Category: World

Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has reported that in February 2026, drones launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 105,200 belongings belonging to Russian forces. The Unmanned Techniques Forces accounted for 1 / 4 of them.

Supply: Syrskyi on social media

Quote: "Ukraine's defence forces proceed to take care of a bonus in using multi-rotor FPV drones, though the Russians have now gained the aptitude to supply greater than 19,000 FPV drones per day."

Particulars: The commander-in-chief additionally reported on the event of Ukrainian-made fibre-optic FPV drones. "Over the month, our drones hit about 4,200 enemy drone operator positions," he famous.

To counter Russian strike drones, interceptor UAV platoons are additionally being established in models of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "Their job is to destroy enemy FPV drones, quadcopters and strike drones and enhance logistics for our troops. Anti-drone rifles, digital warfare gear, internet launchers and different means are getting used," Syrskyi mentioned.

As well as, the commander-in-chief mentioned that at a gathering on the event of unmanned techniques, the intelligence service reported that this yr, the Russians are accelerating the formation of UAV models in an try to affect the course of fight operations, significantly on southern fronts the place the Russians are dropping initiative and territory.

"Russia plans to extend the variety of unmanned techniques troops to 101,000 by 1 April," he mentioned.

Through the assembly, Syrskyi listened to studies on the event of digital warfare belongings, the coaching of UAV operators and testing of interceptor drones. He set new duties relating to the event of unmanned techniques buildings. He gave directions on resolving problematic points and offering help to models and coaching centres.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the primary Shahed drones utilized by Russia to assault Ukraine had been launched by Iranian operators as a result of Russian operators nonetheless needed to be skilled.

Supply: Zelenskyy at a press convention with Romanian President Nicusor Dan in Bucharest, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine

Particulars: Russia started attacking Ukraine with Shahed loitering munitions way back to autumn 2022.

Quote: "We all know how the primary Shahed drones had been launched. There have been no Russian operators. There have been operators from one other nation – the nation the Shahed UAVs got here from. As a result of they needed to practice them. And so they skilled them in an actual battle."

Background:

• Zelenskyy stated on 10 March that Ukrainian safety and counter-UAV consultants will journey this week to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
• Zelenskyy stated on 3 March that Ukraine has a scarcity of PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defence methods so Kyiv is able to change its interceptor drones for them.

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The European Fee has stated it can droop the implementation of a €2 million grant awarded to the Biennale Basis if Russia participates within the 2026 artwork exhibition.

Supply: Thomas Regnier, spokesperson for the European Fee, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The EU warns it can finish its present grant assist for the Venice Biennale if Russia takes half within the exhibition.

Quote: "The Fee condemns the choice by the Fondazione Biennale to permit Russia to take part within the 2026 Biennale artwork exhibition."

Extra particulars: Regnier defined that "tradition in Europe ought to promote and safeguard democratic values" and "foster open dialogue, variety and freedom of expression".

Quote: "These values are at the moment, in as we speak's Russia, not honoured."

Extra particulars: The European Fee is condemning the choice to carry again the Russian pavilion on the Venice Biennale in 2026.

Quote: "Now, what’s at stake? The Fee helps the Fondazione Biennale. We now have an ongoing challenge of €2 million that’s supporting movie producers prolonged in digital actuality. This challenge is ongoing, and certainly, if there’s a breach of the contract, like we’ve with any grant settlement, the Fee will terminate or droop the contract."

Background:

• Greater than two dozen nations signed an announcement towards Russia's participation within the Venice Biennale.
• The assertion was signed by the tradition and overseas ministers of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Eire, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine.
• In an announcement on 10 March 2026, Henna Virkkunen, European Fee Govt Vice-President, and Glenn Micallef, the Commissioner for intergenerational equity, youth, tradition and sport, warned that the EU Fee may droop EU grant funding for the Venice Biennale if Russia is allowed to reopen its pavilion at this yr's exhibition.
• Ukraine has referred to as on the organisers of the Venice Biennale to rethink their resolution on Russia's participation and to keep up the principled place demonstrated in 2022-24.
• Russia will reopen its pavilion and participate within the Venice Biennale this yr for the primary time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia is recruiting 1000’s of low-income residents in African nations, in addition to in Asia and Cuba, and deceptively sending them to Ukraine to participate in fight operations alongside Russian forces.

