Operational Information on March 17 Regarding the russian Invasion. The Total Combat Losses of the Enemy from February 24 to March 17
The twenty-second day of heroic confrontation of Ukrainian people with the russian military invasion continues. russian terrorist forces continue their strategic offensive against Ukraine.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy does not stop trying to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. It is not successful.
In order to restrain the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is trying to blockade settlements in the north of the capital.
At the same time, the enemy does not refuse to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk and other regions where there is no active hostilities.
Intensive use of the territory and infrastructure of the Republic of belarus by a group of troops of the russian Federation to strike at the territory of Ukraine and provide logistical support to a group of occupying troops operating in the Polissya direction is recorded in Volyn direction. There is a possibility that certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of belarus will take part in hostilities on the side of the russian Federation.
In Polissya direction, the enemy made attempts to capture the previously occupied frontiers, which had been lost as a result of successful actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It has no success in this direction, it suffers losses. It is trying to regroup troops and establish logistics.
The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in Seversky direction, and is continuing preparations for the resumption of the offensive in order to further blockade Kyiv from the northeastern direction. Carries out chaotic shelling of positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tries to conduct reconnaissance.
In Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers tried to carry out offensive operations from the area Izyum, but they were unsuccessful. They are trying to gain a foothold in the occupied frontiers and improve the logistics system.
The Russian invaders are strengthening the group at the expense of additional units of the 1st Panzer Army and the coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.
The enemy carried out offensive operations in Donetsk and Tavriya directions. He had partial success in Rubizhne area (fixed on the western and north-western outskirts of the city, moving to the southern part of the town). It carried out unsuccessful assault operations in Popasna and Volnovakha areas in the areas of Verkhnotoretsk and Marinka. It suffered losses. It carries out regrouping of troops, it carries out replenishment of stocks. The storming of the city continues in Mariupol direction.
The occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations in Zaporizhia direction.
In the South Bug direction, the enemy conducted reconnaissance and carried out engineering equipment for the taken positions. It tried to carry out offensive operations in Kryvyi Rih direction, took control of the location Mala Shestirnya, but it had no general success, is fixed in the taken positions.
In Tavriya direction, the enemy continued increasing the system of logistics of the group of troops. A collection point for damaged equipment has been deployed at Dzhankoi airfield.
The enemy is trying to spread disinformation through all available channels of communication, both to the population of the temporarily occupied territories and to its own population in order to form a myth about the “invincibility” of the armed forces of the russian Federation.
The Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeals to the media community to limit as much as possible the coverage of personal data, photographs containing the faces of officers (unit commanders), geolocation, visual, address reference to the places where they perform tasks. Eliminate photo and video recording, the spread of accurate territorial coverage of bomb shelters (shelters for civilians) in the media, in order to make it more difficult for the enemy to obtain current information from open sources to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure.
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 17.03 were approximately:
· personnel about 14000
· tanks ‒ 444 units,
· APV ‒ 1435 units,
· artillery systems – 201 units,
· MLRS – 72 units,
· anti-aircraft warfare systems – 43 units,
· aircraft – 86 units,
· helicopters – 108 units,
· vehicles – 864 units,
· boats/cutters – 3 units,
· fuel tanks – 60 units,
· UAV operational-tactical level – 11 units,
· special equipment – 10 units.
Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.
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