Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 286 engagements on March 17, including 78 airstrikes, 257 guided bombs, 7,466 kamikaze drones, and 3,722 shellings, with the fiercest fighting near Pokrovsk.
- Ukrainian aviation, rocket forces, and artillery reported strikes on three UAV control points and three Russian troop concentrations.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said it downed 206 drones overnight across multiple regions, including claimed shootdowns over Bryansk, the Moscow area, Krasnodar, and Crimea.
- Local Telegram channels reported drone impacts at the AT 123 ARZ aviation repair plant in Staraya Russa, though regional authorities have not confirmed the incident; the facility services transport aircraft under Russia’s state defense order.
- Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations detained five servicemen on March 11 over an alleged weapons‑diversion scheme in Odesa region, filing charges, recording sales over ₴1.5 million, and continuing a probe that may transfer seized arms to the military.