Note for your attention — operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 12.00 on March 31, 2022, regarding the Russian invasion of our country.

The thirty-sixth day has begun of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion.

Main efforts of the enemy are focused on maintaining occupied positions, preparing for resuming offensive actions at certain sectors and establishing full control over the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The enemy is using measures to regroup and form units of Russian Federation Armed Forces with the aim of conducting an offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone. It has been recorded that parts of enemy troops and equipment are being transferred from Belarusian territory to Russian Federation territory by rail transport.

There remains a threat of the enemy using missile armaments against objects of the defense-industrial complex and logistical infrastructure of our country. Additional units of Russian Federation Armed Forces continue to move into Ukraine for conducting combat operations. At the same time, some military units of the enemy have already exhausted their capabilities in forming reserves.

On the Volyn Front, no significant changes have been noted in the composition and situation of enemy forces. The enemy continues to conduct demonstrative actions on this front.

On the Polesie Front, main efforts of the enemy are focused on withdrawing units from Ukrainian territory, restoring their combat readiness, and possibly redeploying them to other fronts. In particular, the enemy is moving units of the 35th, 36th Combined Arms Armies and the 76th Airborne Assault Division from the Polesie Operational Area.

To ensure the withdrawal of troops, occupiers are conducting artillery fire on positions of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and carrying out remote mine-laying in prohibited international conventions areas. Due to the critical situation, the withdrawal of 35th Combined Arms Army units is being organized personally by the army commander Lieutenant General Oleksandr Sanchyk.

According to available information, during combat operations against Ukraine, losses of the 1st Motorized Rifle Battalion of the 36th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade (v/ч 06705, Borzya) of the 29th Combined Arms Army amounted to over 60% of personnel.

On the Northern Front, the enemy is operating with separate units from the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies and the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District.

Occupants continue to block and conduct artillery shelling of Chernihiv. They are reinforcing their positions and conducting regrouping. To carry out reconnaissance and correct artillery fire, the enemy is using UAVs.

On the Bakhmut Front, the enemy continues withdrawing units, likely to border areas with Russia.

Some units remain on positions and checkpoints along transportation communications and approaches to temporarily occupied settlements. They are laying mines in sections of territory and civilian objects.

On the Slovyansk Front, the enemy continues conducting artillery shelling of the city of Kharkiv.

Towards Slovyansk, with forces of designated units, the enemy continues measures for regrouping troops and replenishing ammunition and fuel-oil materials.

On the Donetsk Front, the main efforts of the enemy are focused on taking control over populated areas of Popasna, Rubizhne, as well as capturing the city of Mariupol.

The enemy has intensified airstrikes using tactical aviation against troops and objects in the vicinity of populated areas of Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Popasna, Kremenchuk. Attempts to bypass our units were unsuccessful.

The enemy is reinforcing its grouping on the Donetsk Front. The arrival of rail convoys with weapons and equipment at the Rovenky railway station has been noted.

The enemy continues offensive actions in Mariupol city.

The enemy focused efforts on maintaining occupied positions near populated areas of Novozlatopil and Lubymivka.

On the Tavriysky Front, in the area of Nova Kakhovka, the enemy has deployed a logistics base. No active actions are being conducted.

On the Southern Buzhsky Front, the enemy is using measures to restore combat readiness. It continues conducting engineering support operations and uses artillery fire to block the actions of Ukrainian Armed Forces units.

Together we will triumph! Glory to Ukraine!