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Situation Summary
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces reportedly gained ground west and southwest of Avdiivka, south of Marinka, and northeast of Lyman. In the Zaporizhia region, clashes continued south and southeast of Orikhiv. Fighting also occurred in the area of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, south of Kreminna in the Luhansk region, and near Krynky in the Kherson region.
Several armed clashes involving Ukraine-based Russian paramilitary groups also took place on both sides of the border in the Ukrainian Sumy and Kharkiv regions and the Russian Belgorod and Kursk regions. Russia initially denied reports of clashes and then claimed to have repelled cross-border incursions occurring ahead of the presidential election.1Angelica Evans et al., ‘Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment,’ Institute for the Study of War, 12 March 2024
Russian shelling, missiles, and drones reportedly killed over 40 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odesa, Sumy, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhia regions. As in the previous week, most civilian fatalities again occurred in Odesa city. On 15 March, Russian missiles killed 21 people, including medical and emergency workers, and wounded over 70 others in the city’s littoral area. On 12 March, Russian missiles hit an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing five civilians and wounding 49 others, including 13 children.
