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       Russian troops launched a drone attack on Ukrainian territory on the night of 6 March. According to the Ukrainian army, a total of 42 drones were launched from the Krasnodar region, the Kursk region and annexed Crimea, 38 of which were shot down.

       The drones were destroyed over the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Kherson, Khmelnitsky, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Vinnitsa and Sumy, according to the AFU Air Force Command.

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       According to UNIAN, the air alert due to the drone attack remained in effect for five hours. Authorities in the Sumy region reported "three arrivals" in centre of the region, which resulted in casualties, without giving details.

       Russian troops launch drone attacks on Ukrainian territory on a daily basis. The aim of these attacks, as military experts have pointed out, is in particular to strain the air defence system, forcing it to waste precious shells on drones.

       On the night of the 2nd of March, in Odessa, a Russian drone struck a nine-storey apartment building, destroying one of the entrances. Twelve people died, including five children.

       Officials from three Russian regions reported drone attacks on the night and morning of March 6. The governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev, said that three drones had been shot down over his region. There were no casualties, according to the governor.

       In the Kursk region, the head of the region, Roman Starovoit, said that a drone had hit a fuel and lubricant depot in the Zheleznogorsk district. A fuel tank caught fire, no one was injured, said the governor. Baza points out that the fuel tank, which was hit by the drone, is located on the territory of the Mikhailovsky extraction and processing plant in Zheleznogorsk.

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       Poland is experiencing an increase in DDoS attacks originating from Russia, according to a spokesperson for the Cyber Defence Army of Poland.

       DDoS attacks are a form of cybercrime in which the attacker floods a server with internet traffic in order to block them from accessing online services.

       Some websites, such as the Railway Transport Office in Poland, are experiencing increased attacks that experts have geographically traced to Russia.

       Euronews correspondent Magdalena Chodownik investigates.

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       Spain's Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, faces backlash after suggesting restaurants should close earlier. Díaz argues for shorter workweeks, and adjusting closing times by one hour. The minister said, "It is not reasonable for Spain to be a country where we convene meetings at 20:00 in the evening. It is not reasonable for a country that has its restaurants open at 1:00 a.m.".

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       Diaz raised concerns about the detrimental effects on mental health caused by working past 10 pm. However, hospitality workers do not all agree with this suggestions some say that earlier closures could spell disaster for businesses already struggling to recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

       "We already cut customers, we cut with the pandemic, and we cut the closure; we are only going to dedicate ourselves to pay taxes and collect zero," one said, highlighting the financial strain faced by many establishments.

       The government pact between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Sumar to move towards shorter workweeks includes the abandonment of the 40-hour workweek, setting the maximum legal working week at 38.5 hours in 2024, with a further reduction to 37.5 hours in 2025. In the meantime, employers and unions are in discussions regarding the execution of this governmental commitment. The CCOO estimates that this change would impact approximately 13 million workers.