Drive-By Download Attack Locked Down Entire City For 4 Days UPDATED

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Drive-By Download Attack Locked Down Entire City For 4 Days

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Throughout Feb 26, sporadic exchanges of fire occurred on the streets of Kyiv betwixt groups of residents who had previously been given weapons, including SBU officers, militia from the territorial defense force units, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and servicemen of the Military of Ukraine (AFU). The armed groups have no system of identification of their friends or foes. The deportment of armed looters and criminal gangs instigate the chaos. Dozens of civilian casualties are reported as a event of such exchanges of fire.

Russian forces near Kiev:

Ukrainian policemen detained an SBU employee

In the first half of the day, the big settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska came under the command of LPR forces. Forth with Stanytsia Luhanska, the LPR units occupied Krymskoye and Markovka in the same direction. Still, it was non possible to laissez passer through the AFU units at their positions north of Luhansk. No breakthroughs of the LPR units succeeded. The AFU withdrew its troops from the Starobelsk and will now be able to engage them to stabilize the front line near Severodonetsk and Izyum.

The LPR corps did not receive the necessary support from the Russian Armed Forces to attain the constraining offensive task. This significant miscalculation by the Russian control may lead to a modify in the situation in other parts of the front.

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The DPR People'southward Militia took command of Novoapostolovka, 6 km east of Volnovakha, and other locations in the vicinity of Volnovakha. At the aforementioned time, the successes of DPR and Russian forces in this direction are purely tactical in nature. Volnovakha has not been taken, and they accept not even been able to get close to it.

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Despite the continuing offensive of the DPR units in the Mariupol management and the occupation of Pavlopol and Pischevik, there is no "blockade" of Mariupol withal. The data on the complete occludent of the urban center does not correspond to the reality as on eight p.g. local time. The Ukrainian units are resisting relatively successfully and in an organized manner, which threatens the likelihood of a breakthrough from the encirclement if the "Crimean" group's offensive slows down.

The exit of civilians from Mariupol is blocked past fighters of nationalist battalions. There is video evidence of civilians beingness shot, when they were trying to go out the urban center, including women and children.

There are battles with the utilize of MLRS, artillery and tanks in the Kharkiv direction. This is currently the most difficult battlefield for the Russian Federation. The Russian Military suffered meaning losses there, and several columns of equipment were destroyed. Sources familiar with the situation near Kharkiv report that there is poor coordination of the Russian units, advice failures and errors of control.

By the afternoon of February 26, information technology became known that the AFU had regained control of Kherson. In the afternoon, fighting in the outskirts of the metropolis continued.

Nearly the city of Zhytomyr, the AFU air defense forces reportedly shot downward a Russian Air Force shipping.

In turn, over the Chernihiv region Russian air defense force shot down 2 Bayraktars.

The AFU blew up a bridge betwixt the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions. On the evening of February 26, Russian units began to enter Nikolaev.

The Russian military is strengthening its position in Melitopol, Zaporizhia region. The metropolis of Melitopol is completely under Russian command. In this direction, the Russian grouping is developing success in the management of Molochansk and Tokmak, also as in the direction of Mariupol. Near Molochansk, an AFU column was destroyed. At the same time, the advancing Russian units run across strong resistance.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that 16 Ukrainian naval boats, using "swarm tactics", attempted yesterday to attack Russian Black Sea Fleet ships, which had evacuated 82 surrendered Ukrainian servicemen from Zmeiniy Island.

Part of the attacking boats acted under the embrace of noncombatant vessels. The purpose of the assail was primarily to retaliate confronting the laid down soldiers and to accuse the Russian army of destroying prisoners, the written report said. Six Ukrainian boats were destroyed. None of the 82 Ukrainian servicemen from Serpent Island were injured.

When the Ukrainian boats attacked the Russian ships near the Snake Island, the US strategic drones RQ-4 Global Militarist and MQ-9A Ripper were barreling over the area of provocation. Information technology is highly probable that it was the American drones that guided the Ukrainian boats to the ships of the Russian fleet.

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Overall, despite successes in a number of areas, the situation for the RF War machine and the DPR and LPR on February 26 and the night of February 27 was not skillful. The offensive on the principal "eastern forepart" toward Volnovakha and further due west, besides as toward Mariupol, lost momentum. This is largely due to the complete absenteeism of the 2nd echelon, which should follow the strike units.

The area covered is not controlled, route junctions and important points are non put under control, garrisons and big groups of the enemy are ignored. At the same fourth dimension the rear columns move without the slightest protection through the territory that has non been cleared, as if information technology were an area of the Russia.

This approach has already led to the defeat and even complete destruction of several army columns of the Russian Army. At that place is a large miscalculation in the planning of the functioning, caused, probably, by a wrong cess of the state of affairs and the resulting "lurching assertiveness" of the Moscow generals.

At the same time, there is information near the concentration of units of the second echelon of the offensive in the regions of the Russian federation adjacent to Ukraine. In all likelihood they volition be sent in support of the kickoff-echelon forces in the near future.

If Moscow fails to reverse the situation in the next 2-3 days, the war will become protracted with unpredictable consequences for all parties to the conflict.