Casualties, destruction in Odesa after Russian drone attack
Russian killer drones attacked Odesa overnight Thursday, causing fires in the suburbs, damaging infrastructure, and inflicting casualties.
21 March 2025
Russian killer drones attacked Odesa overnight Thursday, causing fires in the suburbs, damaging infrastructure, and inflicting casualties.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's requirement for Ukrainian citizens staying in the Russian Federation to formalize their status or leave country by September 10 also applies to residents of temporarily occupied territories.
Among the six victims of the Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia is a 4-year-old boy. Two houses were destroyed and three were damaged.
20 March 2025
The shelling of Zaporizhzhia damaged at least two houses and wounded two people, including a child.
At least four explosions occurred in Zaporizhzhia region.
Poland will not send its troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peacekeeping mission, but may join it in the logistical aspect.
In the Kherson region, a 54-year-old resident of the village of Kachkarivka was injured in a Russian drone attack.
The number of people injured in the Russian overnight strike on Kropyvnytskyi has risen to 14, while experts continue to assess the damage to 70 private homes and 17 apartment buildings.
Russian forces carried out attacks on Nikopol and Synelnykove districts in Dnipropetrovsk region using drones, aviation, and artillery. As a result, one person was killed and another sustained injuries.
Russian forces launched strikes with glide bombs on Krasnopillia in Sumy region which claimed the lives of a man and a woman and damaged several homes.
The European Union welcomes progress toward ceasefire while warning against an unstable ceasefire that would only allow Russia to plot another attack on Ukraine or an invasion of another European state.
On March 18, the Ukrainian Air Force attacked a command post operated by one of the units from the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of Russia’s 20th Army in the Demidovka area, Belgorod region.
In Kropyvnytskyi, the consequences of a large-scale Russian drone attack were shown, which are still being eliminated.
The Russian army shelled Kherson, wounding a 74-year-old man.
At the Engels airfield in the Saratov region of the Russian Federation, as a result of a strike by the Defense Forces on the night of March 20, the Russian army lost missiles, including Kh-101s, which it regularly uses to strike Ukraine.
A nighttime Russian strike on Dobropillia, Donetsk region, caused fires in two private residential buildings and damaged high-rise buildings.
The number of people injured in the attack by Russian drones on Kropyvnytskyi has increased to 11.
The largest number of shelters is located in Darnytskyi district of Kyiv.
Until a document on a partial ceasefire is signed, Russia will continue its air attacks on Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin does not want a ceasefire while Ukrainian forces remain in Kursk region.
Overnight and in the morning, Russian forces carried out 49 attacks on the border areas and settlements of Sumy region. A total of 101 explosions were recorded.
On March 20, Russia claimed to have repelled a massive drone attack carried out by Ukraine reporting the downing of 132 UAVs.
Overnight on March 20, Russian forces dropped more than 30 glide bombs on Kupiansk, Kharkiv region. The attack left one person dead and three others injured.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 75 drones used by Russian forces in their overnight attack on Ukraine. Additionally, 63 enemy UAV decoys were lost from tracking without causing any damage.
Over the past day, on March 19, there were 155 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. In the Pokrovsk direction, the Ukrainian defenders repelled 47 enemy assaults.
Russia currently keeps no warships on combat duty in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian forces have suffered an estimated 899,470 casualties, including 1,400 killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
On the Kramatorsk axis of the front near the settlement of Chasiv Yar, the King Danylo 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade destroyed a Russian long-range artillery system, a Hyacinth-S self-propelled howitzer.
Unmanned Systems Forces have already destroyed more than 10 Shahed-136/131 one-way attack UAVs using the latest weapon system, which costs some $5,000.
Kropyvnytskyi saw the largest-scale Russian kamikaze drone attack ever recorded in town, with multiple houses damaged and civilian casualties, including a child.