⚡️ Most of the LPR today liberated from Kiev's forces – LPR head

⚡️ US, NATO supplied Kiev with over 17,000 anti-tank weapons in less than 1 week - reports say

🙄 European gas futures just hit $3,600 per 1,000 cubic meters

⚡️ Russian delegation leaves for Belarus for third round of talks with Ukraine

⚡️ Russian delegation leaves for Belarus for third round of talks with Ukraine

Key highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry's briefing on the Ukraine special op:

▪️ A ceasefire regime has been announced, six humanitarian corridors have been opened. The Russian Armed Forces will control the evacuation using drones;

▪️ Ukrainian nationalists used 150 civilians in Mariupol as human shields on 6 March. As a result, four citizens were killed and five more were injured;

▪️ Russian military has destroyed 2,396 Ukrainian military infrastructure targets during the special op;

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces and air defenses shot down 14 planes, helicopters and drones of Ukraine;

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces took control of several settlements;

▪️ LPR troops advanced a further 6 km

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⚡️ Zelensky called for new sanctions against the Russian Federation, a boycott of Russian exports targeting oil and petroleum products, and a boycott of imports

⚡️ Gorlovka - Donetsk road closed due to shelling from Ukrainian forces, authorities say

⚡️ Ukrainian Vice PM rejects humanitarian corridors to Russia, Belarus

⚡️ Turkey to continue mediation initiatives on Ukraine until they yield results, spokesman

⚡️ Kiev calls for opening of humanitarian corridors with evacuations to Ukrainian territory

⚡️ Philippines raises level of alarm over Ukraine, evacuation of citizens is now mandatory, reports say

⚡️ Netherlands prosecution office considers that defense of the accused in MH17 case should continue to protect Russian, regardless of events in Ukraine

UPDATE | Gas prices in Europe, after hitting an all-time high of almost $3,900 per thousand cubic meters, subsided and lost about $1,000 in an hour

⚡️ Part of Donetsk’s Petrovsky district suffers blackout due to shelling by Ukrainian forces, DPR says

⚡️ Blinken says additional 400 military will arrive in Lithuania from US in coming days

Japan’s Uniqlo will continue to work in Russia amid global companies’ “exodus”

Tadashi Yanai, company CEO, said that “clothing is a necessity of life” so “the people of Russia have the same right to live as we do.” Yanai also questioned the trend of pressuring companies into making political choices.

The voice of reason and common sense? 😏

⚡️ Boeing says suspending purchase of titanium from Russia closing technical departments in Moscow and Kiev, reports say

⚡Office of Russian Cooperation Agency attacked in Paris

A plane carrying Russian diplomats from the US and their families has landed in Moscow

⚡ The Russian delegation has arrived in Belarus for negotiations with Ukraine in the Brest region, Sputnik's correspondent reports