🔻On 19 March, Ukrainian air defenses shot down three Russian helicopters, according to General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
🔸On 19 March, the Russian troops didn't conduct active offensive operations, and Ukraine's defense forces didn't significantly change their "state, position, and nature of the actions," the General Staff says in its report as of 06:00 EET, 20 March.
🔸Russian handlers of the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast announced another wave of mobilization among locals, raising the mobilization age to 65 years. - Gen.Staff.
Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence says that Russian units formed from mobilized Donbas locals have extremely low combat training, discipline, morale. PoWs from such units say that the Russians use them as "live bait" - an advanced echelon of reconnaissance by combat.
"On March 16-17, one of such subunits comprising 250-300 "mobilized" Donbas locals lost about 200 troops on the Mykolaiv axis, according to Ukraine's intel.
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🔸Thanks to Ukraine's army, "the Russians have significantly reduced their presence in the sky over Kharkiv," Kharkiv Region head Oleh Synehubov reported, adding that Kharkiv saw 38 artillery, mortar, MLRS strikes yesterday.
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🔻Ukraine's General Staff assesses the threat of an offensive from the Republic of Belarus in the direction of Ukraine's Volyn Oblast as "high."
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