Crimea

Russian security forces conducted searches in Bakhchisarai and detained a delegate of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, Edem Dudakov.

a russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft was spotted flying over the temporarily occupied Crimea, in particular over Sevastopol.

Russia has introduced a bill to invalidate the 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in an attempt to legitimize its illegal occupation, but Ukraine has condemned it as a desperate propaganda move that will not change the internationally recognized reality that Crimea is Ukraine.

Most Ukrainians favor the complete elimination of the russian language from official communication after a full-scale russian invasion in February 2022.

Russian security forces detained a 55-year-old man in occupied Crimea for allegedly being a member of the "Noman Chelebidzhikhan Crimean Tatar battalion" and participating in protests.

A bill to invalidate the 1954 decision to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine has been submitted to the State Duma.

After two days of calm, russian troops launched four assault attacks in an attempt to force Ukrainian forces from a bridgehead on the left bank of the Kherson region, but suffered losses and retreated.

NATO troops can carry out support activities directly on the territory of Ukraine without violating international rules, Czech President Petr Pavel said.

Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, explained the importance of combat missions carried out by military intelligence units, in particular in the Black Sea and in the temporarily occupied Crimea, in the documentary "War for the Sea: From Dnipro to Crimea".

Activists of the Yellow Ribbon guerrilla movement in Crimea burned campaign materials of the Russian occupiers in Simferopol, saying that there will be no elections, but only court and The Hague.

The russians are moving their ship repair bases from Crimea to Taman, likely to strengthen their ability to repair warships in Novorossiysk due to effective Ukrainian strikes on military facilities in Crimea.

During a nighttime attack by russian kamikaze drones in Odesa region, Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 11 of the attacking "shahids," with one drone hitting an industrial facility in Odesa district.

russian troops attacked two Ukrenergo substations in southern and central Ukraine with drones, but there were no casualties or power outages, and emergency repairs are underway.

On March 9, one person died and 10 others were wounded in Donetsk region as a result of russian shelling, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration said.

Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 35 of 39 Shahid Kamikaze drones launched by Russian forces from occupied Crimea and Russia during a night attack on March 10.

The Sociological Association of Ukraine has condemned Russia's plans to hold presidential elections in the occupied Ukrainian territories in 2024, calling it a tool to legitimize the occupation authorities, and called on sociologists to avoid participating in the electoral process there.

Ukrainian partisans have recorded the arrival of Russian military equipment in occupied Simferopol, which the invaders plan to transfer to the front.

On the morning of March 8, an explosion occurred in the temporarily occupied Skadovsk, as reported by local residents.

No significant precipitation is expected in Ukraine over the next three days, with temperatures ranging from 0-6°C below zero at night to 1-12°C above zero during the day and northwest winds shifting to southeast at 3-10 m/s.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that russia's shelling of civilians shows that its real goal is to annex all of Ukraine, not just certain territories.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that freezing the war in Ukraine would only benefit putin by allowing russia to regroup and prepare for a larger conflict, as it did after the occupation of Crimea in 2014.

Ukrainian guerrillas from the ATES movement have discovered the location of the russian Armed Forces intelligence headquarters in Novorossiysk, which is heavily guarded, and are reconnoitering russian military facilities in the occupied territories, passing information to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Russian Black Sea fleet consists of more than 30 ships, including 10 missile carriers with 3 submarines carrying Kalibr cruise missiles, but they have been facing serious logistical problems for several months and hardly use these missiles, except after the sinking of the Caesar Kunikov.

There is a temporary lull in the Black Sea after the sinking of the Russian ship Sergei Kotov, but Russia will soon deploy another ship to fulfill its missions, according to a Ukrainian Navy spokesman.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers served suspicion notices to two russian propagandists for supporting the russian invasion of Crimea and spreading kremlin propaganda.

The former deputy commander of the Crimean Berkut unit, who is hiding in the temporarily occupied Crimea, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason, abuse of power and illegal suppression of protests in 2013.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rejected claims that Russia attacked Ukraine because it wanted to join NATO, saying that if Russia did not threaten Ukraine's existence, Ukraine would have no reason to seek collective security.

Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska declined an invitation to attend US President Biden's speech in Congress because she was to be seated next to the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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Ukraine announces that it has destroyed the newest patrol ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the second of four such ships it has disabled.