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31 March 2026
U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE, are urging U.S. President Donald Trump to continue the war against Iran, believing that Tehran has not yet been sufficiently weakened.
The Russian army struck railway infrastructure in Sloviansk; four people were wounded, one of whom is in critical condition.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces shelled settlements in the Chernihiv region 44 times, with 66 explosions recorded.
The National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine have thwarted a series of contract killings organized by Russian agents.
Russian forces have attacked the Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region more than 30 times using drones and artillery, injuring two people.
Reports that the mobilization process will transition to a new administrative phase starting April 1 are untrue. The Ministry of Defense has developed a comprehensive plan to transform the mobilization system, which will be announced at a later date.
On the night of March 31, drones attacked the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation; among the damaged facilities was the Ust-Luga Port.
Over the past 24 hours, on March 30, 140 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines.
In Sloviansk, three people, including a child, were wounded as a result of a Russian airstrike overnight on March 31.
In Poltava, one person was killed and four others were injured, including two children, as a result of a Russian attack on the night of March 31.
Air defense forces shot down 267 of the 289 drones used by Russian troops to attack Ukraine beginning on the evening of March 30.
Early Tuesday morning, March 31, a Russian attack drone struck the balcony of a third-floor apartment in an apartment building in Odesa, injuring a man.
Total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to March 31, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,297,670 personnel, including 970 over the past 24 hours.
One person was killed and three others were injured, including a child, when debris from a Russian drone fell in the Poltava region.
The reform of the Ukrainian Army’s military command structure is currently in its second phase.
Russian military aircraft carry out 70–90 strikes on Ukraine every day, using between 200 and 300 guided bombs.
The National Police have investigated 56% of the 1,216 anonymous bomb threats received on March 30 at the email addresses of state authorities, local governments, educational institutions, businesses, organizations, banks, and other institutions.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has proposed expanding the network of engineering counter-mobility parks by adding 23 more by the end of 2030, as well as establishing a counter-mobility strip along the borders with Belarus and Russia.
A pilot project to involve the private sector in the air defense system is already yielding initial results.
30 March 2026
On March 30, Ukrainian forces engaged in 120 combat clashes with Russian forces, the most active being the Pokrovsk sector, where the enemy attempted 24 attacks.
This year, Ukraine will concentrate on a strategic defensive operation aimed at containing the enemy.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has tested a new generation of bomber drones at the Brave1 training ground.
Ukrainian forces have already liberated 480 square kilometers of territory on the Oleksandrivka axis, according to Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, with key attention focused on air defense issues.
Russian forces launched nearly 70 drone and artillery attacks on the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast throughout the day, killing one person and wounding 12 others.
Russian troops attacked an energy facility in the border community of Derhachi in the Kharkiv district, leaving more than 800 customers without power.
Russian forces dropped two guided aerial bombs on a dormitory at an educational institution in Hlukhiv, Sumy region, injuring 11 people, including a child.
A new rehabilitation center for military personnel has opened in Kyiv as part of the national RECOVERY rehabilitation network program.
Since the start of the day, Russian forces have attacked Ukrainian defenders' positions 46 times, with the heaviest activity in the Pokrovsk sector.
Some areas of temporarily occupied Crimea have lost power supply, including Yalta, Feodosia, and the Chornomorske district.