⚡️ 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

⚡️ Russian MoD: The Russian armed forces will not inflict any strikes on residential areas of the Ukrainian capital

⚡️ Cases of lynching and reprisals by Ukrainian nationalists over connoscripts who do not want to fight have been recorded, Russian MoD says

⚡️ Russian MoD: Russian servicemen are taking all measures to prevent civilian casualties during the special military operation

⚡️ Manchester United withdraws Russian airline Aeroflot's sponsorship rights - Premier League club statement

❗️ Russian MoD: Units of the Russian military have blockaded Chernigov

⚡️ Russian MoD: For the most part, units of the Ukrainian military are not participating in combat action, but Nazi batallions provide fierce resistance

⚡️ The success of the landing in the area of the Gostomel airfield near Kiev was ensured by the suppression of air defences, and the isolation of the combat area from the air, Russian MoD says

⚡️ Ukrainian nationalists blow up bridges in separate directions, preventing the retreat of troops – Russian MoD

‼️ The Russian Defence Ministry has appealed to Ukrainian citizens:

"Your nationalist leadership uses the same methods as terrorists. They want to use you as a human shield. The Russian armed forces will not inflict any strikes on residential areas of the Ukrainian capital"

⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry: Intelligence data shows that "Grad" multiple rocket launchers have been deployed on Shevchenko Square in Kiev to strike at the Gostomel airfield.

▪️ According to the ministry, Pentagon and CIA advisers taught the Ukrainian military leadership how to place rocket-propelled artillery systems in residential areas to provoke return fire on local residents.

▪️ "The use by the Kiev regime of residential areas to cover the firing positions of its artillery is a war crime. We are familiar with this underline. These methods are actively used by terrorists supervised by the CIA in the Middle East and other countries"

‼️ Putin, in response to Zelensky's proposal, is ready to send a delegation to Minsk at the level of representatives of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Presidential Administration for negotiations with Kiev, Peskov says

⚡️ Polish PM Morawiecki says gov't preparing order to close country's airspace to Russian airlines

⚡️ Kishinev claims that ship with crew of Russian citizens hit by shell in Black Sea

❗️ Putin informed in detail the chairman of the People's Republic of China about the reasons for the decision to recognise DPR and LPR, the Kremlin says