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 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.
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.
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.
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.