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Thursday, March 31, 2022

 In the afternoon there was one short air alarm, about 25 minutes. As of 1pm o'clock, during the analysis of the debris of the Mykolayiv State Administration, rescuers removed 19 bodies of the killed, one more person died in intensive care. Debris clearance works are ongoing.

***The Russians have announced that they are leaving the Chernobyl zone. A significant part of the Russian military received radiation exposure after digging trenches in the Red Forest (Rudy Lis)

      When I was on the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Red Forest we've considered a particularly dangerous, radioactively contaminated place in the region, along with the damaged reactor of the nuclear power plant.

*** Vyacheslav Kurochkin had been killed in the battles near Kyiv. He was the son of my former colleagues at the knitting factory, Boris and Nadia Kurochkina.

*** Russian soldiers shot and killed Anastasia Tagirova, a second-year university student, who was carrying humanitarian aid to Chernihiv. 

This was reported by the university administration on Facebook. Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 148 children have died and 232 children have been injured.

*** 10:18 pm An air alert has been announced. I am going to bed.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

  There were two air alarms during the day. Not long, 40 minutes each.

*** The Russians launched a rocket attack on the Mykolaiv state administration building. The building is destroyed. 12 dead and 30 wounded are reported. It is likely that the Russians wanted to kill the head of the state administration Vitaly Kim. He has a blog, and funny trolled Russians on television.

*** In the Kyiv region, since March 10, a 4-year-old boy, Sasha Zdanovich-Yakhno has been wanted. 

He has saved from the Russians with his grandmother on a boat from the village of Sukholuchcha, Vyshgorod district. When the Russians appeared in the village, the neighbors suggested that they move to the opposite side of the Kyiv Reservoir on two motor boats. The next day, March 11, local residents found a boat in the village of Tolokun, with two bodies nearby - Sasha's grandmother and another woman. Sasha was absent. The boy was wearing a life jacket. There is hope that someone from the boat could escape and now they are in nearby villages without telephone.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

 The Russians bombed an oil depot in Klevan, but the news now does not indicate where it happened specifically.

*** Around noon there was a long air alert that lasted almost two hours. After its completion, 15 minutes later, the second air alarm began and was also very long. In the evening, in the news, it was reported that the Russians bombed the military airfield in the city of Starokonstantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region.

*** Negotiations between the Russians and Ukraine took place in Istanbul. The Russian side has received the draft and must now give its answer.

Monday, March 28, 2022

 *** Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said that Russians are forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia.

***Russians destroyed oil depots in Lutsk and Lviv, where 5 people were injured.

***Near Kyiv, the Russians shot a car with civilians. The driver and his wife were killed. The surname of the people is Iovenko. Their child and mother were also in the car. The mother was also injured.

*** On the day when the Dubno oil depot was bombed, a couple of elderly people who lived nearby ran away and tried to save themselves from the fire. In the commotion, they lost a bag of money somewhere. Their daughter wrote in a local Facebook group a request to return the money to those who found it, because it was money for life. Today, the daughter reported on Facebook that the money was found. Good news!

*** I took off the video recorder in my car. Now they are not allowed to be used anyway.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

 After yesterday's rocket attack on the oil depot, the fire has not yet been extinguished. It will probably burn until all the fuel burns out.





Saturday, March 26, 2022

Within this month, the police of the Poltava region seized 11 Russian tanks, 2 armored personnel carriers, 33 small arms and 4,200 rounds of ammunition from local people.

*** Russian troops entered the city of Slavutych, Kyiv region, kidnapped the mayor and seized the city hospital. Residents of the city went to a pro-Ukrainian meeting. The Russians opened fire in the air and threw stun grenades into the crowd.

*** Air alarms throughout the Kyiv region. Battles in Makarov, Irpen, Gostomel. Subversive and reconnaissance groups of Russians are being activated.

*** There were three alarms in the second half of the day. The Russians bombed Lviv.

*** In the evening, when it was already dark, a rocket strike Dubno. The missile was lanched into the oil depot. The fire is very strong. 


