On the Northern Slobozhansky Direction, Russian forces advanced approximately 3.5 km from Sopych toward Bachivsk, attacked from Plekhovo and Goptarovka, near Sopych, in the direction of Chervona Zoria, near Kindrativka and Yunakivka.
On the Southern Slobozhansky Direction, Russian forces attacked near Starytsya, Vovchansk, and Vovchanski Khutory, in the direction of Hrafske and Zybine.
Ukrainian Defense Forces counterattacked near Vovchansk and Vovchanski Khutory.
On the Kupyansk Direction, Russian forces attacked near Podoly, Hlushkivka, Novoplatonivka, Bohuslavka, Nova Kruhlyakivka, Hrekivka, and Novoyehorivka, and attempted to advance in the north of Zahryzove.
Ukrainian Defense Forces counterattacked in the direction of Novoplatonivka and Borivska Andriivka, isolated Russian forces in Kupyansk; the enemy has significantly reduced its attack tempo due to heavy losses.
The front line near Novoplatonivka and Borivska Andriivka is currently unclear.
On the Sloviansk Direction, Russian forces attacked near Lyman, Yarova, and Drobysheve, in the direction of Sosnove, Pryshyb, and Stavky, near Kalenyky, Rai-Oleksandrivka, Platonivka, Riznykivka, Kryva Luka, Ozerne, Fedorivka Druha, and Nykyforivka, in the direction of Yampil.
Ukrainian Defense Forces are striking pontoon bridges being laid by the enemy across the Bakhmutka river.
On the Kostyantynivka Direction, Ukrainian Defense Forces advanced in the south of Kostyantynivka and are striking enemy artillery firing positions west of Ivanivske and in Bakhmut.
Russian forces attacked near Kostyantynivka, Stupochky, Predtechyne, Ivanopillya, Pleshchiivka, Berestok, Illinivka, Stepanivka, Mykolaypillya, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka, and Novopavlivka.
On the Pokrovsk Direction, Russian forces attacked near Dobropillya, in the direction of Kucheriv Yar, Nove Shakhove, Vilne, and Novyi Donbas, near Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Rodynske, Bilytske, Zatyshok, Chervonyi Lyman, and Myrnohrad, in the direction of Novooleksandrivka and Serhiivka, near Kotlyne, Udachne, Novopidhorodnie, and Molodetske.
Ukrainian Defense Forces counterattacked in the south of Bilytske.
On the Oleksandrivka Direction, Ukrainian Defense Forces are operating in the center of Novopavlivka, counterattacked near Ivanivka, in the direction of Vidradne and Oleksandrivka, and installed around 42 km of anti-drone netting along logistics routes in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Russian forces attacked near Novopavlivka, Novomykolayivka, Muravka, Andriivka-Klevtsove, Oleksandrohrad, Rybne, Berezove, Novohryhorivka, and Kalynivske, in the direction of Vyshneve and Andriivka.
On the Huliaypole Direction, Russian forces attacked near Huliaypole, Zelene, Dobropillya, and Olenokostyantynivka, in the direction of Rizdvyanka, near Zaliznychne and Myrne, and struck near Huliaypilske with a FAB-3000 aerial bomb.
On the Orikhiv Direction, Russian forces attacked in the direction of Magdalynivka, near Prymorske and Stepnohirsk, and struck the road bridge over the Kinska river between Yuliivka and Zaporizhzhia.
Novoandriivka and Novodanylivka are a grey zone.
Supporting operation:
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the “Azot” chemical plant in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai; a fuel depot in Kendektamak, Republic of Bashkortostan; and a fuel depot in Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast.
General conclusion:
On the Sloviansk Direction, Ukrainian Defense Forces strike enemy artillery firing positions with UAVs and have forced the enemy to pull multiple launch rocket systems back from the front line.
On the Pokrovsk Direction, units of the “Rubikon” Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies refine their UAVs and employment tactics and have begun using new fragmentation munitions. “Rubikon” is expanding its personnel and has significantly more and better-quality equipment than other units.
Change in the line of contact (LoC), directions of attacks and counterattacks:
There were 153 combat engagements on various fronts.
On the Southern Slobozhansky Direction, the enemy attempted to breach defensive lines near Prylypka.
On the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked twice in the areas of Novoosynove and Novoplatonivka.
