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The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine and their allies.
In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from March 25th, 9:43 p.m.:
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian air defense has shot down 2,000 cruise missiles or rockets in the more than two years since the start of the Russian war of aggression.
“This is the result of the gigantic work of the Ukrainian airspace defenders,” the Defense Ministry in Kiev said on Monday on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
The modern air defense systems provided by Ukraine's partners have saved thousands of lives.
However, the ministry did not provide information on how many missiles and cruise missiles were not intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses.
The defense against drones was also not included in these statistics.
The ministry agreed with President Volodymyr Zelensky's request for additional anti-aircraft systems in order to better protect the population of Ukraine.
“Civil infrastructure remains the main target of Russian attacks,” it said.
Russia attacks Kiev again: Ukraine intercepts missiles
Update from March 25th, 2:25 p.m.:
The Russian army attacked the Ukrainian capital Kiev with ballistic missiles.
The target was apparently the offices of the SBU secret service.
According to Kyiv Post
sources
, the rockets were aimed at the compound where high-ranking SBU officials are staying.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, both missiles were shot down.
Update from March 25th, 1:30 p.m.:
On the weekend's Ukrainian attack on Crimea
the military ship could too
“Iwan Churs” may have been damaged.
The Ukrainian Navy is investigating a corresponding suspicion, said spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk, according to the
Kyiv Independent
.
It was previously known that the two landing ships “Yamal” and “Azov” as well as the communications center had been destroyed.
Their fate is uncertain: the Russian reconnaissance ship Ivan Churs was attacked by drone boats.
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Russia attacks Ukraine with air strikes – Klitschko reports explosion in Kiev
Update from March 25th, 10:55 a.m.:
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, two people were injured in the new Russian attacks on Kiev.
A three-story building in the center of the Ukrainian capital was severely damaged by falling debris, the Ukrainian capital's military administration said on the short message service Telegram.
Rocket debris also fell in three other parts of the city.
The Ukrainian Air Force said two ballistic missiles were fired over Kiev.
According to US Ambassador Bridget Brink, Russia attacked with hypersonic missiles.
“In the last five days, Russia has used hundreds of missiles and drones against a sovereign state,” she said, according to the
Reuters
news agency .
Russia attacks Kiev – explosions in the capital
Update from March 25th, 10:00 a.m.:
There were several explosions in Kiev in the early hours of the morning.
Shortly before, an air alarm had been triggered.
“Explosions in the capital.
Go to shelters immediately,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Update from March 25, 9:50 a.m.:
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian air defense shot down eleven drones launched from Ukraine over the Rostov region in southwest Russia.
Earlier, the region's governor, Vasily Golubev, said on Telegram that two power units of the Novocherkassk power plant were out of operation after a fire early in the morning.
The fire was quickly extinguished and there were no injuries.
He did not provide any information about the cause of the fire.
War in Ukraine: Combat drones attack the port city of Odessa
First report:
Kiev - Russian combat drones damaged power supply systems in the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions in southern Ukraine on Monday night (March 25th).
As a result, there was a power outage in some parts of the port city of Odessa and its surrounding areas, as the Ukrainian military in the region announced.
According to the city administration, local public transport with trams and trolleybuses in Odessa had to be stopped.
Nobody was injured.
The energy supplier Ukrenerho said that a substation was also damaged and caught fire in the Mykolaiv region.
According to the military, debris from a drone also fell onto a two-story residential building there.
It caught fire.
Eleven people were injured, two of them seriously.
The Russian army has been increasing its air strikes against Ukraine's energy supply for several days now.
This caused major problems, especially in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The repairs to the network there would take about another week, said Ukrenerho boss Volodymyr Kudryzkyj on Ukrainian television.
Russia reports attack on electricity and thermal power plant
On the Russian side, there was a fire on Monday night at the Novocherkassk power and thermal power plant, the largest plant of its kind in the Rostov region.
Unofficial information here indicates a Ukrainian drone attack.
The regional administration officially announced that the cause of the fire was being investigated.
The fire had been extinguished.
Two units of the power plant and two transmission lines were switched off.
Ukraine has been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion for over two years.
It has increased the range of its drones in recent months and is primarily attacking targets in the Russian oil industry.
(speaking with agency material)