Nine-month-old girl lost a leg, at least six killed as Russia strikes Kryvyi Rih and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
A Russian Shahed drone hit a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, officials said.
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A Kyiv Oblast kindergarten was hit hours after Russia’s “ceasefire” ended
Russia also targeted Dnipro locomotives, Mykolaiv power facilities, bombed Zaporizhzhia, and shelled more regions.
ISW: Russia’s “Victory Day ceasefire” reduced combat but didn’t stop it
Day 2 saw Russian attacks reach Ukrainian positions across six oblasts, killing at least two civilians in Kherson.
Ukrainian officer: Russian frontline assaults now rare as 60-70% of infiltrators die before reaching Ukrainian lines
A Ukrainian senior lieutenant with the call sign "Alex" wrote on his Telegram channel that Russia can no longer gather enough troops for even local offensives, leaving small-group infiltration as the main remaining tactic.
40 children narrowly escape Russian drone strike on bus near Dnipro: six wounded include a child and a pregnant woman
Russia's attacks across Ukraine killed at least eight civilians and injured 90 people. 26 were injured over the past day in Kherson Oblast alone.
How Russia killed 16 Ukrainian civilians overnight — even as Ukraine intercepted 95% of its missiles and drones (updated)
Two waves of missiles and Shahed-type drones — 703 aerial weapons in total — hit Kyiv and other cities, killing a child and three adults in the capital, eight people in one Odesa building, and three more across central Ukraine.
ISW: Russians “weaponizing civilian harm as an intentional tool of war” by pervasively employing human safari tactics
The assessment follows two FPV strikes on civilian buses in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 7 April — part of a pattern that the UN has previously confirmed as crimes against humanity.
Five dead at Nikopol market after morning drone strike — on top of 286 overnight
Russia launched 286 drones at Ukraine overnight on 3–4 April and, as the attack wound down, struck a market in Nikopol, killing five and wounding 19, according to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Air Force.
Ukraine’s 2026 goal: exhaust Russia, deny it breakthroughs, build reserves — top general says
Commander-in-chief Syrskyi said Russia's planned 1 March push on 13 simultaneous directions was thwarted, and Ukraine has since liberated 480 km² on the southern axis.
Ukraine’s paratroopers clear Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, completing near-total reversal of Russia’s 2025 gains in the region
A senior Ukrainian general said in early March only five small villages still needed clearing across the entire oblast — Berezove was among them.
Ukraine’s counterattacks in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast are burning Russia’s operational reserves — ISW says Russia’s spring offensive may be spoiled
In the Oleksandrivka direction Russian forces have switched from offense to active defense.
ISW: Ukraine’s two-drive advance in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was designed to push Russia out and pre-empt its spring offensive — and has liberated over 400 km²
Ukraine's gains were enabled by a specific combination of factors: infantry infiltrated through dispersed Russian lines under snow and fog that grounded Russian drones, while Ukrainian forces simultaneously suppressed drone-based defenses.
“Almost the entire territory liberated”: Ukraine nears full clearance of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – reversing Russia’s “buffer zone”
Offensive on Oleksandrivsk axis recaptures more ground than Russia seized in February.
Russia is flying Shaheds into Ukraine’s FPV kill zone to crack bunkers smaller drones can’t destroy, ISW says
ISW's 4 March assessment identified Russian forces pushing Shahed drones into the 0–20 km frontline strip normally dominated by tactical FPVs, citing their heavier payloads as the reason.
Russia struck two trains within 24 hours — and Ukrzaliznytsia says rolling stock is now a primary target
A Russian drone hit a train in Mykolaiv, while a second drone narrowly missed a passenger locomotive on the Dnipro–Kovel route — part of a campaign averaging six railway strikes per day since the start of March.
ISW: Battlefield realities disprove Russia’s claim that Ukrainian defeat is inevitable
The fifth year of the invasion begins with Ukrainian forces making their most significant gains since the Kursk incursion while Russia faces mounting setbacks.
Russian bombs kill four in one village, rescuers dig for four more in another
Aerial bombs destroyed two homes in Zaporizhzhia district, killing four people including a child among the injured, while in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast up to four people may remain trapped under rubble from a separate strike.
Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces officially reveal southern “operation” that reclaimed 300+ km² and eight settlements
Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi visited the troops on the Oleksandrivka axis on 16 February, days before Zelenskyy announced the first 300 km² liberated — now the unit running the operation has confirmed the details
Russia launched 4 “Mach 9” anti-ship missiles at Ukraine’s power grid — air defenses downed two and 52 of 62 drones
The Zircon was designed to sink US Navy warships, not hit power substations — yet Russia again fired them from occupied Crimea at Ukrainian energy infrastructure alongside nightly Shahed attack drones.
Russia strikes rail infrastructure in two oblasts as campaign to sever Ukraine’s civilian railways intensifies
Attacks follow weeks of escalating hits on trains, stations, and depots.