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What did 12 March 2024 bring to the war?
Summary
A retrospective on a day of missile strikes in Kryvyi Rih, drone attacks on Russian targets and an air crash in Ivanovo Oblast.
What did 12 March 2024 look like across the front and the rear of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? It was a day of strikes in both directions, and of an unexplained loss of a Russian military aircraft.
Missiles on Kryvyi Rih
A Russian missile strike hit apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Three people were killed and at least 36 others were injured, as reported at the time.
Drones over Russia
Ukraine launched 25 drones at Russian cities on the same day. They hit a major oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Crash in Ivanovo Oblast
A Russian Aerospace Forces Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane crashed in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, with 15 people on board.
An Oscar two days earlier
The day also came shortly after a cultural moment tied to the war. On 10 March 2024, the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 96th Academy Awards. The film, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, focuses on the siege of Mariupol. It is a 2023 Ukrainian documentary with footage from the first several weeks of the Russian invasion.
Taken together, the reports from 12 March 2024 show a war in which civilian areas in Ukraine were struck by missiles while Ukraine targeted Russian industrial infrastructure with drones.
