The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine named the estimated losses of the Russians as of March 23 and spoke about the current situation at the front.
During the past day, 57 combat clashes took place.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, carried out 3 unsuccessful assaults in the areas of Sinkivka, Tabaivka, Berestov settlements of the Kharkiv region.
In the Lyman direction, 5 enemy attacks were repulsed in the areas of the settlements of Bilogorivka in the Luhansk region and Spirne in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops.
In the Bakhmut direction, the soldiers repelled 2 enemy attacks in the area of the Klishchiivka point in the Donetsk region.
In the Avdiivka direction, defenders repelled almost 10 enemy attacks in the areas of Berdychi, Tonenke, Pervomaiske, and Nevelske points in the Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlivsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane, and Urozhaine settlements, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense more than 20 times.
In the Orykhiv direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, attacked defendersʼ positions 7 times in the areas of Staromayorske settlements of Donetsk region and Robotyne of Zaporizhzhya region.
During the day, the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) actions in the Kherson direction.
Russian losses per day
According to the General Staff, during the past day (March 22), the occupiers lost approximately 1,050 soldiers (killed/wounded), 12 tanks, 19 armored vehicles and 36 artillery systems, 57 vehicles and another 19 special vehicles. Also, in the statistics for the past day, there are data on the downing of 75 drones, most of them Shahed, and 39 cruise missiles. These are data on repelling a massive missile attack on Ukraineʼs energy infrastructure.
- On the night of March 22, the Russians massively attacked the energy sector of Ukraine. The occupiers hit the largest hydroelectric plant — Dnipro HPP (Zaporizhia). Zaporizhzhia NPP lost one power line, thermal power plant equipment was damaged. There were strikes on energy facilities in Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Odesa regions.
- According to Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko, this is the largest Russian attack on the Ukrainian energy system in recent times, the purpose of which is "to try again, like last year, to cause a large-scale disruption in work."
- In total, that night the occupiers launched 151 rockets and kamikaze drones across Ukraine. Air defense shot down 55 Shahed drones and 37 missiles, of which 35 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles and two Kh-59 aviation missiles.
- Four people died in Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytskyi. More than 25 people were injured.