⚡Stoltenberg: NATO will meet to discuss Russia's actions regarding Ukraine

Stoltenberg condemns 'Russia's attack' on Ukraine, calls operation breach of international law, threat to Euro-Atlantic security

⚡Russian military operation in Donbas not war - Russian envoy to UN

⚡️ Explosions reported in Odessa, Ukraine

⚡️ Series of explosions heard from outskirts of Donetsk, Sputnik correspondent says

❗What Did Putin Say in His Address?

🔹 Special military operation will be launched to protect Donbass republics
🔹 Russia has no intention on occupying Ukraine but will defend itself against ‘any external threats’
🔹 Urged Ukrainian forces to ‘lay down’ their arms as they gave oath to people, not junta
🔹 NATO’s actions contradict morality and cannot allow Russia to feel safe, or exist with constant threats from Ukraine

❗️ The US and its allies will apply "full-scale" sanctions against Russia on Thursday, CNN reports

⚡️ Putin says feelings and pain of Donbass residents prompted Russia to recognise DPR and LPR

❗️ Canadian PM Trudeau says threatens with additional actions to ‘stop Russia’s unwarranted aggression’

⚡️ Military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and aviation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been disabled by high-precision weapons, Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation says

❗️ President Zelensky said that Ukraine is introducing martial law

⚡️ Militias are fighting in the area of the city of Shchastia controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces - Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR

⚡️ Boris Johnson, after a conversation with President Zelensky, said that Britain and its allies would "respond decisively" to the actions of Russia

‼️ The Russian armed forces are not carrying out any missile, air, or artillery strikes on Ukrainian cities

⚡️ Trump has called Russia's military operation in Donbass "a very sad event for the world" that should not have happened

❗️ Biden says G7 leaders, U.S. allies will impose severe sanctions on Russia

⚡️ On Thursday, the People's Militia of the LPR says it began artillery preparations and an operation to liberate temporarily occupied territories

❗️ Information from foreign media about a Russian plane allegedly shot down over Ukrainian territory does not correspond to reality, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation says

⚡️ Russian MoD: Ukrainian air defences are neutralised

Russian special military operation. The key points:

▪️ In a video message, President Putin announced the start of the operation, addressed the Ukrainian military, Russians, and "those who may be tempted to intervene in ongoing events";

▪️ The Russian Ministry of Defence told RIA Novosti that military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and aviation of the Ukrainian military have been disabled by high-precision means - but Russian forces are not launching missile, air, or artillery strikes on Ukrainian cities, and not threatening the civilian population;

▪️ The people's militia of the LPR announced that it has begun artillery preparations and an operation to liberate temporarily occupied territories;

▪️ President Zelensky introduced martial law in Ukraine

▪️ Ukraine closed the nation's airspace to civilian aircraft, Russia closed the sky to civilian aircraft near the borders of Ukraine; flights to Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Anapa, Gelendzhik, Elista, Stavropol, Belgorod, Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Voronezh, and Simferopol have been halted until 3:45 a.m. on March 2nd;

▪️ Lessons have been cancelled in schools in the Belgorod and Bryansk regions and Crimea near the Ukrainian border, kindergartens have been closed, in the Kursk region they are being transferred to distance learning.

⚡️ Russian MoD: Precision weapons neutralise only Ukrainian military infrastructure, air forces