Russia planning to falsely claim capture of Toretsk again – military
Russian forces are preparing to once again falsely claim the capture of Toretsk in Donetsk region despite failing to seize the town.
23 March 2025
Russian forces are preparing to once again falsely claim the capture of Toretsk in Donetsk region despite failing to seize the town.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has successfully destroyed a composite river crossing support company of the 205th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian army in Dnipriany located in temporarily occupied Kherson region.
Ukrainian forces have not recorded any attempts by Russian invaders to cross the Vovcha river near Vovchansk on the Kharkiv front.
On the Kharkiv front, Russian forces are mostly holding defensive positions.
Reports of the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducting successful counterattacks in Toretsk have been confirmed.
On March 21, Ukraine's Air Force successfully struck a Russian troop concentration in Toretsk, Donetsk region, targeting forces from Russia's 1st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the 103rd Motor Rifle Regiment.
Russian forces launched an attack on the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson at around 10:00 on Sunday.
The 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has liberated the village of Nadiia in the Luhansk region.
Last night, Russia deployed nearly 150 attack drones against Ukraine. Over the past week, Russia has launched approximately 1,100 attack drones, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, and over 15 missiles of various types.
In Kyiv region, the consequences of a massive attack by Russian drones on the night of March 23 were recorded in three districts.
Six wounded remain in hospitals as a result of an enemy attack on Zaporizhzhia on Saturday night.
In the Dniprovsky district of the capital, windows in a kindergarten and a restaurant were damaged after the Russian attack on the city. More than ten cars were damaged in Holosiivskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
In Chernihiv region, 14 Russian attacks with artillery, mortars, drones and FPV drones were recorded over the past day.
The city of Sloviansk in Donetsk region was hit by an enemy attack - more than 20 private houses were damaged, and a woman was wounded.
In the Kharkiv region, residential buildings and social infrastructure were damaged and five people were injured in the last day due to attacks by the Russian army.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have shot down 97 Russian drones, and another 25 enemy UAVs have been lost.
At night and in the morning, Russians fired 24 times at the border areas and settlements of Sumy region.
On March 22, the Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 147 combat clashes with Russian forces along the front line.
Falling debris from Russian drones was recorded in five districts of Kyiv, killing three people including a five-year-old child and injuring ten others.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in their war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to March 23, 2025, have reached approximately 903,480 personnel, including 1,470 troops in the past 24 hours.
Early in the morning, on March 23, Russian forces launched a glide bomb strike on Mezhova community in Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched 335 attacks on 13 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region.
In Kyiv region, a Russian drone attack injured two people and damaged several private homes and a vehicle.
Operators from the Strix Unmanned Aerial Systems Battalion of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade Magura destroyed 14 Russian vehicles in the Kursk sector of the front over the past day.
Ukrainian defenders destroyed a column of enemy armored vehicles and prevented Russian forces from breaking through the Ukrainian defenses in the Novopavlivka sector of the front.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), two people were killed during an enemy attack on the capital overnight on March 23.
The UK intelligence considers Vladimir Putin's new decree on Ukrainian citizens in Russia and the temporarily occupied territories as a continuation of Russia's policy of forced Russification in illegally occupied Ukrainian regions.
In Beryslav, Kherson region, a police vehicle detonated an enemy anti-personnel mine, likely a "petal" mine.
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22 March 2025
Ukraine's State Emergency Service units evacuated 31 people, including three children, from border settlements in the Sumy district on Saturday, March 22.