A serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu / Getty Images.
- Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump held a phone conversation during which they discussed the upcoming trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA, scheduled for early March.
- According to Bloomberg from informed sources, these negotiations may take place on March 4-5.
- It became known that over 30 Ukrainian drones attacked a nitrogen fertilizer plant in the Smolensk region, resulting in the deaths of seven people and ten injuries. Evacuation of residents from the neighboring village of Pushkarevo was carried out after the attack.
- In the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region of Russia, a 52-year-old man was killed as a result of a strike by a Ukrainian FPV drone, and another man, aged 33, sustained shrapnel wounds.
- For the first time, Russian troops used a fiber-optic-controlled drone to attack Kharkiv, as reported by the Ukrainian prosecutor's office and a defense ministry advisor.
- The Security Service of Ukraine reported the detention of one of the leaders of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the head of the SBU in the Zhytomyr region on suspicion of financial fraud with allocated defense funds.
- The UK launched the first Ukrainian drone manufacturing plant, as reported by Ukraine's ambassador Valeriy Zaluzhny.
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused Ukraine of attempting to destabilize the Hungarian energy system and ordered the deployment of military and equipment to protect critical infrastructure, according to Reuters.
- Ukraine's ambassador to the USA, Olga Stefanishina, reported that Washington expressed dissatisfaction regarding the strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the "Sheshcharis" oil terminal in Novorossiysk in late November 2022. The US State Department sent an official warning to Kyiv requesting to refrain from attacks on American interests, as they affected investments from the USA through Kazakhstan.
- Spanish police arrested a suspect in the murder of Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov, a close associate of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was killed in May 2025 in Madrid, near the school where he had taken his children.
