Published On 4 Mar 20254 Mar 2025
Here is the situation on Tuesday, March 4:
Fighting
- Ukraine’s military said it destroyed 46 of 83 Russian drones launched at the country overnight. Another 31 drones were reportedly “lost” and failed to reach their targets.
- A drone attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa damaged energy infrastructure in the area, triggering power and heat supply interruptions in the city, regional Governor Oleh Kiper wrote. Odesa’s Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov said the attack knocked out three boiler plants.
- A Ukrainian drone attack targeted an industrial enterprise in Russia’s southern city of Syzran, the governor of the Samara region said on Tuesday, adding that there were no casualties. A Russian Telegram channel claimed that the Syzran oil refinery was hit in the attack.
- A Ukrainian mass drone attack in the Chertovsky district of Russia’s southern Rostov region set fire to an oil pipeline, said regional Governor Yury Slyusar. He later said falling debris had also triggered a fire at a storage facility of an industrial site in the area.
- A Russian missile attack on an army training ground near the village of Cherkaske killed several soldiers, the AFP news agency reported, citing a Ukrainian military source. Although an official death toll was not released, Ukrainian military blogger Yury Butusov said about 30-40 soldiers were killed and 90 others injured.
- Moscow confirmed that Kyiv returned 33 civilians who were displaced from the western Kursk region after Ukraine took over the territory. Russia’s human rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova said the handover was possible with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross and mediation by Belarus.
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