The thirty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion began.
The Ukrainian Defence Forces Group continues to conduct a defence operation in the Eastern, Southeastern and Northeastern directions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully hold back the enemy in all the directions , and in some areas our troops carry out successful counterattacks.
The russian enemy continues to insidiously launch missile and bomb strikes, trying to completely destroy the infrastructure and residential areas of Ukrainian cities. It concentrates on fuel storage, in order to complicate logistics and create conditions for a humanitarian crisis.
In violation of the requirements of International Humanitarian Law in some temporarily occupied settlements of Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts, the russian occupiers continue to terrorize the local population. They are shelling residential buildings; rob, abduct and hostage civilians, engage in looting.
The Joint Forces of Ukraine repulsed 7 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions during the day. Our soldiers destroyed 12 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles and 3 units of motor vehicles. The enemy suffered casualties.
Defenders of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the previous day hit 17 air targets – 8 planes, 3 helicopters, 4 UAVs of various types and 2 cruise missiles. Air Force aircraft fired missile and bomb strikes at places of accumulation of the russian enemy equipment and manpower. The losses of the russian occupiers are being clarified.
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 29.03 were approximately:
- personnel – about 17200 осіб,
- tanks ‒ 597 од,
- APV ‒ 1710 од,
- artillery systems – 303 од,
- MLRS – 96 од,
- Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 54 од,
- aircraft – 127 од,
- helicopters – 129 од,
- vehicles – 1178 од,
- boats / cutters – 7 од,
- fuel tanks – 73,
- UAV operational-tactical level – 71.
- special equipment – 21.
- mobile SRBM system – 4.
Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.