The grouping of troops of Lugansk People's Republic, continuing offensive operations, took control of Borsonino, Kremennaya, Peschannoye, Varvarovka, Pshenichnoye, Epifanovka, Novodruzhesk, Belogorovka, chief spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov reports.
The advance was 9 kilometers.
The units of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic took control over Osaviakhim block in Mariupol.
Over the past 24 hours, bomber and attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 158 military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
On March 7, high-precision long-range weapons disabled the airfield of the Air Force of Ukraine in Ozernoe near Zhytomyr.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 MiG-29s and 1 Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.
Also disabled: 2 Ukrainian divisions of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, 3 Buk M-1 self-propelled mounts, 4 command posts, 2 radar stations, 9 ammunition depots and 11 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware.
In total, 2,482 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
Among them: 87 command posts and communication centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 124 S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as 79 radar stations.
Destroyed: 866 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 91 multiple rocket launch systems, 317 field artillery and mortars, 634 units of special military vehicles, 81 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In order to safely evacuate civilians from settlements today, from 10:00 a.m. Moscow time, cease-fire is established and humanitarian corridors from Kyiv, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol are opened.
