▪️Roskomnadzor has decided to block the Facebook social network as a response to the blocking of Russian media accounts. The vice president of Meta said that the company will continue to do everything possible to restore the availability of Facebook services for residents of Russia
▪️NATO cannot intervene in the situation in Ukraine, because no one wants the conflict to escalate into an unlimited escalation, German Foreign Minister Berbock said
▪️The UK government plans to house refugees from Ukraine in the confiscated mansions of Russian oligarchs, The Times reports
▪️The French nuclear supervisory authority has been put on high alert after a fire at a nuclear power plant
▪️ Ukraine is preparing for a massive blackout, as there is a danger of disconnecting the country’s power system
▪️The United States is using the Ukrainian crisis to discredit and slander China, thus trying to absolve itself of responsibility for the situation, the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
▪️Turkey, a NATO member, will not close its airspace to Russia – statement of the country’s Foreign Ministry
▪️The Zelensky administration reported that he would not make concessions that “downplay Ukraine’s struggle for territorial integrity”.
▪️The most difficult state of affairs in Ukraine remains in Kiev, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv and Mariupol, there is practically a humanitarian catastrophe, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. According to the ministry, 217 tons of various humanitarian goods were delivered to Ukraine, 20 humanitarian actions were carried out
▪️The price of gas in Europe has updated the historical record, reaching $2,400 per 1 thousand cubic meters
▪️NATO believes that in the coming days the situation in Ukraine will get worse, there will be more dead and injured
▪️In a conversation with Lukashenko, Putin stressed that the tasks of the military operation in Ukraine will be fulfilled in full
▪️The United States recognized that their ability to collect intelligence on Ukraine in real time is limited: there are no people and drones in place, CNN reports
▪️Microsoft suspends sales of goods and services in Russia
▪️State Duma Speaker Volodin says that Zelensky has left Ukraine and is currently in Poland. The Verkhovna Rada informs that he is in Kiev
▪️Scholz and Putin agreed to hold new talks on Ukraine soon. During the conversation that has already taken place, Putin reminded Scholz that Western partners have turned a blind eye to the genocide in Donbass for 8 years, the Kremlin reports
▪️The campaign of Ukraine, in which shocking photos and videos are published to condemn Russia’s actions in the Donbas, may violate the Geneva Convention, The Washington Post said
▪️The Kremlin: “Information stuffing about the alleged ongoing shelling by Russian troops of Kiev and other major cities are gross propaganda fakes”
▪️FEDEX no longer works in Russia
▪️The number of arrivals to Poland from Ukraine exceeded 700 thousand people
▪️It is reported that Zelensky has survived three assassination attempts over the past few days. His entourage declined to comment on the situation
▪️The World Special Olympic Games of 2023 were postponed from Kazan
▪️The Russian “Novaya Gazeta” will delete materials about Ukraine after lawmakers supported a law establishing prison terms and fines for fake reports about the Russian army
▪️The British Foreign Minister urged Europe to strengthen sanctions against Russia