{"id":1372357,"date":"2026-03-21T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/general-staff-report-armed-forces-of-ukraine-have-repelled-138-russian-assaults-since-the-beginning-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:58:35","slug":"general-staff-report-armed-forces-of-ukraine-have-repelled-138-russian-assaults-since-the-beginning-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/general-staff-report-armed-forces-of-ukraine-have-repelled-138-russian-assaults-since-the-beginning-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"General Staff report: Armed Forces of Ukraine have repelled 138 Russian assaults since the beginning of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published<\/a> operational information as of 10:00 p.m. on March 21, 2026 regarding the Russian invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In total, 138 combat clashes<\/strong> have occurred since the beginning of this day. The defense forces are destroying personnel and exhausting the combat potential of the occupiers, inflicting systematic fire damage.<\/p>\n

The enemy carried out 48 air strikes, dropping 163 guided bombs. In addition, it used 3,512 kamikaze drones to destroy the enemy and carried out 2,375 attacks on settlements and positions of our troops.<\/p>\n

In the North-Slobozhansk<\/strong> and Kursk<\/strong> directions today, the enemy carried out two airstrikes, dropped seven aerial bombs, and carried out 94 shellings of the positions of our troops and settlements, 12 of them using MLRS. Six clashes were recorded in the direction.<\/p>\n

In the South-Slobozhansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our units five times in the areas of the settlements of Starytsia, Okhrimivka, and Synelnykovo. One assault operation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Kupyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked five times towards the settlements of Petropavlivka, Kurylivka, Pishchane, and Glushkivka.<\/p>\n

In the Lyman<\/strong> direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled three assaults by the occupiers in the area of Seredny and towards the settlements of Stavka and Dibrov. One assault operation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Slavyansk<\/strong> direction, the enemy has attempted to advance six times in the areas of Platonovka, Zakitne, and towards Rai-Oleksandrivka. One attack is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Kramatorsk<\/strong> direction, the aggressor once tried to improve his position by attacking in the Chasovy Yar area, the battle is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Kostyantynivka<\/strong> direction, the invaders stormed the positions of our defenders 17 times today near the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Kleban-Byk, Yablunivka, Sofiivka, Pleshchiivka, Rusyn Yar and in the direction of Stepanivka, Illinivka, and Novopavlivka. One assault operation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Pokrovsk<\/strong> direction, the enemy carried out 28 attacks. The occupiers tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Shakhove, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Myrnograd, Pokrovsk, Hryshyne, Udachne, Molodetske and towards the settlements of Nove Shakhove, Kucheriv Yar, Bilytske, Novopavlivka. Six enemy attacks are ongoing.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary estimates, today in this direction 52 occupiers were eliminated and 24 were wounded; a vehicle unit, five units of special equipment, one UAV control point and two personnel shelters were destroyed; one artillery system, a vehicle unit, seven personnel shelters, and a UAV control point were damaged. 171 UAVs of various types were destroyed or suppressed.<\/p>\n

In the Oleksandrivka<\/strong> direction, the enemy attacked six times in the area of Ternovo, Zlagoda, and Krasnohirske. It carried out air strikes on Pokrovske, Ivanovka, and Pidhavrilivka.<\/p>\n

In the Hulyaipil<\/strong> direction, there were 11 attacks on the positions of our defenders in the direction of the settlements of Zaliznychne, Varvarivka, Staroukrainka, Olenokostyantynivka, Zelene, Charivne, Myrne. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhivka, Zalivne, Kopani, Shyroke, Charivne, Verkhnia Tersa. One enemy assault operation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

In the Orikhov<\/strong> direction, the enemy carried out one offensive operation in the direction of Primorske. It carried out air strikes in the areas of Veselyanka, Pokrovsky, and Orikhove.<\/p>\n

In the Dnieper<\/strong> direction, the enemy launched one unsuccessful attack towards our defenders.<\/p>\n

There were no significant changes in the situation in other areas.<\/p>\n

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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information as of 10:00 p.m. on March 21, 2026 regarding the Russian invasion. In total, 138 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of this day. The defense forces are destroying personnel and exhausting the combat potential of the occupiers, inflicting systematic fire damage. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1302875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76871],"class_list":["post-1372357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372357","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}