Operational information regarding the #russian_invasion as of 12:00, March 17
Ministry of Defence of Ukraine,
posted
17 March 2022
15:40
The twenty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
russian terrorist forces continue strategic offensive operation against Ukraine.
The enemy does not stop trying to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. It is not successful.
In order to restrain the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is trying to blockade settlements north of the capital.
At the same time, the enemy does not refuse to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk and other oblasts where there is no active hostilities.
Intensive use of the territory and infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus by a group of troops of the russian federation to strike at the territory of Ukraine and provide logistical support to a group of occupation troops operating in the Polissya direction is recorded in the Volyn direction.
The possibility of participation of certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in hostilities on the side of the russian federation remains.
In the Polissya direction, the enemy made attempts to capture the previously occupied frontiers, which were lost as a result of successful actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He has no success in this direction, he suffers losses. It is trying to regroup troops and establish logistics.
The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Seversky direction, and is continuing preparations for the resumption of the offensive in order to further blockade the city of Kyiv from the northeastern direction. Carries out chaotic shelling of positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tries to conduct reconnaissance.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers tried to carry out offensive operations from the area of the city of Izyum, but were unsuccessful. Attempts are being made to gain a foothold in the occupied frontiers and to improve the logistics system.
russian invaders strengthen the group at the expense of additional units of the 1st Tank Army and the coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.
The enemy carried out offensive operations in the Donetsk and Tavriya directions. It had partial success in the Rubizhne area (fixed on the western and north-western outskirts of the city, moving to the southern part of the city).
He carried out unsuccessful assault operations in the Popasna and Volnovakha areas in the areas of Verkhnotoretsk and Mariinka. He suffered losses. Carries out regrouping of troops, carries out replenishment of stocks.
The storming of the city continues in the Mariupol direction.
The occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations in the Zaporizhia direction.
In the South Bug direction, the enemy conducted reconnaissance and carried out engineering equipment for the positions held.
He tried to carry out offensive operations in the Kryvyi Rih direction, took control of settlement Mala Shisternyia, but had no general success, is fixed in the positions held.
In the Tavriya direction, the enemy continued to increase the system of logistics of the group of troops. A collection point for damaged equipment has been deployed at Dzhankoi airfield.
The enemy is trying to spread disinformation through all available channels of communication, both to the population of the temporarily occupied territories and to its own population in order to form a myth about the "invincibility" of the armed forces of the russian federation.
The Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeals to the media community to limit as much as possible the coverage of personal data, photographs containing the faces of officers (unit commanders), geolocation, visual, address reference to the places where they perform tasks.
Eliminate photo and video recording, the spread of accurate territorial coverage of bomb shelters (shelters for civilians) in the media, in order to make it more difficult for the enemy to obtain current information from open sources for rocket and bomb attacks on civilian infrastructure.
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