❗️US figure skaters launch appeal to get team medals before end of Beijing Olympics

The Kremlin has published the details of its strategic forces exercises:

• Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles have been successfully launched

• Ships and submarines of the Northern and Black Sea Fleets launched Caliber cruise missiles and Zirkon hypersonic missiles at sea and ground targets

• An Iskander land-based cruise missile was launched at the Kapustin Yar test site

• A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at the Kura range in Kamchatka

• Air-launched cruise missiles fired from Tu-95MS long-range strategic missile carriers hit targets at the Pemboy and Kura ranges

• A Sineva ballistic missile was launched from the Kareliva nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea at the Kura range

⚡️ RT Arabic team come under fire in Donetsk People's Republic

❗️ Second shell may have exploded in Russia's Rostov region near Ukraine border - source

❗️A second projectile possibly exploded in Russia's Rostov region near Ukraine border, a source told Sputnik.

🎥 Russia's Ministry of Defence publishes footage of its strategic deterrence forces drills

⚡️NATO closes its office in Kiev and evacuates employees to Lviv and Brussels, Norwegian media say

❗️ Donetsk authorities receive anonymous tip about explosives placed in city buildings

Russian MoD video of strategic exercises: Takeoff of Tu-95MS long-range strategic missile carrier

⚡️FSB border service in Russia's Rostov confirms two shells landed on Russian territory

🎥: Launch of sea-based Zircon hypersonic missile during strategic drills

The FSB has shared a video showing the aftermath of the shelling

Cars could be seen lining up to cross over from self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic to Russia at Izwaryne checkpoint this morning.

⚡️Ukrainian intelligence agent involved in car bombing in central Donetsk detained – media

❗️A Ukrainian agent detained in the DPR spoke about Kiev’s plans to seize the Donbass by force - according to him, the Ukrainian military intends to use all available strike power and is planning a massive shelling of Donetsk, Russia's Channel One reported

Russian investigators say one uninhabited house and one outbuilding in the Rostov region were ruined following shelling from the Ukrainian territory. No one was hurt.

💬Ukrainian President Zelensky has made it clear that he does not fully trust US intelligence data on the threat of a Russian invasion:

“It’s hard for me to characterise how the US uses its intelligence data. They probably do it professionally. This is their intelligence and their choice. I am grateful for the work that our intelligence services are doing, but I trust my intelligence. I trust the Ukrainians who are on our territories and understand what is happening around the borders"

⚡️Antony Blinken says will meet with Russia's Sergey Lavrov on February 24

❗️ Blinken says situation in Ukraine is unfolding according to scenario predicted by the US