Military and Political Situation in Ukraine. Morning of March 17th, 2022 - Ihor Zhdanov

Ihor Zhdanov, Information Defence

Informational Defence of Ukraine provides a daily review of the military-political situation in Ukraine, morning of March 17th, based on an analysis of open sources.

1. The russian occupiers have not achieved success in any of the operational areas and have sustained heavy losses as a result of counterattacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the position and nature of the actions of defence forces have not changed significantly over the last 24 hours.

In the Volyn direction, the russian forces, with the full support of the military and political leadership of Belarus, continue to use its territory to deploy missile systems, launch missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and organise all kinds of troops.

In the Polissya direction, the enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting reconnaissance and trying to organise a counter-battery fight. This has had no significant success.

There are no active offensive actions by the enemy in the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions. The occupiers are trying to gain a foothold on the previously captured borders, regroup troops and replenish supplies.

The enemy did not abandon attempts to occupy the south of Izium, probably in order to continue the offensive attacks in the direction of Sloviansk. It is not successful.

In the Pivdennyi Buh area, the enemy continues to gain a foothold. Following their occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the Russian military tried to seize the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant, but the Ukrainian military stopped the offensive attack and the invaders did not enter it.

The russian Black Sea Fleet continues to block shipping in