Air raid alerts in March accounted for nearly 19% of the shopping center's business

In March, shopping centers lost 18.6% of working hours due to air raid alerts, which is equivalent to 4.8 working days.

This was reported by the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers.

The figure remained virtually unchanged compared to February but remains significantly higher than a year ago—when it stood at 11%.

At the same time, other indicators have worsened: the number of alerts and their duration have increased, and record highs have been recorded since the start of the full-scale war.

Shopping centers were disrupted most frequently in the Donetsk (85.5%), Sumy (79.7%), Zaporizhzhia (49.2%), Kharkiv (41.7%), and Chernihiv (33.8%) regions.

Overall, since the start of the full-scale invasion, the average forced downtime of shopping centers due to air raid alerts has reached 142.4 working days.

Additionally, as a result of a massive drone attack on Odesa on March 28, the death toll rose to four.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked four border communities in the Chernihiv region with FPV drones, causing significant damage and resulting in deaths and injuries.