🇺🇦 shot down 13 #Shahed drones and 4 S-300 missiles.
🇷🇺 continues to suffer very high daily losses (1,260 personnel since yesterday) as it slowly occupies small settlements in west #Donetsk oblast: 🇷🇺 advanced 1km south of #Ocheretyne and 300m along the M4/E50 road.
🇱🇻 begins building new defensive lines along the #Latvia-Russia border, including anti-tank ditches.
🇺🇦 continues to destroy 🇷🇺 equipment in #Krynky and made small gains east of Kozachi Laheri.
Ukrainian grandmother Lidia #Lominovska was drained. The 97-year-old had walked for hours in search of safety after the Russians bombed her frontline village of #Ocheretyne.
Wearing a colorful headscarf around her wrinkled face, the frail but resilient Lominovska recounted her exhausting trek of some 10 kilometers (six miles) in the eastern #Donetsk region.
Ukrainian forces appear to have repelled a Russian battalion-sized mechanized assault near #Avdiivka, #Donetsk Oblast, on March 30 — the first battalion-sized mechanized assault since Russian forces began the campaign to seize Avdiivka in late October 2023.
Ukraine’s forces ‘stabilize situation’ in the east
After the capture of #Avdiivka several other settlements shortly after, #Russian forces were concentrating their efforts on a breakthrough near the fallen town in #Donetsk Oblast. Avdiivka fell as Ukraine was facing an ongoing ammunition shortage.