The Russian occupiers continue to conduct offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv, Marin, and Shakhtar directions.

Also, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the Avdiivka direction with the aim of establishing control over Avdiivka and Maryinka.

This is stated in the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for March 22.

Criminal strikes of the Russian Federation

Today, the Russians launched a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia, as a result of which 2 Russian missiles hit a residential high-rise building.

There are casualties and injuries among civilians.

The enemy also carried out

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In particular, the occupiers used 21 Shahed-136 drones from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.

16 of these drones were shot down.

As a result of enemy anti-aircraft strikes, the Russians hit the territory of the dormitory of the vocational college in Rzhyshchev, Kyiv region.

There are casualties and injuries among civilians.

A critical civil infrastructure facility in Zhytomyr Region was also damaged.

In addition, the invaders launched more than 30 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.

The threat of enemy strikes remains throughout the territory of Ukraine.

The situation in certain directions

The operational situation on

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directions has not changed significantly.

The formation of offensive groups of the enemy was not detected.

The Russian leadership continues to use the infrastructure of Belarus to train its troops.

The enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas.

During the day, the occupiers shelled the areas of the settlements of Khrinivka, Myhalchyna Sloboda, Chernihiv region;

Atynske, Volfine and Popivka in the Sumy region and Basove, Strelecha, Hlyboke and Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region.

On

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directions, the enemy continues to try to break our defenses.

He led unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Makiivka and Bilogorivka settlements.

Conducted artillery shelling of Dvorichna, Kupyansk and Krokhmalne settlements of Kharkiv region;

Belogorivka - Luhansk, as well as Kolodyazi and Verkhnokamianske in Donetsk region.

In

direction, the Russians continue to conduct offensive actions, but their

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The enemy does not stop trying to capture the city, losing a significant amount of manpower, weapons and military equipment.

Our defenders repel numerous enemy attacks around the clock in the areas of Bakhmut, Bohdanivka and Predtechine settlements.

Settlements near the contact line, including Vasyukivka, Mynkivka, Hryhorivka, Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Bila Gora, Druzhba, Mayorsk, Zalizne and New York of the Donetsk region, were hit by enemy shelling.

In

and

directions, the invaders carried out offensive actions in the areas of Novokalynov, Stepove, Berdychi, Avdiivka, Lastochkine, Severna, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Marinka and Pobieda settlements - they were unsuccessful.

In particular, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Vugledar and Velika Novosilka of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.

In

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directions, the enemy is conducting defensive operations.

Areas of settlements near the contact line, in particular, Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Gulyaipilske, Biloghirya, Mala Tokmachka, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Havrylivka, Beryslav, Vesele, Antonivka, Dniprovske and the city of Kherson, were shelled.

Strike back

During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces struck the enemy's anti-aircraft missile complex, as well as 12 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers.

Repression in the occupied territories

In the village of Vesele, Zaporizhzhia region, on the territory of a kindergarten building, Russian troops set up a military hospital.

The occupying "authority" continues measures for forced passporting of the population of the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Thus, in the settlements of the Kherson region, the occupying so-called "authorities" have been threatening local residents since April to stop paying pensions if they do not have a Russian passport.

At the same time, the so-called "leadership" of the Starobil Vocational College of the Luhansk National Agrarian University ordered all employees of the college to obtain a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

In this connection, meetings of teachers were held, who expressed dissatisfaction with the forced passporting of teaching staff.

Teachers are not given the opportunity to resign at their own will.

The occupiers took measures to forcibly disperse and stop the meetings. 

Earlier, the representative of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby, said that Russia is preparing for a new offensive in Ukraine.

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