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Donetsk Regional Military Administration has shared the photographs of the Donetsk region’s Vuhledar, which is situated close to the contact line. The photographs, showing the scale of destruction caused by Russian attacks, were posted by Donetsk Regional Military Administration Head Pavlo Kyrylenko on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Any words are superfluous here. This is what Vuhledar looks like now,” Kyrylenko wrote. A reminder that, on March 25, 2023, Russian troops were conducting unsuccessful offensive actions towards the Donetsk region’s Keramik, Tonenke, Pervomaiske and Marinka. Numerous enemy attacks affected the settlements situated close to the contact line, such as Avdiivka,…

The Ukrainian troops have not allowed the enemy to penetrate their defense lines in the east of Ukraine. That’s according to the spokesman for the Ukrainian Army’s Eastern Grouping, Serhiy Cherevatyi, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "We did not allow the enemy to break through our defense system anywhere, we did not allow them to achieve significant gains in their strategic offensive operation, we did not allow it to develop, therefore we can agree with this statement (the point of view, expressed by pundits, that Russia’s offensive of Russian troops on the town of…

The second group of Ukrainian artillerymen is completing the training session to master the 155-mm AS90 self-propelled artillery weapon on British soil. That’s according to the First Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, who delivered the news via Telegram, Ukrinform reports. According to Pavliuk, more than 1,000 British servicemen are involved in the program, run at the facilities of the British Ministry of Defense in the north-west, south-west, and south-east of Great Britain. Read also: North Macedonia to consider donating 12 combat helicopters to Ukraine "AS90 training is taking place in a specialized facility under the control of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin yet again states his complicity in a crime by violating the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. That’s according to Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office. “Putin (RF) is too predictable. Making a statement about tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he admits that he is afraid of losing & all he can do is scare with tactics... Second. He once again states his involvement in the crime. Violating the nuclear non-proliferation treaty...” Podolyak tweeted. Earlier, Olesiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said Vladimir Putin’s announcement of tactical nuclear arms…

The government of North Macedonia will consider the decision to transfer 12 Mi-24 combat helicopters to Ukraine at a meeting on March 29, after the General Staff has completed an analysis of the proposal. North Macedonia's Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said this in an interview with the 360 Degrees TV show on Alsat television, Ukrinform reports with reference to the website of the country's defense ministry. Petrovska said the decision would not affect the combat capability of North Macedonia's army. "All the equipment that has been donated so far has to do with the request of the Ukrainians. This is…

Russia's deportation of children from Ukraine is an element of the crime of genocide. French lawyer Emmanuel Daoud, who filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court regarding the illegal and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine, said this in an interview with Voice of America, Ukrinform reports. "According to the Rome Statute governing the work of the International Criminal Court, the court has jurisdiction over three crimes: war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide. You might think that genocide is when a criminal wants to destroy an entire country, an entire nation, an entire ethnic group. Actually,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in his address to the graduates of the Odesa Maritime Academy that Russian ships already know what expects them in Ukrainian waters. The address has been published on the website of the head of state, Ukrinform reports. The president thanked Ukrainian Navy officers for protecting the state in the maritime defense sector and added that Ukraine needs a victory over the enemy at sea, on land and in the sky. "Russian ships have already memorized the only prospect for them in Ukrainian waters. The Russian Black Sea flagship has already demonstrated what any vessel…

Russia kept two warships armed with up to eight Kalibr cruise missiles in the Black Sea early on March 25. Ukraine's South Operational Command said this in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports. "An enemy grouping of ships in the Black Sea was reduced to ten this morning. Surface missile ships returned to their bases. There are two submarines in the sea, armed with up to eight Kalibrs," the report reads. The command warned that the threat of missile attacks remains high. On March 24, Russia kept four warships in the Black Sea, armed with up to 24 Kalibr cruise missiles.

In Kharkiv region, power engineers came under enemy fire in the border town of Vovchansk. The press service of JSC Kharkivoblenergo told an Ukrinform correspondent that energy workers of the Kharkiv district power network came under artillery fire while they were carrying out the scheduled repair work in Vovchansk. “According to power engineers, this is the third such case this year," the company said. Power engineers believe that the Russian troops aimed specifically at the repair crew, because the shelling began when they started work. "It is 6 km to the border, and we need to restore the 110 kV…

Ukrainian defenders are doing everything possible to mop up a 20-30 km zone on the left bank of Kherson region from invaders. "So far, we are working to make the enemy feel our presence, our pressure. In particular, as part of the counter-battery confrontation, we are trying to mop up 20-30 km [zone] on the left bank. This is quite a difficult task and it is complicated by the fact that the enemy is constantly shielding itself with civilians, trying to hide its units and equipment bases in the yards of local residents behind residential buildings," Natalia Humeniuk, the head…