By Tass.ru - March 25, 18:00, updated March 26, 11:08Online

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Western countries "instigators and instigators" of the conflict in Ukraine.

Kyiv urged  Europe to increase sanctions against Moscow after the decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus and asked for more weapons to launch a counteroffensive.

The Russian military group "West"  destroyed five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kupyansk direction, said the head of the press center of the group, Sergei Zybinsky.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported the defeat of 84 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions.

The main events of March 26 are in the TASS online broadcast.

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A civilian resident of Donetsk was injured by the explosion of an anti-personnel mine "Lepestok", which Ukrainian troops drop on the settlements of Donbas, the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR reported.

"A man born in 1971 was wounded as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM-1" Petal "Kirovsky district on Aylantovaya street, 11," the headquarters' Telegram channel said.12:20

Ukrainian security forces fired 20 shells from MLRS in Donetsk.12:15

The Ukrainian military shelled the city of Lysychansk in the LPR from NATO artillery pieces of 155 mm caliber, the representative office of the republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported .10:51

Bulgarian Vice President Iliyana Yotova considers negotiations between Russia and Ukraine necessary to avoid escalation. 10:42

Members of the LPR working group to search for the graves of victims of Ukrainian aggression discovered the remains of more than 50 victims of the conflict in the region of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk in a week .09:49

The second group of Ukrainian servicemen completed training in the UK to work with AS90 howitzers. 09:44

In Zhytomyr, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions canceled the air raid alert. 08:38

Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees that the West is crossing red lines with arms supplies to Ukraine. 08:37

Putin called the West "instigators and instigators" of the conflict in Ukraine. 08:20

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the defeat of 84 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions. 08:17

The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers and two D-30 howitzers in a day in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. 08:17

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of more than 200 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction. 08:17

The Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kupyansk direction. 08:17

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction per day amounted to 90 servicemen.08:16

Russian air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones in a day and intercepted seven HIMARS MLRS shells. 08:16

The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR. 08:16

One US-made M777 artillery system was destroyed in the Kherson direction, the RF Defense Ministry reported .07:51

In Zhytomyr, Sumy and Chernihiv regions announced an air alert. 07:50

Boris Guseletov, the chief researcher at the Institute for Socio-Political Research of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences,  believes that China is trying to look like a peacemaker on the problem of Ukraine.07:37

About 3 thousand people live in the territories of the Kharkiv region controlled by the Russian forces, Vitaly Ganchev, head of the military-civilian administration of the region, informed. 07:27

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic believes that there will be no winners in the conflict in Ukraine. 07:24

Residential buildings in Alyoshki on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region suffered from shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the head of the administration of the municipality, Georgy Zhuravko, told TASS.07:23

Former LPR Ambassador in Moscow Rodion Miroshnik said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are disrupting the restoration of Rubizhne with shelling. 06:53

The Ukrainian side is losing up to 200 troops a day in the battles for Artemovsk,  the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported .06:37

A repeated air alert, which was announced in three regions in the east and in the center of Ukraine, was canceled after just over 30 minutes.06:26

North Macedonia will transfer 12 Mi-24 helicopters to Ukraine.06:19

In the Odessa region, a sea mine exploded off the coast .05:45