The enemy continues the offensive against Ukraine with aircraft support and is using high-precision weapons. The major efforts the occupiers have focused on sieging Kyiv and Kharkiv cities. In addition, the enemy intends to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and later create a land corridor with the occupied Crimea, as the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine states in their brief on the situation at 24.00 on March 4, 2022.
In Polissya, the enemy began engineering work to block roads in the Borodyanka area, probably intending to move further in Kyiv. Occupation units were stopped in the Shybene and Katiuzhanka districts. In the area of Dymer, the occupier continues to create a defense area.In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is actively using the mobilization resource from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as part of the advanced units of the RF Armed Forces, which operate in the directions of Kharkiv and Mariupol. The occupiers do not stop trying to identify weaknesses in defense of Mariupol.In the Tavriya direction, enemy units of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are trying to continue the offensive in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, and units of the 20th Army of the Western Military District are trying to bypass Kharkiv and move southwest.The Kyiv Defense Group continues to repel the enemy's offensive, defeat its offensive group, and maintain the set boundaries.BTGs from the 38th air-assault brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to be located on the Belarusian border with Ukraine. However, due to the refusal of a significant number of servicemen to carry out criminal orders, work is underway to persuade personnel to carry out tasks on the territory of Ukraine.
The preliminary losses of the enemy as of morning March 4 were 9166 people, 33 aircraft, and 37 helicopters. Also, 939 armored personnel carriers, 251 tanks, 105 artillery systems, 18 air defense systems of the enemy were destroyed.