The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on March 21 2024

Explosions in Kyiv as capital comes under renewed Russian bombardment

Russia launches missile attack on Kyiv

Massive missile strike!
We reveal the targets and objects of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that were hit

Today at about 06:00 am the Russian Armed Forces attacked rear military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Strategic cruise and hypersonic missiles “Dagger” were launched and aimed at decision-making centers and facilities of the military-industrial complex of the Kiev.

Kiev military facilities were hit in the Podolsk, Shevchenkovsky, and Svyatoshinsky districts of the city.

The Farmak plant, the largest pharmaceutical enterprise, was damaged as a result of the attack, which may affect the supply of products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also tonight in Selidovo, ballistic missile attacks were carried out on the enemy’s deployment point in the building of the local police department.
It is believed that the building housing the Tsunami assault battalion, which included FPV drone operators, was destroyed.

The Russian Armed Forces attacked an industrial area in the village. Mikhailovka (enemy-occupied part of the DPR).
The facility was used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to house equipment.

Attacks were also carried out on Ukronazi targets in the Zhytomyr and Rivne regions.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported:
The strike targets were achieved, and the objects were hit.

After a massive missile attack, Kyiv got it.
As usual, many missiles were shot down right over the city and residential areas. The remains fell on houses.
The government said it had shot down all the missiles. As many as 31 – this is at least 45-62 air defense missiles spent with minimal calculations.
According to our data, the statement of the OP and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not entirely true.
If earlier this could “pass”, now, against the backdrop of a shortage of air defense ammunition, to declare that everything was shot down is idiocy.
The West will tell us that Kiev is doing well, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces shoot down everything, and not “one out of five missiles,” as the media previously stated when they asked for air defense/missile defense missiles.

Bankovaya and the General Staff are lying that they shot down everything in order to demonstrate their “coolness” and maintain the morale of society, which continues to decline.

Ukraine Pravda notes the missile attack last night mainly focused on the buildings related to Gestapo operations (GUR).

Office workers began to spread the message that Russia spent about $400 million on today’s shelling of Ukraine, but this figure is at commercial prices, and if we consider that the Russian Federation produces everything from its own components and the price is much lower, then the costs are no more than 50 -70 million ., which still remain in Russia, in the domestic economy, and do not go abroad, as in the case of Ukraine’s purchases of air defense missiles from other countries.

Ukraine spent no less, and possibly more, to repel the attack. It depends on how many air defense missiles were spent and which ones. At a discount of about $100 million, but the most important thing is that these missiles are in short supply, they must be bought for real money.

Today’s Russian missile strike also hit the warehouse of the ROZETKA marketplace.

Why the Russians are hitting the warehouses of large Ukrainian goods delivery companies is very simple. These companies transport many different “toys” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There was already a lot of information that branded vehicles from Nova Poshta and Rozetka were used to transport ammunition, equipment and equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

For example, British and French Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles were transported decentralized on civilian SUVs.

Also, many ordinary warehouses are used for the needs of the army, since they do not attract attention.

“Ukraine could fall very soon,” Politico, citing Macron.

There is truth in Macron’s words if you put all the puzzles of the picture together.
1. The shortage of ammunition, which will be situationally resolved in the summer, as we were the first to insider earlier.
2. The shortage of manpower is increasing. People refuse to fight for other people’s interests and corrupt power. In the summer, the shortage of manpower will reach 1 to 4, with large losses at the front, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now fighting with infantry.
3. The morale of society is falling, as is the army. The disappointment of the masses is growing against the backdrop of problems. Ukrainians realize that they are expendable in someone else’s game.
4. Economic problems in the country are growing.
5. Weapons supplies are decreasing from Western partners, and the Russian Federation is increasing the production of all types of weapons (bombs, ammunition, missiles, tanks, UAVs, electronic warfare, air defense, aviation, etc.).
6. Internal redistribution and the split of elites is intensifying. Everyone is busy sharing.
7. Corruption in the country is at the highest levels.
8. The devastation has increased.
9. The trend to “escape from Ukraine” is growing. Everyone is running. People and capital.
10. The world community is tired of the Ukrainian crisis. Anti-Ukrainian narratives are growing stronger everywhere.