Supply: the European Parliament decision on human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, particularly from Africa, for Russia's warfare of aggression in Ukraine, adopted on 12 March, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The Russian navy is being actively bolstered with residents of African nations who’re promised civilian employment, however are as a substitute despatched to hold out essentially the most harmful duties on the entrance line with Ukraine.

A complete of 479 members of the European Parliament voted in favour of the decision out of 539 current; 17 voted in opposition to and 43 abstained.

Quote: "Russia is utilizing misleading recruitment ways and coercion to recruit 1000’s of overseas nationals from totally different African states, and can also be recruiting people from Cuba and South and Central Asia, to maintain its brutal, unprovoked, unjustified, unlawful warfare of aggression in opposition to Ukraine."

Particulars: Members of the European Parliament drew consideration to experiences from a number of African states which have uncovered "recruitment networks that systematically goal people from low-income areas, primarily by social media platforms, with false guarantees of employment, training or citizenship".

"Recruits are enticed to journey to Russia, disadvantaged of their id paperwork and forcibly conscripted below coercion or threats," the authors of the doc clarify.

For example, they cited the case of Francis Ndung'u Ndarua, a Kenyan citizen who was deceptively recruited and despatched to the entrance in Ukraine, which "illustrates the acute cruelty of those practices".

Russia recruits Africans "by state-linked firms, intermediaries, navy buildings and embassy officers".

"African recruits are made to do essentially the most harmful frontline duties, handled as expendable and subjected to racial abuse and discrimination," the decision says.

The authors of the textual content add that "a whole lot of African girls have reportedly been deceived into working in drone-assembling factories in Russia below extremely harmful and exploitative circumstances".

Consequently, the European Parliament "strongly condemns the trafficking and coercive recruitment of overseas nationals into Russia's navy service and war-related labour exploitation".

The decision strongly urges Russia to tell Ndarua's family about his whereabouts and situation and to permit his return to his homeland.

Background:

• The US stated 1000’s of Cuban mercenaries are combating in Ukraine on Russia's aspect, particularly stating that as much as 5,000 Cubans are combating for Russia.
• Europol helped Ukraine and Moldova determine greater than 650 mercenaries from Russian personal navy firms.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Romania on an official go to.

Supply: European Pravda, citing Zelenskyy's spokesperson Serhii Nykyforov

Particulars: In Romania, Zelenskyy is ready to fulfill with the nation's president, Nicușor Dan.

Earlier, the Romanian presidential administration stated the assembly will happen on the Cotroceni Palace at round 13:30 native time. The leaders are anticipated to debate defence and vitality cooperation, Ukraine's restoration, and EU enlargement.

The Ukrainian president may also meet Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and go to an F-16 fighter pilot coaching centre.

Background:

• Zelenskyy is because of journey to Paris on 13 March for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. Subjects will embrace assist for Ukraine and efforts to counter Russia's shadow fleet of tankers.
• It has additionally been reported that Zelenskyy could participate in a European Council assembly scheduled to happen in Brussels on 19–20 March.

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Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 94 drones on the night time of 11-12 March. Ukraine's air defence has managed to down 77 of them.

Supply: Ukraine's Air Power

Particulars: About 60 of the UAVs had been Shahed loitering munitions.

Plane, anti-aircraft missile models, digital warfare belongings, unmanned programs models and cellular hearth teams from Ukraine's defence forces have been concerned in repelling the assault.

Early reviews indicated that as of 09:00, Ukrainian air defence forces had destroyed or jammed 77 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas and different varieties of drones within the nation's north, south and east.

Hits by 16 UAVs had been recorded at 11 places and the autumn of downed aerial belongings (particles) at one location.

Quote: "The assault is ongoing, as a number of enemy drones are nonetheless in Ukrainian airspace. Please observe security measures!"

