Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,106

On Thursday, March 6, 2018, this is the situation:

Fighting

According to DTEK, the energy company for the Odesa region in southern Ukraine, Russian forces attacked an energy facility. This is the fourth time in less than two weeks that the company claims it is attacking the region’s energy infrastructure.
According to regional authorities, “critical infrastructure” was damaged by attacks in the Odesa region and the Black Sea territory experienced power, water, and heat outages. Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of Kherson, confirmed a 55-year-old was killed in Kherson city in a separate attack, while Oleh Kiper, the governor of Odesa, reported a 77-year-old man was killed by shrapnel in a village outside of Odesa.
In an overnight attack, Ukraine’s Air Force reported shooting down 115 of the 181 Russian drones that were targeting Ukraine. An additional 55 drones were lost and failed to reach their targets, according to a military statement. The remaining 11 drones’ fate was not made public.
Moscow’s defense ministry claimed that Kremlin forces had taken control of the village of Pryvilne in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region.

After being found guilty of a “terrorist act” and acting as a mercenary when he was captured while fighting for Ukraine, Scott Rhys Anderson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was sentenced to 19 years in prison, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
In Kryvyi Rih city, central Ukraine’s regional governor Serhiy Lysak reported that a Kremlin missile struck a building, killing two people and injuring 28 others.

In order to achieve “lasting and robust peace” in Kyiv, France, along with Europe, are attempting to re-establish ties between the United States and Ukraine, according to French spokeswoman Sophie Primas.
According to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s letter to US President Donald Trump’s willingness to negotiate is a “generally positive” sign. Peskov, who cited a 2022 presidential decree that forbids negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, questioned the viability of the negotiations.
Putin made the announcement that Russia has finished issuing Russian passports to Ukrainian citizens living in the Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Moscow’s control. 3. 5 million people have been naturalized, according to internal minister Valdimir Kolokoltsev. This is a alleged illegal attempt to remove Ukrainian identity from the area, according to Kyiv.
According to The Financial Times, the US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv, which could limit Ukraine’s military might.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe claimed that Trump had halted intelligence cooperation but that he now believes the pause will be over and that the US will continue to “work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.”
Trump may reconsider halting US aid to Ukraine, according to White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, according to Waltz to Fox News.
In a post on X, Zelenskyy claimed that coordinated efforts under US leadership could bring about lasting peace in Ukraine.
Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, reported on X on the phone, discussed the next steps in achieving peace in Ukraine, exchanged views on security and positional alignment, and scheduled a meeting with US and Ukrainian officials in the near future.
After signing a peace agreement, French President Emmanuel Macron stated in a national address that the country’s military might be deployed there to “provide it is fully respected” rather than to fight. He added that the heads of Europe’s staffs would meet in Paris the following week to discuss Ukraine’s support for the peace deal.
According to Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, the Netherlands has committed $3.8 billion to Ukraine in support of the country until 2026, adding that additional funds may be used in 2025.

Source: Aljazeera