Battles in the Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, 52 military clashes, enemy shelling, a Russian missile in the airspace of a NATO country. How will the 760th day of a full-scale war be remembered?
“They hit two parts of the power system. The first is the generating part and the second is the distribution part. If we start with the generating capacities, we hit several types of generating capacities. A large number of thermal power plants were hit by missiles and drones… The second part – the enemy hit a lot of so-called network nodes of NEC Ukrenergo: transformers and so on,” said Kovalenko.
According to him, the DTEK Group, for example, lost 50% of its generating capacity. The damage caused is currently being assessed.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 52 military clashes occurred during the day.
In general, the enemy carried out 32 missile and 47 air strikes, carried out 48 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions ours and settlements.
In the Avdeevsky direction, 8 enemy attacks were repulsed in the areas of settlements Berdichi, east of Umanskoye, Pervomaiskoye, Donetsk region.
In Novopavlovsk, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka and Urozhaynoye, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 17 times to break through the defenses of our troops.
More details about the operational situation as of today at 18:00 on March 24 – in our news.
Head of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexey Chernyshev reported that during the morning attack of the Russian Federation in western Ukraine, damage was recorded to the facilities of the Naftogaz Group . According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.
During the morning shelling of the Russian Federation on Ukraine, Poland scrambled two pairs of F-16 fighters – two Polish and two American fighters, Radio Liberty reported, citing the Polish Ministry of Defense.
“Missiles with pilots on board could have shot down this object if it had flown deeper and threatened our safety, but after 39 seconds it left our territory,” Adviser to the Minister of Defense Mieczysław Benek said at a briefing.
The Russian missile flew 2 kilometers deep into Polish territory.
Poland will demand from Russia an explanation of how the missile entered the airspace of a NATO country.
Due to Russian shelling in Kharkov, thermal power plants and all transformer substations were destroyed. Energy companies cannot provide a stable energy supply throughout the city, Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov said during a telethon, writes Economic Pravda.
He clarified that the exact date of complete restoration of power supply throughout the city is impossible to report. Electricity supplies have been resumed in approximately 40% of Kharkov residents' homes, heating has been restored in 60% of homes, and almost everyone has water supply.
After Russian shelling in Kharkov and the region, a schedule is being introduced from March 25 to 31 power outages, said the head of the Kharkov regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov.
Emergency power outages are being introduced in Krivoy Rog, and stabilization ones are being introduced in Odessa.
The Kuibyshev oil refinery in the Samara region suspended operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones on March 23, writes ASTRA.
It is known that as a result of the attack on March 23 at the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery, the AVT-4 installation, which is responsible for the primary processing of oil, in particular its division into separate fractions, was damaged. After the installation was disabled, the production cycle of the enterprise was stopped.
According to British intelligence, recent attacks on oil refineries have likely resulted in the failure of at least 10% of Russian refinery capacity.
Ukraine, Georgia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have received NATO candidate status . Kosovo was a parliamentary observer, but will become an associate member, Malta will receive associate membership.
Such decisions were made by the standing committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly at a meeting in Tallinn on March 23-24, according to the PA website.< /p>
More than 40 legislators from NATO took part in the work of the assembly. At the meeting, delegates congratulated the new NATO ally – Sweden; at this first meeting, Swedish parliamentarians were present as full members.
More details in the news.
The most complete picture of today is on our website. We hope that tomorrow there will be more good news.
Let's hold on and bring Victory closer!