Georgia’s former Minister of Defence Irakly Okruashvili has arrived in Ukraine together with other Georgian volunteers in order to fight against Russia.
Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers are accepting applications for businesses to evacuate from the war zone to the west of Ukraine and is ready to provide business conditions for work in the new location.
The aggressor state, Russia, says it is ready to "conduct a humanitarian operation" in Ukraine. Russians are talking about a humanitarian catastrophe in many Ukrainian cities directly caused by their aggression as an excuse for the next "operation".
The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered the verification of information on the supply of various weapons to Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With the help of pro-Kremlin media, the Russian invaders are spreading fake news about incredible discoveries in Ukraine. In a few days, the occupiers claim to have found ‘combat drugs’ in Ukraine and destroyed the pathogens of plague and anthrax. Photo and video evidence of this has not published.
Russian authorities are looking for new ways to justify the country's war in Ukraine. As such, the aggressor country is planning to shell residential neighbourhoods of Russian cities near the Ukrainian border to accuse the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the attacks.
In the Mariupol sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched a successful counterattack and destroyed three enemy tanks, 4 military armoured personnel carriers, 2 Tigers (Russian 4x4, multipurpose, all-terrain infantry mobility vehicle – ed.), and ca. 30 troops. Two Russian soldiers were captured.
Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba reported that Kadyrovites (the Chechen paramilitary group supporting the Russian Armed Forces) have seized a psychoneurological hospital which houses more than 600 patients.
The Ukrainian State Security Service has issued a warning regarding another fake generated by the Russian side - a fabricated video that claims that there is a secret prison run by the Security Service and the CIA in Ukraine.
More than 200 Belarusians have joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion to date. 300 more volunteers from Belarus are currently on standby in Poland.