The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has published the information updated as of 20 March, 6.00.
The state, position, and nature of the actions of the Defense forces have not changed significantly. Our defenders continue to resist the occupiers efficiently. Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have shot 3 combat helicopters down, as mentioned in their report.
During the last day, the enemy has not performed active offensive actions and was more concentrated on covering current losses, repairing the military equipment, transporting foreign military mercenaries to the territories on the borders of Ukraine. The enemy continues to concentrate on its own logistics challenges and other persistent difficulties that occupational forces face.
On the temporarily occupied territories, occupants force harsh administrative and police regime
and intentionally create humanitarian catastrophe conditions. As an example, yesterday 14 trucks with food and first aid medical products departed from Apostolove, Dnipropetrovsk region and were moving to Kherson region. For no reason, this humanitarian convoy has been stopped by Russian occupants and not allowed to pass further. This is the measure they use to force locals to collaborate. Also, they spread leaflets suggesting to reach occupation administrations. They claim that any loans to the citizens would be forgiven and local businessmen will get preferred conditions.
We got to know that from the Joint 331st Guards Airborne Kostroma Regiment Unit that was involved in military actions in the direction to Kyiv, only 1 military remained alive and was hospitalized.
In these circumstances, Commanders of Black Sea Fleet use urgent measures as 130 military contractors from 810th Marine Infantry Brigade have refused to fight and are being replaced by airborne soldiers from the 7th Assault Landing Division. The details of their further service are under review of FSB.
On the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region, Russian handlers have started the next wave of mobilization to the 1st Army Corp. The age of mobilized people has been increased to 65 years. We expect the same will happen on the temporarily occupied territories of Lugansk region as in the zone of the 2nd Army Corp, in particular to Lugansk, Sorokine and Dovzhanske trucks loaded with military personnel’s bodies continue to arrive daily.
Russian terrorist forces continue to break the International Rules of War Conventions. There are lots of cases of Russian diversionists using the uniforms of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to perform subversive and discrediting actions.