The occupying forces have lost their offensive potential and have been stopped in all directions. The enemy has significant logistical problems and continues to suffer losses. Armed Forces of Ukraine Units are blocked in some directions.
It was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a summary of the Russian invasion as of 18:00.
The fact that the enemy used almost the entire set of sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles and Iskander operational-tactical missile systems during the first twenty days of the operation, continues to carry out missile and bomb strikes against infrastructure facilities and residential areas of large cities using indiscriminate weapons.
In violation of International Humanitarian Law, the Russian occupants continue to take hostages and kill civilians, shoot civilian vehicles, obstruct the movement of humanitarian convoys to evacuate the people with specific and mutually agreed upon green corridors, and use civilian infrastructure to deploy weapons and equipment, and resort to looting.
The enemy keeps the Ukrainian city of Mariupol under siege and has proceeded to the total destruction of civilian infrastructure, housing, and life support facilities, thus creating the preconditions for a deepening humanitarian crisis in the city.
In order to intimidate the civilians in the temporarily occupied territories, the invaders resort to abductions and detentions of representatives of state and local authorities.
In addition to units of the Russian armed forces, police officers from the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea, temporarily occupied by the Russians, were also detected in the Kherson Region. Operational groups of the FSB carry out punitive functions. The enemy agitates the local population to be recruited into the so-called "police.
According to available information, due to the inability to qualitatively staff the grouping of occupation troops on March 20 this year in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region begin another wave of mobilization into the ranks of the 1st Army Corps.
The aviation units of the 960th Attack Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army of the Russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses. The morale and psychological state of the flying personnel is extremely unsatisfactory. There are still cases of reports for resignation due to unwillingness to participate in combat operations on the territory of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian defenders inflicted significant losses on units of the 252 Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District fighting in the districts of Kharkiv and Izyum.
Up to 30 percent of personnel, armament, and military equipment have been lost. In addition, units of the Defense Forces eliminated the commander of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division, Colonel Igor Nikolayev.