The list goes on.
If you add everything up, the picture is very sad. Macron, he knows from his intelligence and think tanks, is why he said that Ukraine could simply collapse at one moment.

Our source in the Office of the President said that Zelensky and Yermak took the possibility of freezing the war according to Erdogan’s scheme very seriously.

After the loss of Avdiivka, in a situation with a delay in American assistance, the conditions proposed by Turkey could be quite called acceptable: Ukraine does not officially recognize any territorial gains of the Russian Federation, the status of Crimea is not mentioned in the document, Ukraine receives security guarantees and can join the EU.

 But the main thing is that the Russian Federation, according to Istanbul-2, in 2040 must again, under international control, hold referendums with residents of four regions on the question of which country they want to live in.

In fact, the conditions of Istanbul-2 are no worse for Zelensky than the conditions of the first Istanbul and allow him to retain power. Ermak and the OP technologists considered that the failure to reach the 1991 borders could be attributed to weakened assistance from partners. Thus, Bankova would be able to present Istanbul-2 approximately as Poroshenko once “sold” the Minsk agreements – as an agreement that would allow Ukraine to gain strength at a critical moment.

The truth is that peace was close, but at the last moment the United States came out strongly against such approaches to the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine. In this situation, the “gray eminence” Ermak had to give in to the White House, but Bankovaya was able in return to negotiate from the Biden administration the allocation of urgent assistance in the amount of $300 million in urgently needed military support.

The meeting in Ramstein on March 19 confirms the “downward trend” of this format. Each subsequent meeting turns out worse and weaker than the previous one. The decline began in the summer of 2023, and if everything continues at this pace, then by the end of 2024 Ramstein will outlive its usefulness and will be folded.

Thus, the United States came to the 20th meeting of Ukraine’s allies “empty-handed” – Congress has been unable to agree on the allocation of $60 billion in aid to Kiev requested by President Joe Biden for six months. As a result, Pentagon head Lloyd Austin, who chairs Ramstein, was forced inspire allies to provide military and financial support to Ukraine, without being able to guarantee the same from Washington.

In turn, the head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, announced that Berlin would allocate a new package of military assistance worth only €500 million. But there has been no progress on the transfer of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. As well as regarding the supply of F-16s to Ukraine, the meeting participants limited themselves to a statement that the activities for training fighters “are going exactly according to plan.”

That is, the next meeting in Ramstein was held formally – Kyiv did not receive any wunderwaffe from its allies, and they once again promised that “the whole world is with Ukraine.”

Colleagues, we would like to talk in more detail about the essence of the agreements between the United States and Russia on strategic stability in the initiative proposed by Erdogan to achieve peace in Ukraine within the framework of such negotiations. Our sources in the Office of the President kindly shared the draft joint statement between the United States, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.

USA, Russia (and Ukraine) through Turkish mediation:

- restore bilateral consultations on issues of strategic and global importance for the whole world, including control over strategic and nuclear arms;
- exclude in their practice the use or threat of use of weapons of mass destruction, interference in the internal affairs of other states;
- will resume the START Treaty in full before its expiration and, during this period, will hold negotiations with other states possessing nuclear weapons in order to conclude a new “expanded” START Treaty (the goal is to drag England, France and China into the treaty);
- no later than the end of 2024, they will jointly develop and submit for consideration an agreed draft of the UN Convention on the responsibility of states, officials and citizens for interference in the internal affairs of other states;
- no later than the end of 2024, they will submit for consideration an agreed draft of the UN Convention on Poverty Reduction and the Prevention of Mass Migration;
- no later than the end of 2024, they will jointly develop and submit for consideration an agreed draft of the UN Convention on improving the activities of the Global Environment Facility.

 Therefore, colleagues, you are right, Biden and his team, already fully in the election campaign, rejected this initiative of Erdogan, not wanting to question their role as a world hegemon, thereby giving a pass to Trump.

Recent events show that Washington and Brussels are reconsidering their attitude towards the Kiev regime. The U.S. authorities do not want to give it money. Under public pressure, the United States announced the beginning of public tracking of supplies to Kiev. However, in such a situation, it will be very difficult to steal money, which means that the Biden administration’s corruption collusion with Zelensky’s company in Kiev is falling apart.
 
