❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸The claims against the head of the Russian Community Coordinating Council are an element of a large-scale anti-Russian campaign, the Russian embassy in the US says

Check out the highlights of the night in our latest updates:

▪️ According to Under-Secretary of State Nuland, the US is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research material from reaching Russian forces;

▪️ The United States Department of Commerce is threatening Chinese companies with restrictive measures if they don't support a Russian export ban, media report

▪️ Britain has made it a criminal offense for any Russian aircraft to enter its airspace;

▪️ Zelensky said again that it is necessary to sit down at the negotiating table. Also, according to him, Ukraine expects the European Union to make "tough sanctions decisions" targeting Russia

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⚡️ The Russian Embassy in the United States has demanded an end to the persecution of Russians

❗️ The White House has reportedly failed to organize Biden's talks with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the President of the United Arab Emirates;

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have reportedly refused to increase oil production and adhere to the plan approved by OPEC

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The US ban on energy imports from Russia does not apply to uranium, according to US media

⚡️ Lavrov is scheduled to fly to Turkey for the Antalya Forum on Wednesday, where he plans to get in touch with Ukrainian FM Kuleba, the Russian Foreign Ministry says

⚡️ At 7:50 a.m. local time, Ukrainian troops fired two 120mm caliber mortars at Donetsk, according to the DPR representative in the JCCC

⚡️ Russian National Guard says situation at Zaporozhskaya NPP is under its full control

⚡️ Ukrainian troops shelled Panteleymonovka, fired fifteen 120-mm projectiles - DPR

❗️ Russian Defense Ministry:

▪️ The formations of Ukrainian troops, which were planned to be used in the Donbass, were trained by American and British instructors in Lvov;

▪️ Documents of the National Guard of Ukraine confirming the preparation by Kiev of an offensive operation in the Donbass for March came into the possession of the Russian military;

▪️ The special operation conducted by the Russian military preempted and disrupted a large-scale offensive by strike groups of Ukrainian troops in the LPR and DPR

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⚡️ Russian MoD makes public documents confirming preparation by Kiev of offensive operation in Donbass

⚡️ Russia reduces use of US dollar in reserves and external settlements against backdrop of sanctions, switches to non-western capital markets, Russian Foreign Ministry said

The MoD had in its possession an order issued by the Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Colonel-General Mykola Balan, dated 22 January 2022, which describes in detail the plan for preparing an offensive in the Donbass:

▪️ Kiev had planned a March offensive operation in the Donbass;

▪️ The order describes in detail plans for preparing one of the strike groups for offensive operations in the zone of the so-called "Joint Forces Operation in the Donbass";

▪️ Measures to build up the capabilities of the Ukrainian military in the Donbass area were carried out by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 19 January;

▪️ The document also contains instructions for all activities aimed at achieving “combat coordination of the nationalists” to be completed by 28 February, in order to ensure the fulfillment of “combat missions as part of the Ukrainian 'Joint Forces Operation' in Donbas"

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⚡️ Ukrainian authorities confirm Sumy-Poltava humanitarian corridor operates on 9 March

⚡️ Heineken has suspended the production and sale of beer under the Heineken brand in Russia; all factories continue to work, said the company