The fourth day of the Russian war with Ukraine. What's happening. Updated

On the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a “special military operation” in Ukraine in order to “protect the inhabitants of Donbass”.

We continue to follow the main events in our online. About how the events developed, read online for February 24th . About the main events of February 25 here

About the events of the third day we led online here.

14:45

Minsk prepared everything necessary for negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Gomel, ensures the solution of protocol issues, told RIA Novosti in the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.

At the same time, Zelensky in contact with Belarusians stated that Ukraine would not negotiate in Minsk.

“Warsaw, Bratislava. Budapest, Istanbul, but not Minsk, ”he said.

14:30

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the delegation from Russia arrived in Belarus for negotiations with Ukrainians and was ready to start them in Gomel. The Russian delegation included representatives of the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense, and other departments of Russia, including the presidential administration, reported Peskov.

“Russia is already ready for negotiations in Gomel, now Moscow is waiting for Ukrainians,” Peskov said .

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky previously asked the Prime Minister of Israel Naphtli Bennett to become an intermediary in negotiations with Russia.

14:10

Russian troops are trying to break into Mariupol, the correspondent of Ukraine 24 reports . On the approach to the city are fighting.

It is also reported about battles on the approaches to Kyiv.

In addition, eyewitnesses lay out the frames of shooting on the social network, presumably in Kharkov.

14:00

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of the "International Legion of Territorial Defense Forces." Foreigners who wanted to join this legion Zelensky recommended that the embassy of Ukraine in their countries have contacted the Embassy of Ukraine.

13:40

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the losses of the Russian troops amounted to 16 aircraft, 18 helicopters, 102 tanks, more than 540 armored vehicles of different types, one anti -aircraft missile system "Buk", more than 3,000 military personnel, even more than 200 people were captured.

The Russian Ministry of Defense still does not disseminate any data on losses.

13:10

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Kherson and Berdyansk were “completely blocked”. Genichevsk and the Chernobaevka airfield near Kherson are “taken under control”, the Russian Ministry of Defense was affirmed in the morning message.

According to the agency, a total of 975 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were destroyed, among them 23 control points and 31 S-300 air defense systems.

The DPR Army took control of Pavlopol and the food, approved in the message.

13:00

The city of New Kakhovka in the Kherson region completely passed under the control of Russian troops, said the mayor of the city Vladimir Kovalenko.

Next to the new Kakhovka is the dam of the North Croat Canal, through which water is supplied to the Crimea.

12:30

Russian troops, presumably, broke through the defense of Kharkov.

The head of the Kharkov regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov, asked not to go out onto the streets of the city of a civilian population.

12:00

Designers and illustrators from Russia published an open letter in which they condemned the invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Ukraine and demanded to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the neighboring state. The letter was signed by more than four thousand people.

“War is aggression, destruction, selfishness and discontinuation. Military operations are ruining fate and breaking human ties. This contradicts the essence of our creative activity - the design of communication. Our work is designed to unite people and improve their lives. The blocking of social networks, banking and financial structures, access to stocks and other working platforms for designers and illustrators - all these political consequences of the war paralyze the functioning of the whole sphere in the country. ”

11:30

The ex-deputy of the State Duma from the Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions Vera Hanzya opposed the war.

“She believed that with the introduction of military shelling she would stop. But they continued. I thought our troops will stop on the border between Ukraine and the LPR and the DPR. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. What we see is a monstrous mistake. <...> The mistake of Russia, the supreme power. You might even agree that military facilities are a threat, and spot attacks on weapons that NATO dragged into Ukraine are necessary. But the ground technician of the Russian Federation invaded into a stranger to someone else's country. I believe that Russia is not right - the country's leadership is not right. ”

11:15

The number of refugees from Ukraine continues to grow, about 150 thousand people left the country, the representative of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) June-Ah Gedini-Uyillams told DW. Poland announced the arrival of 100 thousand, about 50 thousand reached Hungary and Romania, several thousand - Moldova.

According to the UN estimates, the total number of refugees can reach 4 million people.

11:00

“Finland is preparing to close the airspace for the Russian air movement,” said the Minister of Transport of the country of Timo Character.

Thus, Finland will become 11 of the country that applied this measure. Earlier, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria closed the sky for Russian aircraft.

10:50

In Kyiv, shooting is periodically heard, eyewitnesses in social networks report. This is what the editorial office was told by a resident of Nadezhda:

“The third night in the general corridor with animals (there are more walls between the windows, so safer). They quarreled with family about whether it is necessary to open a carrying for a cat. I believe that it is necessary, if, God forbid, it will kill us, the cat will have a chance to get out on their own. However, it is also impossible to let out from the carrying, because it can find yourself in the door area, and there is the most dangerous place. The dog, knowing something, does not want to reach the exit, is written in the apartment or in the entrance, I remove, of course. Such realities. "

10:35

Reuters writes that the international system of interbank payments SWIFT is ready in the coming days to execute the decision on sanctions against Russian banks after the “legal order”.

10:20

The battle for the airport near Vasilkov (Kiev region) continues, rescuers cannot begin to liquidate the fire at the oil depot in a neighboring village, said the chairman of the Kiev regional state administration, Alexei Kuleba.

“A big fire broke out, which can be seen even from Kyiv. The battle does not stop, so the State Emergencies Ministry cannot start extinguishing. Now it was possible to block gas supplies, ”he wrote.

The main thing over night:

Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine created the website and the telegram channel “Look for your”. There is information about prisoners and dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

In Vasilkov, Kiev region, oil depot is burning, the mayor of the city Natalya Balasinovich reports .

Over the three days of the war in Ukraine, more than three thousand people were detained on anti -war actions in different cities of Russia.

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain announced new sanctions against Russia. EU sanctions are introduced in coordination with the United States.

• Some Russian banks will be disconnected from the SWIFT International Interbank System.
• Europe paralyzes the assets of the Central Bank of Russia.
• The European Union will work to prohibit Russian oligarchs use financial assets in the markets.