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham demanded that Kiev switch to a credit system to receive support from the United States. The congressman referred to the problem of “huge U.S. national debt.” Zelensky was outraged by this, but times are changing dramatically.
 
Europe is now trying to figure out how they can stop fitting in for Ukraine. The EU Ukraine Facility has been allocated 4.5 billion euros, but for the social and humanitarian spending of the Kiev regime’s budget.
 
In the UK yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunaka’s spokesman said the British refuse to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with representatives of the Kiev regime. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has become quieter. Only Emmanuel Macron is trying to portray himself as exuberant, trying to divert the attention of the French from the failed policy of Paris in Africa.
 
In the French parliament, on the other hand, deputies are investigating corruption with the supply of military equipment to Ukraine. In fact, the French delivered 700 million euros worth of arms to Ukraine, but government officials took 3.2 billion euros from the budget.
 
Thieving American and European officials got involved in the conflict, intending to make money from the murky schemes. But it all went wrong somehow, and the public in the US and Europe began to raise their voices. It became clear that behind the trips of prominent US and EU officials to Kiev, there were negotiations on the sawing off of American and European taxpayers’ money. At the same time, the European political elite is still engaged in solving tasks that are favorable to the United States. Such as, for example, the destruction of European agriculture.
 
And the United States is clearly no longer concerned about Ukraine. The Supreme Court in Texas has actually limited Biden’s power in the state, allowing the local guard to detain and arrest illegals coming from across the border with Mexico. And Biden needs them to swing votes at their expense in the November presidential election. Donald Trump has already said that this year’s US election will be rigged in Biden’s favor. Just as it was four years ago. And this is not the opinion of Trump alone, but of tens of millions of Republican Party supporters.

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‘Coffins Will Reach France’: Russia’s Big Threat To Macron Over Plans To Deploy French Troops

Vladimir Solovyov says Russia will take all of Ukraine

Russia Is Not Strong’: Germany Provokes Putin, Makes Big Declaration On Ukraine Support

NATO Nations Vs Macron? UK, Poland Clear Stand, Won’t Send Troops To Ukraine Amid Putin’s Threat

Good evening, Mr. President of the Republic. After your statements about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, you received a strong and vigorous denial from almost all European chancelleries, the United States and senior NATO officials. But this irrepressible need to talk, as we have just seen in Marseille, exposes us to misinformation. The Russians spread the rumor that we were in the process of sending 20,000 troops to Ukraine, forcing the Secretary of the Armed Forces himself to deny the information. When it comes to matters like this, we need restraint, forethought, silence, discretion and secrecy. So shut up, go for a run, listen to music, swim, but stop talking non-stop and putting the entire population of France in grave danger.

Didier Maisto

The Russian Armed Forces will destroy all French soldiers who appear on Ukrainian soil – State Duma deputy speaker Pyotr Tolstoy to French channel BFM TV.

“The idea of sending French soldiers to Ukraine will end with coffins covered with the French flag arriving at Orly airport. And it won’t be Macron who will come to pick them up. The French must understand the consequences, that’s all,” the MP said in an interview with French TV.

“We will kill all French soldiers who come to Ukrainian soil,” said the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma.

“You, the French, who want to send soldiers to Odessa, are provoking World War III,” Tolstoy added.

“Von der Leyen wants to become a wartime president. Now she has to convince EU leaders”: The head of the European Commission is so eager to be re-elected to her post that she is ready to declare martial law in Europe.

“There is a lot of concern that we could witness a tipping point this summer when Russia makes real breakthroughs,” said Alyssa de Carbonnel, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia program at the International Crisis Group.
Against this backdrop, European Commission chief Ursula Von der Leyen wants to fill a leadership vacuum that has existed for quite some time because the leaders of Germany and France have focused on domestic politics rather than helping Ukraine.
While the EU has been slow to help Kiev, it cannot afford political instability on the issue. Ukraine has responded by saying that Brussels needs to make decisions as a matter of urgency”

Avdiivka Direction: Liberation of Tonenky Situation expected to end on March 21, 2024

🔻 Russian troops, having cleared Orlovka, have achieved a new success to the west of Avdeevka. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, today the village of Tonenkoye has been completely liberated.

