Zelensky discusses situation in Middle East with Crown Prince of Kuwait
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a conversation with Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, during which they addressed security challenges in the Middle East.
04 March 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a conversation with Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, during which they addressed security challenges in the Middle East.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he held a conversation with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain regarding the situation in the region and the threats posed by Iranian missile and drone strikes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is ready to help Middle East countries stabilize the situation and protect civilians in response to the threat posed by Iranian attack drones and missiles that are destabilizing the region and the global market.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is ready to help Middle East countries stabilize the situation and protect civilians in response to the threat posed by Iranian attack drones and missiles that are destabilizing the region and the global market.
In the area of the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration in the Donetsk region, signs have been recorded that Russian troops are preparing to intensify offensive operations with the involvement of accumulated reserves.
Russian forces are using more drones against civilian infrastructure. In particular, the number of FPV drones has increased, and a fiber-optic drone has already been recorded on Kharkiv's ring road, although there have been many more attempts to use them against the city.
Three people, including two children, were injured as a result of a missile strike on railway infrastructure in the Odesa region.
A 64-year-old woman was killed in the Zolochiv community of the Bohodukhiv district in the Kharkiv region as a result of Russian shelling.
Mirage 2000 fighter jets are equipped with powerful radars and weapons capable of detecting and neutralizing low-profile cruise missiles and strike drones such as Shahed, Geran, and Gerbera.
On the night of March 4, Russian air defense forces shot down a Russian Defense Ministry Mi-8 military helicopter in Russia’s Rostov region.
On the night of March 2, Ukraine’s Security Service, together with the Defense Forces of Ukraine, struck the sea minesweeper Valentin Pikul. Two anti-submarine warfare ships, Yeysk and Kasimov, also sustained serious damage.
Ukraine's Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Olexander Scherba, declined to make an entry in the book of condolences opened by the Iranian Embassy in South Africa for the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's military leadership.
On the night of March 4, a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle hit the village of Vilshany in the Kharkiv region, injuring two women and a man.
Russia is conducting disinformation campaigns around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in order to hide its crimes or shift responsibility for them onto Ukraine, manipulating the IAEA mission and seeking to "normalize" the seizure of the Ukrainian plant.
Russia has intensified its attacks on railway infrastructure, with rolling stock among the main targets. In the first days of March alone, 41 facilities were damaged.
An explosives expert, Artur Horelov, was killed in the settlement of Bilenke in the Donetsk region as a result of a Russian drone strike.
Fighters of the special unmanned aerial systems unit Lasar's Group of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed a Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system in Russia's Belgorod region.
In Kherson, a 76-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were killed as a result of Russian shelling, and criminal proceedings have been launched.
Fire groups of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine operating in the Sumy, Kharkiv regions and southern Ukraine destroyed nearly 70 enemy strike drones over the past 24 hours.
In the settlement of Blyzniuky in the Lozova district of the Kharkiv region, a Russian drone strike damaged a recovery train, and a 30-year-old man was wounded.
Ukraine is calling on the international community to end Russia’s occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the nuclear risks it poses.
Over the past day, the enemy carried out several attacks on railway infrastructure, injuring an employee of Ukrzaliznytsia.
Russian forces attacked the city of Mykolaiv with drones on Wednesday morning, damaging a transport infrastructure facility and injuring one person.
Ukraine’s air defense forces have neutralized 129 out of 149 drones launched by Russian invaders against Ukraine since the evening of March 3.
Over the past day, March 3, 144 combat engagements were recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders, with the highest number of enemy attacks reported in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
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Russian troops carried out 60 strikes on 30 settlements in the Sumy region over the course of a day, killing one person and injuring another.
Power outages occurred in the Bashtansky district of the Mykolaiv region as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike.
Agents of the ATESH movement carried out a series of sabotage attacks on railway infrastructure in the temporarily occupied Luhansk and paralyzed the only stable supply route for the Pokrovsk group of the Russian troops.
03 March 2026
A total of 123 combat engagements have taken place along the front line, with Russian forces carrying out more than 20 attacks on positions held by Ukraine’s Defense Forces in the Pokrovsk sector.