Denys from Ukraine

🇺🇦🫂 Ukrainian soldier, exhausted and visibly weakened after Russian captivity, has just made it back home.

I dream of the day when every Ukrainian family gets to welcome their loved ones back. I believe one day it will happen.

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💔🇺🇦 200 Ukrainians have returned home as part of a POW swap between Ukraine and Russia, President Zelenskyy said.

Among those freed are defenders of Mariupol and fighters who served in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

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🫂🇺🇦 That's the great news I was talking about! Russian sources report a 200-for-200 POW swap between Ukraine and Russia. We are awaiting confirmation from Ukrainian officials.

Welcome home – we’ve been waiting for you!

That normal life here is now in the past. Fighting has already reached the city’s eastern outskirts, and Kostiantynivka risks repeating the fate of cities already destroyed and occupied – Bakhmut, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, and others across the region.

💔 Russia is now leveling Kostiantynivka to its foundations – dropping glide bombs on the city and relentlessly striking it with drones, day after day.

The city had nearly 80,000 residents in 2022. Today, fewer than 2,800 are believed to remain.

He added that the exchange of prisoners of war is always an important moment and a positive step for families. The President hopes that we will be able to begin this exchange process in the coming days.

🤞🇺🇦 "We very much hope that the exchange we agreed upon during previous meetings [with Russian side – ed.] will be confirmed," President Zelenskyy said in an interview with Rai Italia.

If I missed anything in Orbán's bingo, feel free to add it in the comments below.

🫂🇺🇦 Great news to come tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

⚡️ 3 killed, 16 injured in Russia's March 2 bomb strike against Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, State Emergency Service said.

Emergency crews finished rescue operations and recovered the bodies of the people killed in the attack; the strike also damaged 13 residential buildings.

I don’t want to assume the worst. But when rail links are cut, local transport is shut down, and shops, banks, and post offices start closing, it rarely points to anything good.

💔🚎 Local authorities in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, say they’ve begun dismantling the city’s trolleybus lines to install anti-drone nets.

Trolleybuses kept running during the Russian invasion, but now the fleet is being evacuated to another city.

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The image shows the vessel heavily damaged and still smoking, with its hull apparently ruptured and structural damage suggesting it may have been nearly split in two.

⚡️ A new photo on the OSINT technical channel appears to show the aftermath of an attack on the Russian LNG tanker Arktik Metagaz in the Mediterranean Sea on the previous day.

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Local media report a Russian Shahed-type kamikaze drone attacked a passenger train in Mykolaiv. No reports of casualties or injuries have been reported yet.

He also noted that countering long-range weapons requires a combination of physical protection, air defense, and interceptors that must work in any weather. In his words, multiple layers of defense and air defense are the only chance.

He added that, due to the proximity to the border, air-defense systems will still be in short supply, so additional Patriot-like systems are needed, which would make it harder for Russia to use aircraft and glide bombs (KABs).

“There is no single rule for protection, we need layered defense. We must move as much as possible underground, and cover city centers with air defense,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in response to my question about protecting frontline cities.

🇺🇦 Protecting the skies over Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and other frontline cities must be one of Ukraine’s priorities.

I’ve personally been in Kharkiv in moments when a ballistic missile or a guided aerial bomb hits first, and the air-raid siren goes off only during the strikes or after them.

Strikes were recorded at three locations, with debris from downed drones also falling in several areas. In Poltava region, four people were injured.

Russia continues to deny deliberately targeting civilians.

⚡️ Russia launched 136 kamikaze/decoy drones against Ukraine overnight, the Air Force said. Ukrainian forces intercepted 127 of them.

🤬 Russian drone struck a suburban train near Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian Railways said.

According to preliminary data, one person died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Another sustained severe injuries, while up to five passengers suffered injuries.

Israel and the United States have launched an operation against Iran, and Iran has responded with attacks of its own.

Explosions have been reported in Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, further complicating the security situation across the Gulf region.

while noting that the exact location cannot be confirmed at this stage. He added that alternative venues could include Turkey or Switzerland, both of which have previously hosted international meetings.

Zelenskyy’s comments come as tensions in the Middle East sharply intensified in recent days

Still, Ukraine cannot currently confirm that it will take place in Abu Dhabi, amid escalating fighting and regional instability.

The talks were expected to take place in the UAE within the next few days. Zelenskyy stressed that “the meeting should happen, it is important for us,”

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺 MEETING NOT CANCELLED, BUT ABU DHABI VENUE UNCERTAIN AMID HOSTILITIES, ZELENSKYY SAYS

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a planned meeting involving Ukraine, the United States, and Russia has not been cancelled.

This was a deliberate strike on the heart of a civilian city – and one of the earliest symbols of how Russia would wage this war: terror against civilians, not a fight with the military.

Russian forces fired two Kalibr cruise missiles at the building, destroying its right wing from roof to basement and heavily damaging nearby buildings around Freedom Square in central Kharkiv.

💔 Exactly four years ago, on March 1, 2022, Russia hit the Kharkiv Regional State Administration building with cruise missiles.

According to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, 44 people were killed, and at least 35 others were injured.

⚡️ Russian drone strikes the territory of a local school in Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. No casualties were reported.