❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that leaders of the EU nations had given a green light to the European integration of Ukraine during the summit in Versailles

📲 Google Cloud to stop accepting new customers in Russia

The announcement is the latest action from Google and other tech companies who have sought to "punish" Moscow. Google Cloud’s action follows similar suspensions from other top cloud providers, including Microsoft and Amazon. 

Amazon on Tuesday said it would no longer be accepting new Amazon Web Services customers in Russia. Microsoft last week said it would suspend all sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia. 

The Silicon Valley giant also said last week it had suspended all advertising in the country. 

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😱🛢The world would need between five to ten years to match the millions of barrels of oil that Russia produces each day, former Texas industry regulator Ryan Sitton told Sputnik

"How long before the rest of the world can make the ten million barrels of oil that Russia produces? The answer is it is so far off it can't be done," Sitton says.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Joe Biden to propose on Friday to end normal trade relations with Russia, increase tariffs on Russian imports - reports

⚡️🇺🇸 The US Senate has approved the $1.5 trillion budget package that includes $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine (bipartisan vote, 68-31)

The bill now heads to Biden’s desk for his signature

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸The Russian embassy in the United States has demanded that Washington hold Meta to account over extremist activities, after the company allowed calls for violence against Russians.

❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦More than 40 GOP lawmakers are demanding that Joe Biden aid “the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems” to Ukraine, after Washington snubbed Warsaw's MiG-29 jets offer

Are they really for "peace"?

❗️🇨🇳 Based on the principles of mutual respect and mutual benefit, China will "develop cooperation relations with all parties and ensure more stability in the world," Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says

❗️The anti-Russian sanctions will have a negative impact on the recovery of the global economy after the COVID-19 pandemic and will inflict damage on all the countries,Chinese Premier Li says

❗️ US President Biden will announce new measures against Russia on Friday in response to the operation in Ukraine, the White House said.

"At 10:15 a.m. EST (15:15 GMT), the president will announce actions to further hold Russia accountable", Biden's schedule for Friday reads

⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire 40 Grad rockets at Gorlovka in Donbass, DPR says

⚡️⚡️ DPR forces take control of Volnovakha city - Russian MoD

⚡️Ukrainian military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk put out of operation - Russian MoD

⚡️ Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says EU will not impose sanctions on Russia affecting gas and oil sectors.

"The most important issue for us has been settled in a favourable way: there won't be sanctions that would apply to gas or oil, so Hungary's energy supply is secure in the upcoming period", the prime minister said

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❗️Key takeaways from the Russian Defence Ministry's latest briefing:

🔹 On the morning of 11 March, high-precision long-range weapons struck at Ukrainian military infrastructure, and put out of action military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankovsk;

🔹 The DPR forces have taken control of Volnovakha; the settlements of Olginka, Velika-Anadol, and Zeleny Gai were also taken under control; the advance was up to 6 kilometres.

🔹 Units of the Russian military have reached the Petrovskoye-Evgenovka-Oktyabrskaya line. The advance was 17 kilometres;

🔹 Three Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters, eight unmanned aerial vehicles, including five Bayraktar TB-2s, were shot down, 107 targets were hit by aircraft.

🔹 In total, 3,213 Ukrainian military infrastructure have been disabled since the operation began

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⚡️⚡️ Kiev will no longer procure Russian nuclear fuel, Ukrainian company Energoatom says

"Energoatom completely refuses to purchase Russian nuclear fuel", the company said on its Telegram channel

📹: The Russian MoD has shown a video of a Forpost drone in action — destroying a stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists from a height of about four kilometres

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⚡️⚡️ Putin agrees to idea of sending volunteers to Ukraine

⚡️ Putin supports Shoigu’s proposals on transferring captured western-made military equipment to DPR, LPR

❗️ Shoigu: Huge number of volunteers ready to come to help DPR and LPR, most applications come from the Middle East - over 16,000 people

📹: Russian President Putin holds meeting with members of Security Council

https://sputniknews.com/20220311/russian-president-putin-holds-meeting-with-members-of-security-council-1093768752.html