Russia continues to conduct offensive actions in the areas of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, Maryinka and Shakhtarske. The fiercest fighting is taking place in the southern and northern parts of Bakhmut, with Russian troops also conducting offensives in the Avdiyivka sector to establish control over Avdiivka and Maryinka, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on the evening of 22 March.
"Over the day, the enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporizhzhya, as a result of which two Russian missiles hit a residential multi-storey building, there are dead and wounded among civilians. The enemy also carried out 41 air strikes. In particular, the occupiers used 21 Shahed-136 UAVs from Bryansk Region of the Russian Federation, 16 of which were shot down. As a result of enemy UAV strikes, the Russians hit the territory of a dormitory of a vocational college in Rzhyshchev in Kyiv Region, causing deaths and injuries among civilians, and damaging a civilian critical infrastructure facility in Zhytomyr Region. The invaders also fired more than 30 times from multiple launch rocket systems," the General Staff said.
During the day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defence Forces hit a Russian anti-aircraft missile system and carried out 12 strikes on the clusters of Russian personnel and military equipment.