As of: March 27, 2024, 6:24 a.m
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Russia continues to attack Ukraine mainly from the air.
Ukraine records another strike against the Russian Navy.
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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 27th, 6:20 a.m.:
After several nights of heavy Russian air strikes, Wednesday night started comparatively calmly for Ukraine.
There was only an air alert in the eastern city of Kharkiv, which is constantly threatened by rocket fire from the nearby Russian region of Belgorod.
From there, a large number of incoming Ukrainian combat drones were reported.
18 aircraft were intercepted, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
He initially spoke of an injured person.
In some villages around the city of Belgorod there was damage to houses and cars.
The information could not be independently verified.
In this photo published by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense, a Russian tank fires near the border with Ukraine in the Belgorod region.
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France wants to supply Ukraine with more weapons
Update from March 26th, 10:27 p.m.:
France has announced that it will soon deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine.
The production of artillery shells was also increased to meet Kiev's increasing needs.
“In 2024 we will be able to reach the target of 100,000 155 mm shells, of which 80,000 will be for Ukraine and 20,000 for the needs of our own army,” French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu was quoted as saying by the Associated
Press
.
Already in January, Lecornu presented a plan according to which Kiev, Paris and other allies would finance the howitzers.
Fighting in Ukraine: Russia's air force attacks dozens of positions
Update from March 26th, 8:15 p.m.:
Over the course of today, Tuesday, there are said to have been 50 military clashes on the front in the Ukraine war.
Russia is said to have carried out 56 air and missile attacks, as well as 43 attacks with multiple rocket launchers,
Ukrainska Pravda
reported .
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“During the day, the Defense Forces Air Force carried out attacks on two checkpoints and eight areas where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated,” the General Staff of the Defense Forces of Ukraine said.
The fighting is said to have taken place in six different areas.
These are: Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlovsk (Russia), Orekhovsky and Kherson.
Update from March 26th, 5:00 p.m.:
The Russian Defense Ministry is said to have announced that the Russian armed forces hit several centers of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) with rocket and drone attacks.
“During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike using long-range, high-precision sea- and land-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles,” Russian news agency
Tass
quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman as saying.
The goals of the attack were therefore all achieved.
Ukraine attacks Russian Navy ship
Update from March 26th, 11:20 a.m.:
According to its own statements, Ukraine attacked the landing ship Konstantin Olschansky with a Neptune rocket.
This was announced by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk.
“This ship is currently not combat ready.” Russia captured the ship from Ukraine in 2014.
Pletenchuk told the LIGA.net portal that the attack on the Konstantin Olshansky occurred at the beginning of the week, on March 23 - the same day that the two Russian Ropucha-class landing ships, Yamal and Azov, were hit.
Ukraine reports firing of 2,000 cruise missiles or rockets
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.
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)