In the Vovchansk area, soldiers from the 1st Mobile Border Guard Detachment "Hart" of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) struck Russian positions.

Source: DPSUkr

#Ukraine advanced in #Vishneve on #Borova direction and in #Toretsk

#Russia advanced in #Katerinovka on #Lyman direction

Massive UAV strikes on #Dnipro and #Kharkiv

continues to hold hills in #Kursk oblast and villages in #Belgorod oblast', repelling continued assaults

"Relations with Russia will not return to normal even after the war in Ukraine ends" - #NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, late on Wednesday, injuring nine people and causing considerable damage, emergency services and officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mass-russian-drone-attack-ukraines-kharkiv-nine-injured-2025-03-26/

Russia launched fresh drone strikes against Kharkiv in Eastern Ukraine, just hours after a tentative agreement with Ukraine to pause attacks on energy sites and ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris-Trent reports from Kharkiv.
#Ukraine #Russia #Kharkiv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=825LM6gwYYM

The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, reported that Kharkiv is under attack by Russian drones.

At least 15 explosions have been heard in the city.

A 14-year-old girl was injured and is hospitalized in serious condition.

All specialized emergency services are working at the scene.

Source: synegubov

In Bombed-Out Kharkiv, Ukrainians Live Under Russia’s Constant Threat

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/kharkiv-russia-war-ukraine-saltivka-orthodox/

As spring arrives, skeleton buildings, numb or indignant people, and religious life remain.

Drone operators from the Phoenix Unmanned Systems Unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) are targeting Russian positions, destroying equipment, and neutralizing soldiers in the Kharkiv region.

Source: feniksdpsu

#UkraineWar, Day 1,124: #Zelensky Visits the Frontline in the East

#Ukraine #Donetsk #Kharkiv

https://eaworldview.com/2025/03/ukraine-war-zelensky-visits-the-frontline-in-the-east/

President Zelenskyy reported that he held a Military Cabinet meeting in Kharkiv.

#Ukraine #Kharkiv rebuilt book printing works “Faktor-Druk” which was destroyed as result of #Russia attack on 24 May 2024. The reconstruction was financially supported by US businessman Howard Graham Buffett

#Russians have expanded their "human safari" campaign from #Kherson and #Mykolaev to #Kharkiv, targeting a family just driving in their car.

Russian #FPV #drone struck a civilian car in Kharkiv Oblast, killing a 45-year-old woman and injuring three others. Deliberate #terror, nothing else.

Drone operators from the FPV Drone Unit "Primus" of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces are striking Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.

Source: ab3army

#Russia narratives on #Ukraine territories is quite consistent as it comes to #Donbas, #Zaporizhzhia and #Kherson regions - even if they are nonsense, they are kind of consistent. But they don’t even make any pretenses of consistency as it comes to #Kharkiv region.

Russia captured 1/3 of Kharkiv oblast in 2022 but then was kicked out by successful ZSU counteroffensive by end of 2022. Then, in 2024, Russia once again attacked on the #Vovchansk direction (north of Kharkiv) and continued pushing from the east #Kupyansk.

As a reminder, Putin and Zakharova clearly stated in 2022 that the objective of “special military operation is not occupation of territories”. In case of all occupied regions they claim it’s not occupation but “referendums” (even though it was never conducted in Zaporizhzhia for example).

But no such narrative was even built for Kharkiv oblast’ - they just describe it as “liberation” without any pretext or legal basis. Since 2022 there’s a Russian “Kharkov military administration on exile” which periodically announces “Kharkov oblast’ will be liberated”… but once again, they don’t even pretend.

It’s not like Russia needs any pretext to invade, but it does usually maintain an alternative pseud-legal narrative for the Western audience. In case of Kharkiv oblast it’s simply absent, which is one reason they don’t talk much about this region too often. Of course, for the internal military audience they speak about it openly in a mix of likely valid goals (military factories) and propaganda (“biolabs”):

Russia is pursuing strategic goals and objectives of the “SMO”, which include elimination of direct military threat from Kharkiv and Sumy located 40 km from the ‘Belovezhskaya’ border (the range of Hymars and MLRS minimum missiles), as well as elimination of bacteriological threat from Kharkiv, removal from the enemy’s control and return to Russia of the famous Kharkiv tank and machine-building factories or the only Izium factory of optical devices in the former Ukraine.

This is taken from a Russian-only article extensively discussing the perspectives for “liberation” (capture) of Kharkiv oblast published in 2023. This is the narrative for “educated” audience, which is likely as close to the true intentions of Kremlin as you can get. But the less they talk about it in public, the more we should be challenging them and Trump administration about it.