The BBC’s Ione Wells reports from the country and speaks to recently freed opposition politicians about the government’s future and relations with the US.

Canada’s potential involvement in an armed conflict with Iran will not affect Ottawa’s support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces on March 5 and overnight into March 6 struck a Ka-27 helicopter, an area where Iskander missile system launchers were concentrated, three air defense systems, and several other Russian military targets.

Russian forces attacked the Kyiv region with strike drones on the evening of March 6, causing damage in the Bucha and Vyshhorod districts.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of Russian military facilities on March 4 and overnight into March 5, including targets in temporarily occupied territories.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heard a report from the commander of the 81st Airmobile Brigade on the operational situation, presented awards to servicemen, and held a security meeting.

The US president has claimed the Cuban authorities “want to make a deal so bad”.

Two warships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – the frigates Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov – were damaged in a strike on the naval base in Novorossiysk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai on March 2.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Ukraine has secured the release of seven Ukrainians who had been held in Budapest and that they have already crossed back into Ukraine.

Russian troops attacked the Nikopol, Synelnykivskyi, and Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnipropetrovsk region nearly 30 times during the day, resulting in three people being wounded.