Country: Ukraine Source: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Please refer to the attached file. Key events 2 Mar. Donetsk — Russian shelling kills two civilians and a police captain in Druzhkivka 4 Mar. Odesa — Russian drones strike a Panama-flagged vessel near the port of Chornomorsk, wounding three crew members 6 Mar. Kyiv — Russia and Ukraine each exchange 500 prisoners of war Key trends Russian forces seized four villages in the Lyman area of the northern Donetsk region, a village near Malokaterynivka in the Zaporizhia region, and two villages near the international border in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions. Ukrainian forces continued making advances in the Dnipropetrovsk region and north of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region. Russian forces launched at least 38 long-range missile and drone attacks, nearly half of them in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian strikes killed at least 46 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed 13 civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhia regions. Spotlight: Russia intensifies attacks on railway infrastructure in Ukraine During the first week of March, ACLED records deadly Russian strikes on a Ukrainian passenger train and station, respectively, as part of Russia’s increasing targeting of railway infrastructure. On 2 March, a Russian drone struck a passenger train in Apostolove in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one civilian and wounding at least 10 others. Two days later, on 4 March, a drone strike on a railway station in Zatoka in the Odesa region killed a railway worker and wounded three people, including two children. Overall, ACLED records 13 events involving Russian strikes on trains and railway infrastructure throughout the week, which is higher than the monthly average for the past year. According to the Ukrainian Railways, Russian attacks damaged 41 rai