Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 215 engagements on March 18, including 49 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector where it claims 164 Russian troops were killed and multiple drones and vehicles were destroyed.
- Kyiv says long‑range strikes hit the Aviastar plant in Ulyanovsk and the 123rd aviation repair facility in Staraya Russa, damaging infrastructure and aircraft stands as assessments of the impact continue.
- Special Operations Forces report a drone strike on Russia’s secretive Rubikon drone center near occupied Donetsk, while unmanned units say they hit multiple Tor air‑defense systems and a fuel depot in Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk.
- Ukrainian drone operators released footage of a rare R‑330Zh Zhitel electronic‑warfare station destroyed near Balochky in Zaporizhzhia, a system used to disrupt UAV communications.
- Regional officials report Russian Shahed attacks set ablaze an energy facility near Novovolynsk, cutting power to over 30,000 customers, and a separate drone strike damaged the SBU headquarters building in Lviv; ISW notes Shoigu acknowledged nationwide vulnerability to Ukrainian drones as it flags Gerasimov’s exaggerated gain claims.