhmut respectively. “Reporting From Ukraine” describes the benefits of whacking senior Russian officers, as Ukraine was able to accomplish yesterday in front of Vuhledar. As has been reported extensively, during the entire course of the war, Russia’s command and control system emanates from the top, with no provision for initiatives from non-commissioned officers or junior officers. Thus, when a commander is killed an operation often loses its direction, which appeared to be the case around Vuhledar. Denys describes some Ukrainian advances north and south of Bakhmut, delaying Russian efforts to encircle the city.
2/15 Sitrep (my comments in bold face)
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon February 14 to 12:00 noon February 15, 2023
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military Administration SBU = Security Service of Ukraine
RASHISTS = russian Facists/all russian invaders
INTERNATIONAL
February 15
10:24: The European Commission has proposed to add Ukraine to the EU roaming zone.
· "When this happens, Ukrainian tourists will no longer have to pay additional funds for using a mobile phone when traveling to the EU, and EU travelers will have the same rights when visiting Ukraine," the commission reports.
· This proposal will now be considered by the EU Council.
09:34 Sky News: The United States may announce the largest package of military assistance to Ukraine - $ 10 billion - on the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
· According to journalists, anonymously US officials noted that this is an important message to the Kremlin: the United States continues to steadfastly support Ukraine.
09:17: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred in New Zealand, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
· The epicenter of the earthquake was reportedly 98 km northwest of the town of Lower Hutt near Wellington.
· By the intensity of the concussion in the epicenter, the earthquake is rated as "destructive".
08:49 Bloomberg: The European Union is exploring the possibility of imposing restrictions on Rosbank, Tinkoff Bank and the National Welfare Fund of the Russian Federation within the framework of the 10th package of sanctions.
· According to the document, the EU also plans to order banks to provide information about the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. It does not specify which banks will be affected by a possible order.
08:11 Japan's chief cabinet secretary: Since 2019, Chinese balloons have entered Japanese airspace at least three times illegally for surveillance, which is unacceptable.
February 14
23:46 Die Welt: The Netherlands and Denmark will not supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
· "The governments of the Netherlands and Denmark have announced that none of the countries will supply Leopard 2. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, for example, said his country could provide 18 Leopard 2s leased from Germany, which were still used in German-Dutch. battalion... But The Hague said that these tanks are not available to Ukraine," the publication says.
21:57: In the Turkish city of Antakya, Ukrainian rescuers helped find and rescue a woman who survived the earthquake from under the rubble. She was under the rubble for 9 days.
20:58 The Guardian: A British citizen has been killed in Ukraine, citing the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
· His name and circumstances of his death have not yet been confirmed. Representatives of the ministry are in contact with local authorities in Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said.
20:47: The European Union will create a special group to confiscate Russian assets and transfer them to Ukraine.
· This was discussed today at a meeting of the Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Council.
· The Ministers focused on the implementation and consequences of sanctions adopted after Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
20:09 WSJ: The U.S. is considering handing over thousands of seized weapons and more than a million ammunition to Ukraine.
· The gun was once intended for Iranian-backed militants in Yemen.
· The transfer is subject to the U.S. finding a legal framework under which to make the transfer. The weapons were confiscated under the authority of the UN. UN rules state that the member responsible for the confiscation must destroy all the weapons.
19:59: The U.S. has yet to see clear signs that Russia is preparing a new large-scale offensive against Kyiv.
· This was stated by chairman of the US Committee of Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
· "I would never discount Russia's ability to attack Kiev. But at the moment we do not see significant signs and signals," he said.
19:49 Greek Ministry of Defense: Greece has provided ammunition and 20 BMP-1 armored vehicles as part of military assistance to Ukraine.
· At the conference of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine, Greek Defense Minister Nikolaos Panayotopoulos stressed that Greece would continue to support the righteous struggle of the Ukrainian people to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
19:29: The number of earthquake victims in Turkey is 35,418, President Erdogan said.
19:18: The reason for the temporary closure of Moldovan airspace was an unknown aircraft similar to a meteozond, the Moldovan Civil Aviation Authority said.
· "National authorities have acted strictly in accordance with specific procedures applicable to such situations. Currently, flights are carried out safely and reliably," the explanation says.
19:08 CNN: There is no indication that the Russians are preparing a massive air attack, U.S. Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin said.
· "As for whether Russia is assembling its aircraft for some massive air attack, we are not seeing this at the moment. But we know that they are armed with a significant number of aircraft and many other capabilities."
