The main thing from the statement of the Ministry of Defense on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine:
- in the Nikolo-Vasilyevsky monastery of the Volnovakhsky district of the DPR, neo-Nazis blocked more than 450 civilians. Among them are children, women with babies, old people and seriously ill people;
- the monastery and the only road leading to it are constantly fired from mortars and heavy machine guns, there are dead and wounded;
– units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to equip firing positions in schools (Zaporozhye), hospitals and blood transfusion stations (Kramatorsk), local residents, medical staff and patients are forcibly kept as human shields;
- in Kharkov, the formation of three new national battalions, staffed by prisoners who served sentences for grave and especially grave crimes, is being completed;
- the main tasks of these battalions are blocking Kharkov from the south side and preventing the exit of the local population from the city, as well as the destruction of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the event of their retreat or attempt to surrender;
- per day, the Russian Armed Forces evacuated 17,852 people from the DPR, LPR and dangerous regions of Ukraine, of which 2,986 were children;
- 137,199 people left Mariupol through the gum corridor, 915 in a day;
- 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen who voluntarily surrendered were taken to places of temporary detention;
Since March 2, the Russian Federation has delivered 11,437.8 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine.
Galip SV