On the night of March 6, Russia attacked Ukraine from four directions with 42 attack drones.

According to the operational command of the Air Force of Ukraine, the Russians launched drones from Crimea, the Kursk region and the Krasnodar region.

In addition, Russia launched a missile strike from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region.

"As a result of combat operations, 38 "shahedas" were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, and Sumy oblasts," the official report notes.

In Khmelnytskyi region, after the Russian attack, several settlements were left without electricity

The authorities of the Khmelnytskyi region reported that the Ukrainian military was able to shoot down six drones over the region.

However, as a result of the Russian strike, the energy facility was damaged - now several settlements have been left without electricity.

"There are no dead or injured," the regional administration emphasized.

The power line was also damaged in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.

The Russians sent the largest number of drones - 18 - to the Odesa region.

As a result of falling fragments of drones, the recreational facility, gas pipeline and residential buildings in Odesa district were again damaged.

There are no dead or injured.

In the Kherson region, 2 people were injured.

Drones or their fragments hit the gas pipeline, the inviolability point, the garage and the territory of the local airport.

In the Kharkiv region, one person was killed by Russian shelling.

Several drones attacked the city of Sumy.

According to the authorities of the Sumy region, previously seven people were injured as a result of a drone flying over the territory of the hospital.

According to the Situation Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, on the night of March 6, Russia shelled 13 regions of Ukraine with various types of weapons and attacked 116 settlements and 116 infrastructure facilities.

Three regions of Russia announced an attack on Ukraine

In the morning of March 6, the governor of the Kursk region,

, reported that as a result of the "attack of the Ukrainian drone" in the Zhaleznagorsk region, a warehouse with fuel and lubricants caught fire.

In the Voronezh region, for the second day in a row, a siren warning of an air disturbance is being sounded.

According to the governor of the Voronezh region ,

, Russian anti-aircraft defenses shot down at least two drones over the region.

There were no casualties, the governor did not report any damage on the ground.

An air alert was also announced in the Belgorod region.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported the downing of one drone, and Governor

announced artillery and mortar fire in several areas of the region from Ukraine.

According to him, a power line, one infrastructure facility and private buildings were damaged by several drones and missiles.

Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 o'clock in the morning

  on February 24, 2022,

  the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the "DPR" and "LPR" groups.

  On February 21, during a televised address to Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified this decision.

• Russian troops attacked, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of Lukashenka's regime justify the war, his opponents consider the territory of Belarus to be occupied, many call for resistance to the Russian invaders.

• Contrary to Putin's statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

• On April 2, 2022, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves.

  The Russian occupation also brought great destruction to the people of Barodyan.

• Since February 24, Russia has captured only one regional center - Kherson.

  Russian troops retreated from it and from the right-bank part of the Kherson region in November 2022.

  The city was occupied by Russian troops in the first days of the war without actually fighting.

• In the fall of 2022, Ukrainian troops launched a large-scale counteroffensive, as a result of which Russian forces left most of their positions in the Kharkiv region.

• Despite Putin's initial statements that the occupation of Ukrainian territories was not part of the invasion plans, on September 30, 2022, the annexation of four regions of Ukraine (Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Luhansk, and Kherson), including territories that Russia did not control, was announced.

• On September 21, 2022, Putin announced the mobilization in Russia.

  After this statement, thousands of Russians went to the border crossings and began to leave for Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Mongolia, Finland and other countries.

  In Russia itself, opponents of the war set fire to several military commissariats.

• In 2023, Lukashenko and Putin announced the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus.

  On June 13, Lukashenka gave an interview to Russian propagandist Volga Skabeeva, from which it appeared that some of the nuclear weapons had already been delivered from the Russian Federation to Belarus.

  On June 16, Putin also said that the first nuclear charges have already been delivered to the territory of Belarus, and the rest will be moved "by the end of the summer or the end of the year."

• On August 1, Lukashenka said that more than half of the tactical nuclear weapons planned to be deployed on Belarusian territory have already been "imported and dispersed" across the country.

  He stated more than once that he would use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against Belarus.

• In June 2023, Ukrainian troops began counteroffensive operations in the east and south of the country.

  Russian troops prepared well-fortified defense lines, so the advance of the counteroffensive proceeded with significant losses.

• On September 3, Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnovsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the first line of defense on the Zaporizhia direction, on which the Russians spent the most resources.

• At the end of 2023 and at the beginning of 2024, the Russians carried out several mass shelling of Ukrainian cities, dozens of people were killed and injured in Dnipro, Kiev, Kharkiv and other places.

  In response, the Ukrainian side shelled Russian Belgorod, several people were killed.

• It is not always possible to independently verify information about military operations provided by officials of various parties.