❗️ German Chancellor Scholz says he is suspending Nord Stream 2 certification

⚡️ EU envoys reportedly agree to ban imports and exports to LPR and DPR

⚡️ Gas futures prices in Europe have once again exceeded $900 per thousand cubic metres following Scholz’s statement – trading data

⚡️ Artillery shell explosions can be heard near Lugansk, Sputnik correspondent says

⚡️ Russia's upper house ratifies friendship and cooperation treaties with DPR, LPR

⚡️ EU seeks to limit Russia's access to European financial markets

⚡️ UK and allies begin imposing sanctions on Russia, Boris Johnson says

⚡️ UK PM Johnson says the country will be sanctioning five Russian banks: Rossiya, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank, and the Black Sea Bank.

The prime minister says three individuals - Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg, and Igor Rotenberg - are also to be slapped with sanctions.

"Any assets they hold in the UK will be frozen, the individuals concerned will be banned from travelling here, and we will prohibit all UK individuals and entities from having any dealings with them", Johnson said.

⚡️ Ukrainian troops use Grad rocket launchers in Donbass for first time since 2018, DPR says

⚡️ UK will continue military support for Ukraine – Boris Johnson

⚡️ NATO says will hold extraordinary meeting of NATO-Ukraine commission on Tuesday

⚡️ Boris Johnson says he welcomes Germany's decision to suspend Nord Stream 2's certification

⚡️ US has been in close consultation with Germany on Nord Stream 2, welcomes announcement on halting certification – White House

⚡️ London lodges an official protest with Russian envoy in connection with "undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine"

⚡️ UK Defence Minister Wallace says Joint Expeditionary Force nations will conduct preventive military exercises demonstrating freedom of movement in Baltic Sea

⚡️ Explosions heard in Donetsk centre, Sputnik correspondent reports

⚡️ One LPR service member killed in Donbass shelling - LPR representative at JCCC

⚡️ White House deputy national security adviser says US considers Russia's actions in Lugansk, Donetsk 'beginning of an invasion'

⚡️ Ukrainian lawmaker introduces to parliament draft resolution on severing diplomatic relations with Russia

⚡️ Moscow on halting Nord Stream 2 certification: Pipeline is ready, but west simply aims to contain Russia

⚡️ US jury has reached verdict in federal hate crime trial of three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery