{"id":1370815,"date":"2026-03-18T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/there-were-286-clashes-at-the-front-where-were-the-attacks-most-intense\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:14:36","slug":"there-were-286-clashes-at-the-front-where-were-the-attacks-most-intense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/there-were-286-clashes-at-the-front-where-were-the-attacks-most-intense\/","title":{"rendered":"There were 286 clashes at the front: where were the attacks most intense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past 24 hours, 286 combat clashes were recorded on the front \u2014 Russian troops massively attacked with aircraft, drones, and artillery, especially actively in the Pokrov direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by<\/a> the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 8:00 a.m. on March 18.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the enemy carried out 78 air strikes, dropped 257 guided bombs. In addition, it used 7,466 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,722 attacks on settlements and positions of our troops, including 227 from multiple rocket launchers.<\/p>\n

The aggressor carried out airstrikes, in particular in the areas of the settlements of Orestopol, Prosyana, Mechetne, Ivanivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region; Vozdvizhivska, Yehorivka, Kopani, Hulyaipilske, Zelena Dibrova, Svitla Dolyna, Lyubitske, Barvinivka, Lisne, Veseljanka, Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia region.<\/p>\n

Over the past day, the Defense Forces’ aviation, missile troops, and artillery have struck three drone control points and three areas of concentration of occupier manpower.<\/p>\n

Four clashes took place in the North-Slobozhansk<\/strong> and Kursk<\/strong> directions, the enemy carried out one air strike, using two aerial bombs, and carried out 121 shelling, 18 of which were using multiple launch rocket systems.<\/p>\n

In the South Slobozhansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy tried 13 times to break through the defensive lines of our defenders in the areas of Vovchansk, Starytsia, Lyman, Pishchany, and towards Okhrimivka and Bochkovy.<\/p>\n

In the Kupyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked 18 times in the areas of Petropavlivka, Kurylivka, Novoosynovo, Hlushkivka, and Novoplatonivka.<\/p>\n

The enemy attacked eight times in the Lyman<\/strong> direction. He tried to wedge his way into our defenses towards the settlements of Lyman, Chervony Stav, and in the areas of Kolodyaz and Drobysheve.<\/p>\n

In the Slavyansk<\/strong> direction, during the past 24 hours, our defenders stopped eight attempts by the occupiers to advance in the areas of the settlements of Yampil, Platonovka, Zakitne and towards Rai-Oleksandrivka.<\/p>\n

In the Kramatorsk<\/strong> direction, the Defense Forces stopped two enemy assault actions in the areas of the settlements of Minkivka and Novomarkovo.<\/p>\n

In the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the enemy carried out 46 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Sofiivka, Pleshchiivka, Ivanopillya, Illinivka, Rusynyi Yar, Stepanivka, and Novopavlivka.<\/p>\n

In the Pokrovsky<\/strong> direction, our defenders stopped 72 assault actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Bilytske, Dorozhne, Nove Shakhove, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Myrnograd, Shevchenko, Hryshyne, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Muravka, Novopidhorodne, Molodetske, Novopavlivka, Filiya, Dachne.<\/p>\n

In the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of the settlements of Zlagoda, Zelenyy Hai, and Krasnohirske.<\/p>\n

In the Hulyaipil<\/strong> direction, there were 31 attacks by the invaders in the areas of Zaliznychny, Hulyaipil, Myrny, Olenokostyantynivka, Hulyaipil, Zeleny and Dobropil.<\/p>\n

In the Orikhiv<\/strong> direction, two clashes with the enemy took place near Stepovoye.<\/p>\n

In the Dnieper<\/strong> direction, our soldiers repelled one enemy attack.<\/p>\n

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn<\/strong> and Polissya<\/strong> directions.<\/p>\n

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Over the past 24 hours, 286 combat clashes were recorded on the front \u2014 Russian troops massively attacked with aircraft, drones, and artillery, especially actively in the Pokrov direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 8:00 a.m. on March 18. Yesterday, the enemy carried out 78 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1329728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1370815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}