Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
1. Mariupol.
Street fighting. The authorities of the DPR claim to control approximately 70 percent of the residential development of the city and certain parts of industrial development. The enemy continues to put up stubborn resistance. According to a number of reports, after March 23, prisoners will no longer be taken. For the time being, they are still offering to hand over their weapons and surrender.
2.Ugledar direction.
After Stepnoy and Glorious, the fighting shifted to Novomikhailovka, which covers the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway from the south. Fighting continued throughout the day. There are no big changes under Velikaya Novoselka yet.
3.Marinka.
Slowly pushing the enemy out of the village. The troops are gradually advancing, but at such a pace, it can take from 5 to 7 days to occupy Maryinka, which is not surprising, since we are talking about breaking into a powerful fortified area, which is second only to Avdeevsky.
4. Avdievka.
There are no major advances near Avdievka itself. But to the north, the fighting has already shifted to Novobakhmutovka and Novoselka-2, where the DPR army is pushing back the battered units of the 25th battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are moving away from Verkhnetoretsky.
5.LNR.
Lisichansk-Severodonetsk-Popasnaya.
No significant progress was observed.
Rubizhne was subjected to shelling from artillery and Grads.
6. Izyum.
Heavy fighting continued in the Izyum region and, above all, for Kamenka, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent full control of the Russian Armed Forces over the village and advance towards the Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration and Barvenkovo.
In the direction of Lozova, there is also no serious progress so far.
7. Kharkov.
No significant changes. Fights of varying intensity to the north and west. In Kharkov itself, it turns out that they are still digging up corpses in the building of the Regional State Administration - by March 23, 24 bodies from among the local Volkssturm had already been dug up. The excavations are ongoing.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the Gulyaipole-Orekhov-Vasilyevka line without significant changes. To the north, the enemy is fortifying Pavlograd and seeking to quickly restore the operation of the Pavlograd-2 station after a missile strike.
The part of the Nikolaev grouping of the RF Armed Forces that has gone to Nikopol is also not advancing towards the city yet.
In the direction of Kryvyi Rih, no advances to the regional center were reported either. Locals say that the troops are fortifying 10-20 km from the city.
9. Kyiv.
Fighting continued to the west and southwest of Kyiv. The RF Armed Forces are trying to move south, in the direction of Vasilkov. The enemy defends stubbornly.
Fighting also continued in the city of Irpen, part of which is controlled by the RF Armed Forces. N.p. Bucha, Vorzel, Gostomel are also for the RF Armed Forces. During the day, a fake about the “encirclement” of all Russian troops flashed by and disappeared on the Internet.
To the east of Kyiv, fighting took place in the area of several urban settlements to the northeast and east of the Brovary region.
10. Nikolaev - Odessa.
Near Nikolaev without major changes, rocket attacks on targets in and around the city, plus exchanges of artillery strikes.
Odessa is also unchanged.