Operational information from the regions of the Active Community network (06.03.2022)

About us: The Active Community Initiative, launched by activists of the Respublika Institute after the Euromaidan (2014), focused on activating and involving Ukrainians in the decision-making process. The goal for 2025 is to activate and involve at least 1% of citizens in decision-making and promoting reforms in Ukraine on a systematic basis for the well-being of Ukrainian communities. Today we work in 30 communities in Ukraine.

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Ukraine in brief:

(Description of battles - data of the Armed Forces)

11 days of heroic defense of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion.

Despite the losses, the occupiers, in terms of personnel and equipment, with the support of aircraft, focused their efforts on trying to encircle the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mykolayiv and access to the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, creating a land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.

Having not achieved the goal of capturing the capital of Ukraine, during the first days of the war, the occupiers focused on active actions in the southern regions, in order to deprive Ukraine of access to the Black and Azov Seas.

The Defense Forces continue to conduct a defence operation.

The Joint Forces Group is conducting a defence operation in the Donetsk direction, Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Kharkiv region, Chernihiv, Kherson region, Zaporizhia region.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulses missile and airstrikes and aims air defense efforts to cover important (critical) objects of Ukraine and groups of troops.

Total enemy combat losses since the beginning of the operation: personnel - more than 11,000 people, tanks - up to 285; BBM - up to 985, artillery systems - 109, MLRS - 50, air defense - 21; aircraft - 44, helicopters - 48, UAVs - 4, ships / boats - 2, ATT - 447.

Northern regions

Kyiv oblast

Fighting is taking place close to Kyiv. The enemy does not abandon attempts to reach the outskirts of Kyiv.

A Russian cruise missile was shot down over the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital.

 Kyiv

Currently, the most dangerous destinations remain: Zhytomyr highway, Bucha-Irpin-Gostomel, Makarov and the north of Vyshgorod district.

The humanitarian situation in Kyiv region is difficult. According to an adviser to the Head of the President's Office, the occupiers have launched repressions against the civilian population in the west of Kyiv region.

Russia is blocking the possibility of providing assistance and shelling civilians, preventing evacuations. A Russian shell hit a gas pipeline in Irpen, leaving the entire city without gas.

Fighting continues in Irpen, Makarov and Gostomel. On the way out of the city of Irpin, the Russian military opened fire on civilians as they tried to evacuate the city. The whole family died: two children and one adult.

The village of Borodyanka (60 km from Kyiv) was completely destroyed and occupied by the Russians. A Russian special unit that had previously seized a psychoneurological boarding school in Borodyanka has left the territory of the medical institution.

Zhytomyr

At night, the occupiers fired on Korosten, Ovruch and nearby villages. One person died, more than 30 families were left homeless. Both shellings were very far from military facilities.

Sumy oblast

In the morning, russian aircraft did targeted strikes on infrastructure facilities in Sumy and the Sumy region.

The situation in the temporarily occupied Trostyanets is difficult. Currently, the city is full of russian equipment and patrols. The russian military has deployed ACS in the city center. From there they fired at Okhtyrka. Russian troops have also blocked roads leading to the city, so it is impossible to organize the evacuation of the population or the delivery of humanitarian aid. Utilities cannot function in the city. Therefore, there is no electricity supply, water supply and partially no mobile communication.

In the village Stanove on the central and adjacent streets in each yard are russian tanks. Such a "living shield" of the villagers was made to protect the С-300 system deployed here.

Chernihiv oblast

Chernihiv receives humanitarian aid. Trucks unload quickly due to constant shelling.

The russian occupiers continue to rob civilians and carry out armed robberies of local residents in the occupied territories. At the same time, the russians use the local population as their cover, forcibly placing their equipment among residential buildings.