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Drones attacked an oil depot within the Tikhoretsk district of Russia's Krasnodar Krai on the night time of 11-12 March. The fireplace has coated an space of 150 sq m.

Supply: Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters; Astra Telegram channel

Particulars: Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters claimed that the "fireplace on the territory of the oil depot" had occurred because of the "falling particles of a drone".

Quote from the headquarters: "There aren’t any casualties. The fireplace has coated an space of 150 sq m. A complete of 83 firefighters and 26 fireplace home equipment are concerned in extinguishing the blaze, together with staff from the Principal Directorate of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Conditions in Krasnodar Krai."

Particulars: In accordance with Astra's evaluation of footage from eyewitnesses, storage tanks at a neighborhood oil depot caught fireplace. The power belongs to the transshipment level of the corporate Tikhoretsk-Nafta LLC.

The Tikhoretsk oil hub is likely one of the largest oil transshipment factors in southern Russia. It’s positioned in Krasnodar Krai and is operated by Tikhoretsk-Nafta LLC, which is a part of Transneft, one of many world's largest pipeline operators. The power is a big oil depot and transshipment terminal.

Background: Earlier, Ukrainian Particular Operations Forces models performed strikes on a weapons arsenal, a radar, a reconnaissance UAV storage level and different Russian army amenities in quickly occupied territories of Ukraine.

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Lasar's Group, a particular unit inside Ukraine's Nationwide Guard, has destroyed a Russian 1K148 Yastreb-AV radar system in Luhansk Oblast, far past the road of contact.

Supply: video footage launched by Lasar's Group

Particulars: The operation was carried out in cooperation with the responsibility drive management unit on the command publish of the Regional Radioelectronic Intelligence Centre of Operational Command Pivnich (North). Fellow service members from the radioelectronic intelligence centre offered details about the world the place the radar was deployed. Utilizing that intelligence knowledge, Lasar's Group established the precise location of the Russian system and despatched in heavy bombers.

After the primary correct drop, the Russians tried to save lots of the gear. Nonetheless, Lasar's Group acted creatively and tracked the radar's actions. One in all their pilots tailed the Yastreb-AV with a bomber drone, which enabled the unit to comply with it alongside its route. Subsequent strikes fully destroyed the radar system.

The date of the profitable operation has not been disclosed. Delicate footage is normally launched with a time delay.

For reference: The estimated worth of the 1K148 Yastreb-AV radar system is US$50 million.

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Russian forces attacked three districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast practically 50 instances on 11 March 2026. One individual was killed and one other was injured.

Supply: Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Army Administration

Quote: "Within the Nikopol district, the enemy struck town of Nikopol and the Marhanets, Pokrovske, Chervonohryhorivka, Tomakivka and Myrove hromadas. Injury was prompted to 3 house blocks, a home, companies, administrative buildings, a hospital, infrastructure, vehicles, an excavator and agricultural equipment.

Sadly, an 81-year-old girl was killed. A 43-year-old man was injured. He’ll obtain outpatient remedy." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: Within the Synelnykove district, the hromadas of Shakhtarske and Petropavlivka got here underneath assault. A home caught fireplace.

Within the Kryvyi Rih district, the Russians struck the Zelenodolsk and Hrushivka hromadas. Infrastructure amenities and a automotive have been broken.

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Greater than 40 legislation enforcement officers have been injured in a Russian assault on the district police headquarters within the metropolis og Shostka in Sumy Oblast with a drone on the morning of 11 March.

Supply: Interfax-Ukraine, a Ukrainian information company, citing Ukraine's Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko throughout a press convention on Wednesday 11 March; the Inside Ministry spokeswoman Mariana Reva in a remark to Ukrainska Pravda

Particulars: Klymenko mentioned a UAV struck the district police headquarters in Shostka within the morning, destroying the constructing.

Mariana Reva advised Ukrainska Pravda that, as of 21:20, the variety of casualties had risen to greater than 40 folks. The entire injured are law enforcement officials.

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