Battlefield Update - 2023-03-21 (1)

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on March 20

▪️Regular shelling of the border areas in the Sudzhansky district of Kursk region continues unabated.

The AFU launched a mortar strike on the villages of Guevo and Gornal’, no civilian casualties or destruction.

▪️In the Lyman sector, positional fighting in the area of the Balka Zhuravka and to the west of Ploshchanka is underway.

Russian troops are consolidating on previously occupied positions and firing artillery at AFU positions near the Zherebets’ River.

▪️Northwest of Bakhmut, Wagner PMC groups continue their assault on the AFU’s stronghold in Orekhovo-Vasilevka.

The enemy is taking heavy mortar and artillery fire on the attacking units, trying to disrupt the pace of the offensive.

▪️On the southern outskirts of the city, the Wagner PMC units advanced in the area of Sobachevka, levelling the zone of control along Mariupolska Street.

At the same time, in the Budonnivka area, Russian troops approached the outskir…