A member of Russia's Federation Council has said that Russia is sending conscripted soldiers to fight in Ukraine, and that only four members of a 100-unit company survived.
On 3 March, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law allowing the sale of Russian property held in Ukraine. Preparations are underway for the sale of such assets.
Ukraine has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to urgently assist in the creation of humanitarian corridors, as agreed by Ukraine and Russia during the second round of negotiations.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross for help in finding Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine and providing assistance to them.
Heads of the G7 countries’ foreign affairs departments will meet on Friday to coordinate their response to Russian aggression and to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
As of the ninth day of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the occupiers have suffered casualties in all directions, Russian soldiers are demotivated and have been surrendering, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has discussed the humanitarian, economic, and security needs of Ukraine with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, Evropeyska Pravda reports, quoting a statement from the US State Department.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the Russian side raised questions during the negotiations to which they had already prepared their answers, and on which compromise is impossible.
According to a poll, 55% of Ukrainians believe that the Russian government is to blame for the war against Ukraine, and another 38% blame not only the Russian government but the Russian people as well.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the war against Ukraine, claims that there have been no rocket attacks on Kyiv – it is all an “anti-Russian disinformation campaign.”
The enemy is continuing to strike residential areas from Grads, Tornadoes and Hurricanes, while in some areas the Russian military begins its move to defending instead of attacking, sometimes involving reserve forces due to their losses.
President Zelenskyy claimed that Putin was wrong to think that he could break Ukrainians or make them surrender, and compared the desire to destroy Ukraine with a disease.
Quote: “Ukrzaliznytsya [Ukrainian Railway Company - ed.] received a task to send 20 carriages to transport the bodies of Russian military personnel killed in action from the stations Fastiv, Odessa-Zastava, Podilsk, Merefa, and Zaporizhzhia.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydach said that Ukraine could receive the status of a candidate for EU membership "tomorrow, the day after tomorrow", if a political decision is made.
Last night passed peacefully for several regions of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the enemy continued to attack Kharkiv, Kherson, Severodonetsk and Lysychansk; Ukrainian troops continued to defend Chernihiv and Nizhyn; and the situation in the Vyshhorod area just outside of Kyiv is tense.
Some websites run by the invaders began publishing news about the alleged surrender of Ukrainian regions and the formation of a pseudo “federal republic of Ukraine” on 27 February.
Oleksiy Arestovych, Adviser to the Ukraine's President's Chief of Staff, says that the enemy is demoralised and was dropping weapons en masse, only subordinates of Russia’s top leaders fighting more actively.
The Russian President’s press secretary, Dmitriy Peskov, has stated that Vladimir Putin was continuously receiving information about Russian casualties in the war against Ukraine, however, the Kremlin could not provide casualty figures. According to Peskov, this is the prerogative of Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
