Overview
- The General Staff reported 161 combat clashes in the past 24 hours, with the fiercest fighting on the Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka and Huliaipole sectors, and later logged 43 more engagements since morning with pressure still highest in those areas.
- Ukraine’s Air Force said 148 of 154 Russian strike drones launched since the evening of March 20 were shot down or neutralized during a large overnight barrage.
- A Russian drone strike on a private home in Zaporizhzhia killed a man and a woman and injured children, according to regional chief Ivan Fedorov.
- An attack on an energy facility in Chernihiv region cut electricity to roughly 430,000 residents, with repairs underway, local authorities and the grid operator reported.
- Kyiv dispatched a delegation to the United States to push for resuming U.S.-brokered talks, while the White House did not confirm a meeting and the Kremlin signaled the pause in the trilateral format could be temporary; Ukraine also updated Russia’s cumulative personnel losses to about 1,286,940.