⚡️ 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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❗️🇷🇺 Meta has refused to follow the Russian authorities' requirements regarding Russian media accounts

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷The Turkish foreign minister said Friday Ankara is ready to host a Putin-Zelensky meeting

🇺🇦After Zelenskyy was offered asylum by the UK and France it became clear that he had been “sacrificed or rather abandoned” by his Western allies and that “the Europeans do not have a plan B,” Xavier Moreau, an arms expert and geopolitical analyst at French think tank Stratpol, told Sputnik.

"Zelenskyy is very much alone against Russia. He showed a certain naivete in trusting Western leaders and their strong but imprecise announcements of support,” Moreau added.

📈 Key inflation gauge hit 6.1% in January, highest since 1982

The figure reported Friday by the Commerce Department was the largest year-over-year rise since 1982.

Stout consumer spending has combined with widespread product and worker shortages to create the highest inflation in four decades - a heavy burden for U.S. households, especially lower-income families faced with elevated costs for food, fuel and rent.

Inflation, though, is expected to remain high and perhaps accelerate in the coming months, especially with Russia’s invasion likely disrupting oil and gas exports. The costs of other commodities that are produced in Ukraine, such as wheat and aluminum, have also increased.

🇷🇺 Russian special operation in Ukraine — summary of the latest events:

▪️ Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the main clashes of the Russian Army are not taking place with regular units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but with nationalist formations, and called on Ukrainian servicemen to take power into their own hands (read the full speech here)

▪️ The Russian MoD said 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: “These methods are actively used by terrorists supervised by the CIA in the Middle East and other countries."

▪️ According to the Russian military, a large amount of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine has been seized; meanwhile, NATO leaders today announced more weapons for Ukraine, including air defence systems

▪️ Moscow says the Ukrainian side has refused to negotiate, offered to return to this issue on Saturday, Feb.26

▪️ The Russian FMA said the goal of the Russian special operation is to ensure the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as well as to bring the puppet regime in Kiev to justice for the crimes it has committed

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