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Situation Summary
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued to advance west of Avdiivka, occupying another settlement. In the Zaporizhia region, Russian forces reportedly took over a village southwest of Huliaipole. Fighting also continued in the areas of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region and Kreminna in the Luhansk region. In the occupied regions, local partisan groups blew up two Russian polling stations in Berdiansk in the Zaporizhia region and burned down a construction crane used for building Russian fortifications in Mariupol in the Donetsk region.
Russian shelling, missiles, and airstrikes killed over 20 civilians in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhia regions. On 20 March, a Russian missile hit an office building in Kharkiv, killing five civilians and wounding nine others. On 21 March, Ukrainian air defense intercepted around 30 Russian missiles above Kyiv city, with the debris injuring 13 civilians and damaging residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure. On 22 March, during the first air raid targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine in a year, Russian missiles hit Zaporizhia city, killing three civilians, including a child, and wounding 29 others, as well as damaging hundreds of civilian houses and a hydroelectric power plant.
