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President Volodymyr Zelensky chaired a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, during which resilience plans were approved for all regions and regional capitals except Kyiv. The capital was granted additional time to prepare the relevant substantive documents.
The European Commission is fully confident in the legality of the decision to immobilize Russia's sovereign assets indefinitely.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Ihor Brusylo as Ukraine's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Republic.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that strikes on Iran's military targets are justified given Tehran's role in supplying weapons to Russia, but warned that the operation in the Middle East could affect Ukraine's access to air defense missiles and systems.
Due to differences in political and economic interests, the BRICS countries are unable to develop a coordinated position on Iran, indicating that this format is gradually losing its actual geopolitical influence.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, have discussed key aspects of the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region.
The Israel Defense Forces struck buildings in a government complex in Tehran overnight, including the office of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and the headquarters of the Supreme National Security Council.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed, based on satellite images, that Israeli and US attacks have damaged the entrance buildings of an underground uranium enrichment plant in the Iranian city of Natanz.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that the next round of trilateral talks between delegations from Ukraine, the United States and Russia, scheduled for this week, has not been postponed, though the meeting may take place in Europe or Turkey instead of Abu Dhabi.
The so-called “axis of evil” has never been a real coordinated alliance, and against the backdrop of events in Venezuela and Iran, its internal unity has weakened even further.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed sending Ukraine's top experts in intercepting Iranian drones to the Middle East if the region's leaders persuade Vladimir Putin to agree to a month-long truce in Russia's war against Ukraine.
In Poltava, the number of people injured as a result of the Russian drone attack has increased to five.
In February, interceptor drones destroyed more than 70% of Russian Shahed-type attack drones over Kyiv and its outskirts.
As of the evening of March 2, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel had no information about Ukrainians killed or wounded as a result of the hostilities.
European allies are doing everything possible to support the United States and Israel in their operation against Iran without directly taking part in the fighting, but support for Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia must remain a priority.
As of March 3, Russian attacks on energy infrastructure have left customers in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions without power.
Five people were injured in drone attacks in the Kherson region, and the number of wounded from the previous day's shelling is also increasing. A teenager was also injured.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha strongly condemned Iran's attack on the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia and expressed solidarity with the United Kingdom.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced the destruction of all 11 Iranian military ships and vessels in the Gulf of Oman.
Yesterday, March 2, Kharkiv and 12 other settlements in the Kharkiv region came under Russian attack.
Russian troops killed six and wounded 19 residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, March 2.
The settlements of Fedorivka and Riznykivka in the Donetsk region remain under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, which hold positions and regulate logistics in this section of the front.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 127 of 136 drones used by Russian troops to attack Ukraine since the evening of March 2.
Four people were injured in the Poltava region on Tuesday morning, March 3, as a result of falling debris from Russian drones.
Russian strike drones caused damage to port and transport facilities.
There were 152 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops over the past day, including 40 attacks by the occupiers on the Huliaipole sector.
The Russian army attacked the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region with FPV drones and artillery.
Russia suffered approximately 1,268,520 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and March 3, 2026, with 790 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
In the Mykolaiv region, a Russian serviceman who tortured a resident of the Snihurivka community during the occupation with electric shocks has been identified.