❗ US has many ways of communicating directly with Russian leaders - senior defence official

❗ US, NATO believe Belarus can ‘soon’ join Russia’s military operation in Ukraine - CNN

⚡ UNSC to discuss Ukraine ammonia leak incident on Tuesday - Russia's mission to Sputnik

❗ Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin not ruling out deploying more US forces on NATO's eastern flank, defence official says

IMF: Ukraine crisis to have 'quite limited' effect on world economy

India should condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, told NDTV:

"Democracies must stand against autocracies such as Russia and China. We know about the historic relationship and defence relationship between India and Russia at a time when the US was not prepared to have that kind of relationship. But times have changed now. They've changed in that the US and Europe are willing to be strong defence and security partners with India. We are doing more and more together in the Indo-Pacific. But times have also changed in terms of the level of brutality and violation of international humanitarian law that we are seeing," Nuland said.

Nuland: The US has talked about other opportunities for India "to get what it needs including Soviet-era equipment potentially not from Russia itself"

❗ Belarussian Security Committee reportedly eliminates Ukrainian spy network which used diplomatic cover

Sputnik footage from the Chervonogvardeyskiy district of Makeyevka: a local resident shows the aftermath of Grad shelling by the Ukrainian security forces

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Belarus KGB says eight out of 19 diplomats at Ukraine embassy are spies - report

The KGB of Belarus said that the Kiev embassy in Belarus is closely cooperating with the Lithuanian secret service, exchanging data with NATO countries' intelligence departments

❗ US sees no indications Russia brought in reinforcements to Ukraine - senior official

⚡ US not planning to close embassy in Moscow, Biden not planning to recall ambassador - Sullivan

🤨 CNN sources say the Pentagon has not seen "any indications that the Belarusians are preparing to move into Ukraine or that they have made any agreements to do that"

❗ Washington will not support Russia’s humanitarian resolution in the UN Security Council, says US envoy to the UN

⚡ BuzzFeed investors pressured CEO to shutter entire news operation, reports say

A 3.5-km column of cars near the temporary camp in Bezimennoe, where the refugees from Mariupol are getting medical and food supplies from Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR

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Russian MoD briefing:

▪️ Air defence systems shot down six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including one Bayraktar TB2;

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced another 4km in a day and approached the settlement of Novomikhailovka;

▪️ DPR forces have taken control of the village of Verkhnetoretskoye;

▪️ Air and sea-based high-precision long-range weapons have hit Ukrainian military facilities;

▪️ Large warehouses of Ukrainian troops in Lisichansk and Kramatorsk, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in Druzhkovka, and ammunition warehouse in Nadezhdinka and Novoaleksandrivka have been destroyed;

▪️ Since the beginning of the special military operation, 236 unmanned aerial vehicles, 185 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,547 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 154 multiple rocket launchers have been destroyed

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⚡ White House spokeswoman Psaki said she had tested positive for coronavirus and would not accompany Biden on a trip to Europe. Biden also took a test which was negative