Eastern regions

Kharkiv oblast

The russians continue to shell Kharkiv. Thus, they fired by rocket launcher "Grad" at the territory of the National Research Center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT)". There is an experimental nuclear installation, in the core of which 37 nuclear fuel cells are loaded. The destruction of such a nuclear installation and storage facility could lead to a large-scale environmental catastrophe.

The occupiers also hit a store near which there was a queue of people. The death toll is unknown at this time.

In the convoy of russian equipment, defeated near Kharkiv, there were vehicles of the russian Guard, loaded with equipment, shields, batons. Apparently, russia was confident that it would quickly seize Kharkiv and use equipment against the protesters.

The russians are trying to capture the city of Izyum. The invaders fired at the city from artillery systems almost all night, and also carried out several air raids. Rockets and bombs also hit the central areas of Izyum. 

Border with russia villages on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. The occupiers are taking people from these villages to the russian city Belgorod, presumably for further propaganda.

Donetsk region

Kramatorsk

Today the city was hit by air-to-ground missiles. Missiles shot down by air defense. The explosions damaged a school and a kindergarten. The windows in the surrounding houses were smashed. Officially 1 person was killed and many were injured. 

The Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot down missiles and prepare to meet the enemy. City officials are calling to close air. Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko's appeal regarding the situation here:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=491155555995703&id=100053037890822 

The city authorities coordinate the supply of volunteer assistance and manage the elimination of the consequences of shelling. The number of volunteers is increasing. They distribute and unload humanitarian aid, prepare sandbags, help in the evacuation center, etc. People are leaving the city. Currently, the railway service cannot evacuate everyone. Anxiety increased, but so did the urge to fight back.

Pokrovsk

In Pokrovsk district situation is under control. Cities are patrolled by territorial defense and police.

Pokrovsky District Territorial Centres of supply and social support (military enlistment office) continues to form military units and subdivisions. Utilities operate on a full-time basis. Cities receive and accommodate internally displaced persons, Myrnohrad received 579 people.

From Pokrovsk there are trains connecting Avdiivka - Dnipro and Pokrovsk - Kovel (Volyn region) - through Dnipro, Smila, Bila Tserkva, Fastiv. There are queues at ATMs, cash is not available everywhere. There are goods in supermarkets, but there are restrictions of no more than two units. There are no queues in pharmacies. At gas stations 92 gasoline and diesel fuel, gas is sold 20 litters per vehicle

Volnovakha

In the Volnovakha district in Novotroitsk and Zlatoustivka, the enemy opened fire and shelled the city, there are casualties. Many citizens have disappeared.

Volnovakha local authorities are compiling lists for the evacuation of the population, but the lists include people who have not lived in the city for a long time.

People's sentiments are unequivocal to the enemy "hope you die, fucking terrorists!"

Bakhmut

The situation in the city is tense. Volunteers collect everything necessary for territorial defense: https://www.facebook.com/bahmutukr/posts/3325113514378969 The city authorities inform daily about the work and collection points of aid to territorial defense and internally displaced persons https://www.facebook.com/rada .bakhmut/posts/686909605995899 People continue to actively buy food and medicine. Parents with children go on walk around the city.

Dobropillya

The city is quiet, volunteers receive victims, families with children and the elderly. So far, 600 internally displaced persons have arrived and are receiving the necessary assistance. There is a need for medicine, food, bedding. Volunteers are preparing another 1,500 seats.

Luhansk oblast

Rubizhne

Enemy shelling of Rubizhne, as well as Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, continues.

The Armed Forces are waging a counter-battery fight. Territorial defense patrols the city.

Local authorities are informing about the arrival of the humanitarian aid and in contact with the situation in the communities.

In Troitsk, civilians stopped an enemy column. Peaceful protests took place in Bilokurakin and Starobilsk, blocking Russians and removing the LNR flags. Russians opened fire on the civilian population.

The situation is difficult, but they keep the defense.

