⚡️ President Biden to announce actions to hold Russia accountable on Tuesday at 15:45 GMT - White House

⚡️ EU representatives boycott Russia's address at OPCW Executive Council meeting

🇨🇳 China has called on the United States to clarify the extent of its military biological activities across the planet.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Liijian: “The US Department of Defense controls 336 biolabs across 30 countries under the pretext of joint work to reduce biosecurity risks and strengthening global health. What are America’s real intentions? What exactly were they doing?"

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Zhao Liijian suggested that the information released by the Russian Defence Ministry on Monday about US military biological activities in Ukraine could be just the “tip of the iceberg.”

😳 Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Goncharenko announced the opening of a "safari" and urged the authorities to detain Poklonskaya, who visited the Kherson region on a humanitarian mission

Should Natalia be worried about jail time?

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❗ Kiev has confirmed only one of ten planned evacuation corridors, Russian MoD says

❗ Data on biolaboratories in Ukraine confirm question aimed at the United States about compliance with Biological Weapons Convention, Russian Foreign Ministry says

❗️ Militants of the Ukrainian territorial defense battalions continue to use more than 4.5 million civilians as "human shields" and hostages, as well as about 2,000 foreigners who want to leave the country, Russia’s Defense Ministry says

⚡ US gasoline prices hit all-time high of $4.17 per gallon, Automobile Association says

⚡ German Economy Minister: American colleagues assured that the US will not "neither ask nor demand" Berlin to impose an embargo on the purchase of oil from Russia

In some states the price per gallon is $5.44

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⚡Members of the US "foreign policy elite" have called on the Biden administration to introduce “restricted no-fly zone" over Ukraine - newspaper

⚡ Kiev's proposal for security guarantees assumes Moscow's legal recognition of Ukrainian statehood

Poklonskaya told Sputnik that she would continue to provide assistance to the inhabitants of the Kherson region, despite the threat of nationalists

EU Commission's statement following debate on strategies for energy crisis:

▪ EU has opportunity to end dependence on Russian fossil fuels "long before 2030";

▪ It will be "extremely hard" for the EU to replace two-thirds of Russian gas this year, but it's possible - European Commission executive vice president;

▪ Russia's share in EU imports is 46% for coal, 45% for gas, 27% of crude oil

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⚡️ Austrian Foreign Minister on Ukraine's desire to join the EU: we must be careful not to create expectations that we cannot fulfill

❗Scholz, Macron, Xi agree on need to support diplomatic solution to Ukrainian conflict

⚡ Sweden's accession to NATO could destabilise the situation in Europe - country’s PM

⚡ US trade deficit hits record high of $89.7bln, rising 9.4% in January

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has mocked sanctions against him: this time he's slamming Japan, "a country with centuries-old traditions of morality and noble behaviour 'Bushido.'"

"I really wonder how such smart people suddenly went astray and froze my assets, which I never had in Japan? Most likely, in addition to the ban on my financial activities in Japan, I am now forbidden to watch anime and enjoy cherry blossoms," he said.

He has also announced "retaliatory measures": the Japanese authorities are no longer allowed in Chechnya, except for two places – psychiatric hospitals in the Chechen villages of Braguny and Samashki. "All their property and bank accounts are now arrested, will be sold, and the funds will be directed to the development fund of the Kuril Islands," Kadyrov added.

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⚡ The UN Secretariat has banned its staff from using the words "war" and "invasion" to describe the situation in Ukraine, the Irish Times reports. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba called this censorship