– The United States is preparing a plan for potential easing of sanctions against russia.
– President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized in a March 3 address that Ukraine needs security guarantees to achieve peace.
– On the evening of March 3, the russian army attacked Odesa with strike drones, causing heating plants to stop functioning, damaging private homes and a business center, and resulting in casualties.
– According to russian public sources, drones attacked an oil refinery in Syzran, the Samara oblast.
– The agreement on mineral resources between the U.S. and Ukraine will be signed as soon as possible, Republican Brian Fitzpatrick stated.
– In Sumy, a children's medical facility was damaged by a drone attack; preliminary reports indicate no casualties.
– Another seven children were returned from the occupied territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Crimea, and russia.