Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.41 Russian war criminals launched another missile attack on the Odessa seaport on Tuesday, March 11. According to preliminary information, four crew members of the MJ Pinar were killed and one sailor was injured.
22.27 Ukraine has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in the event of mutual consent from the Russian Federation. However, this is by no means a frozen conflict. This was stated on Facebook by Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, who took part in the negotiations in Saudi Arabia.
20:59 The United States has proposed establishing a 30-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky during his evening address.
According to him, the key task for the United States will be convincing Russia to support this decision.
20.23 Ukraine expressed its readiness to accept the US proposal to immediately introduce a temporary, 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, with the simultaneous acceptance and implementation by the Russian Federation. The US will inform Russia that reciprocity on the part of Russia is the key to achieving peace.
19.33 An explosion was heard near the railway station in Ivano-Frankivsk. All relevant services are working at the scene. This was reported by the press service of UZ. According to the preliminary version, it could have been a terrorist attack.
18:44 Ukrainian military are using a unique carrier drone at the front, which carries up to six FPV drones and also serves as a repeater. This was announced by Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on his Telegram channel on Tuesday, March 11.
17:20 Luhansk OTG fighters stopped a massive enemy assault with a column of armored vehicles in the Seversky direction. The video, filmed by the military, was published in the Telegram channel of Ukrainian journalist Andrey Tsaplienko. In total, 14 armored fighting vehicles (16 damaged), one tank (two damaged), three LATs, three buggies, two ATVs were destroyed. The enemy's manpower losses are 159 killed and wounded.
16:57 Chinese journalists have filmed a story from the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions for the first time since February 24, 2022. The Chinese also "participated" in the shelling of Russian positions. Ukrainian war correspondent Andrey Tsaplienko reported this on his Telegram channel and posted a corresponding excerpt from the Chinese TV channel's story.
16:44 Participants of the resistance movement who were held captive now have the right to receive the status of a participant in military operations. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, at the initiative of the Ministry of Defense, amended the relevant Procedure. This was reported by the press service of the department on Tuesday, March 11.
16:06 The court sentenced informant Igor Kastyukevich, one of the Moscow "curators" of the temporarily occupied Kherson region, to 11 years in prison. This was reported by the SBU press service on Tuesday, March 11.
15:58 Russian propaganda has once again begun to spread fakes about Ukraine's so-called preparation of a "provocation at the Kursk NPP." This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on Telegram.
14:54 The head of the Sumy OVA Artyukh stated that there are no Russian troops left on the territory of Sumy region and that all attempts by sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) to break through from Kursk region have been eliminated by Ukrainian forces. He pointed this out on air during the telethon on Tuesday, March 11.
13:39 The French government refuses to demilitarize the Ukrainian army because it is the main guarantee of Ukraine's security. This was stated by French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.
13:26 In the city of Seversk, Russian invaders dropped an aerial bomb on a multi-story building. One person was killed and four others were injured, said Vadim Filashkin, head of the Donetsk OVA.
13:05 Due to Russian aggression against Ukraine, Europe can no longer take peace for granted. It has gotten rid of illusions about both the possibility of integration with Russia and the existence of permanent protection from the United States. This was stated by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
12:55 Ukraine's F-16s may be left without proper maintenance, as the US recently partially stopped supporting the fighters. This is reported by Defense Express. The issue concerns the software update of the AN/ALQ-131 REB container. That is, the entire combat capability of the F-16s really depends on the US.
12:37 Russian troops continue to terrorize the Kherson region, actively using attack UAVs. Yesterday, two civilians were killed in the attacks. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA Oleksandr Prokudin on Tuesday, March 11.
12:29 The largest drone attack in history on the Moscow region of the Russian Federation became an additional backdrop for the negotiations of the delegations of Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia, and also sent a response signal to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This was stated by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, Andrey Kovalenko.
11:57 As a result of the fire in fuel tanks and a warehouse of children's toys on March 10 in Odessa, a significant amount of pollutants and combustion products entered the air. This was reported by the Odessa City Council.
11:45 The cousin of the US Vice President Nate Vance said that he saw with his own eyes how the Russians shot their soldiers who wanted to retreat. According to him, this happened "enough times" to consider it policy, and not an isolated incident.
"These people, by their policy, devour their own. So they will not hesitate to devour the American president or vice president... They are not our allies and will not be for at least a generation," Vance said.