The commander of the 11th Army of the Air Force of the Eastern Military District of Russia, Lieutenant General Volodymyr Kravchenko, gave the order to bomb the Dubno oil depot. The order was carried out by the commander of the 23rd fighter aviation regiment of the 303rd mixed aviation division, O. Lyubyntsev. The bombing was carried out from the Baranovichi airfield (Belarus). As a result of the missile strike, 24 tanks with petroleum products of the "Dubnonaftoprodukt" enterprise caught fire. The total amount of damages is 10 million hryvnias.

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Friday, March 25, 2022

 In Belarus, on the road from the city of Rechitsa to Gomel, the transportation of 14 containers, which are used to transport "Iskander" missiles, was noticed. Our Rivne region is usually shelled from Belarus.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

 The Ukrtelecom company reported that after damage to the trunk network, the provision of services was resumed in Lviv, Volyn, Rivne and Zhtomyr regions. Services from Ukrtelecom are not provided only in Chernihiv and Luhansk regions.

**** In the port of Berdyansk, our military shot and sank the Russian landing ship "Orsk", which sank in the port. This ship could carry 400 paratroopers, 20 tanks and 45 armored personnel carriers. In addition to "Orsk", the military also targeted three Russian ships - "Cesar Kunikov", "Novocherkask" and "Saratov". "Cesar Kunikov" and "Novocherkask" escaped from the port.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

 In Mariupol, a powerful bomb was dropped on the building of the drama theater. People were hiding there in the bomb shelter. The Russians said that "nationalists" from the "Azov" regiment were hiding somewhere among the people. Work on unlocking the shelter is still ongoing. There is no information about the dead yet. The news reports that up to 1,200 people could be hiding in the shelter of the drama theater.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

 In the evening, my university friend Shurik called. He and his wife left Brovary for Cyprus. He said that Brovary was heavily bombed and he together with the wife were in a bomb shelter for a whole week. They had the opportunity and that is why they decided to go to Cyprus.

*** The head of the Rivne administration announced that the stripping of the debris near the Rivne television tower has been completed. The final losses were 21 dead and 9 wounded. The dead boy's body was found last. He was only 18 years old.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

 The night was quite calm. There were only two air alarms last night. Authoruty informs about 19 people killed and 9 were injured as a result of the impact on the television tower yesterday. But these are not the final data because the stripping of the debris continues.

During the day, the air alert lasted almost an hour.

Monday, March 14, 2022

 At night, at 2:30am, there was an air raid alarm. The alarm was canceled only at 7:30am. We have never had such a long air alarm before. A television tower was bombed and destroied in Rivne (Antopil), so now there is no local radio and television signal. Only cable TV networks work.

  **** Zhytomyr region was also bombed. 

Sunday, March 13, 2022

There were two air raids during the night. One is long from 3 am to 5am, the second is short at 7am. The long air alarm - it allegedly bombed the Yavoriv military training center in the Lviv region, where the Russians fired 8 missiles. There is no information about the casualties, but it was previously reported that there were no casualties. A short alarm - there was a raid on the airfield in Ivano-Frankivsk.

     *** "Deutsche Welle" reports that at the Yavoriv training center 9 people were killed, 57 wounded. 30 rockets were fired at the training center.  Debris clearance and firefighting continues.

  *** The Lviv administration reports that at 12 o'clock all fires at the Yavoriv training center have been extinguished. The number of people killed was 35, and 134 were injured.

Saturday, March 12, 2022

 At 5 am there was an air raid alarm. I suggested to my wife not to run to the bomb shelter, but to cover herself with a blanket and continue to sleep. So we did, but we no longer slept, but just lay in bed. At 7 am we got up, washed and had to go to mother-in-law, pick and feed her. We decided to take our "alarm's" backpacks with us. As soon as we were out the door, the alarm went off. The alarm was long, about two hours.

*** Yesterday there was a report that a Russian drone, which allegedly flew from Ukraine, crashed near Zagreb. Croatian police found the remains of an old TU-141 Strizh drone. Ukraine and Russia have such drones. The news reported that the drone had flown from Ukraine through Romania and Hungary and crashed near Zagreb in an area called Jarun. There is a village of Yarun in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. Perhaps the Russians confused the coordinates and flew to the wrong place.



