Map of the special operation in Ukraine on March 24

A special military operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass has been conducted by Russia since February 24, 2022. You can track the progress of the joint forces of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as the map of military operations for March 24 in the Izvestia material.

Last night, in response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air and ground-based weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles, and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine manufacturing various types of missiles and their components, as well as military airfields. The objectives of the strike have been achieved. All designated objects are affected.

Units of the North group of forces have established control over the village of Peschanoe in the Kharkiv region. Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions were also defeated. The enemy's losses amounted to over 235 people, four armored combat vehicles, ten vehicles, a field artillery cannon and a counter-battery warfare station. Five warehouses of material assets were destroyed.

The military personnel of the Zapad group of forces improved their tactical position and hit enemy manpower and equipment in a number of settlements in the Kharkiv region and the DPR. The enemy's losses amounted to 190 soldiers, two tanks, four armored fighting vehicles, 22 vehicles and an artillery piece. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.

The southern group of troops has taken more advantageous positions and frontiers. Ukrainian units in the areas of the DPR settlements were hit. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 180 militants, two armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles, two field artillery pieces, including a 155 mm Krab self-propelled artillery piece made in Poland and two Israeli-made RADA RPS-42 counter-battery warfare stations. Three warehouses of material assets were destroyed.

The Center group of troops improved the position along the front line and hit the enemy's manpower and equipment in the DPR. The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to over 330 militants, eight armored combat vehicles, nine vehicles, six artillery pieces, including a 155 mm M777 howitzer made in the United States and a Caesar self-propelled artillery installation made in France. The US-made AN/TPQ-48 electronic warfare station was destroyed.

The units of the Vostok group of forces advanced into the depth of the enemy's defenses, and enemy formations were defeated in a number of settlements in the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The enemy lost more than 280 people, two armored combat vehicles, nine vehicles and three field artillery pieces.

The military personnel of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air defense brigade in areas of populated areas of the Zaporizhia region. More than 50 militants, an armored combat vehicle, five vehicles, three electronic warfare stations and a warehouse of materiel were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated the objects of the transport infrastructure of Ukraine used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, training and launching sites of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary locations of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.

10 guided aerial bombs and 259 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.

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They confidently destroy Mavics, FPVS, and even large aircraft-type vehicles.

According to the Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the special military operation, 671 aircraft, 284 helicopters, 126922 unmanned aerial vehicles, 652 anti-aircraft missile systems, 28453 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1691 multiple rocket launchers, 34033 guns of field artillery and mortars, 57614 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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