Operational information as of 22:00 20.03.2025 regarding the Russian invasion
The main point of the summary:
Since the beginning of the day, 156 combat clashes have occurred, the enemy has launched two missile and 67 air strikes, used three missiles and dropped 96 anti-aircraft missiles.
In addition, it used 1,067 kamikaze drones and carried out 4,702 attacks on settlements and positions of our troops.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy tried 11 times to break through the defensive lines of our defenders towards the settlements of Kindrashivka, Malaya Shapkivka, Hlyboke, and Vovchansk.
Six enemy attacks were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Kupyansk direction in the areas of Pishchane, Ivanivka, Kruglyakivka, Zagryzove, as well as in the Petropavlivka directions.
Seventeen attacks by the invaders were stopped by Ukrainian soldiers in the directions of Novy, Novomykhailivka and near Yampolivka, Kopanky, and Nadiya in the Lymansky direction. Five clashes are still ongoing.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy carried out three offensive actions in the area of Bilogorivka, as well as in the Verkhnokamyansky and Ivano-Daryivka directions, two battles are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled three attempts by the invaders to advance in the areas of Minkivka, Stupochok, and in the direction of Oleksandro-Shultyny.
In the Toretsk direction, the invaders stormed the positions of our defenders near Dachny, Druzhba, and Toretsk 24 times today. The defense forces are steadfastly holding back the onslaught and have repelled 22 assaults, and two clashes are still ongoing.
The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovka direction. During the day, the enemy carried out 51 offensive actions. The greatest activity of the Russian occupiers remains in the areas of the settlements of Panteleimonivka, Oleksandropil, Zelene Pole, Tarasivka, Yelyzavetivka, Novotoretske, Promin, Lysivka, Pokrovsk, Zvirovo, Kotlyne, Udachne, Preobrazhenka and Andriivka, as well as in the Muravka and Kotlyarivka directions. Six clashes are ongoing so far.
In the Novopavlivske direction, Ukrainian units have repelled 12 attacks in the Shevchenko direction and in the areas of Vilny Pole, Konstantinopol, and Rozlyv. There have been three clashes so far.
In the Hulyaipil direction, the enemy launched unguided rocket attacks on Novopil and Hulyaipil.
In the Orikhiv direction, the Russian invaders advanced four times on the positions of our defenders in the Shcherbaky and Stepovoye areas.
The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Dnieper direction.
In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian defenders repel seven attacks by the invaders, a total of 16 clashes have been recorded so far. The enemy carried out 16 air strikes, dropping 24 guided bombs on settlements and positions of the Defense Forces. In addition, it carried out 278 artillery attacks, including four from a multiple launch rocket system.
There were no significant changes in the situation in other areas.
✊ Today we will celebrate the Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st Rocket Artillery Division, the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade named after Kosh Ataman Petro Kalnyshevsky, and the 79th Border Detachment , who steadfastly hold back the onslaught of superior enemy forces.
