In the occupied territories, the Russians chose the strategy of placing personnel among the civilian population

In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russians constantly place personnel, equipment and military equipment in densely populated areas. This was reported by the Center of National Resistance.

Thus, in the temporarily occupied territories, the Russian occupying forces chose the strategy of placing personnel among the civilian population. 

“Fearing sabotage from the side of our partisans, the Russians are hiding behind the backs of civilians,” the Center of National Resistance noted.

In addition, the occupiers place equipment and military equipment in the yards of residential quarters, next to children’s playgrounds.

As reported by Ukrainian News Agency, the Russian occupiers in the Zaporizhzhia region were sending civilians through minefields to Ukrainian positions to identify possible routes through minefields.

In the temporarily occupied Mariupol of the Donetsk region, the occupiers placed sniper points next to checkpoints to control entry into the city.

Meanwhile, the Russians are settling the military in captured recreation bases around the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, thus turning civilian objects into military targets.

The lyceum of information technologies in occupied Yenakiyiv was damaged by shelling the night before. This was reported by separatist mass media on February 17, referring to the so-called “head of the administration” of the city, Roman Khramenkov.

In the educational institution, windows were broken, sports hall, transition, library and dining hall were destroyed.

Three residents of occupied Donetsk were wounded during shelling the day before, separatist media reported on February 17.

“…a woman born in 1967 and a man born in 1965 were injured. It happened in the village of Abakumova in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk,” the report says.

The day before, it was reported about one victim in the Petrivsky district – a woman born in 1962. Thus, the number of victims increased to three.

The Russian occupation authorities began mobilizing the male population of Mariupol. Mobilization orders have already been sent to enterprises and educational institutions of the city.

This is reported by the Mariupol City Council.

According to the report, a mobilization order was received in one of the educational institutions of the occupied city. Now men who work as teachers and were the first to receive a Russian passport will be sent to the trenches.

Before this, three employees of the occupying utility company “Avtodor” were also mobilized and sent to fight. Such cases are not isolated. The occupiers are looking for a new mobilization resource at communal enterprises and the city structure.

The Russian occupiers again shelled Bakhmut of the Donetsk region, where fierce battles are currently ongoing. This time, the building of the local fire department was hit.

Serhii Kruk, head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, reports this. “Bakhmut. This is what the fire department looks like after another shelling,” he said. 

According to the head of the department, since the beginning of the war, the enemy has already damaged more than 300 buildings and structures of the units of the State Emergency Service.

As reported, the fire station in Bakhmut has come under attack not for the first time. Thus, in November of last year, due to the artillery shelling of Bakhmut and the fire department, in particular, the personnel of the State Emergency Service was not injured, but three civilians were injured.

The Russian occupiers also shelled fire departments in Sumy region, Kherson and twice in Gulyaipolе of Zaporizhzhia region.

Currently, the situation in Luhansk region is quite difficult in all directions – the most difficult is in the Kremin direction and in Bilogorivka. The occupiers believe that among the tasks set by the Kremlin, the easiest will be to reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk region, since a total of 14 settlements have been deoccupied in the region.

He noted that today the situation is quite difficult in all directions, as the number of attacks and shelling has increased significantly, and the occupiers are already connecting aviation. However, the situation is under control.

Currently, the Kremin direction is the most difficult, the occupiers are throwing all their efforts there – there are constant attempts to break through the defense of Ukraine and the overturning of heavy equipment.

“If we rank first, second, third by difficulty, then Bilogorivka is second. The number of offensive waves has also increased there. And the territory of the settlement is being shelled. Unfortunately, Bilogorivka can no longer be called a settlement. There is not a single surviving house there. There, probably, today there is not a single square meter where it has not “flown in”, – Gaidai said.

He specified that the Russian army is shelling Belogorivka from tanks and with the help of aviation, and is launching rocket attacks, and is using anti-aircraft missiles, and is deploying heavy artillery. According to him, the Defense Forces are holding strong positions and the situation there is stable today.

“No one canceled the task of the Kremlin regime to reach the administrative borders in the Luhansk region. And taking into account the fact that we have only 14 de-occupied settlements, they believe that it is Luhansk region that they will be able to capture the easiest among the tasks and regions that have been set for them “, the head of regional military administration emphasized.

He drew attention to the fact that if you compare Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Luhansk regions, Luhansk region has the smallest territory and it will be the easiest for them to reach the administrative border.

“But I want to say, no matter how difficult it is, with titanic absolute efforts, sometimes you have to stop the enemy’s waves around the clock, but everyone is standing, everyone is motivated and will fight back to the last,” Gaidai emphasized.

At the same time, the Russians spread many fakes about their “successes”. The head of the Luhansk OVA personally had to come and shoot videos from allegedly “Russian-controlled” settlements to refute the propaganda of the Russian Federation.

“One of the fakes our guys broke was about their “analog gun technology”. When the Russians showed that the ultra-modern “Terminator” was working in the Kreminsk direction, such a tank support technique that it destroys everything there, then we showed it burned two days later” The Terminator.” In our case, there will be no return of the Terminator,” he concluded.