#Russian forces repel nine Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area — top brass
The Russian Armed Forces have improved their strategic positions south of #Donetsk

Number of those injured in #Moscow terrorist attack revised upward to 551 . As of 6:00 a.m. Moscow time on March 30 there were 695 casualties, including 15 children

#MOSCOW, March 30. The Russian Armed Forces carried out 1 massive and 57 precision strikes, including via Tsirkon cruise and Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles, in the past 7 days, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

According to the Ministry, missile and drone strikes hit #Ukrainian military industrial complex, Armed Forces and Security Service (SBU) decision-making centers, unmanned speedboat assembly shops, arsenals, fuel depots, air defense objects, energy infrastructure and temporary deployment locations for special operations forces and foreign mercenaries.

All designated targets were hit, the Ministry added.

#Zelensky sacks more aides in presidential office reshuffle. Among other officials, he dismissed #Sergey Shefir from the post of his first aide

#DUBAI, March 30. The #Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has delivered an air strike on residential buildings in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip killing at least 22 people, Al Jazeera reported.

According to the TV channel, children were among the victims. The news outlet noted that the residents received no advance warning of the airstrike.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria, followed by a ground operation in the enclave. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well