⚡️ Biden administration asks US Congress to approve $10 billion in aid to Ukraine - reports

⚡️ Škoda suspends its activities in Russia

⚡️ Adviser to Zelensky's office says that the Ukrainian delegation is heading to negotiate with Russia

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

🔸 Russia will stop deliveries of rocket engines to the United States.

🔸 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed confidence that a solution to the Ukrainian crisis will be found and noted that Moscow's demands are "minimal".

🔸 President Zelensky has claimed that 16,000 foreign mercenaries are going to fight for Ukraine.

🔸 Russia-Ukraine talks to resume in a couple of hours, says Ukrainian official.

🔸 Russia is ready to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine and all of Europe, Foreign Minister Lavrov says.

🔸 Ukraine has reported a fire at a diesel fuel plant in Chernigov that was reportedly caused by shelling.

🔸 The International Paralympic Committee has suspended the participation of athletes from Russia at the Beijing Games.

🇷🇺 🇫🇷 Russian Embassy in Paris covered in paint

⚡️ Ukraine informed WTO members about decision to impose economic embargo and not apply WTO agreements with respect to Russia - Mission in Geneva

❗️ South Africa's MultiChoice broadcaster stops airing RT due to sanctions against Russia

❗️ Powerful explosions are heard in the centre of Donetsk, Sputnik correspondent reports

❗️ May tour of the Bolshoi Theatre in Spain cancelled

⚡️Putin in phone talks with Macron: Western countries and France did absolutely nothing to force Kiev to comply with Minsk agreements

❗️ Czech police say arrested person supporting Russia's actions in Ukraine

The Czech police have arrested an individual who expressed approval of Russia's actions in Ukraine, charging him with denying, approving and defending genocide, the National Centre Against Organised Crime (NCOZ) said on Thursday.

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📹: Situation in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, where Russian-Ukrainian talks are set to take place. Neither people nor vehicles are allowed to pass the checkpoint

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⚡️ Georgia applies for EU membership – prime minister

⚡️ German economy minister: Consequences of sanctions against Russia already partly felt in Germany

⚡️⚡️ Ukrainian parliament greenlights Zelensky's decree on general mobilisation, Verkhovna Rada says

The Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has passed a bill approving President Volodymyr Zelensky's order to launch general mobilisation on the territory of Ukraine.

The order was given on 25 February in response to Russia's decision to start a military operation to demilitarise and "de-Nazify" Ukraine, as well as to protect the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR).

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⚡️ Serbian Embassy staff evacuated from Ukraine to Belgrade – foreign ministry

⚡️ Russia was denied security guarantees, US and NATO responses confirm this - foreign ministry

⚡️⚡️ Ukrainian delegation arrived at place of negotiations with Russia in Belarus - Sputnik correspondent

⚡️⚡️ All UN staff in Kharkov are safe and accounted for, spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Sputnik on Wednesday, following reports of an abduction.

"All staff in Kharkov is safe and accounted for," Dujarric said.

Earlier in the day, the DPR said that Ukrainian nationalists had kidnapped a UN employee in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov and took them away in an unknown direction.

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⚡️⚡️ US military intel launched large-scale campaign to recruit PMC contractors for Ukraine – Russian MoD

📹: Ukrainian delegation arrived at place of negotiations with Russia in Belarus - Sputnik correspondent

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