AFU repelled 69 attacks by occupiers in five directions, - General Staff
Last day, the Defense Forces repelled 69 enemy attacks in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Mariinka, and Shakhtarsk directions.
This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06:00 a.m. on March 20 regarding the Russian invasion.
Thus began the three hundred and ninety days of the Russian large-scale invasion.
The Russian Federation continues to conduct offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Mariinka, and Shakhtarsk directions. During the past day, our soldiers repelled 69 enemy attacks in the indicated directions. Bakhmut remains the epicenter of hostilities.
Last day, the Russian Federation continued to use terror tactics against the civilian population of Ukraine. By shelling populated areas and critical infrastructure facilities, the enemy completely ignores the laws and customs of war.
The Russian occupiers launched 6 missiles and 13 air strikes, carried out 56 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular, on the civilian infrastructure of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. There are dead and wounded civilians, civil infrastructure objects have been damaged.
The probability of strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine remains high.
The operational situation has not changed significantly in the Volyn, Polissia, Siversk, and Slobozhansk directions. The training of units of the territorial troops of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues at the training grounds of the Republic of Belarus. During the day, the enemy shelled the areas of Hrynivka, Klyusy, Oleksandrivka, and Kamianska Sloboda settlements of the Chernihiv region; Sopych, Kharkivka, Starykove, Volfyne, and Stepok in the Sumy region, and Chervona Zoria, Strilecha, Hlyboke, Krasne, Starytsia, Vovchansk, Kolodiazne, Kamianka, Novomlynsk, Krasne Pershe, Dvorichna, Zapadne, and Kindrashivka in the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of the settlements of Novoselivske, Kreminna, and Bilohorivka. He carried out artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Vesele, Kupiansk, Krokhmalne, Pishchane, and Berestove in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Nevske, Bilohorivka, Siversk, and Spirne in the Luhansk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, our defenders repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Bohdanivka, and Hryhorivka settlements. In particular, Vasyukivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Hryhorivka, Ivanivske, Kostyantynivka, Mayorsk, Zalizne and New York of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Avdiivka, Mariinka, and Shakhtarsk directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the districts of Kamianka, Avdiivka, Severne, Vodiany, Berdychiv, and Mariinka. Kamianka, Avdiivka, Berdychi, Orlivka, Tonenka, Severne, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Pobeda, Novomykhailivka, Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Mariinka, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, and Neskuchne came under enemy fire.
The enemy is defending in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions. Areas of 27 settlements were shelled. Among them: Olhivske, Charivne, Novodanilivka, and Orihiv of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Tamaryne, Odradokamianka, Tiahynka, Novotiahynka, Ponyativka, Sadove, Rozlyv and the city of Kherson.
During the past 24 hours, the Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck three Buk-M1-2 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7 strikes - on areas where the occupying personnel were concentrated, and destroyed the enemy's ammunition depot.
At the same time, our defenders destroyed a Russian UAV of the "Zala" type.
Units of missile troops and artillery struck the Russian anti-aircraft missile complex "Tor", 3 areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the enemy, and 3 means of radio-electronic warfare of the occupiers.