11:17 Negotiations between Ukrainian and US delegations have begun in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
10:55 The Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the US in the Saudi city of Jeddah intends to make a proposal to cease fire in the sky, at sea and strikes on energy infrastructure and hopes for a positive attitude from the American negotiators. This will be a test for Russia as well. This was stated by the head of the Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Kovalenko.
10:33 On Tuesday morning, the Russian army attacked the city of Konstantinovka, wounding four civilians. This was reported by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office. The Russians dropped a FAB-250 with a UMPK module. Apartment buildings, a car, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged in the city.
10:23 Law enforcement officers detained a 19-year-old Russian accomplice from Nikolaev, who, on orders from the enemy, was to carry out a terrorist attack near the regional police department on March 7, 2025. This was reported by the SBU.
09:32 A Russian drone attack has damaged residential buildings in the Kyiv region. In the Boryspil district, seven private homes and two cars were damaged by debris from downed enemy targets. Windows were knocked out, facades and roofs were torn up.
Also in Boryspil and Obukhov districts, as a result of an enemy attack, a grassy flooring caught fire. The fire has already been extinguished.
No critical infrastructure facilities were hit, and there were no casualties among the population.
09:15 In Odessa, as a result of an attack by Russian drones, damage was caused to premises with a total area of over 2,780 square meters. Fuel tanks, a private residential building, and a warehouse with children's toys caught fire in the city.
More than a hundred rescuers, volunteers, National Guard fighters, and local fire brigades worked to eliminate the consequences. According to preliminary information, there are no victims or injured.
08:35 Over the past 24 hours, 140 combat clashes were recorded on the front. Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit nine areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, 12 artillery weapons, two command posts, a UAV command post, and another important target of the Russian invaders.
08:20 At night, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 126 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of drone imitators. Air defense forces shot down a missile and 79 drones. The Russian attack affected Donetsk, Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv regions.
07:55 Russian military attacked a cyclist with a drone in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson. The 40-year-old man was taken to hospital with a concussion, mine-explosive and closed craniocerebral injuries, shrapnel wounds.
07:45 Drones have attacked Russia en masse. As of this morning, 337 drones have already been shot down, airports in Moscow are not working, there is damage. The Governor of the Moscow Region of the Russian Federation Andrei Vorobyov said that at present one person is allegedly known to have died and three people injured.
07:20 As of March 11, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were estimated at 887,620 people (+1,300 per day).
04:25 Moscow is fighting off a UAV attack. The Cover plan was introduced at two Moscow airports - Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, and the city authorities announced the alleged downing of about a dozen drones.
01:21 UAVs attacked Odessa. A fuel warehouse, a private house and children's toys caught fire in the city.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces Contain Russian Attacks in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
The Russians are again most active in the Pokrovsky direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled 47 attacks, and 11 combat clashes are ongoing.
The Russian invaders have significantly increased their activity at the front. Since the beginning of the day, 202 combat clashes have occurred, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, March 11.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy carried out offensive actions five times in the direction of the settlements of Glubokoe and Volchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russians attacked positions in the areas of Novaya Kruglyakovka, Petrovpavlovka and Zagryzovo 40 times. Five combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out 18 attacks near the settlements of Grekovka, Yampolovka, Novomikhaylovka, Novoye and Zelenaya Dolina. Seven combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, two attacks were repelled in the direction of Belogorovka and Verkhnekamenskoye. Three more clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling four assaults in the areas of Maisky, Chasovy Yar and Stupochki. Nine attacks have already ended unsuccessfully for the enemy.
In the Toretsk direction, 21 assaults by the occupiers have been stopped near Dilievka, Dachnoye, Druzhba, Kurdyumovka and Toretsk. Another six combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian invaders carried out 58 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye Vtoroye, Novotroitskoye, Promin, Lisovka, Novoukrainka, Zelenoe, Zverevoye, Leontovichi, Sergeyevka, Udachnoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Nadeyevka, Preobrazhenka, Bogdanovka, Katerinovka, Alekseyevka, Shevchenko and Andreyevka. The defense forces repelled 47 enemy attacks, 11 clashes continue.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through 15 times in the areas of Konstantinopol, Yekaterinovka, Volnoye Pole and Burlatskoye. Three combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, 15 battles took place in the areas of the settlements of Privolnoye, Zelenoe Pole, Novosyolka and Novopol.
In the Orekhov direction, the enemy carried out nine assaults in the direction of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Stepnoye, Pyatikhatki, Shcherbaki, Kamenskoye and Lobkovoye. At present, four combat clashes remain unfinished.
In the Dnieper direction the enemy attacked twice unsuccessfully.
