Cities, towns, and villages in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mykolayiv, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions are in the most need of access to humanitarian corridors.
A Rocket strike on Vinnytsya airport wounded and killed both servicemen and civilians, but the local government cannot yet confirm the numbers. Six people remain under the debris.
The Russian military has amassed a large number of troops in villages and towns near Kyiv, and in the coming days is likely to attempt to occupy the Ukrainian capital.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Denis Shmygal, officially called on allies to revoke Russia's and Belarus' membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.
Head of the Mykolayiv Military and Civilian Administration showed mounds of Russian military equipment captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and reported on the situation in the region as of 6 March.
Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk criticized the government of Georgia due to its intention to conduct trade with the Russian Federation, despite international sanctions against Moscow.
With the help of pro-Kremlin media, the Russian invaders are spreading fake news about incredible discoveries in Ukraine. In a few days, the occupiers claim to have found ‘combat drugs’ in Ukraine and destroyed the pathogens of plague and anthrax. Photo and video evidence of this has not published.
Russian authorities are looking for new ways to justify the country's war in Ukraine. As such, the aggressor country is planning to shell residential neighbourhoods of Russian cities near the Ukrainian border to accuse the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed the members of Ukraine's delegation who will take place in oral hearings at the United Nations' International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning accusations of genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) in a case brought by Ukraine against the Russian Federation.
Eight missiles which earlier hit a civilian airport in Vinnytsia were launched not from Russian-occupied Transnistria, but from the Black Sea. Information about a missile attack from the occupied part of Moldova is false, as "European Pravda" has been told by Moldova’s Ministry of Defence.
The Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator reported damage to the Kramatorsk-Donetsk-Mariupol gas pipeline due to shelling by the Russian occupying forces.
The European Investment Bank will redirect 639 million Euros from other projects to the state budget of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal's video address.
The president of the occupying country, Vladimir Putin, has told French President Emmanuel Macron that he is not against a meeting in the IAEA-Russia-Ukraine format.
Vinnytsia airport was attacked from the territory of Transnistria (a breakaway region of Moldova controlled by Russian ‘peacekeeping’ forces – ed.), according to journalist Andriy Tsyplenko.
Dmytro Kuleba, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called on Ukrainians in the European Union to mobilise for next week's large-scale actions in support of Ukraine's rapid accession to the EU.
The first stage of the digital blockade of Russia is being completed, the next two stages are on their way, said Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation.
In the Mariupol sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched a successful counterattack and destroyed three enemy tanks, 4 military armoured personnel carriers, 2 Tigers (Russian 4x4, multipurpose, all-terrain infantry mobility vehicle – ed.), and ca. 30 troops. Two Russian soldiers were captured.
The leader of the "Servant of the People" Parliamentary faction, David Arahamiya invited Members of the Ukrainian Parliament to form groups to accompany evacuation convoys through the humanitarian corridors.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once again called on Western leaders to close the sky over Ukraine or provide the country with aircraft to protect civilians from an aggressor who is cynically shelling civilian infrastructure.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, believes that Russia's unprecedented actions are developing at such a pace that it will soon surpassthe level of the world's toughest dictatorship, North Korea.
Following the example of their regional centre Kherson, rallies are springing up in other Kherson regional towns like Nova Kakhovka, Novooleksiivka and Kalanchak. The residents in Troitske in the Luhansk region are taking to the streets as well.
Ukrzaliznytsya (UZ - Ukrainian Railways) has sent 20 refrigerated wagons to Fastiv, Odesa-Zastava, Podolsk, Merefa and Zaporizhzhya stations. The wagons remained at the stations for three days, but the bodies of Russian soldiers never started to be loaded because of the Russians' unwillingness to take the dead.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, has stated that Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odessa remain strategically important.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that those Russian citizens who today are afraid or do not want to rally against the war will have to pay for it with their poverty.
One in ten hryvnia (UAH) received by the National Bank of Ukraine to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and people affected by hostilities comes from abroad, says the Ministry of Social Policy.
The Minister of Defenсe Oleksiy Reznikov has stated that Ukraine must work to fight the aggressor, adding that the economy has been put on a military track.
The world's largest oil and gas companies have already announced their withdrawal from Russian gas production projects. Naftogaz is encouraging the rest to follow the example of the "big four" oil service companies - Schlumberger, Weatherford, Halliburton, and Baker Hughes - as well as suppliers of technology and equipment.
Russian occupying forces in Ukraine are attempting to attack Mykolaiv, and to advance towards the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), says adviser to the President’s Chief of Staff Oleksiy Arestovych.
The Mykolayiv region local government urges people not to pick up the unexploded ordinance or its fragments. This has already led to the death of a young boy.
Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Oleksiy Reznikov emphasised that the Russian occupiers act no different from terrorists now, waging war on women and children. Despite this, he said, the occupying forces will be destroyed: every Ukrainian can help achieve this in their own city.
The Ukrainian government is negotiating the evacuation of civilians from Hostomel and Bucha in the Kyiv region, two cities that remain under the relentless fire of the Russian troops.
During the 24 hours of March 5, the areas that witnessed the most extensive damage to the civilian infrastructure caused by warfare are the city of Chernihiv in the north of Ukraine, the city of Kharkiv in the north-east, the Bucha district of the Kyiv region and the Korosten district of the Zhytomyr region.
Ukrtelecom [landline, mobile service, and internet service provider] has restored communication in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytsky, Lviv, and Ternopil regions, according to the firm’s press service.
Last night Russian troops carried out several missile strikes on residential buildings in the towns of Korosten and Ovruch in the Zhytomyr region (to the northwest of Kyiv). As a result, several dozen private houses have been destroyed. There are casualties among the civilian population.
To justify the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian propaganda machine has been spreading fake news that Ukraine has a "nuclear programme", which it alleges that the country has intensified since 2014.
Ukrzaliznytsya [Ukrainian Railways] confirms its readiness to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to Kharkiv and the evacuation of people from the city, according to the Ukrzaliznytsya press service.
Those branches of Nova Poshta [a private Ukrainian postal and courier service] that are currently open can send aid for the armed forces and civilians affected by the war for free.
Ukraine has loaded 30 trucks with humanitarian aid for the residents of Kherson region, however, the Russian occupying troops are preventing it from being delivered.