▪️The meeting of the delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine may be postponed, there is no additional information
▪️Starting from March 3, the use of QR codes will stop in Moscow, Mayor Sobyanin said. From March 4, QR codes are canceled in St. Petersburg as well
▪️Ukraine could become a candidate for EU membership tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the Polish Foreign Ministry said
▪️The United States is studying the prospects of excluding Russia from the UN Security Council
▪️”The Western intelligence report indicates that Chinese officials had a certain level of knowledge about President Putin’s military plans or intentions,” writes the New York Times
▪️The price of Brent crude oil is above $119 per barrel for the first time since 2013. The dollar updated the historical maximum and rose above 110 rubles
▪️Ukraine demands to prohibit indexing of materials from Russian scientific journals in international bibliographic and abstract databases Web of science and SCOPUS
▪️The Echo of Moscow radio station was liquidated by his leadership
▪️The Russian military reports that the city of Kherson has completely come under their control
▪️Streaming service Spotify has closed its office in Russia
▪️The Pentagon said that a nuclear war cannot be won, so it should not be started
▪️French President Macron said that “Putin alone chose this war”
▪️The United States, following the United Kingdom, may prohibit ships under the Russian flag from entering their ports, writes The Wall Street Journal
▪️The Spanish Defense Minister said that the government of the country will send to Ukraine a batch of offensive weapons and ammunition, including grenade launchers and machine guns
▪️Hundreds of people in Slovenia came out to protest “against the war in Ukraine”
▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that they had formed humanitarian convoys to help the population of Ukraine. “None of the residents of Ukraine in the territory controlled by the Russian Armed Forces will be left without food, water and basic necessities,” the ministry said
▪️The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine states that “the losses of the occupiers from 24.02 to 03.03 approximately amounted
to about 9,000 personnel”
▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that “a total of 1,612 AFU facilities were hit during the operation”
▪️The Russian Space Agency warned that cyber attacks could lead to the outbreak of war
▪️ Abramovich has put Chelsea football club up for sale
▪️Ukraine still wants to remove Russia from the Internet by disabling its main DNS servers
▪️22 defense enterprises of the Russian Federation, including those producing combat aircraft, missiles, and drones, fall under the new US military sanctions, the White House reported
▪️The World Bank has suspended all projects in Russia and Belarus
▪️The EU will take measures to exclude circumvention of sanctions with the help of cryptocurrencies, the head of the French Finance Ministry said
▪️The International Criminal Court has launched an investigation into “war crimes in Ukraine”
▪️Roskomnadzor demanded that Google stop distributing false advertising messages on the territory of Russia
▪️In China, they said that despite the sanctions, the country “will maintain normal trade relations with Russia”
▪️Five soldiers were killed after their helicopter crashed Wednesday in eastern Romania near the Black Sea while searching for a missing fighter jet and its pilot.
▪️Netflix announced the suspension of all projects in Russia
▪️The Ministry of Commerce of South Korea reported that mobile phones, cars and other consumer goods are not subject to large-scale US restrictions on exports to Russia.
▪️The International Cat Federation (FIFE) has banned cats and cats from Russia from participating in international exhibitions