18:37: Ukraine's allies do not yet have announcements about possible supplies of fighters, but work is underway to meet all the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
· This was stated by US Pentagon Chairman Lloyd Austin during a briefing.
· "It's a matter of airplanes. I don't have any ads today. We will continue to work in this group to meet all the needs of Ukraine," Austin said.
18:01: Oleksii Reznikov reports that NATO has declared Russia the greatest and most direct threat.
· "While our soldiers are defending peace in Europe, Ukraine has de facto joined NATO. I am doing my best to make this happen de jure," he wrote.
17:27: Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "During a meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie, he spoke about the urgent needs of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
· Further cooperation in the field of security and defense was discussed in detail. Canada's support for the Ukrainian army is invaluable in these difficult times for us."
17:06: At a training meeting in Turkey, a fight took place between the players of FC "Minai" and the players of the Russian "Shinnik".
· The clash occurred due to the shameful behavior of the football players of the Russian team — they insulted the employee of the Royal Sigunas hotel and provoked Zakarpattia residents with exclamations addressed to them, the press service of FC Minai said.
· Statements by Russian media that someone was allegedly forced to sing Ukrainian anthem, and about a fight in the elevator at the club were called delusional. "The fight did take place, but already on the floor where the Russians stayed, and in equal warehouses. The number of victims from the side of "Shinnik" only confirms the fact that the Russians are also brossing," the press service of the club added.
16:35: An earthquake with a tremor force of 5.6 points occurred in Romania, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Institute.
· The epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km northwest of the city of Tirgu Žiu, located in the southwest of the country in the province of Wallachia, the report said.
16:24: Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov hinted to journalists about the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine.
16:16: The Netherlands has received Ukraine's request for the supply of F-16 fighter jets, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said on the Ramstein fields.
· The issue will be discussed with the U.S. "behind closed doors," Ollongren added.
15:55 Digi24: A balloon is spotted in Romanian airspace.
· Fighters took to the sky.
15:15: Moldovan airspace has already been opened, the flight ban has been lifted, says the Civil Aviation Authority.
· The Moldovan government explained that the restrictions were in place "to ensure the safety and protection of civil aviation."
15:06 The Financial Express: Bangladesh has joined the sanctions and closed ports to Russian vessels.
· The Bangladeshi government has banned 69 Russian ships from entering their ports under EU and US sanctions. Vessels will not be able to import cargo, stop for refueling and use sea routes in the area.
· The ban applies to a wide range of vessels, including oil tankers and cargo ships.
14:33: Air Moldova has officially confirmed the closure of Moldovan airspace.
14:19: Airspace has been closed in Moldova.
· In the sky over the country, a Russian intelligence drone is seen – local media.
14:10 Norwegian Ministry of Defense: Norway has decided to transfer eight Leopard 2 tanks and up to four special purpose tanks to Ukraine.
· "Since it is now more important than ever to support Ukraine's struggle for freedom, we decided to transfer 8 tanks and up to 4 special purpose tanks to Ukraine. Several other Allied countries also decided to transfer tanks."
12:56 Reuters: German authorities have decided to resume production of ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft guns, which the country supplies to the Armed Forces as part of military assistance.
· German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius confirmed that the country has already concluded a corresponding agreement with Rheinmetall.
12:42: Eight countries will supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine - Germany, Poland, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said.
· He added that the United States, Poland and the Czech Republic will also supply tanks in addition to those sent.
NATIONAL
February 15
11:01 Minister of Energy: For the fourth day in a row, Ukraine's energy system will operate with zero deficit.
· "All nine NPP power units are operating, providing more than half of the volume of electricity produced in Ukraine. Favorable weather conditions this winter allow hydrogeneration to work powerfully, the volume of electricity production from renewable sources is growing," he said.
09:50: Today at "Ramstein" will discuss the issue of supplying tanks to Ukraine, - Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov.
07:26 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces have repulsed Russian attacks in areas of more than 20 settlements.
· Among them - Gryannikovka of the Kharkov region; Nevsky, Kreminna, Bilohorivka, Luhansk region; Fedorivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Vodiane, Pervomaiske, Marinka, Pobeda, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar and Prechistivka of Donetsk region.
· In the area of the settlement Krasnaya Zorka, Simferopol district of the temporarily occupied territory of the Federal Republic of Crimea, the enemy uses incineration to hide the number of dead.
· Near the local crematorium there is a constant queue of military vehicles of up to 10 units. With these trucks, the Russians bring the dead Russian servicemen and mercenaries. Cremation is carried out around the clock.
