Invaders trying to intensify activities of saboteurs in Kyiv

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a statement released on Facebook.

As of 06:00 on March 26, the invaders continue to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.

In some areas, the enemy is still attempting to carry out assault operations, carrying out air raids and trying to attack individual units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but those attempts are to no avail.

Russian forces continue to take measures to restore the combat capability of their units, replenish ammunition and fuel in order to resume offensive actions.

When staffing the units that suffered significant losses during hostilities with Ukrainian defense forces, due to the lack of qualified personnel, the enemy recruits personnel with low morale and personal qualities and persons prone to drug and alcohol abuse.

According to the General Staff, the enemy deployed almost all Russian Guard units stationed in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in some districts of the Kherson, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions, in order to suppress resistance from residents of Kherson, Henichesk, Berdiansk and some districts of Mariupol.

This is due to the inability to quickly replenish losses, to carry out rapid build-up (regrouping) and the use of groups of troops to maintain the required pace of hostilities and achieve the ultimate goal of war.

Given the high level of irreversible and sanitary losses of the Russian armed forces and the involvement of conscripts in the hostilities, the 2022 spring conscription campaign, which begins on April 1 this year, could be problematic.

In addition, there is a sharp reduction in the number of contractors in relation to conscription. Thus, the deterioration of the social component due to international sanctions and the losses during the war in the coming weeks are likely to exacerbate the problem of staffing the Russian army with quality personnel.

The equipment coming from storage facilities and arsenals to occupation units trying to restore their combat capability is in poor technical condition due to careless pre-operation and prolonged storage.

Ukrainian defense forces continue to conduct a defensive operation in designated areas, carrying out a stabilization operation and performing territorial defense tasks.

The forces defending the city of Kyiv continue to repel the enemy's offensive and maintain the previously defined defensive lines.

In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, the Joint Forces group repulsed all enemy attacks and inflicted significant losses on the Russian invaders. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed eight tanks, 17 armored vehicles and 11 vehicles of the enemy. The losses of the invaders in manpower amounted to about 170 people. Air defense units shot down three planes and three UAVs of the enemy.

The Ukrainian Air Force group destroyed 12 enemy air targets (three planes, three UAVs, a helicopter and five cruise missiles) in the past day.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying infrastructure, residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.

Martial law was imposed in Ukraine and general mobilization was announced.