Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported neutralizing 129 of 149 strike UAVs launched from multiple Russian directions and occupied Crimea, including large numbers of Shahed-type drones.
- Preliminary data show 19 drones struck 15 locations and debris fell at one site, with authorities noting the attack was still active earlier in the morning.
- Railway targets have come under intensified attack since March 1, with 18 strikes damaging 41 facilities and at least 17 pieces of rolling stock; an empty train in Mykolaiv was hit, injuring a Ukrzaliznytsia worker, and a Dnipro–Kovel passenger train was halted and evacuated before a nearby impact.
- Regional administrations reported at least three people killed and roughly 30–35 injured on March 3 across Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kherson, Donetsk, and Kharkiv oblasts, with power outages also reported by the state grid operator in several regions.
- The General Staff logged 144 combat clashes over the past day, with heaviest fighting near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole, while separate reports noted failed Russian attempts to breach the border in Kharkiv region and Russia’s claim of downing 32 Ukrainian drones with five injuries in Volgograd.