Missile attack on Kramatorsk and lack of resources for a counteroffensive: today's highlights

Strike on Kramatorsk

On the night of March 25, Russian occupation forces fired S-300 missiles at the center and industrial area of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast.

There were no casualties, but there was damage.

One of the missiles hit an administrative building, destroying the top three floors. The explosion also damaged 8 apartment buildings, 6 retail outlets, a school, and a hotel nearby.

The second missile, which hit an industrial area, destroyed one building with a direct hit, and several other industrial buildings were damaged by the explosion.

Shelling in Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts

On March 25, the occupiers shelled a humanitarian aid distribution point in Kherson with artillery. The shelling injured two people – a 41-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man.

In addition, Russians shelled Chasiv Yar and Toretsk with artillery. A civilian man was killed in Chasiv Yar and a woman was killed by the occupiers in Toretsk.

Ukraine is not ready for a counteroffensive

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine needs additional military support from its partners, without which it cannot launch a counteroffensive and liberate the temporarily occupied territories.

“Without tanks, guns, and HIMARS, we cannot send our brave soldiers to the front,” Zelenskyy told Japanese journalists.

At the same time, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar called for no questions about the Ukrainian Defense Forces' counteroffensive and no public discussion of the Ukrainian army's military plans.

Situation at the frontline

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi said that Ukrainian troops are managing to stabilize the situation in the Bakhmut sector of the frontline making titanic efforts.

The spokesperson for the Eastern Military Group, Serhii Cherevatyi, noted that the number of clashes in the Bakhmut sector has decreased in recent days, but that information about the depletion of Russian forces still needs to be analyzed.

In total, the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled more than 50 attacks by the Russian army in the Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Marinka sectors on March 25.

Grossi to visit ZNPP for the second time

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP for the second time.

The visit is scheduled for next week. Grossi plans to assess the nuclear safety situation at the facility and emphasize the urgent need to protect it during the war.

According to him, despite the presence of the agency's representatives at the plant for 7 months, the situation at ZNPP is still dangerous, and the threats to nuclear safety are “too obvious”.

Other news for the day

• A car hit a mine on a dam in Kharkiv Oblast. The man driving the car was killed. A resident of Kherson Oblast was also killed by a Russian explosive device.
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that his country could not support Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic and European integration while “Hungarian schools in Zakapattia are in danger”.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba predicts a “behind-the-scenes diplomatic battle” over the implementation of the International Criminal Court's decision to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a special storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons is being built in Belarus.
• According to the German media outlet T-Online, Russian warships could have been operating near the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines a few days before the explosions.