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Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 16:26
Russian invaders tried to exploit a sudden change in weather and fog on March 17–18 to resume assault operations in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, but suffered significant losses and failed to achieve success.
Overnight on March 18, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (SOF) conducted a series of Middle Strike operations against enemy targets in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region, including a secret base of the Russian unmanned systems center Rubikon.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has released video footage showing strikes on a Russian Valdai radar system, a GLONASS navigation system, and military boats in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Russian forces have struck the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, killing one person and injuring two others.
Soldiers of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces repelled another assault by Russian invaders in the Kupiansk sector, destroying armored vehicles, quad bikes, and enemy personnel.
Ukrainian troops repelled the first Russian motorized assault in the past three months in the Hryshyne area of the Donetsk region, destroying most of the enemy’s vehicles and personnel.
Kramatorsk was hit by enemy airstrikes last night, leaving eight residents wounded, including two children.
On the night of March 18, Russian troops launched a drone attack on the Odesa region, damaging a critical infrastructure facility and equipment.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops shelled 26 settlements in the Sumy region, injuring two people.
Russian troops attacked railway infrastructure in the Chernihiv region; a train engineer and his assistant were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, on March 17, 286 combat clashes were recorded between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders. The enemy was most active in the Pokrovsk sector, where 72 assaults took place.
Russian troops launched strikes using multiple launch rocket systems and attacked the Mykolaiv and Pervomaisk districts of the Mykolaiv region with drones, damaging civilian infrastructure.
Over the past 24 hours, on March 17, Russian invaders injured four residents of the Donetsk region.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 128 out of 147 drones launched by Russia in attacks on Ukraine starting from the evening of March 17.
On the night of March 18, Russian troops struck the residential sector of the settlement of Zolochiv in the Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region, with an unmanned aerial vehicle, injuring five people.
In the Kherson region, three people were wounded over the course of the day as a result of Russian aggression.
Russia suffered approximately 1,282,570 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and March 18, 2026, with 1,710 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Over the past day, the enemy struck two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones and artillery.
Over the past 24 hours, occupying forces carried out 736 attacks on 39 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and another injured as a result of an enemy attack on the Polohy district.
The U.S. Armed Forces used several powerful munitions designed to destroy fortified underground targets against Iranian missile launchers on the coast near the Strait of Hormuz.
At least 188 civilians were killed and 757 injured in Ukraine in February 2026, according to the latest monthly report from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
17 March 2026
On the evening of March 17, a Russian drone struck a store in Slatyne, Kharkiv region, injuring two men.
The United Kingdom will fund the creation of an artificial intelligence center under the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which will focus on the implementation of AI technologies on the battlefield.
On March 16, Russia launched 40 Lancet kamikaze drones at Kyiv, and the goal of the operation was a "showy demonstration of power" aimed at a Russian audience.
Germany has allocated EUR 200 million for the procurement of medium-range drones for Ukraine.
On March 16 and during the night of March 17, Ukrainian Defense Forces struck key Russian military targets in Russia’s Bryansk region, temporary occupied Crimea, and in occupied parts of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
A crashed drone was discovered in southern Moldova, near the Ukrainian border.
In the city of Staraya Russa in Russia’s Novgorod region, drones attacked the JSC 123 ARZ aircraft repair plant.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army launched strikes on Kharkiv and 16 other settlements in the region, injuring ten people.