❗ Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said that if Ukranian president is ready for dialogue, he is ready to personally ask Putin to give him asylum, otherwise Zelensky will "face the fate of Mikheil Saakashvili"

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;

🔸 Units of the DPR People's Militia are successfully developing an offensive in the city of Mariupol from the north-western and eastern directions.

❗ DPR: Azov militants open fire at civilians trying to leave city of Mariupol

❗ Russian diplomats expelled from UN by US head for JFK Airport in NYC with their families - Sputnik correspondent

❗ UN's Guterres calls for pause in fighting in Ukraine for civilians to leave cities

❗ Civilian death toll from Ukrainian strikes in Donbass reaches 26 since start of Russian op - DPR head to Sputnik

❗ Putin talks with Bennett over phone after Moscow meeting - Kremlin

DPR's People Militia demonstrates NATO-made weapons captured at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south: NLAW anti-tank weapons, Javelin missile launchers, Bulgarian-made ammunition

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Twelve Russian diplomats expelled from the UN permanent mission in New York are heading to JFK airport with their families. About 50 people are traveling on two buses, accompanied by police

❗ Over 163,000 people, including 42,729 children, are evacuated from areas of Russia's special operation - Russian Defense Ministry

⚡ Ukrainian radicals crack down on people without Ukrainian passports - Russian humanitarian HQ

❗ Russian MoD: Kiev evading implementation of agreements and continuing criminal actions, using civilians as human shields”

The Ukrainian side rejects cooperation on the evacuation from Kharkov and Sumy, where thousands of people are being held, including foreigners - Russian humanitarian HQ

❗ American Express suspends operations in Russia, Belarus