⚡️ DPR: Ukrainian troops attacked substation supplying third lift of “Seversky Donets-Donbass” channel in Mayorsk; pumps have been stopped

⚡️ Russian MFA: Washington has repeatedly interrupted negotiation process between Kiev and Moscow

❗️UPDATE: Council of Europe says Russia remains member despite halt of representation rights

⚡️ Sanctions are proof of how weak the West is, Russian Foreign Ministry says

⚡️ Ukrainian side does not provide population with opportunity to leave combat zone through humanitarian corridors, spokesman for DPR's people's militia says

⚡️ Russian MoD: Large amount of weapons supplied by West to Ukraine has been seized

⚡️ US Javelin anti-tank missile systems, British NLAW among the trophies seized by the Russian military in Ukraine

⚡️ Russian forces have blockaded Konotop and Sumy - MoD

⚡️ Russian MoD: 211 Ukrainian military facilities put out of action; among them 17 command posts and communication centres, 19 S-300 and Osa air defense systems, and 39 radar stations.

Six military planes, a helicopter, five drones shot down; 67 tanks and other military vehicles, 16 multiple launch rocket systems destroyed.

❗️ Read Putin’s full speech on our website:

https://sputniknews.com/20220225/putin-says-nazis-in-ukraine-act-as-terrorists-deploying-mlrs-in-kiev-and-kharkov-1093372003.html

⚡️ NATO’s Stoltenberg: NATO leaders today announced more weapons for Ukraine, including air defence systems

⚡️ Russia does not intend to stay in Ukraine, will withdraw troops after special op – Russian envoy to EU Chizhov

⚡️ Explosion rocks Donetsk, Sputnik correspondent says

⚡️ EU's Borrell says EU has listed Putin and Lavrov among new Russia sanctions

⚡️ Borrell says only world leaders sanctioned by EU are Syria's Assad, Belarus' Lukashenko, and now Russia's Putin

⚡️ Zelensky says he has talked to Biden

⚡️ Zelensky says he discussed 'anti-war coalition' with Biden

⚡️ OECD decides to close office in Moscow and stop inviting Russia to ministerial meetings

❗️ The Russian MoD has outlined the ways to settle the situation in Ukraine. Here are the key points:

🔸 the goal of the Russian operation is to ensure the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine, as well as to bring the puppet regime in Kiev to justice for the crimes it has committed;

🔸 the territory of the DPR and LPR will be expanded to the size of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions;

🔸 Russia does not intend to stay in Ukraine, it will withdraw its troops after the operation;

🔸 Russia does not need the territory of Ukraine, no one is going to occupy it;

🔸 when new authorities are possible in Ukraine, both the DPR and the LPR will find common grounds for negotiations with them.

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