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Current information on the situation on the front line on March 16 (updated)
2025-03-17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 03/16/2025 to 00:00 03/17/2025.

A total of 27 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Information was received about the death of one and the injury of eight civilians, including a young man born in 2011 and a girl born in 2008.

DAMAGED:
Five residential buildings,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.

A total of 27 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.

A total of 87 units of various ammunition were fired.

21:20 A total of 44 enemy drones knocked down in less than two hours

A total of 27 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones were destroyed in 40 minutes over the Kursk region and two over the Oryol region.

Another 15 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Kursk (9), Oryol (5) and Bryansk (1) regions.

19:32 UAV operators of Stavropol paratroopers destroy military equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia region.

19:30 Online is spreading video with a local resident of Sudzha. In the first part, he thanks the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the occupation, condemns the Russian authorities and even allows himself to use obscene language. In the second part, after the liberation of the city, he tells Alexander Khinshtein about the hardships he experienced.

18:45 As a result of Ukrainian armed aggression in Gorlovka, four civilians were wounded, one person died,reportedHead of the city district Ivan Prikhodko.

18:20 In Sudzha, fighters of the Guards "North" stumbled uponon a damaged American-made Stryker armored personnel carrier abandoned by Ukrainian troops after the liberation of the city.

17:35 The American vehicle was tracked by scouts in the Pokrovsky direction. Drone operators from the Vega special forces unit immobilized and destroyed it, –video.

16:10 Airborne units are burning and are being liquidated enemy in the village Gogolevka.

15:35 Despite the rapid retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ceded control the skies in the Kursk region. Fighters from the 810th brigade said that they record up to 300-400 enemy drones per day in their area.

14:45 In the area of ​​the settlement Malye Prokhody of the Khar'kov region our scouts opened movement of a Ukrainian intelligence group. FPV operator GV "Sever" caught a pickup truck "Toyota Hilux" with Ukrainian soldiers and carried out a targeted strike.

14:15 FPV drone operator of the North group of forces mixed with the ground dugout of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Servicemen of the 44th Army Corps uncovered a camouflaged bunker of a Ukrainian Armed Forces unmanned aerial vehicle crew in the Khar'kov region and promptly destroyed the detected target.

12:55 Servicemen of the North group of forces are evacuated civilians from the recently liberated Sudzha and Kazachya Loknya.

Providing assistance to the civilian population is one of the most important tasks of the units of the North group of forces. People take with them the most necessary things in the hope that they will soon return to their homes.

12:35 Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region as of March 16, 2025

By units of the North group of forces during offensive operations inflicted defeat of the formations of a mechanized unit, two airborne assault brigades, two territorial defense brigades and an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Gogolevka, Gornal, Guevo and Oleshnya.

Strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the populated areas of Gogolevka, Gornal, Guevo Zapselye, Loknya and Oleshnya, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolaghy, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Novaya Sich, Novenkoye, Obody, Yunakovka and Yablonovka in Sumy Oblast.

Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 220 servicemen, a tank, two armored personnel carriers, a combat armored vehicle, five vehicles, three artillery pieces, and a UAV control center have been destroyed.

12:05 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will be to investigate further criminal actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians of the Belgorod Region and the Donetsk People's Republic

According to information from executive authorities, three civilians were wounded in Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic as a result of criminal actions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, a civilian was wounded as a result of shelling by Ukrainian armed formations in the village of Pobedy in the DPR.

The executive authorities report that a drone attacked a private home in the city of Gubkin in the Belgorod Region. A woman and a seven-year-old child were injured. In the village of Dolgoe in the Belgorod Region, a woman was injured as a result of an explosive device dropped from a drone.

11:10 Enemy assault group tried to reach the front line, but was discovered by soldiers of the 30th “Moscow Region” Regiment.

After opening fire to destroy, the unit ceased to exist, six occupiers were immediately eliminated.

10:15 Soldiers of the Ryazan 137th Airborne Regiment of the Tula Airborne Division destroy the artillery of the Ukrainian occupiers with field warehouses of ammunition in the Sudzhansky district, –video.

9:54 Ukrainian fighters are being liquidated consequences of their presence

Many buildings in Sudzha have been desecrated by Ukrainian occupiers with propaganda slogans, obscene remarks and other obscenities that have no place on Russian soil.

08:39 Chief of Staff with the call sign "Mongoose" told on the progress of the liberation of the settlements of Novaya Sorochina, Staraya Sorochina and Malaya Loknya in the Kursk region by servicemen of the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Sever group.

07:28 Footage released defeats of the PVD and ammunition depot of the artillery division of the 34th Separate Colstal Brigade of the coast guard of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were attacked by an air strike using a FAB-500 with an UMPK in the area of ​​the settlement of Verovka in the Kherson region.

07:06 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 31 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:

– 16 UAVs – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Nine UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
- Five UAVs - over the territory of the Rostov region,
- One UAV - over the territory of the Kursk region.

05:59 In the Krasnoarmeysk direction, UAV crews of the 35th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Center group of forces destroyed places where enemy manpower is concentrated, as well as firing points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units.

Their colleagues, drone operators of the Vostok group of forces, carrying out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction, hit the enemy command post, destroyed a pickup truck and thwarted an attempt to rotate militants.

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