Southern regions

Zaporizhzhia oblast

The situation remains extremely tense and difficult. Enemy troops are trying to break through to Zaporizhzhia. The offense is being carried out in the direction of the settlements of Malynivka, Lyubimivka, Polohy, and Huliaipole. At the same time, the occupiers are actively using artillery and tanks.

Some settlements (Pologi, Vasylivka, Tokmak, etc.) are under Russian occupation. The situation in these cities and towns is controlled by local community leaders working to support livelihoods.

Zaporizhzhya

The day passed calmly. The city is ready to accept the internally displaced persons from Mariupol. The local community arranged all necessary accommodations based on schools and kindergartens and collected humanitarian aid. Unfortunately, the convoy of evacuation buses failed to leave Mariupol.

The city continues to strengthen checkpoints and lines of defense. Volunteers centers work in the enhanced mode and find necessary ammunition, weave camouflage nets, prepare food for the military, and help build checkpoints.

Local citizens are encouraged to sign the petition to NATO and EU leadership on closing the sky over Ukraine. Volunteers centers and large retail chains organized the collection of signs - a lot of people sign appeals, which creates long queues.

Enerhodar and Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Enerhodar is blocked with Russian occupants. Orikhiv is under the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s control.

Zaporizhzhya NPP is under Russian occupation forces. Armed occupiers are on the site of the NPP, and heavy enemy equipment is nearby. Currently, two power units of Zaporizhzhya NPP are operating. One unit is under repair; the others are stopped. The operational staff of Zaporizhzhya NPP monitors the condition of power units and ensures their safe operation. Automated radiation monitoring systems operate normally. The radiation background in the Zaporizhia region remains unchanged and does not endanger the lives and health of the population. 

Enerhodar local authorities report the significant psychological pressure on NPP personnel and civilians. The city is experiencing mobile outages and food shortages.

Vasylivka

The situation in the city remains very tense. The Russian occupation forces do not allow public utilities to repair. There is still no water and gas in the city, power supply networks are disrupted. As of 11:30 a.m., the shelling ceased, and no new information has been received since then.

Melitopol

The situation is tense and unchanged - Russian occupation forces are in Melitopol. Residents once again went on a protest against the occupiers. The rally took place in the heart of Melitopol. It is reported that a crowd of unarmed people with Ukrainian flags came out against the Russian military with machine guns and armored vehicles. Daily rallies put psychological pressure on the occupiers.

Berdyansk

The town is in a difficult situation. In Berdyansk, the mobile connection does not work; only the Ukrtelecom line and landlines operate. Important information is broadcast on Azovskaya Volna radio and YUG TV. Some shops, markets, and pharmacies are functioning in the city, although delivering products is difficult. Hot food points are being set up based on kindergartens. Hemodialysis drugs were finally brought to the town.

Hulyaipole

The situation in the town is getting worse. There has been no mobile connection for three days. At night, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine heroically defended the approaches to Hulyaipole. Russian occupation forces used artillery strikes and air raids. At present, they have not been able to break through the city's defenses. 106 pupils of Hulyaipole Special Boarding School were evacuated to Zaporizhzhya.

Kherson Oblast

Ukrainians in the Kherson Oblast are protesting peacefully against the Russian occupation forces. People gathered with the Ukrainian flags in the temporarily occupied Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, Kalanchak, Novooleksiyivka, Henichesk. When the protesters gathered in Kherson, the Russians opened fire on them. But this did not stop Ukrainians. During the action, a Ukrainian policeman with the flag of Ukraine climbed on a Russian Armored personnel carrier (APS).

Occupation troops continue to blockade the Kherson Oblast.

Odesa Oblast

The Russian occupation forces are shooting Odesa Oblast from the sky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two Russian fighter jets. The local community is protecting the territory, strengthening checkpoints and the coast, and the city is preparing for defense. Volunteer centers assist the internally displaced persons and evacuation of the population. People are as united as possible and help each other.

