Main points
- Ukrainian forces successfully attacked the control point of the Russian Rubicon drone unit in the village of Mangush.
- In the village of Yalta, barracks and warehouses were hit: there were a large number of casualties.
Ukrainian forces attacked several enemy targets in the occupied territories, including the control point of the Russian Rubicon drone unit.
The head of the Center for the Study of Occupation, Petro Andryushchenko, told Channel 24 where else the Ukrainian military has struck in the Donetsk region. Earlier, on March 17, a strike was carried out on a Russian ammunition depot located near the airfield in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhia region.
Where exactly is the Russian unit “Rubicon” located?
Andryuschenko noted that in the village of Mangush, Mariupol district, on Poshtova Street, a house was hit, which was stolen from a Ukrainian who was being evacuated. The district prosecutor lived in it, but he left and the Rubicon unit arrived there.
“This is absolutely accurate information: the house was hit in the morning, we are assessing the consequences. Unfortunately, we cannot verify whether there are any fatalities. But there are injured people, the extent of their injuries is currently being determined,” the expert explained.
Worth knowing. On March 18, special operations forces launched long-range drone strikes in occupied Donetsk against the classified Rubicon unmanned technology center. The control element of this unit and the coordination center that ensured the operation of Russian drone units were also attacked.
In addition, according to the head of the Center for the Study of the Occupation, the other day a warehouse and a place where officers were based in the village of Yalta, Mariupol district, were hit. It is located near the so-called Rybtseh, on the border of Yalta and Novaya Yalta. There are former boarding houses of the Donetsk party and Komsomol elite there, and now officers live there.
In Yalta, the barracks were hit first, and then the warehouses were hit. There were a lot of casualties there. Only one wounded person was brought from there, all the others were taken directly to Rostov-on-Don to hide the number of wounded, because the damage was quite sensitive,
– emphasized Petro Andryuschenko.
Also under attack in Mangush was the control point and data center, which were taken out in such a way that they are still being dismantled. The Russians, as he noted, lost both the provider, the control center, and the communications center.
In addition, a communications control point with a data center was also destroyed in Pokrovsk by aerial bombs.
What is happening in the occupied territories?
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The occupied Luhansk region was under attack on March 14, when an air defense missile depot was hit in the city of Dovzhansk. Local residents observed a loud detonation that could be heard several kilometers away.
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Also, on the night of March 15, a logistics warehouse near the settlement of Osipenko in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, as well as a drone storage warehouse in the Primorsk area, came under attack.
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In addition, Ukrainian forces struck Russian communications facilities, namely data centers in the occupied parts of Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of their defeat, the occupiers were left blind, deaf, and mute.