Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the eastern front in the Donetsk region, awarding troops defending positions near Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka, highlighting the critical importance of the area where Russia is preparing for a spring offensive.

Russian forces attacked the central branch of the national postal service Ukrposhta in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, on Monday, March 2.

A woman was killed and others injured after Russian forces launched nine aerial bombs in a strike on Druzhkivka in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast on March 24.

In Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, emergency and rescue operations have been completed at the site of an airstrike carried out by Russian forces on Monday, March 2.

Five people were killed and 13 others wounded in the Donetsk region as a result of morning shelling in Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka.

About 9,500 civilians remain in the Druzhkivka community in Donetsk Oblast as evacuations continue.

It has emerged that Police Captain Oleksii Kryvenko was killed in a Russian airstrike on the city of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast on 2 March.

Russian forces killed three civilians in the Donetsk region on February 21, with casualties reported in Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka, and Orikhuvatka.