Overview
- By 22:00 local time, the General Staff recorded 122 engagements today, with the highest number of Russian assaults on the Huliaipole axis and additional clashes across the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors.
- Ukraine confirmed overnight strikes that hit an S-300V launcher near Borovenky in occupied Luhansk, an S-300 radar near Sevastopol, multiple depots and a repair unit on occupied territory, and a fuel echelon in Luhansk, with damage assessments ongoing and over 6,000 Russian shells destroyed in a separate Donetsk strike on March 11.
- An SBU source told Radio Svoboda that drones struck the Tikhoretsk oil hub in Russia, a report the outlet could not independently verify, while regional authorities reported a large fire and new satellite imagery showed two fuel tanks burning and a 15-km smoke plume.
- Regional officials reported heavy civilian harm: one killed and 21 wounded in Kherson on March 11; at least three dead and dozens injured in Kharkiv; 780 strikes across 42 Zaporizhzhia settlements with widespread damage, and later outages in Zaporizhzhia affecting about 16,000 electricity and 25,500 heat customers after a March 12 attack.
- Kyiv has deployed counter-drone teams to Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, as Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi reports Russia is rapidly expanding dedicated UAV units and Ukraine is scaling FPV and interceptor capabilities for both offensive and air-defense tasks, including electronic-warfare and anti-drone measures.