Friday, March 11, 2022

In the morning there were two air alarms. The first after 4 am, the second at 7 am. The Russians did airstrikes on Dnipro, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk. In Dnipro, rockets fell near a kindergarten, a residential building and a two-story shoe factory. One person had been killed. During the air strikes on Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, the warning system did not work. The Russians fired 4 missiles at the Lutsk airfield. 2 soldiers had been killed, 6 people were injured. There were two more alarms around noon, and one in the evening. That is, there were five of them in total. I read on the Ternopil website that three rockets were shot down over Dubno, which were headed for the Ternopil region, or further. But no explosions were heard in Dubno. In the evening, The Current Time reported in the news that there was an attack on an aircraft repair plant in Lutsk. I called my friend Volodymyr in Lutsk. He said that the strike was on the airfield, not the plant. Volodymyr used to work at this plant.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

 The Russians reported that they killed the former Minister of Internal Affairs jf Ukraine Arsen Avakov with a "point bomb" strike in Kharkiv. But Arsen Avakov released a video on YouTube that he is in Kyiv, not Kharkiv.

*** Talks between Ministers of Foreign Affairs Lavrov and Dmytro Kuluba took place in Antalya (Turkey). At the press conference, Lavrov stated that Russia has not attacked anyone, does not plan to attack other countries, and they did not even attack Ukraine.

*** There was an air raid at night. I did not sleep because of it. The city of Korosten was shelled from Belarus. Three people had been killed. Two of them are Belarusians.

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

 Instead of the traditional morning air alert, there was a short one in the middle of the day. It lasted about 15 minutes.

*** According to CIA Director William Burns, the Russians lost 2,000 to 4,000 people in the war. Our military reports about 12,000 dead Russians. The Russian authorities recognize no more than 500 dead.

*** According to the reports of the 24 TV channel, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine stated that they recorded about 20 cases of attempts by men with Russian passports to cross the border. It are Ukrainians want to escape from the army. The men received Russian passports at the Russian Consulate before the war, without renouncing their Ukrainian citizenship.

***On the entrance gate of the church of the Moscow Patriarchate, in our neighborhood of the city, a large Ukrainian flag was raised. A couple of days ago, the leadership of this church condemned the Russian aggression and issued a decree not to mention the head of the Russian church, Cyril, during the prayer. During the war, in Donbas, the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate did not conduct prayers and did not collect money to help the Ukrainian army, as all churches of all denominations in Ukraine did.

*** In Mariupol, the Russians bombed a maternity hospital and a children's hospital. It's terrible!

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

 Sasha K. called from Chernivtsi. He told some local news. There are a lot of refugees from the east of the country and from Kyiv in the city. Kyivans, mostly in expensive cars, can be seen by license plates. Those who are poorer walk around the city center wondering and taking pictures. Gasoline in Chernivtsi costs UAH 45/liter. Sasha said that the locals were transporting men who were prohibited from leaving (18-60 years old) to Romania in minivans for 10 people. They take 2,000 USD from each.  Black market's currency converters purchase dollars at 35 UAH/1 US dollar.

Monday, March 07, 2022

 It is  quiet in Dubno. In the morning there was an ordinary, short, air alarm, and in the evening there was an unusually long one, which lasted almost an hour. It was reported that the danger was detected twice with a difference of 30 seconds, hence the long alarm.

*** Only war news headlines for this day:

- In Zhytomyr and Chernyakhiv, the Russians fired at oil depots from the air. Fires started.

- The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down two enemy planes over Kiev.

- The pilot shot down a cruise missile near Obukhiv.

- 10 people died in Kharkiv after Russian shelling.

- During a peaceful meeting in Nova Kakhovka, the Russians killed a man.

- The number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe has reached 1.7 million people.

- In Mykolaiv, a rocket hit the barracks. 8 soldiers died

- Since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian military has captured about 2,000 occupiers.

- Captured occupiers say that they have a direct order from their commanders to shoot the civilian people.

