▪️Zelensky spoke on the phone with German Chancellor Scholz and urged him to speed up the procedure for Ukraine’s admission to the EU
▪️The head of the European Council said that it will be difficult to evaluate Ukraine’s application for EU membership, but they will analyze it.
“There are different views on this issue. The EU Council will seriously study this landmark, political and legitimate request. We have to make the appropriate decisions,” he said
▪️The meeting of the Russian Federation and Ukraine should take place on March 2, as originally agreed – TASS source. Members of the delegations will start arriving in Belarus for talks this evening
▪️The Russian government allocates 1 trillion rubles from the NWF for the purchase of shares of Russian companies under the conditions of the sanctions
▪️The EU energy ministers agreed to urgently connect the European energy system with the energy system of Ukraine in order to increase its independence from Russia after Moscow’s invasion of the country.
▪️Russian embassies are being subjected to cyber attacks around the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports
▪️In Russia, they are actively buying iPhones at old prices, until their prices have increased
▪️According to the UN statement, about 4 million people could have left Ukraine in the last few days.
▪️A NATO member from Slovenia speaks about the Russian nuclear threat against Ukraine. One of the EU members reported that a Russian cargo plane with nuclear fuel landed in Slovakia, which was an exception to the ban on flights of Russian aircraft in EU airspace
▪️Russia’s actions significantly increase the risk of a nuclear incident, endangering the population of Ukraine and the international community, according to the draft resolution of the IAEA (Reuters)
▪️Ukraine does not officially ask NATO to engage in hostilities with Russia, but demands support
▪️”If President Putin succeeds in achieving his goal of overthrowing the democratically elected government of Ukraine, the human rights and humanitarian crisis will only worsen,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.
He proposes to deprive Russia of membership in the UN Human Rights Council
▪️The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called on residents of Kiev living near the relay nodes to leave their homes
▪️One of the diplomatic sources claims that Russia demands the consolidation of the non-aligned status of Ukraine at the parliamentary level, the holding of a referendum, the recognition of the DPR and LPR within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as the denazification of Ukraine
▪️One of the political reporters reports that Europe is not transferring military fighters to Ukraine, as previously reported
▪️Zelensky said that Ukraine does not have the desired result from negotiations with Russia. According to him, Kiev “received some signals”
▪️The Italian Foreign Minister said that Ukraine’s request to join the EU is “legitimate”. The Presidents of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia believe that Ukraine deserves the opportunity to join the EU immediately
▪️The American company The Walt Disney Company suspends the screening of its films in Russia
▪️Biden assured Americans that they can not worry about a nuclear war. The Pentagon stated that they do not see threats from Russia to NATO partners. In this regard, the United States “does not see the need to increase the level of readiness of its deterrent forces”
▪️The German Navy is sending ships to the Baltic Sea to strengthen NATO’s northern flank
▪️The Russian military blocked the Ukrainian Kherson, army checkpoints were installed at the entrances to the city, the mayor of the city said
▪️The International Criminal Court will begin investigating the situation in Ukraine
▪️Harley Davidson and Volvo companies have stopped their activities on the territory of the Russian Federation
▪️Turkey has warned all nearby countries that it will not allow warships through its straits.
▪️The EU has imposed sanctions against Kremlin spokesman Peskov, as well as other Russian officials and journalists
▪️The “sports blockade” of Russia on the world stage: the UEFA Champions League has terminated its contract with Gazprom and moved the final of the tournament from St. Petersburg to Paris, the Olympic committees of several European countries demand to exclude Russia from the sports family, the national teams of European countries and many football clubs refuse to play matches with Russia, many scheduled sports competitions scheduled for the near future in Russia have been canceled
▪️The UK will arrest real estate and yachts of Russian businessmen
▪️Ukraine demanded to exclude Russia from Interpol, London considers it logical
▪️The Ukrainian pilots arrived in Poland to begin operating fighter jets donated by European countries, Politico reports, citing a Ukrainian official.
▪️In an interview with Macron, Putin said that the main threat comes from Ukrainian nationalists, and that the Russian military does not threaten civilians and does not strike civilian targets. In his opinion, the settlement of the situation is possible only if Russia’s legitimate security interests are taken into account, as well as with the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, the neutral status and recognition of Crimea, the Kremlin reports
▪️TikTok, an app owned by China, has restricted Russian state media RT and Sputnik in the EU
▪️Twitter will post warnings on tweets containing links to Russian state media
▪️ Russian ships are now forbidden to dock in British ports
▪️ Colombia and the United States announce joint military exercises using a nuclear submarine
▪️Trudeau announces a ban on the import of Russian oil to Canada
▪️The Ukrainian Minister said that Elon Musk’s Starlink equipment has arrived in Ukraine
▪️George Soros compared the Russian military operation in Ukraine with the Nazi siege of Budapest