US is discussing halt to purchase of Russian oil with European allies - Blinken

Putin's phone call with Macron – highlights:

🔸 Zaporozhye NPP is operating normally, the radiation level is normal;

🔸 Russian Armed Forces control Chernobyl nuclear power plant in order to exclude the possibility of provocations by Ukrainian neo-Nazis or terrorists;

🔸 Kiev is not fulfilling agreements on humanitarian issue. Despite ceasefire regime for exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha, Ukrainian nationalists did not allow evacuation;

🔸 Putin asked Macron to "work with the Kiev authorities" in order to comply with the norms of international humanitarian law;

🔸 Russian side expressed its readiness to continue dialogue with the Ukrainian side on condition of fulfilment of Russian requirements

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Russian Defence Ministry's briefing:

🔸 On March 6, a Ukrainian Air Force airfield in Vinnytsia was disabled by a high-precision long-range weapons strike;

🔸 Russia is aware of Ukrainian combat aircraft that had previously flown to Romania and other border countries;

🔸 Ukrainian defence industry enterprises' employees are repairing damaged Ukrainian military equipment, Russia will target these objects. The workers have been told to evacuate, Russia has told them in advance of planned strikes against these facilities;

🔸 Almost all combat-ready aviation of the Kiev regime has been destroyed;

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