Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukraine will soon receive $880 million from the IMF after the successful completion of the third review of the Extended Fund Facility program, paving the way for the fourth tranche of funding.

Russia has put two submarines carrying up to 8 Kalibr cruise missiles on combat duty in the Black Sea, which creates a high missile threat.

The Russian occupiers are building a railroad from Russia through the occupied territories in southern Ukraine to Crimea, which is a serious target for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as it is intended to strengthen the logistics of supplying Russian troops.

On Thursday, Ukrainian defenders withstood 67 combat engagements, repelling 24 Russian attacks in the Novopavlivka sector, the hottest area of the frontline over the past month.

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands visited the training ground in the UK, where Ukrainian soldiers are undergoing training as part of Operation Interflex, and spoke with instructors and Ukrainian soldiers.

russia is moving Black Sea Fleet infrastructure and ships to Novorossiysk amid large-scale losses near occupied Crimea, but cannot completely leave the peninsula without being seen as an escape.

Slovakia and Hungary refused to participate in financing a Czech initiative to purchase 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine, citing their opposition to the provision of lethal weapons and their belief that the conflict has no military solution.

The morning rocket attack on Kyiv on March 21 was aimed primarily at the facilities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but all missiles were successfully shot down by Ukrainian air defense.

A Russian FSB informant who spied on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, observing their positions from his dacha near the front line, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for cooperating with the investigation.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the situation on the battlefield and assistance in training Ukrainian servicemen in France with the Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces.

Ukrainian security forces shoot down a Russian cruise missile with a machine gun during a nighttime rocket attack on Kyiv.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi met with a NATO delegation led by Admiral Rob Bauer, discussed the situation on the battlefield and Ukraine's key needs for ammunition and air defense, and thanked NATO for its support of Ukraine.

The Rada adopted a draft resolution that provides for the transfer of powers of the Zaporozhye Regional Council to the Zaporozhye regional military administration, the head of the Zov - Ivan Fedorov.

Ukrainian partisans discovered Russian troops hiding military equipment - trucks and howitzers - near a bus station used by civilians in occupied Simferopol.

A former official of the Armed Forces of Ukraine illegally enriched himself by UAH 58 million during the full-scale Russian invasion by acquiring unjustified assets - a car, an apartment, land plots and other property.

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have lost approximately 433,840 personnel and 6,832 tanks.

Over the past day, 70 combat engagements took place in various sectors, Ukrainian troops repelled numerous enemy attacks, according to a morning report from the General Staff.

Missile fragments fell on a kindergarten in Sviatoshynskyi district, and cars caught fire in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district after a series of explosions caused by Russian cruise missiles, as emergency services responded to the scenes.

The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with 350 million euros of military aid, including 150 million euros for the purchase of air-to-ground munitions for F-16 fighters and more than 200 million euros for unmanned aerial vehicles to be transferred to Ukraine.

Russian occupants launched 2 missile and 54 air strikes, used multiple launch rocket systems 41 times and took part in 67 combat engagements in six sectors on the Ukrainian front, with the most hostilities taking place in the Novopavlivka, Avdiivka and Lyman sectors.

The Slovakian company SEVOTECH has appealed to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and President Zelenskyy to remove 7,000 mortar shells from the Lviv arsenal by April 1, 2024, or they will be resold.

The DOT claims that it has agreed with suppliers on fair prices for food for the Armed Forces.

The EU-Ukraine Association Council strongly condemned Russia's "presidential elections" in the occupied Ukrainian territories and reaffirmed its support for the Ukrainian Peace Formula.

During a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Ukrainian Defense Minister rustem Umerov gave a vivid example of how air defense systems affect the situation on the battlefield, stating that when Ukrainian air defense systems shot down three russian bombers in one day, russia stopped using bombs in one of the hottest spots on the frontline for more than 11 weeks.

More than 200 people have left the community of Velyka Pysarivka in Sumy region due to intense shelling by Russia, while 80 families with children have remained, and forced evacuation of children is planned.

Russians have significantly intensified their attacks on Sumy region, launching 83 attacks, including 6 missile and 11 air strikes per day, and evacuating residents of border settlements in the region.

Since the beginning of March, Russia has conducted about 2,000 attacks using various types of weapons, mostly in Kharkiv and Sumy regions, according to a spokesman for Ukraine's State Border Guard Service.

Ukraine faces difficulties in acquiring Soviet-era ammunition directly from Balkan countries due to Russian influence and domestic legislation, so it relies on intermediary countries such as EU members or the United States to purchase such ammunition.

Last month, the Defense Ministry inspectors prevented the supply of 264. 09 tons of low-quality food worth UAH 36,479,997.10 to military units by checking the suppliers' warehouses before delivery.

Russia has not abandoned its massive missile strikes, Natalia Gumenyuk points out.