Russian drone explodes near checkpoint in Chernihiv region, one soldier killed, several injured
A Russian drone exploded near a checkpoint in the Chernihiv region on Sunday, killing one soldier and injuring several others.
15 March 2026
A Russian drone exploded near a checkpoint in the Chernihiv region on Sunday, killing one soldier and injuring several others.
Valerii Vavryniuk, acting head of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service, visited combat units defending the state border with Russia in the Sumy region and reviewed the needs of border guard detachments.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said intelligence data indicate that Russia is reducing missile production while significantly increasing orders for drones, planning to produce up to seven million first person view (FPV) drones this year.
Ukrainian forces struck Russian military facilities in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region on the night of March 14-15.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees enacting decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose sanctions on Russian and Iranian companies and individuals servicing Russia's military-industrial complex, as well as Russian Paralympians who took part in the war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that any easing of sanctions on Russian oil would only benefit Russia, warning that the money Moscow earns from energy exports will be used to fund the war and produce drones that could later be used against the United States and its allies.
In just the past week, Russian forces struck Ukrainian territory with 1,770 attack drones, over 1,530 KABs, and 86 missiles.
In just the past week, Russian forces struck Ukrainian territory with 1,770 attack drones, over 1,530 KABs, and 86 missiles.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi visited certain areas of the Zaporizhzhia direction, where the enemy is concentrating a significant number of forces and resources for an offensive.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that American military officials had contacted Ukrainian forces requesting expertise in countering Shahed drones.
Near the village of Chervona Khvylia in the Kharkiv region, two emergency medical workers were killed as a result of enemy shelling, and another was injured.
In Kherson, a Russian drone hit a minibus, injuring a civilian man.
On March 14, a total of 144 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops. The enemy put the most pressure on the Kostiantynivka sector, while activity was also high in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Ukrainian air defense forces neutralized 90 out of 97 drones launched by Russian forces in attacks on Ukraine starting in the evening of March 14.
Ukraine's military intelligence has released exclusive footage showing the destruction of a Russian Shahed-type attack drone over the Dnipro River near Kyiv during a massive Russian air assault on March 14.
The total combat losses of Russia’s forces in manpower from February 24, 2022 to March 15, 2026 have reached approximately 1,279,170 personnel, including 740 killed and wounded over the past day.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that sanctions on Russian oil imposed when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 will go back once the Middle East crisis is over.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called “absurd” the threats by Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, to launch missile strikes against Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s assistance to Israel.
Rescuers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) extinguished a fire caused by a Russian drone strike on a passenger train in the Sumy region.
Powerful explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied town of Dovzhansk in the Luhansk region late on March 14. According to preliminary information, an ammunition depot exploded in the town.
Ukraine's military intelligence has released exclusive footage showing the destruction of a Russian Shahed-type attack drone over the Dnipro River near Kyiv during a massive Russian air assault on March 14.
The rapid development of drone technologies has significantly changed how tanks are used on the battlefield, but it is still too early to abandon them, according to Hennadii Shapovalov, commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
Soldiers from the Combat Hawks unmanned systems battalion of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade demonstrated how they recover damaged ground robotic systems (UGVs) from the outskirts of Pokrovsk that failed to reach their destination.
14 March 2026
Russia's Ministry of Defense has claimed that almost 300 Ukrainian drones attacked Russian territory on Saturday.
Ukrainian forces have engaged in 117 clashes with Russian troops along the frontline since the start of the day.
Ukraine's state rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, has introduced temporary changes to train operations in the Sumy region after a Russian drone strike hit a passenger train.
Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in the Sumy region on March 14, injuring three civilians, according to the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
The Japanese government is considering introducing Ukraine-made attack drones to bolster its defense capabilities, banking on the Eastern European country's combat experience against Russian military aggression.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss cooperation on countering Iranian-made drones.
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