On the Sloviansk Direction, 17 enemy attempts to penetrate the Ukrainian defense in the areas of Drobysheve, Stavky, and Lyman, and to advance in the areas of Zakitne, Platonivka, Riznykivka, and Yampil were stopped.
On the Kostyantynivka Direction, the enemy carried out 29 attacks near Kostyantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Ivanopillya, Illinivka, Mykolaypillya, Sofiivka, Novopavlivka, and Rusyn Yar.
On the Pokrovsk Direction, 25 enemy assault actions were stopped in the areas of Toretske, Zatyshok, Nove Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novopidhorodnie, Muravka, and Hryshyne.
On the Oleksandrivka Direction, the enemy attacked 8 times in the areas of Oleksandrohrad, Andriivka-Klevtsove, Vyshneve, Kalynivske, Krasnohirske, and Zlahoda.
On the Huliaypole Direction, 20 enemy attacks took place in the areas of Huliaypole, Zaliznychne, Myrne, Olenokostyantynivka, Varvarivka, Zelene, and Huliaypilske.
On the Orikhiv Direction, the enemy attempted to improve its positions near Stepnohirsk.
Changes in the enemy disposition:
The 128th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 44th Army Corps strikes near Vovchanski Khutory.
The 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, the 4th Battalion of the 20th Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 1442nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division of the 3rd Army Corps, and the 4th Battalion of the 103rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Combined Arms Army strike in Kostyantynivka; the 17th High Power Artillery Brigade of the 3rd Army Corps strikes in the north of Kostyantynivka; the 57th Separate SOF Regiment of the 8th Combined Arms Army strikes near Toretske, Rayske, and Mykolaypillya.
The 177th Separate Marine Infantry Battalion of the Caspian Flotilla operates on the Dobropillya Direction; the 76th Air Assault Division operates on the Pokrovsk Direction.
The 14th Separate SOF Brigade strikes in Vyshneve, south of Bohodarivka, northeast of Sosnivka, and near Lyubytske.
The 27th Motorized Rifle Division of the 2nd Combined Arms Army operates on the Huliaypole Direction; the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army operates in the direction of Huliaypole.
The 291st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Combined Arms Army strikes near Orikhiv.
The 205th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 49th Combined Arms Army strikes in Kozatske.
Possible operation situation developments:
The enemy has begun preparations for this year’s summer campaign. Two offensive operations should be expected starting from the end of April 2026 — the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk and the Orikhiv-Zaporizhzhia operations. The disruption of the enemy’s summer offensive will lead to a prolonged loss of offensive capabilities, depletion of resources, and will provide a real chance to end the war. The Lyman, Sloviansk, and Kostyantynivka Directions are acquiring strategic significance, as the enemy’s military-political leadership is urgently requiring several convincing operational victories that can be presented as victory in the entire war.
The enemy “Sever (North)” Operational Grouping will continue to operate simultaneously along the Northern Slobozhansky Direction, the Southern Slobozhansky Direction, and the Velykyi Burluk Direction and will attempt to seize as large an area as possible in Sumy Oblast and Kharkiv Oblast with the aim of subsequent political bargaining for their exchange for territories in Donetsk Oblast that the enemy will be unable to seize.
On the Southern Slobozhansky Direction, in the Vovchansk area, the enemy “Belgorod–Kharkov” Tactical Group will continue attempts to break through along the eastern bank of the Siverskyi Donets in the southern direction and advance as far as possible in the Vovchansk–Bilyi Kolodyaz direction. Attempting to advance in the general Vovchansk–Staryi Saltiv direction, the Tactical Group command will try to secure the right flank of its main forces, which will advance toward Bilyi Kolodyaz.
In the Kupyansk area, Russian forces will intensify operations along the Pishchane–Kurylivka line and further toward Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, as well as along the Kolisnykivka–Hlushkivka line and further toward Kivsharivka and Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi. The 6th Combined Arms Army of the enemy “Sever (North)” Operational Grouping will advance simultaneously on three directions: toward Staryi Saltiv, Velykyi Burluk, and in the Kupyansk area. The army’s troops will attempt to advance from the Dvorichanske bridgehead in the Krasne Pershe–Novovasylivka and Dvorichna–Ridkodub directions, attack in the Milove–Ambarne direction with the aim of capturing the latter and will try to outflank from the north and south the defensive strongpoint of the 16th Army Corps of Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kolodyazne area. The 2nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 1st Tank Army will attempt to eliminate the bridgehead of the 16th Army Corps of Ukrainian Defense Forces on the Oskil east of Kupyansk.