There were 23 armed clashes in the Kursk direction, 14 of which are still ongoing.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on March 10, Russia lost 1,300 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. The total number of losses since the beginning of the war is approaching 900 thousand people.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces eliminated Russian troops in the Sumy region
Every attempt by the enemy to enter the region’s territory from the Russian side is harshly neutralized using the means of destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The head of the Sumy OVA, Artyukh, stated that there were no Russian troops left on the territory of Sumy Oblast and that all attempts by sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) to break through from Kursk Oblast had been eliminated by Ukrainian forces. He pointed this out on air during the telethon on Tuesday, March 11.
Artyukh emphasized that today not a single settlement is under the control of the Russians. Every attempt by the enemy to enter the territory of the region from the Russian side is harshly neutralized with the help of the means of destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"Currently, there are no units of Russian troops in any populated area. Those isolated cases and those sabotage and reconnaissance assault groups that are trying to enter the territory of Sumy Oblast from Kursk Oblast are being destroyed by the appropriate means of destruction of our units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Forces," he added.
Let us recall that the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported that Russian troops are trying to gain a foothold in the area of the village of Novenkoye in the Sumy region and cut off logistics routes.
According to the Center for Countering Disinformation, a mass breach of the border between Novyi and Zhuravka in the Sumy region has not been recorded at the moment.
Earlier, DeepState analysts showed the village of Novenkoye on the map as a "gray" combat zone.
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of a mechanised brigade of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades close to Granov, Udy, Sinelnikovo, and Neskuchnoye (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 55 troops, six motor vehicles, three artillery guns, and an electronic warfare station.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted damage on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, an air assault brigade near Novoye, Drobyshevo, Novomikhaylovka, Mirnoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Kamenka, Malaya Shapkovka, and Tishchenkova (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 225 troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, six pickup trucks, three field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
The Yug Group of Forces liberated Gorkogo (Donetsk People's Republic). Russian troops hit formations of a heavy mechanised brigade, three mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Kleban-Byk, Berestok, Vasyukovka, Rozovka, Konstantinovka, Tarasovka, and Dronovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 295 troops, three tanks, nine armoured fighting vehicles including five U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, three pickup trucks, seven field artillery guns, three ammunition depots, and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defence. Russian forces engaged three mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigades of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, and a national guard brigade near Novosergeyevka, Sribnoye, Udachnoye, Petrovskoye, and Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 460 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier and a French-made VAB armoured personnel carrier, nine motor vehicles, and three artillery guns including a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system.
The Vostok Group of Forces delivered strikes at units of a mechanised brigade, a jaeger brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Shevchenko, Bogatyr, Voskresenka, Dneproenergiya, Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses amounted to more than 155 troops, a German-manufactured Leopard tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, two ammunition depots, and an electronic warfare station.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged the personnel and hardware of a mechanised brigade and three coastal defence brigades of the AFU near Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Nikolskoye, Pridneprovskoye, and Belozerka (Kherson region).
The enemy lost up to 50 troops, nine motor vehicles, a field artillery gun, and an ammunition depot.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the facilities of airfield infrastructure, manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and foreign mercenaries in 147 areas.
Russian air defence means have shot down two JDAM guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and a Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectile.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 657 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 46,270 unmanned aerial vehicles, 600 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,119 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,526 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,425 field artillery guns and mortars, and 32,696 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 03/11/2025 to 00:00 03/12/2025.
A total of 11 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
There were reports of two civilians being injured.
A total of 11 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 47 units of various ammunition were fired.
19:21 The 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade liberated the settlement of Dneproenergia, –MAP.
18:59 The Russian Armed Forces are conducting assault operations southwest of Belogorovka, –MAP.
17:50 The liberation of the village of Pyatikhatki has been completed, –MAP.
17:06 The liberation of the village of Gorky (Dachnoye) and the adjacent forest has been completed, –MAP.
16:39 The enemy has been driven out of Uspenovka, –MAP.
16:31 Around 15:15 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
16:19 Aerial reconnaissance assets of one of the units of the 44th Army Corps of the North Forces Group discovered a concentration of enemy manpower in a wooded area.
After waiting for the right moment, FPV drone operators destroyed the target with precise hits.
15:08 The settlement of Zamostye has been liberated, –MAP.
14:39 Units of the "Southern" group of troops are actively engaged in operations released the settlement of Gorky in the Donetsk People's Republic.
14:29 Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the "West" group revealed a camouflaged FH-70 howitzer in a firing position and a Nota electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The detected targets were quickly destroyed by crews of fiber-optic controlled FPV drones.
