13:10 The use of photos of Donetsk in the media and during Zelensky’s congressional speech with the opposite connotation is a lie and forgery – Peskov.
13:05 JCCC recorded shelling from the direction: Marinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 3 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.
13:00 Basurin said that the liberation of Mariupol is proceeding according to plan.
12:25 According to clarified information, as a result of the shelling of the settlement of Golmovsky by the Ukrainian armed formations on 16.03.2022, the houses in Shokalsky Street 42, Arensky Street 18, Arensky Street 24, in Klubny Alley 4 were damaged. Also, a VAZ 2107 car was damaged.
Also, according to clarified information, as a result of the night-time shelling from the side of the VFU, significant damage was recorded in the house on Usadebnaya Street, 4 in the village of Kochegarka in Gorlovka.
12:24 A woman born in 1954 sustained shrapnel wounds in Gorky Street 5 as a result of the shelling by the HFU in Oleksandrivka settlement. Damage to private houses was also recorded:
– 5 Gorky Street – a direct hit to a house. A wall was destroyed, windows and roof were damaged; – 300, 302, Gorky str. – windows, roof, walls were shrapnel-cut, outbuildings were damaged; – 195, 197, Shevchenko str.
12:15 Ossetian volunteer units move to Donbas.
11:57 Chechen fighters in Mariupol have broken through the defence of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where Azov workers are entrenched. Mariupol will be taken before the end of the week.
11:31 Information about what happened yesterday in the Mariupol Drama Theater from Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Taruta, with confirmation from neo-Nazi Botsman: it shows that the information dispersed throughout the Ukrainian media that 1,500 people died from start to finish turned out to be false.
11:27 Allegations that the Russian military was behind the strike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol are false – Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:12 Possible provocation in Kramatorsk: locals are outraged by the placement of AFU headquarters in educational buildings. In particular, the servicemen and a part of the military defence forces are stationed in the 6th school (71 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street) and in the 91st kindergarten (16 Shkolnaya Street). The servicemen react to the remarks of the townspeople extremely aggressively. Earlier, documents obtained in liberated Volnovakha revealed that the practice of using educational, cultural and health facilities as hiding places had been introduced at the level of the AFU command. Videos of occupied schools and kindergartens regularly appear. This choice is based on the fact that such facilities have high-quality bomb shelters in which the military can hide. Civilians are left to take shelter in the buildings themselves, which gives the AFU the opportunity to repeat the criminal provocation following the Mariupol example.
11:01 The DPR units are conducting offensives to seize the settlements of Marinka, Slavne and Sladkoye. The advance during the day amounted to 4 kilometres – Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
10:50 As a result of a direct hit by a shell from Ukrainian militants, a house was completely destroyed at 11 Radishcheva Street in Petrovsky district, a man born in 1966 was injured with a mine blast and shrapnel wounds. The victim was taken to the surgical department of the Ins. V.K. Husak – Oleksiy Kulemzin.
10:12 The DPR has asked Russia to strengthen the republic’s air defense system, this work is in progress – Pushilin.
10:35 AFU shelling Novomikhailovka – Dokuchaievsk: 5 mines of 120 mm caliber fired and Novomikhailovka – Yasnoye: 5 mines of 120 mm caliber fired. – JCCC.
09:45 On 17 March, the Donetsk People’s Republic’s representative office at the JCCC recorded artillery shelling in the direction of Marinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 9 mines with a calibre of 120 mm were fired.
09:42 295 people evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Territorial Defence Headquarters of the DPR, 295 people, including 66 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol and settlements in its suburbs to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsk district, during today’s day. In addition, 2 people from Volnovakha have been evacuated.
09:07 DPR forces have liberated 95 settlements of the republic’s territory, Basurin said.
08:56 Residents of Donetsk are deprived of water supply: according to the Headquarters of Territorial Defense of the DNR, the Verkhnekalmiu pumping station remains without electricity as a result of a strike by Ukrainian militants. A 35 kV high-voltage line was damaged. Emergency works are underway.
08:04 RF Ministry of Defense The DPR Armed Forces have advanced 2 kilometres in the area of Marinka during the day. There is also progress in Severodonetsk by the LPR Armed Forces.
07:20 AFU shelled Novomikhailovka – Kremenets: 8 shells of 122mm caliber were fired. – The JCCC told the DPR.
02:45 JCCC recorded shelling from the direction of Avdeevka – Yasinovataya: 8 shells of 122mm calibre were fired.
02:30 Shelling from the direction of Troitske – Krasny Partizan: 6 rounds of 122mm calibre shells fired. – JCCC.