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Massive Russian attack on Ukraine. Russia utilized over 390 drones and 34 missiles of various kinds. Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that repair work is ongoing following the strike. In Zaporizhzhia and Poltava, Russians targeted residential buildings, sparking fires. Nearly 40 drones attacked the city of Shostka in the Sumy region. Damage was reported across 11 regions in Ukraine, with at least 4 fatalities Source: V_Zelenskiy_official

The SSU, together with the Prosecutor General's Office, exposed Russian agents who were preparing terrorist attacks and contract killings in Ukraine. Among the targets were Serhiy Sternenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, and Ilya Bogdanov, a Russian who has been fighting for Ukraine since 2014. According to investigators, the group consisted of 10 agents. Their task was to gather information on the locations, movements, weapons, equipment, and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kramatorsk and Pokrovsky districts of the Donetsk region, as well as in the Kharkiv region. Furthermore, the agents recorded the effects of Russian strikes and passed the collected data to the Russians Source: SSU

In Ternopil, Russians attacked an administrative building. Local media reported attacks on Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia

Russians attacked Lviv. A residential building was damaged. At least two people were injured, local authorities reported

Orthodox clergy are spreading the message of "love for one's neighbor" among students in the Luhansk People's Republic. An Orthodox priest, with the support of the OMON, spoke to students at one of the self-proclaimed republic's schools about the role of Orthodoxy in war. According to the school administration, the priest spoke to the children about "courage and love for the homeland," recounted "his clerical missions in the zone of the so-called Special Military Operation," and shared his impressions and "life experiences" Source: dontsovkaschool / VK

The State Duma has adopted a law introducing criminal liability for denying the genocide of the Soviet people. According to the document, denying the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War [which broke out in 1941] can result in up to five years in prison for insulting the memory of genocide victims and desecrating their graves. The law must still be approved by the Federation Council and signed by Vladimir Putin Source: Kommersant, 📷 Online47

In Russia, it was proposed that police officers who left the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to low salaries should be sent to the war in Ukraine. “Guys who are leaving the Ministry of Internal Affairs are trained. They have low salaries. That’s why I believe they should be added to the list of mobilized personnel for deployment to the ‘Special Military Operation’, said Vladimir Plotnikov, a Russian municipal deputy from Perm. According to him, police officers have the right to leave “in these difficult times.” But he stressed that they have a “duty to the fatherland.” Plotnikov is considered the richest person in Perm. In 2021, he declared an income of 221 million rubles [approximately 2 711 040,99 USD], becoming the richest member of the Perm City Duma. Since 2023, information about the incomes of City Duma deputies has begun to be published without disclosing their names Source: ASTRA

Cyberpartisans: theory of Melnikava’s presence in Belarus is plausible en.belsat.eu/92252699/melni…

How Belarusians celebrate Freedom Day around the world en.belsat.eu/92252037/freed…

A Russian Shahed struck a multi-story residential block in Dnipro, local authorities report. Additionally, as a result of the Russian attack on the city, 8 residential blocks and 2 kindergartens were damaged. 9 people were injured, including a 1.5-year-old child. Among the injured are a 67-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man, both suffering from lacerations and brain injuries

Warsaw police detained a Belarusian woman over forged documents for an apartment loan en.belsat.eu/92251474/belar…

A dictator will fly to a dictator. Lukashenka will fly to North Korea at Kim Jong-un's invitation. The visit will take place on March 25-26. Source: pul_1

Explosion in a building in occupied Sevastopol. At least two people were killed, and 12 were injured. The explosion caused a fire, damaging 15 apartments in total. So far, the cause of the explosion is unknown Source: @vottak_tv

In Russia, the signing of a contract by a student was publicly announced for the first time The Krasnoyarsk Higher School of Transport and Service and the Sverdlovsk District Administration reported that Maksim Kovalov signed a contract and was sent to serve in the unmanned forces. Before his departure, he received a package containing “a small gift that will surely come in handy far from home.” The district administration called the young man’s departure for the front “the beginning of a legend”🤡 Since the beginning of the year, the university community has published materials promoting contract service at least three times. On March 13, a meeting was held between students and a military officer

According to Zelenskyy, Russia plans to deploy ground-based control stations for long-range drones both in the occupied territories and in Belarus source: V_Zelenskiy_official

At least four crude oil tanks are burning at the port terminal in Primorsk, Leningrad region. Satellite images published by Radio Svoboda indicate this. Reuters, citing industry sources, reported that Russia's largest transshipment ports on the Baltic Sea—Primorsk and Ust-Luga—have suspended crude oil and fuel exports since Sunday, March 22, due to drone attacks. The Port of Primorsk is Russia's largest transshipment port on the Baltic Sea, located approximately 8 km from the city of Primorsk on the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Finland. It is the terminus of Transneft's Baltic pipeline network and serves as the main export terminal for crude oil and petroleum products