Russia deployed Shahed attack drones and various decoy UAVs from Oryol, Kursk, Shatalovo, Bryansk, and Chauda directions.
It also fired two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Russia’s Voronezh Oblast and occupied Crimea.
The enemy air assault was countered by fighter jets, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare teams, and mobile fire groups from the Air Force and Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
Air defenses operated in Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa oblats. 43 Russian decoy drones were lost from radar.
The Air Force said the attack affected Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. On the evening of March 5, Russia struck a five-story hotel in Kryvyi Rih with a missile, killing four and injuring 31.
In Sumy, a Russian kamikaze drone attack killed one person. In Kharkiv, the enemy strike damaged the roof and top floor of a multi-story residential building.