Sevastopol
President Zelenskyy signs a decree imposing sanctions against 86 legal entities and 7 individuals, including foreign nationals, for a period of 3 to 10 years.
Russia reported explosions and drones in several regions.
According to local residents, an audible explosion occurred in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, Crimea.
In Crimea, military equipment and warehouses storing supplies for Russian troops were spotted. Their coordinates were passed to the Ukrainian military for possible strikes.
An exhibition of paintings and personal belongings of convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was recently exchanged for American basketball player Brittney Griner after serving 10 years of a 25-year sentence in the United States, opened in Sevastopol.
In occupied Sevastopol, an explosion knocked out a power substation that powered the enemy's military infrastructure.
Representatives of Ukrainian intelligence blew up a power substation in occupied Sevastopol.
At night, two explosions occurred in occupied Sevastopol, causing a blackout in part of the city.
Dozens of dolphins died in the Black Sea near occupied Crimea, Novorossiysk, and the coast of Russia's Krasnodar Territory in March 2024 due to military operations, some of them showing signs of sonar damage, bringing the total number of dead animals since March 2022 to 50,000.
Residents of the occupied Crimea who are about to be drafted into the Russian army are urged to report such cases to Ukraine, as this is a war crime and violates international law.
The Russians have begun to use fewer Kalibr missiles due to logistical problems, including difficulties with maintaining launchers and reloading them in the bays of Sevastopol.
The Kherson Art Museum reports that 100 paintings stolen by the Russian occupiers have been identified, 99 of which are in the occupied Crimea.
Two russian ship captains were accused of illegally exporting stolen Ukrainian grain from the occupied territories through the Sevastopol port of Crimea.
According to British intelligence, on March 24, the Ukrainian Air Force conducted a series of strikes in Crimea. One of the targets was a Black Sea Fleet (BSF) communications center in Sevastopol.
A military aircraft, presumably an enemy Su-27 fighter jet, was shot down over Sevastopol, crashing 200 meters from the shore without causing any damage.
The Russian military allegedly shot down its own plane taking off from the Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea, with the pilot reportedly ejecting safely.
Five men, four Germans and one Swiss, were accused of illegally supplying Siemens gas turbines worth 111 million euros to Crimea via St. Petersburg in 2015-2016, in violation of sanctions.
The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people warns of a possible new wave of forced mobilization of Crimeans, including Crimean Tatars, into the Russian army to participate in the war against Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has sunk or disabled one-third of all russian warships in the Black Sea, and its ultimate goal is to completely eliminate russian warships in the Azov and Black Sea regions.
A collaborator deputy elected to the so-called "State Council of the Republic of Crimea" was charged with collaboration, justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine and glorifying its participants, for which he faces up to 12 years in prison.
Ukraine's air force will continue to strike at military targets in Crimea until the russians leave the peninsula and other occupied territories of Ukraine.
Ukrainian strikes on ships and infrastructure of the russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol are likely to continue to deter russian forces from redeploying to the western part of the Black Sea and limit the fleet's combat capability.
A new batch of Russian soldiers and equipment from the Komi Republic and Yakutia arrived in occupied Dzhankoy, turning it into a logistics center for Russian troops in the Kherson direction.
The russians are actively transporting field artillery to the temporarily occupied Crimea in connection with the successful offensives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sevastopol and Hvardiyske.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is celebrating its 32nd anniversary, emphasizing its key role in countering Russian aggression through special operations, maritime drones, combat work, exposing traitors and collaborators, investigating war crimes, countering cyber threats, and destroying the Crimean bridge.
Satellite images show that the roof of the building housing the communications center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol has collapsed after a missile strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The communication hub of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol was seriously damaged, which had significant consequences for the enemy's naval operations and logistics.
The Russian large amphibious assault ship Yamal was critically damaged in the attack, according to the DIU.
russia's Black Sea Fleet is suffering huge losses due to successful strikes by Ukraine, which is sinking Putin's ships even in the occupied port of Sevastopol.
russia continues to build a railroad in the occupied Ukrainian territories as far as Crimea, but it passes through areas vulnerable to long-range Ukrainian strikes, according to a British intelligence report.