Battles in the Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, 78 military clashes, enemy shelling, the fall of the Russian military transport Il-76. How will the 748th day of a full-scale war be remembered?
Consequences of the shelling of a nine-story building in Krivoy Rog
Russia shelled Krivoy Rog on the evening of March 12.
According to the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Sergei Lysak, as a result of an enemy attack, a fire occurred in a high-rise building.
As of March 21, 38 were known to be wounded, including 10 children.
< p class="MsoNormal">Mayor Alexander Vilkul said that the enemy missile attack resulted in at least three hits. “Including a direct hit on a nine-story building… The headquarters for helping people is deployed on Vostochny-1 near the ATB from 20.00. You can go there with questions about resettlement, building materials, to cover broken windows and any other questions,” Vilkul noted.
There is also a Russian missile hitting the roof of a five-story building in the Metallurgical District.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 78 military clashes. The enemy launched 9 missile and 73 air strikes, carried out 72 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
Instead, the aviation of the Defense Forces attacked 9 areas where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated.
In the Avdeevsky direction, 22 enemy attacks were repulsed in populated areas Berdichi, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye settlements in the Donetsk region. where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 19 times to break through the defenses of our troops.
More details about the operational situation as of 18:00 on March 12 – in our news.
The United States of America announced a new aid package to Ukraine after a long break and at a time when the corresponding bill is being blocked in Congress.
The corresponding statement was made by US Presidential National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, European Pravda reports. “Today, on behalf of President Biden, I am announcing an emergency security assistance package for Ukraine with weapons and equipment worth $300 million,” Sullivan said.
According to an adviser to the American president, the funds came from… for “unpredictable savings” in contracts already concluded by the Pentagon to replace weapons transferred to Ukraine. The package will include a large number of artillery ammunition and GLMRS shells for HIMARS systems. “This is the help Ukraine desperately needs to defend against Russian attacks,” Sullivan said.
An Il-76 military transport plane crashed in the Russian city of Ivanovo.
The Baza channel reports that the Il-76 plane crashed during landing. According to preliminary data, he fell on the territory of a cemetery near the village of Bogorodskoye, not far from the airfield.
The plane was making a training flight, taking off from the Severny airfield and staying in the air for several minutes. During a turn, the plane's engine caught fire. The pilot tried to fly to the airfield, but was unable to.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the crash of the plane and reported that there were eight crew members and seven passengers on board.
The Freedom of Russia Legion said it had completely taken under the control of the town of Tetkino in the Kursk region.
“Putin's army is rapidly leaving the village, leaving positions behind and abandoning heavy equipment,” the message said.
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), for its part, also stated that the soldiers of Putin’s army are running away from them.
“Behind them remain settlements, equipment and, above all, citizens of the Russian Federation, abandoned and unnecessary,” the RDK reported.
The day before, the Legion “Freedom of Russia”, the RDK and the Siberian Battalion reported that they entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation. The Ukrainian State Traffic Inspectorate confirmed this information.
As a result of a fire caused by a drone strike, the Lukoil oil refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region stopped the operation of the largest primary oil refining unit, DW reports.
At the same time, According to Reuters, the shutdown AVT-6 unit provided about 53 percent of the entire refinery's processing. Representatives of Lukoil declined to comment.
Let us note that the explosions in Russia on March 12 covered at least nine regions – Moscow, Leningrad, Tula, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol and Nizhny Novgorod.
The State Environmental Inspectorate calculated the damage from fire on the territory of the Osokorki ecopark in Kyiv. According to environmentalists, 10.4 hectares of vegetation burned, and the amount of damage is 499.9 thousand UAH. This was announced by a representative of the Department of Environmental Protection and Adaptation to Climate Change of the Kyiv City State Administration at a meeting of the environmental commission of the Kyiv City Council on March 12. In 2019, the Kyiv City Council created a natural reserve fund object – a landscape reserve of local significance “Osokorkovskie Luki”. with an area of 148 hectares. According to the decision to create the reserve, the function of protecting the object was assigned to the Kievzelenstroy CO. The grass burning that occurred on March 7 occurred partially within this particular reserve.
More details in the news.
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