⚡️ Biden says up to Zelensky to decide on whether to stay in Ukraine

❗️ Catch up on our latest updates on the Russian military op in Ukraine:

🔸 The Russian Foreign Ministry said there are no guarantees there will be no incidents with NATO in light of arms supplies to Ukraine;

🔸 The EU has banned Sputnik’s news websites and the broadcast of the RT TV channel in the bloc from 2 March;

🔸 The bloc has also banned selling, supplying, transferring, or exporting euro banknotes in Russia with a number of exceptions, according to a document;

🔸 EU foreign ministers are planning to discuss new sanctions against Russia on Friday, Austrian FM Schallenberg said;

🔸 Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Moscow is ready for a second round of talks with Kiev, adding that the Ukrainian side is playing for time, in line with US instructions;

🔸 The gas price in Europe has broken a historic record, rising to $2,200 per 1,000 cubic metres; the coal price has also risen to $400 per tonne.

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⚡️⚡️ Lavrov: Russian demands to Ukraine do not amount to 'capitulation', Moscow suggests negotiations

⚡️⚡️ Georgia to apply for EU membership on March 3 - head of ruling party

📹: Russian delegation arrives in Belovezhskaya Pushcha to continue negotiations with Ukraine

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⚡️Russian delegation arrives in Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus for talks with Ukraine

According to the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, the Ukrainian delegation are on their way from Kiev and will arrive on Thursday morning.

⚡️⚡️ MoD: 498 Russian servicemen died during special operation in Ukraine

⚡️⚡️ UNGA passes resolution demanding Russia stop military op in Ukraine

⚡️ Consequences from anti-Russia sanctions will be more profound for Europe than for US - Deputy Secretary of State Sherman

❗️ In a recent interview, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov outlined Moscow’s stance during the upcoming talks with Ukraine.

Here are some key takeaways, according to the minister:

🔹 The goal of the operation in Ukraine is to identify specific types of strike weapons that will never be deployed there;

🔹 Russia is doing everything it can to prevent serious casualties among civilians during the special op;

🔹 Zelensky’s statement about the desire to receive security guarantees is a “positive step”;

🔹 If the West decides to set up a new “iron curtain”, Russia will find an opportunity to develop;

🔹 Moscow won’t allow Ukraine to create nuclear weapons;

🔹 Ukraine must undergo denazification, like Germany did in past;

🔹 Moscow will not discuss Crimea;

🔹 On the possibility of nuclear war: Better ask Joe Biden.

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❗️ Biden admin is likely to announce later today restrictive measures on Belarus, Russian defence sector, Bloomberg reports citing sources

❗️ Check out the highlights of the latest briefing of the Russian MoD on the special op in Ukraine:

🔸 498 Russian servicemen killed, 1,597 wounded;

🔸 reports about "countless" losses among Russian servicemen are fake;

🔸 more than 2,870 of Ukrainian nationalists and servicemen killed and 3,700 wounded;

🔸 nationalist battalions are preparing provocations using civilians as human shields;

🔸 connoscripts and cadets at educational institutions of the Defence Ministry are NOT participating in the operation;

🔸 Russian servicemen have created a security corridor in the southwest of Kharkov in the direction of Lyubotin;

🔸 the cities of Lyman, Kreminna, the villages of Tors'ke, Varvarovka, Boroven'ky are under the control of Russian forces now.

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⚡️⚡️ Washington's refusal to negotiate leaves Moscow no option but to expel US diplomat from Russia - Russian Foreign Ministry

⚡️ US in coordination with allies imposing additional economic costs on Russia and Belarus - White House

⚡️ US imposing full blocking sanctions on 22 Russian defense-related entities - White House

⚡️ Roman Abramovich says he decided to sell Chelsea football club

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1499085708820160514

📸: Official statement from Abramovich on Chelsea’s website

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❗️ The Russian MoD says that it is necessary to immediately provide humanitarian corridors to safe places for Ukrainian citizens.

The ministry also stated that nationalists were preventing civilians in Kiev, Kharkov and Mariupol from escaping those cities.

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⚡️ Joe Biden may ban Russian ships from entering US ports - Wall Street Journal

❗ New US sanctions on Belarus include measures against the country’s defense ministry, encompassing all sorts of the national armed services and intelligence organizations amid the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

"[New export rule] adds two entities, including the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus (this listing encompasses the national armed services, including the army, navy, marine, air force, or coast guard; national guard and police; and government intelligence or reconnaissance organizations of Belarus)," the Commerce Department said in a press release.