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Ukraine aims to stabilize front line, conduct counteroffensive in 2024. The main goal of the Ukrainian forces is to stabilize the situation on the front line and create an offensive grouping to conduct counteroffensive actions in 2024, Ukraine’s Ground Forces Commander Oleksandr Pavliuk said on national television March 6.
Russia attacks Odesa during Zelensky, Greek PM visit, killing 5. Russia launched a missile at Odesa during a visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on March 6.
Ukrainian fighters sank the Russian ship Sergiy Kotov and hit an oil depot in the Belgorod region. As Ukrainian intelligence has revealed, on the night of March 5, special intelligence unit Group 13 attacked a $64M Russian patrol ship. As a result of five Magura V5 drone strikes, Sergei Kotov suffered damage to the stern and both sides. The Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that Russian Naval forces tried to transport the ship to the Feodosia Sea Port, but on the way, the ship went underwater. The Russians had weapons and a Ка-29 shipborne combat transport helicopter on board. The Russian Federation originally had four such ships, two of which are no longer in service. In addition, on the morning of the same day, a drone attacked an oil facility in the Belgorod region of Russia. The region governor confirmed the explosion in the Gubkin city district; the oil depot is in the village of Dovge, which belongs to a subsidiary of Rosneft. Russian mass media reported severe damage to three oil tanks.
Ukraine has sunk three ships of the Russian fleet in five weeks. “Sergei Kotov, which was sunk by the Ukrainian military, became the third ship of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia to be destroyed in the last five weeks.
Which of Ukraine’s regions has suffered the greatest infrastructure damage from the Russian invasion? Due to enemy attacks, damage to infrastructure has reached colossal proportions. According to UA War Infographics, direct damage to buildings and infrastructure is $153B, and growing daily. The Donetsk region has suffered the most damage, with estimated losses at $38.7B. The Kharkiv region holds second place, where losses reach $27.8B. The list of the most affected areas also included the Luhansk region ($17.8B), the Zaporizhzhia region ($13.5B), the Kherson region ($12.6B), and the Kyiv region ($11.2B). Damage to the infrastructure in the Sumy and Mykolaiv regions is estimated at $5.5B and $5.6B, respectively. The damage done to the Chernihiv region is estimated at $3B, and $2.9B in the Dnipropetrovsk region. At the same time, there are two regions where no infrastructure damage was recorded - Ternopil and Chernivtsi. Recently, KSE experts reported that damage to Ukraine's infrastructure exceeded $150B. The estimate also includes the damage caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP.
Journalist Shaun Walker describes life in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, cataloging the persecution and occasional deportation of potential Ukrainian sympathizers. Walker writes about missing persons, abductions, torture, and how Moscow’s management of occupied territories relies on a mix of coopting and intimidating locals and importing the “harder edges of power” (namely, policing) from Russia itself. Moscow also invests significantly in various training, education, and propaganda projects. Meanwhile, for the Ukrainians still hoping for liberation by their nation’s army,
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