❗️ US believes Russia has launcher systems that could be used for vacuum bomb but can't confirm use – US official

Ukrainian parliament declares that after a shell hit a TV tower in Kiev, there are problems with television broadcasting

Ukrainian media claim that there were two explosions near the TV tower

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❗️Zelensky says that if NATO does not want to accept Ukraine into the alliance, Kiev needs security guarantees

⚡️⚡️Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council Danilov is threatening to launch preventive missile strike on Belarus

❗️ European Parliament adopts resolution calling for limiting imports of oil and gas from Russia, new investments ban, disconnection from SWIFT

New statements by Ukrainian President Zelensky:

▪️In order to sit down at the negotiating table, cease fire is needed;
▪️Biden told Zelensky that it is not time yet for a no-fly zone;
▪️If Ukraine falls, then Russian troops will be on the borders of NATO;
▪️If partners do not want Ukraine to be in NATO, the country needs security guarantees;
▪️Zelensky expresses hope that the hostilities will not last much longer;

❗️ Impossible to impose anti-Russia sanctions, if West unable to withstand them; possible new sanctions will be further studied - German economy minister

❗️ Canada bans Russian ships, fishing vessels from entering its ports, internal waters

CNN journalist says that he talked with Zelensky "in his bunker"

❗️UK imposes sanctions against RDIF and its head Kirill Dmitriev

❗️ White House: US will release 30 million barrels of oil from strategic reserve to the market

⚡️ Zelensky says he has talked to Biden

❗️Hostilities continue near Mariupol, the situation is difficult: nationalist battalions hinder as much as possible - DPR head Pushilin

⚡️A Sputnik journalist's registration for a gas conference in Vienna was revoked, under the pretext that "the organisers belong to an American company.”

Zelensky on his 30-minute phone call with Biden: "The American leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defence assistance to Ukraine was discussed"

❗️DirecTV stops RT America broadcasting amid situation in Ukraine, media reports

❗️ Moscow will respond to expulsion of 12 diplomats from Russian permanent mission to UN - Foreign Ministry

⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 The United States has announced that it is expelling a Russian staff member in the UN Secretariat. "We regret that we find ourselves in this situation but are engaging with the host country," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said of the move, which comes just a day after the US demanded that 12 other diplomats from Russia's Permanent Mission to the UN leave by March 7.

❗️ US Vice President Harris held five separate calls with European leaders from NATO’s Eastern flank on Tuesday - White House

⚡️ Zelensky says he's ready to talk with Putin