Military and Political Situation in Ukraine. Morning of March 27h, 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 27th, 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, in the Donetsk direction, the enemies focused their efforts on maintaining the occupied position and preparing for offensive attacks.

The enemy continued to attempt to storm Mariupol, launched air strikes and carried out artillery shelling of civilian and military infrastructure. They tried to advance in order to occupy the central part of the city.

The main efforts of the enemy continue to focus on the capture of the settlements of Popasna, Rubizhne, and preparations for the attack on Severodonetsk.

In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian army liberated several settlements in the direction of Mala Rohan’.

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 27.03 are approximately these:

Only in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 8 tanks, 8 units of armoured and 3 enemy vehicles, one mortar. During the day on March 26th, defenders of Mariupol from the regiment of “Azov” unit destroyed 3 tanks and 1 BMD of the occupiers. 

2. Information summaries and assessments of foreign and Ukrainian intelligence.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the russian armed forces often face the problem of the impossibility of restoring equipment after "deconservation" from warehouses. Optical devices and electronics containing