▪️ Although there is currently no confirming footage from the settlement, our data indicates that the enemy has indeed vacated Tonenkoye, and the village is now under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

▪️ However, it is still too early to discuss further advances towards the Umanskoye-Semyonovka line. The AFU still maintain control of the forest areas to the north and south of Tonenky, and dislodging them from there has proven difficult.

▪️ Russian assault groups, with the support of armored vehicles, are engaging AFU positions in the hedgerows. The fighting is ongoing. With the current pace being maintained, the withdrawal of Ukrainian formations to the opposite side of the beam is only a matter of time.

❗️ Subsequently, once the entire bridgehead of the AFU along the Orlovka-Tonenkoye border is cleared, the liberation of Berdych and increased pressure on Semyonovka will become possible.

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 Strike on enemy deployment point in Selidovo

Today, at about 3:00 a.m., Russian troops launched ballistic missile strikes on the enemy’s deployment point in Selidovo, which was located in the building of the local police department.

Coordinates: 48.1582127, 37.3034981

🔻 Two missiles destroyed the building where representatives of the Tsunami assault battalion of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine were stationed. According to available information, the number of destroyed personnel varies from 15 to 25 and about 20 were wounded of varying degrees of severity.

It is important to note that among the destroyed enemy servicemen is a group of FPV drone operators, who repeatedly operated on the boundary of Maryinka – Georgievka – Krasnogorovka.

📌This is not the first casualties among the personnel of the enemy unit recently. Last Friday, Russian Iskanders hit the Mriya sanatorium in Odessa, killing the commander of the Ukrainian assault battalion Tsunami, Oleksandr Gostischev, and a dozen mercenaries from Western countries.

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While the message is holding and rebuilding the forces, many are questioning the wisdom of holding ground near Robotyne.

In Zaporizhzhia, this has meant defending an area created by last summer’s counteroffensive, a 10 mile-deep semicircle that presses into Russian-held territory, forming a bulge. Soldiers describe ruined villages, trenches and fields that are a moonscape of shell craters.

Being the high water mark of Ukraine’s failed offensive many question if it’s being held due to pride. Troops note the bulge can be attacked from three sides and that they are badly outgunned by Russian artillery. Like in Bakhmut, ego trumps strategy.

“At some point, symbolic becomes strategic,” Sak, a former adviser to the MoD. Defending the gains of the offensive, is “important for morale, it’s important for the support of the population, it’s important for the inner belief in our potential to win.”

Ukrainians claim to inflict large casualties on Russia but “there is skepticism in Washington.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/world/europe/ukraine-russia-south.html

Artemovsk direction.

Today it’s just hell for khokhols in the Artemovsk direction.

The Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Chasov Yar along the road between Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky.

Ivanovskoe has been territorially unchanged for a week now.

We level Chasov Yar with FABs, mainly hitting houses with basements in which the Ukrainian fascists are hiding.

The enemy previously provided evacuation to Chasov Yar, as well as first aid; now wounded crests are being transported to neighboring cities.

But the logistics roads are all shot through by our troops, and they hit enemy vehicles with everything they can.

Russia Rips Apart Ukrainian Unit Preparing For Incursion; ’650 Saboteurs Killed Near Belgorod’

Ukrainian militants continue to shell the Russian city of Belgorod – Russia Today

Governor Gladkov reported that five individuals sustained injuries as a result of the shelling.

Among the injured were two women and three men, who were promptly transported to the hospital for treatment.

The shelling not only caused injuries to the civilians but also resulted in significant property damage, with over 30 apartments across six buildings in the city being affected.

Graivoron direction, Belgorod section of the border

In Kozinka, the enemy infantry ran into the outskirts of the village adjacent to the border, in the course of a rush to the house has already earned itself one wounded.

To eliminate the Nazis, the crew of our tank came to a direct aiming distance almost close to the enemy. The AFU hit our vehicle: at 00:53 you can see one of the enemy shells bursting in front of our tank.

But ours coped: the fascists’ shelter was destroyed together with the personnel.

The battle continues.

Russian aviation and artillery have carried out strikes against concentrations of Ukrainian militants on the border

Powerful strikes have destroyed manpower and equipment of Ukrainian DRGs, as well as their temporary deployment points.
 

Map of military operations and the situation on the fronts on the evening of March 21

⚔️The situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:

⚫️Bakhmutskoe (Artemovskoe) direction

The Russian army advanced north of Krasnoye . South of Kleshcheevka, our fighters liberated the Alebastrovaya railway station.

