Enemy conducted unsuccessful attacks in three areas – Ukraine's General Staff

Russian troops launched 13 airstrikes and four missile attacks on Ukraine, conducting unsuccessful offensive operations in the Avdiivka, Marinka and Shakhtarsk sectors.

According to Ukrinform, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a post on Facebook.

"Throughout the day, the enemy carried out 13 airstrikes and four missile strikes, as well as seven attacks using multiple rocket launchers. The level of the missile threat across Ukraine remains high," the report said.

The operational situation in the Volyn, Polissia, Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna areas has not changed significantly. Throughout the day, the enemy shelled the areas of Seredyna-Buda, Sopych, Starykove, Atynske, Kostiantynivka, Kindrativka, Volfyne, Oleksandrivka, and Popivka in the Sumy region, Kamianska Sloboda and Khrinivka in the Chernihiv region, as well as Hlyboke, Morokhovets, Vovchansk, Zemlianky, Krasne Pershe, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kamianka and Krasne in the Kharkiv region.

On the Kupiansk and Lyman axes, the enemy used artillery against Kupiansk, Krokhmalne and Berestove in the Kharkiv region, Nevske, Pishchane, Bilohorivka and Dibrova in the Luhansk Oblast, as well as Spirne, Torske and Novoselivka in the Donetsk region. The enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive operations in the direction of Novoselivske.

According to the press service, the occupiers still attempt to capture the city of Bakhmut. Constant positional battles are ongoing there. At the same time, Ukrainian defenders repelled enemy attacks near Bohdanivka and Ivanivske. The settlements of Minkivka, Vasiukivka, Zaliznianske, Bakhmut, Hryhorivka, Ivanivske, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Diliivka and New York of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.

In addition, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive action in the direction of the settlements of Berdychi, Avdiyivka, and Sieverne in the Avdiivka, Marinka and Shakhtarsk sectors. In particular, Novobakhmutivka, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Lastochkyne, Krasnohorivka, Hostre, Heorhiivka, Marinka, Vuhledar and Velyka Novosilka of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.

According to the General Staff, the enemy is defending in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson areas. The enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Olhivske, Malynivka, Huliaipole, Huliaipilske, Bilohiria, Mala Tokmachka, Orikhiv, Novodanylivka, Novoandriivka and Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region, Vremivka, Novopil and Novosilka of the Donetsk region, as well as Dudchany, Zmiivka, Kozatske, Ivanivka, Antonivka, Zelenivka, Blahovishchenske, Dniprovske, Bilozerka and Berehove of the Kherson region.

The press service also reported that the Ukrainian Air Force struck nine enemy personnel concentration areas on March 20, whereas rocket forces and artillery units hit three areas of concentration of the enemy's manpower, weapons and military equipment.