· During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine inflicted 8 strikes on areas of concentration of Russian personnel and military equipment.
· And Ukrainian rocket launchers and artillerymen hit the control point, 2 areas of concentration of enemy manpower, 6 ammunition depots and 2 stations of electronic warfare of the Russian Federation.
February 14
23:31: The High Anti-Corruption Court has elected Judge Vira Mykhailenko as the new Head of the Court. This was reported by the press center of the HACC.
· The relevant decision was made today at the general meeting of judges. Mykhailenko has been a judge of the HACC since 2019.
22:14: No blackouts are planned tomorrow, February 15, in Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne regions. This is reported by energy companies and local authorities.
· In Odesa region, stabilization shutdowns will be applied.
19:39: After the attacks on the energy system, Russians want to deprive Ukrainians of water, Denys Shmyhal said.
· "Russians are draining water from the Kakhovka reservoir in order to deprive Ukrainians who receive water from the Dnieper of access to water supply," the Prime Minister said.
18:53 Prime Minister of Ukraine: Ukraine will allow private investors to develop deposits of titanium, uranium, vanadium, lithium, and salt.
· "26 fields will be provided for use under the terms of production-sharing agreements. This will create ample opportunities for the investor in the implementation of the project, and the state will receive its share, which will be used for economic development," he added.
18:10 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Russia, despite significant losses, has not yet abandoned its intentions to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
· Significantly continues to focus its main efforts on the conduct of offensive operations in the Kupyansk, Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsky directions. Enemy aircraft are actively operating.
· During the day, Russian troops launched 2 missile strikes on the civilian infrastructure of Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.
· There are wounded among the civilian population. The palace of culture, where the center for issuing humanitarian aid operates, was damaged. The premises of the medical institution were also affected.
· the enemy carried out a total of more than 25 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems, in particular, at civilian targets in Kherson, Ochakov and Beryslav. Enemy shells damaged private and high-rise buildings, and there are wounded.
· During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 8 strikes on areas of concentration of Russian personnel and military equipment, and units of rocket troops and artillery struck the area of concentration of manpower, 3 ammunition depots and 2 stations of the Russian EW.
17:37: The Cabinet of Ministers appoints General Oleksandr Pavliuk as First Deputy Minister of Defense.
· This was announced by the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk.
· The government also appointed Bohdan Drapyatyi, Kateryna Pavlichenko, Oleksiy Sergeyev, Vasyl Teterya and Leonid Tymchenko as deputy ministers of internal affairs. Inna Yashchuk became the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
16:05 Air Force spokesman: In the airspace of Ukraine today, air targets such as bullets with corner reflectors launched by the enemy are recorded.
· "These are probably balloons with corner reflectors that we talked about recently. Ukrainian air defense radarily observes these air targets moving in air currents at low speed," yurii Ignat said.
· He added that such bullets are used to conduct reconnaissance and distract Ukrainian air defense.
12:28: Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov confirmed the appointment of three new deputies.
12:14: Yesterday, units of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eastern direction destroyed two enemy aircraft - a Su-25 attack aircraft and a Su-24M bomber.
MORDOR (russia)
February 15
10:13 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol
07:49 Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region of the Russian Federation: Last night in the Russian city of Kolomna, Moscow region, there was a fire on the territory of the administrative building of the railway car repair plant.
· It is noted that the area of fire in Kolomna is more than 900 square meters. The fire partially destroyed the ceilings between the first and second floors of the building.
00:46 CNN: The Russian government runs an extensive network of dozens of camps where it has held thousands of Ukrainian children since the beginning of the war.
· Such data are released in a report prepared by the U.S. Department of State-backed Conflict Observatory and Yale Laboratory for Humanitarian Research. The observatory was created last year to collect evidence of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.
February 14
23:16: Pavlo Zaporozhets, a veteran kidnapped in Kherson, is "tried" in Russia, — Crimean Human Rights Group
· The Russians threaten him with "life imprisonment" for participating in a terrorist act. In early February 2022, a "preliminary hearing" was held in Rostov, where the so-called "judge" left the man in custody for 6 months.
23:01: A video of the damaged Su-24 bomber of the Wagner PMC, which was shot down over Bakhmut by the Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday, has appeared on the network.
· Earlier, from the cockpit of this plane, Prigozhin called Zelensky to a duel. And today, the destruction of the Su-24 bomber was confirmed by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
5:48: Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said he had created the "Internet Research Agency," better known as the "troll factory," which is accused of interfering in U.S. elections, Prigozhin's press office.