On the Sloviansk Direction, the command of the enemy’s 3rd Combined Arms Army has an immediate task to reach the Mykolaivka – Nykanorivka line with its main forces, that is, to reach the near approaches to Sloviansk from the east, and reach the Vasylivska Pustosh – Vasyutynske line with part of its forces, that is, the near approaches to Kramatorsk from the east.
On the Kostyantynivka direction, the enemy “Yug (South)” Operational Grouping will attempt to seize the Druzhkivka–Kostyantynivka agglomeration by enveloping the flanks of Kostyantynivka, while simultaneously breaking through to the near approaches to Druzhkivka, after which it will seize Kostyantynivka by assault and push Ukrainian Defense Forces out of the Druzhkivka area under the threat of encirclement. Enemy forces will advance toward the Malotaranivka–Semenivka–Bilokuzmynivka–Komyshuvakha area north of Druzhkivka. Ukrainian Defense Forces will be forced to withdraw from the area between Kostyantynivka and the Kleban-Byk Reservoir under the threat of encirclement to the area north of road T0504, which will slow the assault actions of the enemy’s 3rd Army Corps in Kostyantynivka.
On the Dobropillya Direction, in the near term the enemy will attempt to break through to the northwest, striking with the adjacent flanks of the 2nd and 51st Combined Arms Armies and breaking through to the Novohryshyne–Dobropillya (village)–Chernihivka–Shevchenko area, i.e. reaching the near approaches to Dobropillya city from the south. In the operational zone of the “Tsentr (Center)” Operational Grouping, Russian forces can no longer simultaneously break through to Dobropillya from the south, southeast, and east, meaning they are already forced to accomplish this task sequentially. It is likely that the 2nd Combined Arms Army will first break through from the direction of Pokrovsk to the near approaches to Dobropillya from the south, after which the main effort of the “”Tsentr (Center)” Operational Grouping command will shift to the 51st Combined Arms Army’s sector, which will break through to the city from the east and southeast, following which the assault on Dobropillya will begin.
Should Ukrainian Defense Forces continue advancing south along both banks of the Yanchur river and reach the Uspenivka area, the enemy’s 5th Combined Arms Army will be forced to halt its offensive and redeploy its right flank to face north to avoid a breakthrough by the Defense Forces’ 10th Army Corps into its rear. The army’s troops will have to withdraw from positions north of Huliaypole (along the Khaychur river). The situation for the enemy’s “Vostok (East)” Operational Grouping may deteriorate further if Ukrainian Defense Forces break through to Temyrivka, in which case a gap of up to 8 km along the front will open between the 5th and 36th Combined Arms Armies.
On the Prydniprovske direction, the command of the enemy’s “Dnepr” Operational Grouping will continue trying to take control of most of the island zone in the Dnipro delta in the direction of Kherson, will try to create a tactical bridgehead on the right bank, and to eliminate the tactical bridgeheads of the 30th Marine Corps of Ukrainian Defense Forces in the area of the automobile and railway bridges near Antonivka.
Russian operational losses from 24.02.22 to 14.03.26
Personnel - almost 1,278 430 (+810);
Tanks – 11,777 (+4);
Armored combat vehicles ‒ 24,212 (+10);
Artillery systems – 38,421 (+52);
Multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) – 1,686 (+1);
Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 1,332 (+1);
Vehicles and fuel tanks – 83,403 (+180);
Aircraft - 435 (0);
Helicopters – 349 (0);
UAV operational and tactical level – 177,286 (+2,147);
Intercepted cruise and other missiles – 4,403 (0);
Boats/ships – 33 (0).
Humanitarian + general:
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, on the night of 14 March the enemy carried out a combined strike employing 498 aerial targets, of which 460 were shot down or suppressed. Russia launched two Zircon anti-ship missiles (1 shot down), 13 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles (7 shot down), 25 Kalibr cruise missiles (all shot down), 24 Kh-101 cruise missiles (all shot down), 4 Kh-59/69 guided air missiles (1 shot down), and 430 UAVs (402 shot down). Information on four more enemy missiles is being verified. Hits from 6 missiles and 28 strike UAVs were recorded at 11 locations, with debris falling at 7 more. The main axis of the strike was Kyiv Oblast.
