Overview
- Open-source analysts from ASTRA said drones struck Novorossiysk’s Sheskharis oil terminal overnight, with eyewitness images indicating a fire at the facility.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported intercepting 172 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions, while Krasnodar officials said five people were wounded in Novorossiysk and dozens of buildings were damaged as a state of emergency was declared.
- A Security Service of Ukraine source told Ukrinform that SSU drones hit military ships, an S‑300 30N6E2 guidance radar, a Pantsir‑S2 system, and six of seven oil loading berths at Sheskharis.
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported strikes on a long‑range space communications center near Vityno and multiple Russian radar assets in occupied Crimea and Luhansk.
- Ukrainian air defenses said they downed 84 of 94 Russian drones on March 1–2 and 127 of 136 on March 2–3, while Russian attacks caused civilian casualties including one killed on a commuter train in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and five dead in Donetsk region shelling.