“Peacefully” minded Russia is intensifying its attacks on civilian cities and Ukrainian businesses.

On the evening of March 5, Russia launched a missile strike on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, killing four people and injuring over 30. In addition to the hotel, 14 apartment buildings, a post office, almost two dozen cars, a cultural institution, 12 shops, two schools, and two kindergartens were damaged in the city. President Zelenskyy reported that volunteers from a humanitarian organization – citizens of Ukraine, the US, and Britain – had been staying in the hotel in Kryvyi Rih that the Russians attacked.

And on March 6, Russia destroyed a terminal belonging to private postal and courier operator Nova Poshta in Sumy. Two attack drones hit the warehouses, causing a large-scale fire resulting in one death. Nova Poshta said that 2,576 parcels were destroyed at the terminal.

Two days earlier, a Russian attack destroyed a Nova Poshta branch in the Odesa region, destroying 606 parcels.

On Thursday, the fifth DTEK energy facility in two weeks in the Odesa region was also attacked, which caused severe equipment damage and power outages in the region.