Russia Fired 392 Drones and 34 Missiles, Killing Seven in Ukraine March 23-24

Russia carried out one of the most important mixed attacks of missiles and drones in recent days, with a first wave in the night of 23 to 24 March involving 392 drones and 34 missiles, followed by a second wave on 24 March involving at least 550 drones.

“The Ukrainian army says it has caused around one hundred Russian military casualties in a single bombing”

El País

The attacks hit multiple Ukrainian oblasts including Poltava, Kiev, Mykolaïv, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporijjia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Soumy, Ternopil, Tchernihiv, Jytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, d’Odessa and Tcherkassy, and local authorities said the strikes caused seven deaths and dozens of injuries.

El País

Ukraine’s air force said it had shot down 906 of 948 drones and 25 of 34 missiles, while the Magazine Raids account said the figures were not verifiable.

The same account said several strikes hit the historic center of Lviv, and it quoted the Lviv regional military administration chief saying a XVIIth-century complex in the city center was damaged.

Separately, President Volodímir Zelenski announced that Ukraine caused around one hundred Russian military casualties in a single bombing, saying the video showed multiple bomb drones hitting a complex described as the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in occupied territories of the Jersón province.

At the Munich Security Conference, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Russia recorded about 65,000 losses among its soldiers in Ukraine over two months, and France 24 reported that he estimated the Alliance was strong enough to deter any Russian attack at this stage.

In the same France 24 coverage, Zelensky said he spoke on the phone with American envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner ahead of trilateral meetings in Geneva next week, adding, "We expect truly productive meetings,".

France 24

Zelenski also said he was surprised that Russia decided to change the leadership of its negotiating team for peace talks planned in Geneva next week, and France 24 quoted him saying foreign troops would be necessary in Ukraine after the conclusion of a peace agreement to deter any future aggression by Russia.

The Magazine Raids account quoted Ukraine’s foreign minister Andriï Sybiga on X, writing, "Tout au long de la journée, la Russie terrorise de nombreuses villes à travers l’Ukraine avec des essaims de drones 'Shahed'[…]".

In a separate debate over casualty figures, Le magazine GEO said a Meduza investigation published on Wednesday, February 25, argued that earlier estimates of Russian losses were almost certainly incorrect due to delays in accounting and reclassification of missing cases as dead by court order.

Magazine Raids described the strategic aim of the war as weakening the economic position of the adversary, while saying the hope of shaking the morale of the opposing camp to push populations toward negotiation had long since vanished.

“Ukraine – Russia: the war's military planes”

Le magazine GEO

It also said the Ukrainian side tries to disrupt economic relations between Tehran and Moscow to prevent the delivery of arms to Russia, and it described Israeli air strikes on the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali on the Caspian Sea where Russian ships could unload goods.

On the battlefield and in the rear, the same account said Ukraine fired nearly 400 drones at Russian targets according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, including the port of Oust-Louga on the Baltic Sea, and it said the neighboring Primorsk oil terminal was still burning three days after an early 23 March morning strike.

Reuters, as cited in Magazine Raids, said at least 40% of Russia’s hydrocarbon export capacity was at a standstill due to Ukrainian bombardments, an attack on an important gas pipeline, and the seizure of tankers, framing it as a major problem for Russia’s oil exports.

Le magazine GEO added that, after correcting distortions, investigators calculated 600 Russian deaths per day in Ukraine and about 900 irreversibly lost per day including the severely wounded, totaling roughly 27,000 per month—barely half of the 50,000 target set by Kyiv’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.