Manufacturing

The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that due to the unwillingness of the Ukrainian side to influence the nationalists or extend the silence period, offensive operations have been resumed. According to him, the nationalist battalions took advantage of the "silence regime" to regroup and strengthen their positions.

The Kremlin "plotted" to set up more "people's republics" in Ukraine's territory - this time, in western Ukraine, to "undermine national unity and hinder arms supplies to the front lines". This was reported by the SBU, Security Service of Ukraine, Ukrinform reports. The "Federal Republic of Ukraine" was to include Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi regions.

The third round of talks between the Ukrainian delegation and Russia will take place on Monday, March 7. The second round of talks between the two countries had taken place on March 3, Ukrayinska Pravda reported. During the second round talks, the Ukrainian and Russian sides "reached an understanding" of jointly providing humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the sites of the "fiercest fighting".

While the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinkin, toured the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) countries in eastern Europe on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman disclosed that the two nations were talking through certain channels. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed at a news briefing: "We are maintaining certain channels of a dialogue with the United States."

Artillery fire was opened on the positions of Russian armed forces from Mariupol, as well as from Volnovakha, said Russian General Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev. "On the Volnovakha and Mariupol directions, humanitarian corridors were opened daily, but the national battalions categorically suppress attempts by civilians to leave towards the Russian Federation," he said.

"It turns out that he does not hear the constant statements that are heard from Washington, from Paris, from Berlin, and from other capitals that NATO is not going to interfere in this conflict," the minister said after a meeting with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, RT reported. It turns out that Zelensky "still seeks to provoke" a conflict between NATO and Russia, he noted.

Peskov said that the "rejection of relations" following its offensive in Ukraine, and the introduction of restrictions by Europe, the US, Canada, Japan and others "do not mean the isolation of Russia", RT reported. Russia's military attack on Ukraine, launched on February 24, prompted the US, the EU, the UK and many other nations to introduce harsh sanctions targeting various sectors of the Russian economy.

Among the losses are 409 units of motor vehicles, two light speedboats, 60 tanks with fuel, three UAVs of operational and tactical level. Units and units of the invaders are demoralized, soldiers and officers of the occupying army continue to surrender, flee, leaving weapons and equipment on Ukrainian soil, the General Staff of the Armed Forces claimed.

Russia announced that a high-precision weapon strike destroyed a warehouse with Javelin and NLAW missile systems in Ukraine's Zhytomyr city. Earlier, Russia announced that the military seized a lot of foreign captured weapons during the hostilities, including American Javelin anti-tank systems and British NLAW.

The first week of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion into Ukraine has not gone to plan, with his country's military admitting the deaths of 500 soldiers (Ukrainian estimates are higher) and western sactions dealing a body blow to the Russian economy that will only grow worse in the coming weeks, the Guardian reported.