21.03.2023 - Rusko-ukrajinský konflikt

21.03.2023

Kurdumivka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian forces from 28. Independent Mechanized Brigade are targeting Russian forces on the eastern side of the Donetsk-Donbas Canal, destroying a Russian self-propelled 120 mm mortar 2S9 Nona-S, a KamAZ vehicle and several infantry clusters. Geolocation - 48°28'23.67 "N 37°57'32.28 "E. (Edit JP: The video is supposed to be from January)

Situace na bojišti dle ISW.





Situace na bojišti dle War Mapper.





Situace u Bachmutu.

Přehled předpokládaných ruských ztrát a porovnání jejich denního přírůstku dle ukrajinské strany k 21.3. 2023.

Russian contractors are urgently looking for builders and carpenters to construct trenches and fortified positions in occupied Crimea. Advertisements have appeared on Avito, Russia's equivalent of eBay, offering up to 7,000 rubles ($91) a day for the work - but it can be risky.



Many contractors are currently advertising for laborers, carpenters and foremen to work on trench construction around Krasnoperekopsk on the strategic Perekopskaya Shaya. This is the main land route to Crimea, it has been fortified and fought over for over 2000 years.



Russia has recently been building its fortifications in the area as it prepares for a likely Ukrainian offensive to retake occupied territories in the south. As documented below, lines of fortifications have been built on the neck.


The advertisements offer varying conditions and pay rates - some include accommodation, others do not - and offer 2,000 to 7,000 rubles ($26 to $91) per shift or day. Temporary jobs of up to 50 people are being sought to dig trenches and earthworks and to install wooden reinforcements.



One advert states that "the scope of work is very large. Work has been ongoing since early January." The working conditions are strict: "No drinking, no [drug] use (no pay release!) 18+ [only]."
Workers with experience building trenches elsewhere in occupied Ukraine offer their services individually or as construction brigades. One advertisement offers a "complete brigade (including team leaders, foremen), 80 people in total.
With experience in building fortifications in the Zaporozhye region, we are ready to carry out work on the territory of the Crimean Republic with a salary of 50,000 rubles ($653) per shift, we will find housing ourselves, we will provide our own food."
Russian companies, emphasizing the scale of the construction effort, are also producing prefabricated wooden trench structures and are looking for carpenters. One company in the Leningrad region says it produces 25-30,000 trench reinforcements a month at 10,200 rubles ($26) apiece.


But it's not always the safest work: Ukrainian forces have bombed and shelled excavators digging trenches near the front lines. Numerous civilian workers have already been killed and injured.



Many of the Russian construction workers are poor immigrants from Central Asia and Africa. On at least some occasions, they have complained that they were cheated on the fortification work and that they are underpaid or not paid at all.
Civilian workers sent from Russia to carry out construction work in occupied parts of Ukraine - many of them migrants from Central Asia and Africa - complain that they live in poor conditions, are not paid what they were promised and have been lured by ''sneakiness''.
On this occasion, at least the work is open and its location is far from the front lines. But it is another sign of how worried Russia is about Ukraine trying to retake Crimea.

Destruction of a Russian tank T-72B by a Ukrainian kamikaze drone.



Destruction of a Russian self-propelled heavy 240mm mortar 2S4 Tulpan by 79th Independent Strike Airborne Brigade and 55th Independent Artillery Brigade artillery.



Joint work of the Aerial Reconnaissance 59th Independent Motorised Infantry Brigade and Artillery 55th Independent Artillery Brigade. In Donetsk a Russian self-propelled howitzer 2S3 Akacija was destroyed.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the MoD of Ukraine announced that several drones attacked a railway junction in Dzhankoy (Džanкой) in Crimea. According to other sources, converted civilian Mugin-5 drones manufactured in the PRC and sold by the mail-order firm AliExprepess were used in the attack. The target of the attack was an unspecified shipment of Russian Kalibr missiles.



Source:
defence-ua.com
https://t.me/ClashReport/6352
https://youtu.be/tGee1AMIbrU

Russian improvised wait-and-see munition with mine MON-50.