President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky recalls all Ukrainian peacekeepers from all missions around the world to defend the country against Russian aggression.
The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine has information that Russian invaders in the occupied territories are compiling lists of Ukrainians who are "unreliable" and should be subject to "measures of influence".
Russian aggressors say they are ready to open humanitarian corridors to evacuate the population of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Chernihiv at 10:00 a.m. on March 8.
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba emphasised the need for direct talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Volodymyr Putin.
The head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Borzov, has said that 7 March held one of the longest airstrikes yet, as the Russian Air Force launched cruise missiles from bombers.
The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered the verification of information on the supply of various weapons to Ukraine.
Vitaliy Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Regional State Administration has announced that a Russian Kalibr cruise missile hit a military base where Ukrainian soldiers were sleeping.
Deputy Head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Roman Semenukha reported that Russian occupiers have suggested that he begin negotiating about the transfer of power in the region.
The Russian occupying forces have blocked the operation of the Chornobayi poultry farm, which holds 3 million chickens. On 6 March, the Russian forces fired at staff who were transporting feed for the farm. On Monday-Tuesday, the chickens will start dying of hunger.
The attempt to organise a humanitarian corridor out of Russian-occupied Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel has resulted in the evacuation of some 2,000 people, but more than 4,000 still need to be evacuated from the outskirts of the capital.
On the twelfth day of the struggle against Russian occupiers, the Ukrainian Armed and the Territorial Defence Forces continue to inflict damage on the invaders’ manpower and equipment.
On 7 March, during fighting for Mariupol, Ukrainian marines and a battalion of Azov volunteers destroyed a Russian tank company, along with 6 armoured vehicles and 40 troops.
Prime Ministers of the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands stated today that it is the courage of the Ukrainian resistance which inspires them to introduce stricter sanctions on Russia.
"Yedinaya Rossiya" [United Russia], Putin’s party, has proposed the nationalisation of the property of companies that are terminating their production in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk has announced that Russia has taken 2,046 foreign students hostage and is blocking their evacuation.
In Moscow, police visited the home of a sixth-grader who asked about the war with Ukraine in a class and shouted "Glory to Ukraine!" during the break. The electricity supply to his apartment was cut off and his parents were summoned to the police station.
The body of the 61-year-old top-level manager of Gazprom, Alexander Tyulyakov, was found on the morning of February 25, 2022 in the Leningrad region, but the local police were ousted from the scene by workers of the Gazprom security service.
As of 1 March, Ukraine's international reserves amounted to $27.5 billion. In February, the reserves decreased by 5.3% - as reported by the press service of the National Bank.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, has stated that Ukraine supports the initiative to hold an international tribunal for Russia akin to the Nuremberg Trials, for the actions of its army during the war against Ukraine.
Ukraine is expecting four interim measures from the UN Court in The Hague, which is hearing the case over the non-existent "genocide" of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Zelenskyy, called the Russian army "barbarians who do not know how to fight servicemen, but know how to kill civilians.
French President Emmanuel Macron has harshly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's position on "green corridors" for Ukrainian civilians fleeing from the war zone.
In their attack on Ukraine, Russian troops have lost about a quarter of all military equipment concentrated on the border before the war, but one should not expect that the Russian military will begin to experience a lack of weapons.
The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has denied "rumours" about disconnecting Russia from the world wide web.
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that a tripartite meeting of the Foreign Ministries of Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia will take place on Thursday, 10 March in Antalya.
Georgia's Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Otar Shamugiya, said that the export of dairy products from Georgia to Russia was an "opportunity" and that he did not consider Putin's war against Ukraine to be an obstacle.
Russian troops will try to continue to surround Kyiv, they are preparing to attack Sumy, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and want to establish control over Chernihiv city and Kaniv Hydroelectric Power Plant.
A large group of Russian troops that were supposed to advance on Kyiv had been formed between Kharkiv and Sumy. It is no longer there, said Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the President's Chief of Staff.
Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Maksym Marchenko declared that death awaits the Russian invaders in Odesa. He urged [the occupiers] not to persuade Odesans to commit crimes against their own state.
Humanitarian aid has not yet arrived in the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, which remains blockaded by the Russian occupying forces. An aid shipment is currently halted in one of the towns in the Zaporizhia region.
The Russian government has notified the International Court of Justice that the Russian Federation has no interest in defending itself against Ukraine’s accusations with regard to violations of the Genocide Convention.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Health refutes the misinformation disseminated by the Russian propagandist media on alleged "emergency removal of traces of a bio-military programme" funded by the US Department of Defence.
The Security Service of Ukraine has arrested 13 militants from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions near Mayorsk in the Donetsk region. The Security Service has also exposed a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions who had been helping the Russian troops in the Luhansk region.
The town of Energodar, where the Zaporizhia NPP is located,is experiencing intermittent communications and problems with food deliveries. The local government is organising meals for residents in critical situations.
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has paid UAH 2.2 billion in taxes to the budget of Ukraine. This sum was the subject of a criminal investigation into tax evasion. There are no more criminal proceedings.
Ukraine called the "evacuation" of people to Russia and Belarus proposed by the aggressor state unacceptable and demanded that they support evacuation routes from Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia to the western regions of Ukraine.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian troops opened fire on a Ukrainian Post (Ukrposhta) mail delivery truck that was delivering pensions to remote locations, and ran it over with a tank. Two post office workers were killed in the attack.
Over a 24-hour period from 6-7 March, Russian forces have been shelling and carrying out aerial bombardment of residential neighbourhoods and various facilities in Kharkiv and nearby villages with renewed force, resulting in a lot of destruction and fire.
On the night of March 7, airstrikes hit Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Mykolayiv, Zhytomyr Region was shelled, and the situation in the Kherson and Sumy regions remains difficult.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence assures that it is going to open humanitarian corridors from Ukraine to Belarus and the Russian Federation and that it is going to begin a ceasefire from 10:00 (09:00 Kyiv time) on 7 March.
The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation has called for an end to hostilities in Ukraine as soon as possible.