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Situation Summary
In the Donetsk region, heavy fighting continued near Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Russian forces reportedly advanced north and southwest of Marinka, west of Avdiivka, and northeast of Lyman. In the Zaporizhia region, fighting occurred south and southeast of Orikhiv and near Huliaipole. Clashes also took place in the area of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region and near Krynky on the occupied southern bank of the Dnipro river in the Kherson region.
In occupied regions, Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes targeted a Russian military base and a military warehouse in the Zaporizhia region, an oil refinery in Crimea, and Russian ammunition depots in the Kherson and Luhansk regions. In addition, Ukrainian naval drones sank a brand-new Russian patrol ship in the Kerch strait. Meanwhile, on 6 March, suspected Ukrainian partisans blew up a local member of the Russian electoral commission in her car in Berdiansk in the Zaporizhia region.
Russian shelling and drone strikes killed over 30 civilians in the Chernihiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Over half of these fatalities occurred in Odesa city, which Russia targeted with missiles and drones almost daily. On 2 March, a Russian drone hit a multi-story residential building in central Odesa, resulting in its partial collapse. The strike killed 12 civilians, including five children, and injured 20 others. On 6 March, a Russian missile killed five civilians in the port of Odesa during the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Elsewhere, on 3 March, a Russian guided aerial bomb hit an apartment building in Kurakhove in the Donetsk region, wounding 16 civilians. Russian shelling and drone strikes on 6-7 March killed one civilian and wounded 8 others in Sumy city, while also damaging residential houses, several medical facilities, and a school.
