March 31, 2024

Ukrainian General Staff:  about 650 Russian troops killed or wounded in 24 hours; 35 tanks or APC’s destroyed or disabled 

Ukraine Defense Ministry

Glory to Ukraine! Seventy-hundred and sixty-seventh era of large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine began.

During the past day, there have been 85 battles.

In total, the enemy struck 17 rockets and 83 aviation strikes, carried out

87 bombings from the reactive systems of volcano fire on the positions of our troops and settlements.

At the end of the last day, Russian occupiers včergove attacked Ukraine, using 11 bpla type “shahed”. By the forces and means of air defense of Ukraine, 9 Bpla was destroyed. And already in the morning of the current day, the enemy intervened to hit winged missiles from aircraft of strategic aviation Tu-95MS. Shot down nine of the fourteen launched winged missiles X-101 / X-555

During the past day, the settlements of Neskučne Sumy region suffered from air strikes; Grigorivka, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Kupansk-Kuzlovy of Kharkiv region; Novolyubivka of Luhansk region; Terni, Ponds, Yampolivka, Rozdolivka, Chasiv Yar, Ivanivsk, Druzhba, Berdychi, Semenivka, Vodyane, Alexandropil, Staromayorsk Donetsk region; Malinivka of Zaporizhia region.

More than 100 settlements of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts were under artillery fire.

In the Volyn and Polish directions, the operating environment remains without significant changes.

In the Siver and Slobozhansky directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts diversionary activities in order to prevent the transfer of our troops to threatening directions, increases the density of mine-explosive fences along the state border.

In the kupâns Наkomu direction, the enemy of aggressive (storm) actions did not lead.

In the Limansky direction, our soldiers repelled 6 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Terny Donetsk region and Bilogorivka in Luhansk region, where the enemy, with air support, tried to break through the defenses of our troops.

In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers repelled 7 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Chasiv Yar, Ivanivskie, Klishchiyivka Donetsk region.

In the Avdiyiv direction, our defenders repelled 24 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdychy, Semenivka, Umanske, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, where the enemy tried to knock our units out of occupied borders.

In the Novopavlivsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to restrain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorivka, Pobeda, Novomykhailivka and the eastern Donetsk region, where the enemy tried 36 times to break through the defenses of our troops.

In the Orihiv direction, occupants carried out 5 attacks on the positions of our defenders in the areas of Staromayorsk Donetsk region and Robotiny Zaporizhia region.

In the Kherson direction, the enemy 2 times attacked the positions of our troops on the left bank of the dnieper.

Over the past day, the Defense Forces aviation has struck

4 anti-missile complexes and 11 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy.

The missile troop units attacked 4 radio stations, 1 control point, 1 personnel focus area, 4 air defense vehicles and 1 enemy artillery.

In total, last day total losses of Russian zagarbnikív amounted to 650 people. The enemy also lost 15 tanks, 20 combat armored vehicles, 44 artillery systems, 7 anti-aircraft vehicles, 30 Bpla OTR, 2 rockets, 47 vehicles and 9 special equipment units.

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