According to Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration head Ivan Fedorov, on the night of 14 March Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia district, damaging a private house and causing a fire. Four civilians were injured in the strike, including a man, a woman, and two children.
According to Brovary Mayor Ihor Sapozhko, two people were killed in a massed Russian missile attack on Brovary on the night of 14 March. Eight more people were injured to varying degrees, all of whom were hospitalized. According to Kyiv Oblast Military Administration head Mykola Kalashnyk, damage was recorded in several more districts of the Oblast as a result of the attack. In Obukhiv district, a technical room in an apartment building was damaged and vehicles burned; in Bucha district, a private house caught fire; and in Vyshhorod district, fire engulfed warehouses and damaged an apartment building. By evening, the death toll from the night attack on Kyiv Oblast had risen to 5, with 22 people injured, including three children.
According to the Ministry of Energy, during the night’s combined attack the enemy deliberately targeted energy infrastructure in Kyiv and the surrounding Oblast. In addition to the capital region, power outages were recorded in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy, and Kirovograd Oblasts following hits on grid facilities. In Kyiv, the night attack and voltage cuts in parts of the network temporarily suspended trolleybus and tram services in several districts.
According to Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksiy Kuleba, on the night of 14 March a Russian UAV struck a commuter train in Kharkiv Oblast. Passengers were unharmed, but the driver and his assistant sustained shrapnel wounds. As the overhead line was down, the train was running on a diesel locomotive, which sustained the damage.
According to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, on the morning of 14 March Russian forces shelled the center of Kherson and the Dniprovskyi district of the city. The strike on the central part injured three children, who sustained blast trauma and shrapnel wounds to the head. During the shelling of Dniprovskyi district, three women in an apartment were injured and hospitalized in moderate condition with concussion and traumatic brain injuries.
According to Kordon.Media, citing the prosecutor’s office, at around 17:00 on Saturday an enemy UAV struck the Smorodyne–Vorozhba commuter train near the village of Noveselytsya in Sumy Oblast. The drone hit the locomotive at the rear of the train. Preliminary reports indicate no casualties; passengers were evacuated to a safe location.
According to Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration head Ivan Fedorov, on Saturday Russian forces carried out four guided aerial bomb strikes on residential areas of Zaporizhzhia and attacked Tavriiske in Zaporizhzhia district. Two men were killed in the strikes. Eighteen people were injured in Zaporizhzhia, including two teenagers; a 17-year-old boy is in serious condition. The attacks damaged 12 apartment buildings, 12 private houses, an infrastructure facility, and vehicles; rescuers freed two people from the rubble and extinguished a fire.
According to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Oleksandr Hanzha, on Saturday Russian forces carried out nearly 40 attacks on three districts of the Oblast using UAVs, artillery, and aerial bombs, injuring nine people. In Nikopol district, strikes on the district center and four communities injured seven people and damaged a hospital, a lyceum, enterprises, and more than 10 residential buildings. In Synelnykivsky district, four communities came under attack, with two people injured and homes damaged; strikes on Hrushivska community and Kryvyi Rih were recorded in Kryvorizky district.
According to Bring Kids Back UA, seven more children and teenagers held under pressure by the occupation authorities have been returned to Ukraine from temporarily occupied territories. Among those rescued are 18-year-old twins Mark and Mykhailo and 18-year-old Dmytro, whom Russian authorities attempted to forcibly conscript into the Russian army despite the latter’s health problems. Also returned was 19-year-old Viktor, who had long lived in a frontline zone under shelling, and six-year-old Nika, who had been forced to march under armed guard at her kindergarten. All are now on Ukrainian-controlled territory, and the young people plan to continue their studies at Ukrainian educational institutions.
According to data from Germany’s Central Register of Foreigners cited by Welt, the number of Ukrainian male refugees of military age in Germany is growing. As of 9 March 2026, 1,340,362 people who left due to the war were registered in the country. Among them, the 18-to-63 age group includes 349,520 men and 500,393 women. Over the past year, the number of men in this category grew by around 52,000, while the number of women in the same age group increased by nearly 24,000.