Donetsk

Today, March 14, is the Day of the Ukrainian Volunteer. The history of the modern volunteer movement in Ukraine began on March 15, 2014, when 500 members of the Maidan Self-Defense went to the training ground in Nyzhni Petrivtsi, Kyiv Oblast, to form the first volunteer battalion.

President Zelenskyy reported on the progress of the response to the Russian strikes, provided assistance to the victims, and recognized the heroic efforts of rescuers in Sumy, Dnipro, and other regions who responded to the attacks.

Over the past day, 70 combat engagements took place on the Ukrainian front, with Russians attacking in seven directions, while Ukrainian defenders repelled 19 enemy attacks in the Novopavlivske area alone.

The Third Assault Brigade destroyed more than 500 occupants, up to 20 enemy armored vehicles and tanks, as well as a significant amount of Russian equipment in the Avdiivka sector, despite the extremely difficult combat situation against outnumbered Russian forces.

The government has agreed on measures to prevent forest fires, protect peatlands and farmland by 2024, and strengthen public awareness of fire safety rules.

The Commission on Technogenic and Ecological Safety and Emergency Situations extended the ban on visiting places of mass recreation on water bodies in several regions of Ukraine due to martial law.

Another grave of civilians killed by Russian shelling was discovered in occupied Mariupol.

Two elderly people were killed and five other locals were wounded in a Russian strike on Myrnohrad, Donetsk region.

Russian attacks destroyed high-rise buildings in Sumy, Myrnohrad and Kryvyi Rih overnight. Three people went missing in Sumy, two people were killed in Myrnohrad, and four more in Kryvyi Rih.

The Ukrainian Air Force reports launching guided aerial bombs from tactical aircraft in the Donetsk region.

Ukraine announces an air alert in Kharkiv, Dnipro and Donetsk regions due to a missile threat.

Russian occupants intensified their offensive in the Avdiivka sector, where Ukrainian troops repelled 22 attacks over the last day, and a total of 78 combat engagements took place on the Ukrainian front on Tuesday.

In the Donetsk region, Russian troops shelled 8 settlements, wounding 3 people, fired 6 rockets and a KAB-250 bomb, damaging residential buildings, a kindergarten, an administrative building, a utility company, garages, vehicles and power lines.

A record is set in Ukraine for the largest mass reading of Taras Shevchenko's poem Kateryna with 210 participants from 22 countries, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

Police officer Volodymyr Nikulin helped the crew of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol leave the besieged city with footage exposing Russian atrocities.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warns of a potential threat of ballistic missiles in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Dnipro regions.

Over the last day, russia launched 8 missile attacks, 114 air strikes and 107 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems at Ukrainian positions and localities, causing damage in several regions.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs about the potential threat of ballistic missiles in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Donetsk regions.

Ukrainian troops repelled 54 Russian attacks in eastern and southern Ukraine, with intense fighting in the Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlivka, and Orikhivsk sectors, despite Russian air strikes and rocket attacks.

Despite the war, coal production at Ukrainian mines has been growing steadily, exceeding 194 thousand tons in February 2024, surpassing the pre-war level.

Two young men aged 19 and 21 tried to steal a Mercedes-Benz GLE from a businessman in the parking lot of a shopping center in Kyiv, stabbing him with a knife, planning to earn money to travel abroad.

Ukrainian partisans have discovered the location of russian troops in occupied Luhansk, who are hiding in a hotel among civilian buildings.

Russian troops fired 36 times at the border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions, resulting in 198 explosions from various types of weapons.

Russian troops stormed Bilohorivka in Luhansk region, but the assaults were repelled by the Defense Forces, while in the occupied territories ballots for the so-called "voting" were delivered to remote areas, and a man in Antratsyt was ambushed for refusing to fight for the occupiers.

Three civilians were killed and 12 injured as a result of Russian shelling of Donetsk region on March 10.

russians struck Myrnohrad with modern UMPB D-30SN aircraft bombs, injuring 12 people, including a teenager, and damaging 17 residential buildings and 27 vehicles.

In Donetsk region, rescuers pulled the bodies of two people from the rubble of a house in Dobropillya that was shelled by russians at night.

Over the past week, russians threw grenades with poisonous asphyxiating and tear gas about 50 times in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

Ukraine is accelerating the construction of defensive positions, such as anti-tank barriers, trenches, minefields, and strongholds on several frontline areas to reduce the ability of Russian troops to advance and inflict heavy losses in any breakthrough attempts.

At least 11 people, including a 16-year-old boy, were injured as a result of a Russian missile attack on Myrnohrad in Donetsk region.