Central Oblasts

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Local police and the Security Service of Ukraine detained 11 pro-Russian saboteurs and 4 looters. On March 5th, Russian occupation forces failed to enter the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from Kharkiv direction, Balaklea town. Local authorities addressed NATO to close the sky over Ukraine. Throughout the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, non-governmental organizations collect signs under such petition for western leadership.

Dnipro

Yesterday a rocket was launched at the Dnipro airport, but it was shot down by the Ukrainian military.

Territorial defense operates on a regular basis. They are preparing to fight off the enemy if necessary, as the cities of Energodar and Bashtanka are not so far from the Dnipropetrovsk region. Fake people are spreading in the city, as if they saw the Russian occupation militants in Kryvyi Rih and as if there is not enough chlorine in the Dnipro for the city's water supply system. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov criticized Israel for refusing anti-Russian sanctions and refusing to sell weapons to Ukraine.

Ukrzaliznytsia provided 8 trains to evacuate the population from the Dnieper to the western regions. For the most part, people react calmly. Rescuers set up tents at the station to heat those evacuating from the city. All hospitals operate on a full-time basis. Some supermarkets have closed, not all products are on store shelves. Utilities work as usual. The food industry operates in the usual way.

The sewing workshop for sewing overalls began to produce military uniforms. More than 200 sets have already been sewn. Volunteers collect aid for the military and internally displaced persons. Humanitarian cargoes were sent from the Dnieper to Kharkiv and Mariupol.

Everything is quiet in the city. Alarm sirens sounded several times a day. The population does not panic, but unites and helps internally displaced persons and the military.

Vinnitsa Oblast

In the city of Vinnytsia, eight missiles hit the airport and destroyed it. The rockets flew from Transnistria through Zhmerynka. The SES eliminated the effects of the bombing.

Zhmerynka

In Zhmerynka, the defense is working as usual. Today, the city council voted in favor of closing the sky. The vast majority of people worked as usual. Volunteers and activists continue their activities.

Western regions

Lviv oblast

It is mostly calm in Lviv and the region. There are many internally displaced persons in Lviv. According to the decision of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, all men aged 18-60 who arrived in the Lviv region must register for military service within 24 hours.

The Western Regional Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine-Western Border reported that more than 140,000 Ukrainians returned to Ukraine during the 10 days of the war.

During this day, the Lviv Regional Military Administration met with diplomats from Lithuania and Italy. Lithuania systematically assists with humanitarian and military assistance. Italy is ready to help with the settlement of orphans, children with orphan diseases and children with cancer. During the meeting, the Ukrainian side asked for help in providing residents of the region and migrants with insulin.

A meeting was held at the state border with Gregory Mix, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the importance of closing the sky over Ukraine.

Drogobych 

There was one air alarm in the city.

An extraordinary session of the Drohobych City Council adopted an appeal to all presidents of NATO member states to close the sky over Ukraine.

Recently, Lilia Lishnyanska, an adviser to the Minister of Social Policy, paid a working visit to Drohobych. During the meeting to discuss the work of the Humanitarian Coordination Center and further cooperation. Particular attention was paid to improving the mechanisms for registering temporarily displaced persons.

Ternopil oblast

Everything is calm in the city, the air alarm is triggered from time to time, the mayor informs about it on his Facebook page Serhiy Nadal https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=503744981121503&id=100044580152948 

Ivano-Frankivsk Region 

Yesterday, 5th March, in Ivano-Frankivsk region, Security Service of Ukraine officers exposed a group of people who planned to create a "Federal Republic of Ukraine", which was to include Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) found ready-made manifestos to the army, security forces and civilians calling on them to take their side. The same appeals to foreign states were also found. According to Article 109 (actions aimed at forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power), the Criminal Code of Ukraine traitors are faced with 10 years in prison.

Ivano-Frankivsk

At the City Council’s special session, deputies voted to appeal to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to unite with the Local Orthodox Church of Ukraine and to appeal to NATO member states to close the sky over Ukraine. Deputies of Ivano-Frankivs’k District Council voted for the same appeal today.

