The Ukrainian military continues the defensive operation in the eastern, southeastern and northeastern directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

The units of the Armed Forces hold back the advance of the Russian invaders in the directions of the settlements of Slavyansk and Barvinkovo, do not allow them to occupy Kamenka and Topolskoye and improve their positions near Chuguev.

They also hold back enemy attacks in the areas of Rubizhne, Lysichansk and Popasna, preventing the main forces of the group from being bypassed..

At the same time, the Defense Forces hold the all-round defense of Maruipol, the defense and containment of the enemy’s advance in the Chernihiv region.

The grouping defending Kyiv, in order to improve the operational situation and hold the outer line of defense, fights and controls the situation in the settlements of Motyzhin, Lesnoye, Kapitanovka and Dmitrovka.

The defensive operation continues in other defined areas, a stabilization operation is being carried out, territorial defense tasks are being carried out and counterattacks are being carried out in certain areas..

“The enemy is weakened, disoriented, a significant part of him is cut off from logistics support and the main forces. The command of the occupying troops is trying to compensate for the decrease in the combat potential of the units with indiscriminate artillery fire and rocket and bomb strikes, destroying the infrastructure of Ukrainian cities..

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Mariupol has remained under constant heavy shelling since the start of a full-scale Russian invasion. The invaders literally wipe the city off the face of the earth and destroy its inhabitants with particular cruelty. There is no water, heating, heat and light in the city, people are forced to constantly hide in shelters without the ability to get food and water..

Russian military blocks Ukrainian-proposed humanitarian corridors, instead offering exhausted people to go to Russia.

On March 21, the occupiers proposed to open the corridors so that military men and civilians could come out along them and lay down their arms.. Ukraine refused to surrender the city.

Having not achieved the desired, the Russian Federation began to forcibly take people out of the city. Ukrainians are brought to filtration camps, where documents are taken away. After that, they are taken to work in distant regions of the Russian Federation.. Such actions by the occupiers are a war crime..