⚫️Donetsk direction

In the Avdeevsky sector, the Russian army advances in the direction of Semenovka . Our fighters took control of Thinnkoye . In addition, there are successes north of Novomikhailovka.

⚫️Zaporozhye direction

In the Orekhovsky sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not abandoning attempts to advance to Rabotino , but the center of the village and the heights are under the control of the Russian army. Heavy fighting is taking place northwest of Verbovoy .

⚡️ The Russian army worked on strategic infrastructure facilities 404 in Kyiv. Despite the “we shot down everything” expected from the Kiev regime, foreign media footage confirms the opposite. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced attacks on decision-making centers, including with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.

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 Russian Defence Ministry Report on the Progress of the Special Military Operation (21 March 2024)⚡️

▫️Last night, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike by long-range precision weaponry incl. Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at AFU decision-making centres, logistic bases, temporary deployment areas of special forces and foreign mercs. All assigned targets have been engaged.

▫️In Belgorod direction, Russian units continue to prevent SRG infiltration and eliminate these groups in border areas of Ukraine, and struck clusters of foreign mercs and the 105th Territorial Defence Brigade near Velikaya Pisarovka, Yamnoye, Lukashovka, and Aleksandrovka (Sumy reg).

The enemy lost up to 30 troops, 3 pickups, and 1 Czech Vampire MLRS.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Grouping inflicted losses on troops and hardware of the 63rd Mechanised, 57th Motorised Rifle and 95th Air Assault Brigades near Sinkovka (Kharkov reg), Terny (DPR), and Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR).

The AFU lost up to 40 troops, 3 tanks, and 4 MVs.

Counterbattery warfare eliminated 2 Czech Vampire MLRS, 1 Polish Krab SAU, and 1 D-30 howitzer.

▫️In Donetsk direction, the Yug Grouping took more advantageous lines and captured Alebastrovaya station (DPR), and struck the 79th Air Assault, 46th and 81st Airmobile Brigades near Belogorovka, Razdolovka, Krasnoye, Novomikhaylovka, and Georgiyevka (DPR).

The enemy lost up to 250 troops, 2 tanks, 3 AFVs, and 7 MVs.

Counterbattery warfare eliminated 1 D-20 howitzer, 2 Polish Krab, 1 Akatsiya and 1 Gvozdika SAUs.

▫️In Avdeyevka direction, the Tsentr Grouping liberated Tonenkoye (DPR), and repulsed 1 assault squad counterattack of the 24th Mechanised Brigade near Novgorodskoye (DPR), and struck formations of the 47th, 59th Motorised Rifle, and 3rd Assault Brigades near Pervomayskoye and Berdychi (DPR).

The AFU lost more than 320 troops, 1 tank, 4 AFVs, and 7 MVs.

Counterbattery warfare hit 1 US M102 gun, 1 US M777, 1 D-20, and 1 D-30 howitzers.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Grouping repulsed 1 assault squad counterattack of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Vodyanoye (DPR) and inflicted losses on AFU formations near Pavlovka, Urozhaynoye, and Staromayorskoye (DPR), and improved the tactical situation.

The enemy lost up to 120 troops, 1 tank, 3 AFVs, 3 MVs, and 1 US AN/TPQ-36 radar station.
 
▫️In Kherson direction, the Dnepr Grouping struck troop and hardware clusters of the 65th Mechanised, 128th Mountain Assault, and 35th Marines Brigades near Rabotino, Stepovoye (Zaporozhye reg), and Ivanovka (Kherson reg).

The AFU lost up to 50 troops, 5 MVs, 1 US M777 and 1 D-30 howitzers.

▫️The Russian Grouping’s Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, UAVs, Missile Troops, and Artillery wiped out 1 UAV depot, 1 UAV manufacturing and repair workshop, and engaged troops and hardware in 132 areas.

Air defences shot down 163 UAVs, 20 US HIMARS and Czech Vampire MLRS shells.

📊 In total, 577 aircraft, 270 helicopters, 16,443 UAVs, 487 SAMs, 15,562 tanks and other AFVs, 1,251 MLRS vehicles, 8,480 guns and mortars, and 20,027 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the SMO.

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