⚡️ U.S. President Biden to hold video call with France's Macron, Germany's Scholz and Britain's Johnson at 10:30 A.M./15:30 GMT

⚡️ The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the venue for negotiations with Russia in Belarus

❗ No-fly zone over Ukraine will trigger direct Russia-NATO conflict - Warsaw

❗ Several EU countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, oppose granting Ukraine candidate status for membership this week - Bloomberg

⚡⚡ 30 biolabs whose activities were commissioned by Pentagon were formed in Ukraine - Russian MoD

❗ NATO and US have always considered Ukraine a foothold against Russia, Moscow says

⚡ Evacuation route in Ukraine's Mariupol was mined - International Committee of the Red Cross

⚡⚡ US funding for biological laboratories in Ukraine exceeded $200 million, Russian Defense Ministry says

⚡ Latvia's foreign minister asked Blinken for the permanent deployment of US troops in the country

Russian MoD on biological laboratories in Ukraine:

🔸 The work of biolabs in Ukraine since 2014 and the country's health care reform led to an uncontrolled growth of very dangerous infections incidence rate;

🔸 30 biolabs whose activities were commissioned by Pentagon were formed in Ukraine;

🔸 Biological programmes are being urgently shut down in Ukraine;

🔸 Several thousand serum samples of Slavic patients have been taken from Ukraine to the US

⚡ Moldovan opposition prepares bill securing country's permanent neutrality

❗ African swine fever strain was created in Georgia in 2007 with Pentagon's help - Russian MoD

⚡ Blinken on probability of imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine: We don't want the conflict to expand into NATO countries

⚡ The Russian Embassy in Belarus has not yet confirmed the start of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

⚡⚡The negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have started

❗ Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov discusses Ukraine with Iranian counterpart - Moscow

⚡⚡Truck rams gates of Russian embassy in Dublin, 1 person detained - reports

📸: Belarus’ Foreign Ministry publishes a photo of the third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine