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⚡️A Sputnik journalist's registration for a gas conference in Vienna was revoked, under the pretext that "the organisers belong to an American company.”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

⚡ Foreign Ministry: Poland has begun seizure of Russian property in Warsaw, including school building at Embassy

❗ Roskomnadzor restricts access to Ekho Moskvy, Dozhd Broadcasters

⚡ White House: Ukrainian ambassador will sit with First Lady during Biden's State of the Union address

❗ US Senate minority leader Says Sweden, Finland ought to Join NATO tomorrow if ready

⚡ Apple: RT, Sputnik news apps will no longer be available for download outside Russia

"We have paused all product sales in Russia," Apple said in a statement. "Last week, we stopped all exports into our sales channel in the country. Apple Pay and other services have been limited. RT News and Sputnik News are no longer available for download from the App Store outside Russia."

"Sweden and Finland, two countries that have never belonged to NATO, are thinking about joining, and I think we ought to sign them up tomorrow if they’re ready to join," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)said during a new conference.

The countries’ interest in NATO membership emerged as a result of Russian military operations in Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin said aims to demilitarize and de-nazify the country in defense of the self-declared republics in the Donbas region.

🇨🇦 Canada will maintain sanctions against Russia until the latter withdraws its troops from Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.

"We will keep the sanctions in place right up until Russia recognizes and admits they made a huge mistake and withdraws its soldiers from Ukrainian soil," Trudeau told the House of Commons during the day’s Question Period session.

Canada has imposed multiple rounds of sanctions against Russia following President Vladimir Putin’s approval of a military operation in Ukraine, including a ban on all engagements with the Russian central bank, a freeze on Russian sovereign fund assets and personal sanctions against top Russian officials.

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