Local authorities and volunteers secure the rear for the regions where the war has brought devastation and humanitarian crisis. They host internally displaced people, send food and basic necessities to the citizens, and support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Social canteens where everyone can buy lunches at a social price continue to function in the city. 

Rivne Oblast

The head of the Rivne Regional Military Administration did not hold a morning briefing.

The Rivne Regional State Administration website gives information on volunteering, signing the petition concerning closing the sky over Ukraine and phone numbers for internally displaced people in need (https://www.facebook.com/RivneODA/posts/284273967177632).

Rivne

The Armed Forces continue to patrol the border with Belarus. Territorial Defense patrols roadblocks.

Citizens take part in (tangible and intangible) volunteering. Volunteer’s aid coming from abroad to Rivne is also distributed to other cities in Ukraine. (FB post: https://www.facebook.com/RivneODA/posts/284265597178469).

The general situation in the city is calm. There were no air-raid sirens for more than a day.

Khmelnytska Oblast

Khmelnytskii

The airfield in Starokostiantyniv was under rocket fire; at night the occupiers inflicted about 10 air strikes. As a result of the shelling, three soldiers were injured, and the infrastructure of the military unit was partially damaged. Police officers continue to record the crimes of the aggressor country in order to bring the guilty to justice. Defensive strongpoints to the city are fortified every day. Unauthorized roadblocks are being dismantled and fortified. Khmelnytskii communal establishments work in enhanced mode and continue to provide quality services to the city residents. Additional aid-raid sirens from Poland are being installed. Khmelnytskii City Council deputies addressed the President of the United States, the President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Secretary General of NATO, governments and parliaments of NATO member states, ambassadors and diplomats to close the sky over Ukraine. Region receives and forms cargoes with humanitarian aid (things, food, medicines), and they are sent to the most suffered regions. 

Kamianets-Podilskii

The situation in the city is quiet. The air-raid sirens went off several times. The Armed Forces of Ukraine performed their duties according to staff plan. Territorial Defense held training at the firing ground with reservists, people continue to take turns at roadblocks. Volunteers continue to receive internally displaced people, take care of the safety and livelihoods of the community, and help the army. As of today, the city has received about 15,000 internally displaced people, nearly 5,000 of whom are officially registered and receive free housing and meals. The city streets are being cleaned, communal establishments function, and people get their salaries. The volunteer center at the Rozmay Center for Culture and Arts sent humanitarian aid and food to Kyiv. 

Chernivtsi Oblast

There are no active hostilities in the region.

Recruitment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues. Bukovyna began to bury the defenders of Ukraine killed in the war. Territorial Defense units have been formed in the region. At the same time, they collect the things they need such as medicines, ammunition, clothes, etc.

The head of the Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Osachuk, met with Erich Fenninger, executive director of the Volkshilfe Austria charity, at the humanitarian headquarters in Bukovyna.

Chernivtsi

The head of the Chernivtsi City Council, Serhiy Klichuk, received humanitarian aid and talked to the mayor of the Romanian city of Iasi, Mihai Chirika.

Chernivtsi citizens, as well as internally displaced people from other cities, join volunteers. They weave camouflage nets, sew bulletproof vests and make individual first aid kits, sort out humanitarian aid, collect things, etc.

“Active Community” representatives in Chernivtsi provide free hot meals to the needy. Today more than 300 lunches were sent to internally displaced people, Territorial Defense, and volunteers. 

Zakarpatska Oblast

Uzhhorod

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to work as usual. Territorial Defense is deployed in different positions.

Local authorities help internally displaced people.

Volunteers provide comprehensive support to internally displaced people and those crossing the border. There was a case when a woman tried to take her husband across the border in her car trunk, but he was noticed and detained.

In general, the situation is calm. The number of internally displaced people is growing. In this regard, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) starts to operate in Uzhhorod.