· According to him, the "troll factory" was created to "protect the Russian information space from the aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian theses by the West."
14:50: The SBU reported the suspicion to the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Sergei Rudsky, - the press service of the Security Service of Ukraine.
· It was he who gave orders for the planning, preparation and conduct of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
· According to his instructions, they carried out combat training of the occupying groups and provided them with weapons and ammunition.
KHARKIV
February 15
10:05 Kharkiv RMA: The Russians were shot dead by Kupyansk. As a result of the attack, the residents of the house were killed, as well as the fires were successful.
· In addition, for the past days, the invaders from tanks, mines and artillery shot 20 settlements. In particular, iz-за обстрелов значительные повреждения получил многоэтажный residential house in Kupyanske.
DONETSK
February 14
9:47: The last child was evacuated from Vuhledar, for which fierce fighting continues. A 15-year-old was taken out along with his family, the National Police said.
· It is noted that another 300 adult residents remain in the city who refuse to evacuate.
21:27: Near Bakhmut, border guards destroyed four Russian invaders during an enemy assault, and wounded five more, according to the SBGS.
· "Close combat. On the approaches to Bakhmut, the border guards repulsed another attack by attack aircraft who tried to occupy our stronghold. The enemy withdrew with losses: 4 killed and 5 wounded," the message says.
17:15: Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko announced the death of the Russian-appointed "mayor" of Mariupol Konstantin Ivaschenko in April.
15:36 Donetsk RMA: Today, Russian troops shelled Kramatorsk and hit the premises of a medical facility.
13:56: The SBU detained a Russian agent in Sloviansk who was collecting intelligence for the enemy and seeking to join the occupation forces, the SBU press service said.
· He handed over to the enemy the locations of civilian and critical infrastructure near the front line.
· The invaders used this information to inflict massive missile and artillery strikes and prepare sabotage.
13:27 British intelligence: Russia has not accumulated enough forces to break through in any of the directions.
· It is noted that over the past three days, Wagnerians have achieved small successes near Bakhmut, near the village of Krasnaya Gora. However, Ukrainian defenders are defending in this direction. It is also noted that enemy troops are constantly trying to attack in the direction of Kreminna - Svatove, in the Luhansk region. However, at the moment these are only local battles, whose scale is too small to achieve a significant breakthrough.
13:10 Donetsk RMA: In Bakhmut, which is now the hottest front point in Ukraine, there are still about 5 thousand inhabitants, including 140 children.
· According to him, despite the fact that the entrance to the city was closed, people with a local residence permit are allowed to do so.
12:48 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Kramatorsk.
DNIPRO
February 14
12:16 Social Networks: The sound of an explosion was heard in Dnipro.
KHERSON
February 15
10:39 Kherson RMA: Russian troops have shelled Kherson and the region 38 times over the past day.
· "Last day in the Kherson region, due to Russian shelling, 2 people were injured of varying severity," the message says.
00:31 Regional police: A man who launched fireworks in the courtyard of a residential building was detained in Kharkiv.
· "Law enforcement officers found a man with the remains of used fireworks lying next to him. In a conversation with inspectors, the man admitted that it was he who launched fireworks to hit the girl," the report said.
00:13 Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in Kherson.
10:42: Explosions are heard in Kherson, according to subscribers. We are waiting for official information.
February 14
22:47 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Oleshky, Kherson region.
22:36: A ban on photo, video recording and the use of DVRs on vehicles has been introduced in Kherson.
· This was reported on Facebook by the Kherson City Council with reference to the order of the city military administration.
22:21 Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in Kherson.
21:17 Kherson RMA: Twice a day, the Russian army shelled one of Kherson's medical facilities.
· Due to Russian shelling, the roof of one of the buildings was damaged, and windows were knocked out by a blast wave and fragments of shells.
· During the Russian attack, 26 patients and 7 health workers were in the hospital. No one was injured.
16:46: The Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office has published the consequences of the shelling of an ambulance station in Beryslav by Russian troops.
15:47 Kherson RMA: Today, Russians shelled an ambulance station in Beryslav with artillery.
· Due to the Russian attack, the station's premises were damaged, and medical cars were also damaged. The driver of the ambulance was lightly injured.
13:41 Kherson RMA: In the morning, Russian troops shelled a medical facility in Kherson.
· "At this time, doctors were taking patients, so it was quite crowded. There are no casualties. On the ground, next to the building of the medical institution, there is glass from broken windows and fragments of enemy shells," the message says.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
https://cutt.ly/Blyskavka