Operational information regarding the #russian_invasion as of 18:00, March 17
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,
posted
17 March 2022
19:42
The twenty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
The occupying forces lost their offensive potential and were stopped in all directions. The enemy has significant problems with logistics, continues to suffer losses. In some areas it blocks units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Due to the fact that the enemy used almost the entire set of cruise missiles based on the sea "Caliber" and operational and tactical missile systems "Iskander" during the first twenty days of the operation, the enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on infrastructure and housing neighborhoods of large cities using indiscriminate weapons.
In violation of international humanitarian law, the russian occupiers continue to take hostages and kill civilians, shoot civilians, obstruct the movement of humanitarian convoys to evacuate the population through defined and mutually agreed "green corridors", use civilian infrastructure for weapons and armaments, looting.
The enemy continues to keep the Ukrainian city of Mariupol under siege and has moved to the total destruction of civilian infrastructure, housing and livelihoods, creating the preconditions for a deepening humanitarian crisis in the city.
In order to intimidate the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories, the invaders abducted and detained representatives of state authorities and local self-government.
In addition to units of the russian armed forces in the Kherson region, police officers from the Krasnodar Territory and the russian-occupied Crimea have been detained. FSB task forces perform punitive functions. The enemy is campaigning to involve the local population in the so-called "police".
According to the available information, due to the impossibility of high-quality staffing of the occupying forces, the next wave of mobilization to the ranks of the 1st Army Corps will start on March 20 this year in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.
Aviation units of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army of the russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses. The moral and psychological condition of the flight crew is extremely unsatisfactory. Cases of dismissal reports continue due to unwillingness to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
Ukrainian defenders inflicted significant losses on units of the 252nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District, which are fighting in the areas of Kharkiv and Izyum. Up to 30 percent of personnel, weapons and military equipment were lost. Besides, divisions of forces of defense liquidated the commander of the 3rd motorized infantry division of colonel Igor Nikolaev.
Let's win together! Glory to Ukraine!