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23 March 2026
All Western intelligence agencies, including European and American ones, miscalculated the duration of Russia’s war against Ukraine, significantly underestimating Ukrainian resilience and defence readiness.
For many years, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) assessed Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia much more soberly and critically than the federal government, and recognized early on the resurgence of Russian imperialism and Ukraine’s central role in this strategy.
Russian troops have intensified their offensive operations across several fronts—between March 17 and 20, the Russian army carried out 619 assaults.
Last weekend, Russian forces damaged two schools in the Shevchenkove community of the Kupiansk district.
The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police of Ukraine detained a Russian agent within a few hours who carried out a double terrorist attack in Bucha, Kyiv region, on the morning of March 23.
The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police of Ukraine detained a Russian agent within a few hours who carried out a double terrorist attack in Bucha, Kyiv region, on the morning of March 23.
Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck Russian air defense systems and drone depots.
Defense Forces have struck key fuel and energy infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation. Specifically, these include the Transneft – Port Primorsk oil terminal and the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil refinery.
Injury toll after the Russian drone attack on Kryvyi Rih has increased to four. One of them is in critical condition.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service of Ukraine to initiate sanctions against a former member of parliament from the banned Party of Regions, who is one of the suspects in the land fraud case at the Stolychnyi market.
In frontline regions, new power outages have occurred as a result of enemy shelling and drone attacks.
Russia is trying to catch up with Ukraine in the production of naval drones; the Defense Forces consider this threat real and are preparing for it.
Claims regarding Russian troop advances in Vovchansk and Synkivka are unfounded.
Russian authorities reported a massive drone attack early Monday morning; at the port in Primorsk, Leningrad region, a fuel tank was damaged in the attack, which caused a fire.
In a village in the Novyi Bilous community in the Chernihiv region, a local woman who was working in her garden at the time was injured as a result of a drone attack by Russian forces.
On the morning of Monday, March 23, two explosions occurred in Bucha, Kyiv region, and two law enforcement officers were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces attacked nine settlements in the Kharkiv region with guided bombs and drones; a woman was injured.
The Russian troops have attacked Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region again, damaging infrastructure and injuring two people.
Yesterday, March 22, 134 clashes were recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders.
Fighters from the Unmanned Systems Unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Strix, destroyed a rare Russian Skat 450M drone, which is worth about 400 thousand dollars.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 234 out of 251 drones launched by Russia in an attack starting on the evening of March 22.
Russian forces launched drone strikes on residential houses in the outskirts of Odesa as well as on port infrastructure.
Russia suffered approximately 1,288,850 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and March 23, 2026, with 970 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
As a result of a Russian drone attack in the Kirovohrad region, a woman was injured and residential buildings were damaged.
As a result of a Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih, two men were wounded and a fire broke out.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that the United States continues to provide Ukraine with the necessary intelligence and weapons via European partners.
The Russian authorities have effectively abandoned a large-scale experiment that envisioned bringing "SMO veterans" en masse into the State Duma through elections.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched 821 attacks on 40 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, leaving three people dead.
On Monday, March 23, all regions of Ukraine will follow hourly electricity outage schedules for residential consumers, while industrial users will face power restrictions.
22 March 2026
Following negotiations with the U.S. side in Florida, progress has been made in aligning positions and narrowing the range of unresolved issues.