It is claimed that 38 drones were intercepted. The air defense worked over the regions of Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy, cites the Ukrainian Radio Liberty service.
In Sumy, drones hit three objects, according to local authorities. Details are not provided. The air alert lasted for over four hours.
A massive flyover occurred the day after two high-ranking Russian military officials were declared wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of war crimes.
Russian Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylyash, the commander of long-range aviation, and Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, are accused of attacking civilian objects, causing excessive accidental harm to civilians, and crimes against humanity.
In the morning of March 6, an air alert was declared over Ukrainian territory due to the takeoff of a Russian MiG-31K fighter, a carrier of cruise missiles. No information was provided about the airstrike at the time of news publication.