- Near Odesa, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sank the Russian patrol ship "Vasyl Bykov".

- In the Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian tank fired at a Ukrposhta vehicle that was delivering pensions to the villages. The driver of the car and the postwoman have been killed. After the Russians shot the postal Citroen, they ran over it with a tank.

Sunday, March 06, 2022

 There were air alarms in the morning and evening. People write that the Russians bombed Korosten both times. The bombs were not aimed, but where they will fall. The network people wrote that about 30 private houses were damaged and destroyed.

  *** On the border with Hungary, a man born in 1972 was found hiding from passport control under things in the trunk of a Lexus car. It was taken out by a woman born in 1975. The man will probably be sent to the army, and the woman faces up to 5 years in prison for organizing the illegal movement of people across the border. During martial law, men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from traveling abroad.

Saturday, March 05, 2022

 Mysterious silence. There was no air alarm during the night. In the morning there was, but very short, only 3-4 minutes. The Dubno military administration reported that today there is no expediency in turning off the lights on the street and in the windows. Illuminated streets facilitate patrolling, protection of socially important objects and detection of suspicious persons.

    *** In the "Airborne Alert" phone application, in the settings, you can select the function of sending messages only for Dubno. It will probably be a little calmer.

Friday, March 04, 2022

 At night, the Russians shelled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant from tanks. A fire broke out at the station, but the Russians did not allow firefighters to put out the fire. The fire was extinguished later, in half a day.

     *** Our grocery store has almost all products. Even a little more than it was a couple of days ago, but still the range of products is smaller than it was before the war. A few days ago, we could not buy flour in the store, but today there was a lot of it. Much more than usual.

**** Internet from Ukrtelecom has disappeared. I saw reports that the trunk cables were damaged.. The Internet was interrupted not only in the Rivne region, but also in 12 regions of Ukraine. TV news reported that the Internet will be primarily provided for state institutions. Around 4 pm, the Internet appeared, but the speed was very slow.

Thursday, March 03, 2022

 TV news from the morning. In Chernihiv, the Russians bombed an oil depot. There was a big fire. Six tanks with a total volume of about 3,000 cubic meters were on fire.

*** A lot of fakes are distributed on the Internet. A couple of hours ago, I saw news on a website very similar to the website of the Ukrainian TV channel Espresso TV that Poland, Bulgaria and other countries refuse to transfer Soviet-made aircraft to Ukraine. After a couple of hours, I tried to find this news on the TV channel's websiteі and it was not there. I tried to search through VPN. The news was found, but exclusively on Russian sites.
       It was probably not a fake about planes. It was just reported on TV news.
  *** In Kherson city, Russian troops control the town, but the city hall has a Ukrainian flag. The mayor of Kherson declares on TV that the city authorities are Ukrainian, but they must fulfill the demands of the Russians.

Wednesday, March 02, 2022

 The Russians shelled key Ukrainian cities - Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and others. Zhytomyr is the closest to us. On television news, one person from Zhytomyr said that at home, they pasted cross-on-cross tape on the windows. During the shelling, all the windows of their neighbors were broken, and the windows covered with tape remained intact. We also put tape on the windows today. We thought - if we stick it, maybe it won't be necessary, but if we don't put tapes on it, something worse can happen and we'll regret it later.

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

 In Kharkiv, the Russians hit Svobody Maidan with a rocket. This is the largest square in Europe. Apparently, they tried to hit the building of the state administration. 

   In Kyiv, Russians started bombing the TV tower. 

   The news reports that a large convoy of Russian vehicles is moving from the Belarusian border to Kyiv. The length of the convoy is approximately 64 km. Belarus enters its troops into Ukraine together with Russia. Belarusian equipment is marked with a white circle O, Chechens, Kadyrov military equipment is marked with a white letter X, Russians with Z.

    *** In our house viber group "Voina", it was reported that in the area of the vegetable drying plant, people found a "beacon" for targeting missiles or bombs. They called the police. The police confirmed that it was indeed a "beacon". They say that a car with Kharkiv license plates was driving and stopped for 3 minutes. After them, they found the "beacon".