Early on the morning of February 24th, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on state television that Russia will carry out a 'special military operation' in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow claims the 'operation' is aimed at 'denazification and demilitarization' of Ukrainian territory at the request of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk 'people's republics', and is based on the right to self-defence. Russia also says that it does not attack the civilian population.
But, the fact is, Russian armed forces have killed innocent people, including children and the elderly. Russia deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and falsely claims that it is Ukraine's army that puts people's lives at risk.
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Russian troops continue to fight for Severodonetsk and control 90% of Luhansk region, in 100 days of war the Ukrainian military liberated 1,017 settlements, Russia exports stolen grain from Ukraine to Syria and Turkey, Moscow asks Beijing for financial assistance. Suspilne gathered the main news of the 100th day of the full-scale war.
The Russian military is destroying civilian objects in Kharkiv and launched an air strike by Mi-8 helicopters on the positions of the Armed Forces in the region. In the Donbas, the Russian army is storming residential areas of Severodonetsk and firing artillery and MLRS at settlements in the region, according to the General Staff. Russian troops advanced in the directions of Bakhmut, Soledar and Lysychansk, but without success. The "Foreign Legion" entered the city in defense of Severodonetsk.
Russia controls more than 90% of the Luhansk region and is likely to fully control it in the next two weeks, according to British intelligence. However, Russia achieved these successes on the hundredth day of the war with considerable expenditure of resources, as well as by concentrating force and fire on one part of the overall campaign.
As of February 24, the Ukrainian military has liberated 1,017 settlements from the Russians, said Deputy Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
During the 100 days of the war in Ukraine, 24,000 km of roads and 300 bridges were destroyed, Ukravtodor reports. And the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko said that during this period the Russian military destroyed 370 Ukrainian monuments of cultural heritage.
During the war, Russia exported to Syria 100,000 tons of grain stolen from Ukrainian storage facilities in the temporarily occupied territories, writes Reuters. The publication estimates that it costs more than $40 million. Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, said that the Russians were exporting stolen Ukrainian grain under their documents to Turkey.
The European Union has published new lists of the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions and they have entered into force. The list includes 18 legal entities and 65 individuals, including Putin's "mistress" Alina Kabayeva, Dmytro Peskov's family, and Yandex founder Arkady Volozh. Also, in the sixth package — a ban on oil imports from Russia by sea, disconnection from the Swift system "Sberbank" and several other banks.
Moscow has pressured Beijing at least twice to offer new forms of economic support. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing Chinese officials. Interlocutors said that President Xi Jinping instructed his closest advisers to find ways to provide financial assistance to Russia, but without violating sanctions.
More than 724 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of armed aggression by the Russian Federation. As of the morning of June 3, the official number of children killed during the day has not changed — 261. The number of injured has increased — 463. Data — the Prosecutor General's Office.
Metallica raised $1 million for Ukraine in two months. The money will go to the World Central Kitchen and their #ChefsForUkraine initiative.
Defender of Mariupol and photographer of the Azov Regiment Dmytro Kozatsky with the call sign "Orest" received a special award from the Polish Grand Press Photo 2022. He shared photos from Azovstal on his social networks.
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