Defense Forces aviation carried out strikes on nine areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment are concentrated.
56 clashes were recorded on the front during the day. Defense Forces aviation carried out strikes on nine areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment are concentrated. Units of the missile forces destroyed an enemy air defense system. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported this on the evening of March 18.
It was noted that the enemy launched five missiles and 55 air strikes, and carried out 60 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and populated areas. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population. Multi-storey and private houses were destroyed and damaged.
According to the General Staff, the operational situation in the directions of Volyn and Polesie has not changed significantly. No signs of the formation of offensive enemy groups were detected.
At the direction of Seversky and Slobozhansky, the Russian Federation maintains a military presence in border areas, conducts sabotage and reconnaissance activities, removes populated areas from Russian territory, and increases mine density. and explosive barriers on the Ukrainian state border. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Bolshaya Pisarevka, Lukashevka, Ponomarenko, Sumy region. More than 20 settlements came under enemy artillery and mortar shelling, including Klyusy, Progress of the Chernigov region; Circle, Atinskoye, Ekaterinivka, Vodolagi, Miropolye, Ponomarenko, Sumy region; Guryev Kazachok, Gatishche, Volchansk, Bochkovo, Budarki, Ambarnoye, Kharkov region.
At the direction of Kupyansky, the invaders carried out three unsuccessful attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces in the Sinkovka settlement area, Kharkov region. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Ivanovka, and Berestovo in the Kharkov region.
In the direction of Liman, our soldiers repelled four enemy attacks in the area of the village of Terny, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to break the defenses of our troops. More than 15 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Nevskoye and Belogorivka in the Lugansk region; Terny, Torskoe, Verkhnekamenskoe, Spornoe, Razdolovka, Donetsk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, our soldiers repelled seven Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Ivanovskoye, Kleshchievka, Andreevka in the Donetsk region. The enemy launched an air strike in the area of the village of Razdolovka, Donetsk region. About 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Nikolaevka, Vasyukovka, Bogdanovka, Chasov Yar, Ivanovskoye, and New York in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Avdeevsky, our defenders repelled seven Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of Ocheretino and Novobakhmutovka settlements, Donetsk region. About 20 settlements came under artillery and mortar shelling, including Progress, Volchye, Zhelannaye, Mirnograd, Novogrodovka, Umanskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Novopavlovsk, the Defense Forces continue to stop the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Urozhainoye, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 21 times to destroy the defenses of our troops. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Paraskoveevka, Konstantinovka, and Bolshaya Novoselka. About 20 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Krasnohorivka, Berestki, Konstantinovka, Antonovka, Yekaterinivka, Zolotaya Niva, Blagodatnoye in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Orekhovsky, the enemy, with aviation support, attacked the positions of our defenders seven times in the areas of the settlements of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region, and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. About 15 settlements came under artillery and mortar shelling, including Malinovka, Gulyaypole, Malaya Tokmachka, Novoandreevka, Malye Shcherbaki, Primorskoye, Zaporozhye region.
In the direction of Kherson, during the day, the Russians made three attacks on the positions of our troops on the left bank of the Dnieper. More than 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar shelling, including Burgunka, Lvovo, Tyaginka, Ivanovka, Novotyaginka, Tokarevka in the Kherson region.
We remind you that in the direction of Novopavlovsk the enemy, with aviation support, tried 36 times to break the defenses of our troops.
It was also reported that, according to the Institute for the Study of War, the Russian Federation captured a village in Zaporozhye.
Source: korrespondent
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