📸 Ukrainian troops put "Grad" multiple rocket launchers up in residential areas of Kharkov.

Footage with installations of multiple launch rocket systems right inside residential areas of the city has been published on Ukrainian social networks, information about the installation of "Grads" on the streets of the city was later confirmed to RIA Novosti by a resident of Kharkov.

❗️ West defends Ukrainian regime turning blind eye to its war crimes, Lavrov says

⚡️ Russian FM Lavrov: Moscow could not remain indifferent to the request of the LPR and DPR for military assistance to protect against the aggressor

❗️ Lavrov: The West unanimously denies the fact of the obvious genocide in Ukraine

⚡️ Russia's operation is being carried out so that Ukrainians, "freed from oppression", can freely determine their own future, Russian FM Lavrov says

⚡️ Matvienko: Russia preparing retaliatory sanctions against Western states

❗️ Oil terminal in Donetsk set on fire by Ukrainian shelling, DPR says

⚡️ Russian military has not conducted any missile strikes on Kiev, source in MoD says

❗️ The appearance of a blaze at night over Kiev is connected with a mistake by the Ukrainian military: their air defences attacked their own Su-27 fighter, source in MoD says

⚡️ Russian FM Lavrov: Zelensky is lying when he says he is ready to discuss the neutral status of Ukraine

❗️ Russian FM Lavrov: Nobody is going to occupy Ukraine

⚡️ The Kremlin drew attention to the statement about Zelensky's readiness for negotiations on the neutral status of Ukraine, Russia will analyse it, Peskov says

⚡️ Lavrov: After Russian op, the situation in Ukraine will return to negotiations

⚡️ Russia not carrying out strikes at any civilian infrastructure in Ukraine – Lavrov

⚡️ Lavrov: Possibility of negotiations with the West on security guarantees remained to the last moment

❗️ UK Armed Forces minister Heappey says British and NATO troops must not play an active role in Ukraine

🛫 A plane has reportedly taken off from Kiev International Airport (Zhuliany) following reports that Italian PM Mario Draghi could not get in touch with Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday morning.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian airspace remains closed; shots can be heard in Kiev.

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⚡️ Zelensky invites Putin to negotiation table

⚡️ Two civilians were killed during the shelling of the village of Donetsky with "Grads" by the Ukrainian Army, the people's militia of the LPR says

⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire Tochka-U missile targeting oil terminal in Donetsk, DPR says

⚡️ Russian armed forces conducted a successful landing operation near the Gostomel airfield in the suburbs of Kiev, Russian MoD says