The Ukrainian forces also destroyed two units of armored vehicles and shot down two aircraft, one of which was an unmanned aerial vehicle, as well as an Ilyushin Il-22 aircraft.
The Kremlin's own classified assessments estimate that 1,315,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded on the battlefield since the start of Russia's full-scale of Ukraine in February 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 10, citing Ukrainian intelligence reports.
The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a United Nations (UN) investigation published on March 10 found.
Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) released video footage on March 10 showing strikes on military facilities in Russian-occupied Donetsk oblast.
Russia has denied allegations that it has shared intelligence with Iran on U.S. military assets in the Middle East, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said March 10.
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck a plant in Russia's Bryansk Oblast that manufactures control systems for Russian missiles. The facility, identified as Kremniy El, is one of Russia's largest microelectronics producers.
Ukraine is expected to receive 35 PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missiles in the coming weeks as Kyiv faces a shortage of air defense ammunition amid continued Russian missile attacks.
Janos Lazar, Hungary's construction and transport minister, has openly acknowledged a connection between the seizure of over $80 million worth of Ukrainian cash and gold last week and the suspension of oil shipments via Ukraine.
"Ukrainians will pay for that choice in blood," Alexander Kirk, a sanctions campaigner at the NGO Urgewald, told the Kyiv Independent.
Kyiv hopes to acquire PAC-2 and PAC-3 interceptors for Patriot air defenses in exchange, Zelensky told journalists.
Ukraine has nearly liberated the remaining Russian-occupied parts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after several weeks of counterattacks in the part of the front line where Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts meet.
The March 4 decree removes the deadline for residents of occupied Ukrainian territories to obtain Russian citizenship through a simplified process established by a 2022 Russian law, effectively making the policy permanent.
