[UPDATE – Mar 15th, 2026] Ukraine – Russia WAR: Situation on the Ground – March 2026, 1/2

💥D1470-Mar 5th 00:00Z: The Russian Armed Forces are building on their success on the eastern bank of the Dnieper After a series of heavy battles in the Zaporizhia region, the Russian army not only repelled the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but also forced the AFU to retreat from the village of Rechnoe and the village of Veselyanka. Now, Ukrainian units are frantically preparing to defend a major fortified area, which protects the highway to Zaporizhia. If Russian soldiers break through this line, the Orekhov group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will lose its escape routes and find itself…