13:26 During aerial reconnaissance, the operator of the UAV GV "Sever" opened several firing positions of mortar crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. All targets were accurately hit by FPV drones.
13:11 Tankers fired several precise shots at a camouflaged enemy mortar position along with its crew.
Tank crews of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division of the "Southern" group of forces support the offensive of motorized rifle units, suppressing enemy firing points in forest belts.
12:38 Destruction of a 122mm BM-21 Grad of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using an FPV drone in the Krasnolimansk direction, –MAP.
12:24 Limanskoe direction
The units of the Group of Forces "West", after inflicting fire damage on the enemy, advanced more than one km through the plantings west of Novolyubovka.
The enemy reserves, which were moving forward to help the Ukrainian soldiers, were destroyed.
12:23 Units of the North Group of Forces liberated the village of Dmitryukov in the Kursk region, –MAP.
11:55 Kursk region
The main group with units holding the throat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is located in a rectangle of 6.5 by 12 km and is under artillery fire, including 120mm M "Sani", from end to end.
To the south is the second part of the enemy group in the Kursk region in the Guevo-Gornal area. Its turn will come a little later.
Our troops are currently dealing with the Sudzhan group.
Counterattacks by units of the Ukrainian 225th Separate Assault Regiment and "Aidar" have not yielded results.
The enemy is trying to prevent our units from crossing the Loknya River south of Kazachya Loknya and passing the Popadya River line.
11:51 Units of the North group of forces during offensive operations released 12 settlements: Agronom, Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, Dmitryukov, Zazulevka, Ivashkovsky, Kolmakov, Kubatkin, Martynovka, Mikhailovka, Pravda, Yuzhny and more than 100 square kilometers of the Kursk region.
10:18 The Russian army liberated Kazachya Loknya in the Kursk region, –MAP.
10:12 UAV operators of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed an antenna for controlling a Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV in the area of the settlement of Toretsk.
09:54 In the Khar'kov direction, the operator of the reconnaissance UAV GV "Sever" revealed the launch point of enemy drones. The drone control center decided to work with the drops. All the VOGs hit the target, as a result of which the dugout with Ukrainian soldiers and their property was burned.
09:11 Kursk region.
"Winged infantry" units of the 106th Airborne Division cleared out a number of landings south of Lebedevka and moving towards Zaoleshenka.
A group from Kazachya Loknya is advancing in the same direction.
08:22 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 337 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
126 UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
91 UAVs over the territory of the Moscow region,
38 UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region,
25 UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region,
22 UAVs over the territory of the Ryazan region,
10 UAVs over the territory of the Kaluga region,
Eight UAVs over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
Eight UAVs over the territory of the Oryol region,
Six UAVs over the territory of the Voronezh region and
Three UAVs over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
07:31 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Zozulevka, Ivashkovsky and Agronom were liberated;
Bondarevka was liberated;
Kolmakov and the Bondarevka cottage village were liberated;
Yuzhny liberated, advance east of Sverdlikovo;
The control zone in Dzerzhinsk in the Zabalka region has been expanded.
05:33 Crews of 120mm mortars "Sani" of the "East" group of forces inflicted fire strikes on equipment and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
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[Regnum] Russian servicemen discovered the bodies of civilians from Cherkassky Porechny killed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in a church near Kursk. This was reported on March 11 by the Telegram channel " Northern Wind ".
“Our servicemen found the bodies of elderly residents of Cherkassky Porechny killed by Ukrainian fascists in the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,” the channel’s publication says.
The body of a deceased disabled person, who had been beaten by militants before his death, was also found in the residential building. Information about the discovery of the murdered residents was forwarded to the investigative bodies.
The liberation of Cherkassky Porechny became known on March 9. On the same day, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlements of Malaya Loknya, Kositsa and the village of Lebedevka in the Kursk region.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in mid-February the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in connection with the murders of civilians in the village of Nikolayevo-Daryino, committed by Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. According to the testimony of a resident of the village, the Ukrainian military deliberately launched a drone into the basement where a seven-year-old boy was hiding. As a result, the child died. In addition, civilians were shot with firearms.
On January 19, in the basements of houses in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Russian soldiers who liberated this settlement found the remains of seven civilians with their hands tied, bruises and bullet wounds. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder of civilians.
Investigators also established the involvement of five Ukrainian servicemen in the murder of 22 civilians in Russkoye Porechnoye. From September 28 to November 24, 2024, the suspects killed 11 men and three women, and raped and killed eight more women. They then moved the bodies to the basements of private homes.
