While the Peace Process between the US and Russia advances at a rapid pace heading to a détente, and the specific thorny issue of a resolution to the Ukraine conflict is surrounded by levels of geopolitical confusion, the war proceeds.
Every bit as bloody and ruthless as before.
Deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, known for his maximalist takes on issues, has said: “Inflicting maximum damage to the Kiev regime on the ground remains the main task of the Russian Federation.”
And that’s what’s happening: the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that no less than 85 settlements have been liberated since December.
Besides the ground troop advances, there is also the question of the punishing regime of air strikes by missiles and drones.
The Ukrainian power-generating capabilities are getting decimated, and several other high-value targets are getting pounded.
On March 1st, Russian forces executed a deadly missile strike on an accumulation of troops in the Novomoskovsk training ground in the Dnipro region.
This Ukrainian military training base from was staffed by the 157th Separate Mechanized Brigade, a group that fought near Kurakhovo, and have also been stationed near Pokrovsk.
The Iskander missile attack reportedly killed over 150 Ukrainian soldiers and 30 ‘Foreign instructors’ (a.k.a. mercenaries).
Watch: Russian strike at the Novomoskovsky training ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region, unsing an Iskander-M missile with a cluster warhead.
The Russian military struck the area of the 157th separate separate brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the Novomoskovsky training ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region with an Iskander-M missile with a cluster warhead, the Iznanka Telegram channel reports.
– AN pic.twitter.com/YFgCQmbM7v— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) March 1, 2025
Kyiv Post reported:
“The Suspilne media outlet, citing sources, reports that one of the regional hospitals in the Dnipropetrovsk region is currently treating a large number of wounded following the attack. A volunteer assisting local hospitals confirmed the severity of the situation, stating that he had been collecting aid for medical facilities and that relatives of servicemen had contacted him for help in locating those who could not be reached.
Serhiy, the head of the medical service at one of the hospitals in the region, confirmed that wounded servicemen had been admitted and that their conditions had been stabilized.”
All the wounded had mine-blast injuries with shrapnel wounds affecting various parts of the body.
“The Russian Defense Ministry claimed it had targeted the site using an Iskander-M ‘operational-tactical’ missile system, writing ‘As a result of the strike, up to 150 Ukrainian nationals were killed, [and] up to 30 foreign instructors’.”
Also, on March 1st, Russia carried a strike against a cargo vessel carrying weapons and military equipment bound for Ukraine, that they claimed to have sunk.
The Defense Post reported:
“Russian Telegram war channel Talipov Online said Moscow’s forces unleashed two Iskander-M missiles targeting Panama-flagged container ship MSC Levante F at the port of Odesa.
The vessel, seen carrying yellow and red containers, reportedly made a stop in Turkey to load British sea drones and other weapons from the UK’s NATO base before heading to Ukraine.
‘The container ship was struck as it prepared to unload’, the Telegram channel claimed. ‘After the strike detonations began, the cargo was completely destroyed, the ship sank’.”
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