❗️ 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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⚡️A series of loud blasts was heard in the center of Donetsk on late Friday, a Sputnik correspondent reports

📹 Footage of the explosions heard in Donetsk late on Friday

⚡️The White House has announced sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying a travel ban could be "part of the US component [of sanctions]"

⚡️ Russian servicemen enter Melitopol in Ukraine, were welcomed by the city's residents, the Russian MoD said on Friday

⚡️URGENT: Zelensky is ready to discuss ceasefire and peace, his spokesperson says

🧰 Millions of baby-boomers have left the workplace since 2020. Are they coming back?

For many older workers, the coronavirus pandemic forced a rethink about the nature and meaning of work.

The share of Americans over age 55 who were working fell sharply when the pandemic began, plummeting 6 percentage points to 33.3 percent in March and April of 2020, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Despite the millions of older workers who have fled the labor force in the past two years, few have signaled a permanent exit. Whether they were ejected from their jobs or left voluntarily, most have yet to tap their Social Security benefits, explaining in surveys that they may yet reenter the workforce.

And although those numbers have started to recover, it remains unclear how many of those older workers will pursue new employment or eventually declare themselves retired.

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