Anti-air defense of the Air Force of Ukraine shot down three Russian combat helicopters, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry wrote on Facebook, Report informs.
According to the ministry, on the night of March 19-20, the enemy did not spend active offensive actions, focused efforts on replenishing current losses, restoring partially destroyed equipment, and transferring foreign military mercenaries to the border with Ukraine areas.
"The occupiers by terrorist methods are sowing a strict administrative police regime, knowingly creating conditions for a humanitarian crisis in temporarily occupied territories. Last day, 14 trucks with first-needed food and medicines went to the Kherson region from the Apostolove city of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian invaders did not miss the humanitarian convoy for no reason. This is how they are trying to force local people to collaborate.
"Citizens are promised to cancel credit debts, and local entrepreneurs have a preference in running a business.
"It became known that from the deployed squad of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, which participated in combat operations in the Kyiv direction, remained one military alive, and that one is in hospital.
"In the background of similar circumstances, by the command of the Russian Black Sea Navy, measures are urgently taken to replace 130 contractors of the 810th Marine Infantry Brigade with paratroopers of the 7th Paratroopers Division. The FSB resolves the issue of their further service.
"In addition, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region, the Russian curators announced another wave of mobilization to replenish the 1st Army Corps.
"The border age of mobilization was raised to 65. Trucks filled with soldiers' bodies are sent from the operation zone of the 2nd Army Corps in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region to the settlements of Luhansk, Sorokine, and Dovzhanske every day," the ministry said.