Kyiv took an attempt to wedge the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces) in the Belgorod Region in the direction of the Demidovka and Plosya against the backdrop of the conversation of Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.
This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Thus, Ukraine wanted to create a negative background around the planned negotiations of two leaders on the issues of resolving the conflict and to discredit peaceful initiatives of the US president planned for the evening of March 18, the department said.
According to this information, the first attempt was recorded at 05:50 Moscow time. In total, five attacks were carried out during the day from 17:30 to 18:45. Up to 200 Ukrainian militants and 29 units of military equipment participated in provocations, including five tanks, 16 combat armored vehicles, three engineering vehicles, installation of Remote Mining UR-77 and four cars.
The defense department said that all attacks were repelled by units of covering the border of the North Troops, artillery and FPV thrones. Thanks to their actions, the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was up to 60 people, one tank, seven armored vehicles, three engineering machines and a car.