Author: David Batashvili

 

This is a special issue of the Rondeli Russian Military Digest dedicated to the Russo-Ukrainian War, composed on the basis of numerous open sources.

 

Kursk Area

Russians took village Rubanshchina to the immediate west of Sudzha. Fighting continued between Rubanshchina and Gogolevka.

Fighting continued within village Basivka, on the Ukrainian territory near the international border.

 

Belgorod Area

Ukrainians launched attacks in the northwestern part of Belgorod Oblast, advancing towards villages Demidovka and Priles’e.

Static shot from the Russo-Ukrainian War interactive map. The frontline in the area of Ukraine’s border with Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts (administrative regions) by the afternoon, 21 March 2025. All information on the maps is approximate.

 

Kharkiv Area

Fighting in the area continued without major territorial changes.

 

Svatove-Starobilsk Area and Donbas Area – North

In the north, Russians advanced from village Petrivka across the Oskil River in the area between villages Kamyanka and Krasne Pershe.

Ukrainians pushed Russians out of the northern part of Bohuslavka and back into Zahryzove.

West of Raihorodka, Ukrainians re-entered village Nadiya.

Russians likely completed the capture of Novolyubivka.

 

Donbas Area – Northeast

Russians pushed a little in the western direction in the area north of Verkhnokamyanske.

 

Toretsk-Kostyantynivka Area

Heavy fighting continued within Chasiv Yar.

Russians retook previously lost areas in the northern part of Toretsk, and advanced in two areas north of the city.

 

Donbas Area – Southeast and South

Russians pushed Ukrainians back within village Shevchenko.

Heavy fighting continued in Kostyantynopil.

Russians completed the capture of village Skudne, and advanced northwest of it towards Vesele. Nearby, Russians advanced within Privilne.

 

Zaporizhzhia Area

Russians advanced towards Mali Shcherbaky, entering this village from the south and reaching village Stepove from the east. Nearby, they likely completed the capture of Pyatykhatky, launching attacks towards Lobkove.

 

Black Sea-Dnipro River Area

Fighting in the area continued without major changes.