Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine successfully foiled a major offensive operation planned by Russia for late last year.

Russian occupation authorities have sentenced a 68-year-old woman from the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region to 11 years in prison, allegedly for transferring money to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On Monday, March 16, scheduled hourly power outages will be applied for household consumers across all regions of Ukraine from 17:00, while industrial consumers will face power capacity restrictions.

The Russian army carried out 20 attacks throughout the day on five districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones, artillery, and aerial bombs, leaving four people wounded.

Two additional basic shelters have been completed in the Centralnyi District of Kherson.

Russian forces have attacked Ukrainian defensive positions 49 times since the start of the day, with the heaviest fighting reported in the Huliaipole, Kostiantynivka, and Pokrovsk sectors.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Russia and China are providing Iran with various forms of assistance, including military support.

A Russian drone exploded near a checkpoint in the Chernihiv region on Sunday, killing one soldier and injuring several others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said intelligence data indicate that Russia is reducing missile production while significantly increasing orders for drones, planning to produce up to seven million first person view (FPV) drones this year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees enacting decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose sanctions on Russian and Iranian companies and individuals servicing Russia's military-industrial complex, as well as Russian Paralympians who took part in the war against Ukraine.

In just the past week, Russian forces struck Ukrainian territory with 1,770 attack drones, over 1,530 KABs, and 86 missiles.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi visited certain areas of the Zaporizhzhia direction, where the enemy is concentrating a significant number of forces and resources for an offensive.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russian troops are currently unable to advance with equipment and are only attempting infiltration in small groups, while Russia has no intention of ending the war.

On March 14, a total of 144 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops. The enemy put the most pressure on the Kostiantynivka sector, while activity was also high in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.

The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine says it has recorded the start of a large-scale campaign aimed at discrediting Ukraine, falsely claiming that Kyiv is seeking to block energy supplies to the European Union.

Rescuers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) extinguished a fire caused by a Russian drone strike on a passenger train in the Sumy region.

At its next meeting, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will allocate UAH 11.2 billion to prepare 210 critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv and nine frontline regions for the upcoming heating season.

Russia's military-industrial complex is draining resources from other sectors of the economy, including enterprises that directly service it.

Ukrainian forces have engaged in 117 clashes with Russian troops along the frontline since the start of the day.

The number of people injured in a Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia has risen to 19, including several children.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has said its officer was unjustifiably detained by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) at a checkpoint near the entrance to Sumy.

An 87-year-old woman was killed and a 42-year-old man injured as a result of Russian shelling in two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday.

Several commuter trains in the Sumy region will be suspended for a few days to allow for repair work following Russian attacks on infrastructure.

At the Bundeswehr Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein, more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen have already been trained to operate the new self-propelled artillery system RCH 155 (Remote Controlled Howitzer 155), which has not yet even entered service with the Bundeswehr.

On Sunday, Canada and five Nordic countries announced an agreement to strengthen cooperation in defense manufacturing and other areas.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) plan to continue their military campaign in Iran for at least three more weeks.

Ukrainian skier Oleksandra Kononova from the Kyiv region won a bronze medal in the 20 km standing class race at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Italy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is ready to work with any leader of Hungary who is not an ally of Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian forces struck Russian military facilities in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region on the night of March 14-15.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that any easing of sanctions on Russian oil would only benefit Russia, warning that the money Moscow earns from energy exports will be used to fund the war and produce drones that could later be used against the United States and its allies.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia's budget deficit this year amounts to $100 billion, but the Russians may be able to cover it if sanctions, especially those related to oil sales, are weakened.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that American military officials had contacted Ukrainian forces requesting expertise in countering Shahed drones.

Near the village of Chervona Khvylia in the Kharkiv region, two emergency medical workers were killed as a result of enemy shelling, and another was injured.

Ukrainian air defense forces neutralized 90 out of 97 drones launched by Russian forces in attacks on Ukraine starting in the evening of March 14.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that sanctions on Russian oil imposed when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 will go back once the Middle East crisis is over.

Powerful explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied town of Dovzhansk in the Luhansk region late on March 14. According to preliminary information, an ammunition depot exploded in the town.

The rapid development of drone technologies has significantly changed how tanks are used on the battlefield, but it is still too early to abandon them, according to Hennadii Shapovalov, commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

Law enforcement officers in the Kirovohrad region have uncovered a scheme to embezzle more than UAH 620,000 in one of the military units.

Ukraine's state rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, has introduced temporary changes to train operations in the Sumy region after a Russian drone strike hit a passenger train.

Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in the Sumy region on March 14, injuring three civilians, according to the Sumy Regional Military Administration.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that the possibility of his country leaving the EU is a real threat and pledged to do everything possible to prevent it.

On Sunday morning, a drone struck the Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait, destroying an Italian MQ-9A Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.

The Ukrainian national team completed its performance at the 14th Winter Paralympic Games, which were held in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Kharkiv region On Sunday, March 15, Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region left one woman dead and three others wounded.

At the age of 66, Andrii Shabunin, a historian and artist, has passed away.

Slovakia unblocked European Union sanctions against Russia just before the deadline after dropping its demand to remove two oligarchs from the sanctions list.

Ukraine has initiated a ban on entry to the European Union and the imposition of sanctions against nearly 130 Russian commanders who committed crimes against Ukrainians.

Valerii Vavryniuk, acting head of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service, visited combat units defending the state border with Russia in the Sumy region and reviewed the needs of border guard detachments.

The death toll from a Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia has risen to two after a 17-year-old boy who was wounded in the attack died in hospital.

Ukrainian forces have struck a launcher of the Russian S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile system and two radar systems in temporarily occupied Crimea.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to initiate amendments to the mobilization law under which members of parliament who lose their mandate would have to join the army.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he has agreed with French President Emmanuel Macron to receive a new SAMP/T air defense system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.

In Kherson, a Russian drone hit a minibus, injuring a civilian man.

The total combat losses of Russia’s forces in manpower from February 24, 2022 to March 15, 2026 have reached approximately 1,279,170 personnel, including 740 killed and wounded over the past day.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called “absurd” the threats by Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, to launch missile strikes against Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s assistance to Israel.

Ukraine's military intelligence has released exclusive footage showing the destruction of a Russian Shahed-type attack drone over the Dnipro River near Kyiv during a massive Russian air assault on March 14.

Soldiers from the Combat Hawks unmanned systems battalion of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade demonstrated how they recover damaged ground robotic systems (UGVs) from the outskirts of Pokrovsk that failed to reach their destination.

Russia's Ministry of Defense has claimed that almost 300 Ukrainian drones attacked Russian territory on Saturday.

An explosion in Cherkasy on Saturday evening left one person dead, with police currently investigating the circumstances of the incident.

The Japanese government is considering introducing Ukraine-made attack drones to bolster its defense capabilities, banking on the Eastern European country's combat experience against Russian military aggression.