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov, inspected the work of the Kursk troop group. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry on the Telegram channel.
During the trip, he familiarized himself with the implementation of combat missions to neutralize the enemy in the Kursk region. Gerasimov heard a report from the commander, Colonel General Valery Solodchuk, as well as unit commanders, who reported on the current situation and the course of operations.
The Army General noted the success of the troops in fulfilling the assigned tasks and gave instructions for further actions.
At the end of the visit, he presented state and departmental awards to distinguished servicemen, thanking them for the courage and valor they demonstrated in the battles to liberate the region.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have liberated 12 settlements in the Kursk region and more than 100 square kilometers of territory. Units of the North group of troops defeated formations of 14 brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, destroying dozens of units of equipment, including two tanks and four infantry fighting vehicles. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 270 people in the Kursk region.
During the fighting, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 66.5 thousand people and thousands of units of equipment, including 391 tanks and 311 infantry fighting vehicles.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States.
The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, a record high, as Ukraine hit back at a series of brutal recent attacks launched by Moscow.
At least one Russian civilian has been killed and several injured, with dramatic footage showing fires raging from the exploding drones including in high rise residential buildings near Moscow.
The attack came as a Ukrainian delegation was set to meet with America's top diplomat Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia about ending the three-year war with Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Jeddah for talks with the Saudi Crown Prince yesterday, will not stay for today's meeting, which marks a new diplomatic push after the Ukrainian President's explosive row with Donald Trump last week.
There has been no immediate comment from Kyiv on the strikes which shook Moscow and other Russian regions overnight.
The most drones - 126 - were shot down over Kursk across the border from Ukraine, parts of which Kyiv's forces control, while 91 were shot down over the Moscow region.
Other areas impacted by the strikes included Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh on the border with Ukraine and those deeper inside Russia, such as Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol and Ryazan.
Earlier, Ukraine made a rare deployment of US-supplied HIMARS missiles against Russian territory at Dobrynya shopping centre in Belaya Sloboda, Kursk region, where four people were reported killed and 10 injured, including several teenagers.
One drone exploded in Kurchatov, a town close to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, seen on footage and leading to a small fire.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said over 70 drones targeted the Russian capital and were shot down as they were flying toward it.
Drones were shot down in the Ramensky and Domodedovo districts of the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, he said on the messaging app Telegram.
Twenty people - including two children - were injured during the attack by drones flying to Moscow, in Vidnoye, Ramenskoye and Domodedovo, said reports.
Hundreds of people were also forced to evacuate their homes as the drones rained down.
The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said one person was killed and three more wounded as a result of the drone attack.
The attack damaged seven apartments in a residential building in the Ramensky district, he said.
It also set cars on fire in a parking lot in the Domodedovo district, according to Russian state news agencies RIA Novosti and Tass.
Mash news outlet said Ukraine had used AN-196 Liutyi domestically-made drones as the mainstay of the overnight strikes.
A resident on Domodedovskaya Street in Moscow said she heard the drone - 'the sound of a moped - and it crashes into the house, there's an orange flash and that's it'.
A key focus of the Ukrainian strikes was Kursk region, where thousands of Kyiv's troops risk being surrounded by Russian forces backed by North Korean fighters.
Other regions hit in the concerted Ukrainian offensive included Lipetsk and Tula.
The attack of Ukrainian drones on Russian regions demonstrates the terrorist nature of Kiev. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
"By an unfortunate coincidence, which has become a regular occurrence, [OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu] came under attack - not physically, but while in a geographical location - by Kiev-regime VAS drones, which are directed, among other things, at the capital when a high-ranking international delegation is there. <…> Apparently, so that they would learn about the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime not from papers, but in practice," TASS quotes Zakharova as saying.
Zakharova noted that the OSCE delegation headed by Sinirlioglu will be taken to the crash site of the Ukrainian UAV in Moscow so that the Secretary General of the organization “will learn about a non-existent reality not from his own reports, which are given to him, among other things, by those who sponsor the Kiev regime, but so that he will learn about the reality that actually exists.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of March 11, air defense systems shot down over 330 Ukrainian drones over the territory of ten Russian regions. 91 UAVs were intercepted over the Moscow region. The Kursk region was subjected to the most massive raid - 126 drones were shot down there.
Another 38 drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, 25 over Belgorod, 22 over Ryazan, ten over Kaluga, eight over Lipetsk and Oryol regions. Six UAVs were neutralized over the Voronezh region, and three more over Nizhny Novgorod.
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