
On March 2, the second round of negotiations is planned.
A series of explosions thundered in Kyiv. The Kyiv Independent reports that there were four - last two at the Friendship of Peoples metro station, a few kilometers from the city center.
Students of Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekova was driven to the rally in support of President Vladimir Putin, writes New Gazeta with reference to the source on the scene of the event.
According to him, students did not talk about the action in advance. Employees of the university administration "went to pairs to some groups, distributed attributes and took it to the street."
“New” with reference to the photo from the action writes that the students stood with the flags of Russia and the university, and in their hands were held by T -shirts with Putin’s portrait and the inscription #the Mykomander President. At the main entrance to the university, banners with the St. George ribbon and the words #are hungering.
Vice -Rector of the KBSU Sultan Gekyev published photographs from the action in the story. And before that, there he posted pictures of people who spoke out against the war in Ukraine, and added hashtags #luminously or #his hand -in -law.
Banks will be disconnected from the SWIFT international payment system on March 12, TASS reports .
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (MUS) Karim Khan began an investigation into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the court website. He suggests that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed.
“A few minutes ago, I notified the Mus Presidium of my decision to immediately begin an active investigation of the situation. Our work on collecting evidence has already begun, ”Khan said.
Earlier, the prosecutor explained that Ukraine is not the state participating in the Roman Statute (the country did not ratify the document) and therefore could not contact the office of the prosecutor. In this regard, the khan asked the member states of the Roman Statute to support his request to the Presidium of the court to investigate-today he received support from 39 countries.
The employee of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine Marina Fenina died at the shelling of Kharkov, the OSCE Secretariat reports in Vienna.
“Marina was killed when she delivered products for her family in the city, which became a combat zone,” it was reported.
The German authorities confiscated the yacht of the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, after he fell under the sanctions of the European Union, writes Forbes with reference to three sources in the yacht industry.
We are talking about Dilber's yacht worth almost $ 600 million. The ship is now in Hamburg.
Usmanov bought a yacht in 2016 from the German shipbuilding company Lürssen, which built it on an individual order for more than four years.
The British rock band Placebo canceled its performance in Moscow at the Park Live festival, which was supposed to take place in July.
The group spoke out against the war in Ukraine: “Our hearts with the people of Ukraine. You are constantly in our thoughts. "
Also, Placebo's statement says that the group arranged tours in Russia for 20 years: “This is heartbreaking to see the country that we love and in which we have many friends drawn into this nightmare. We know - the vast majority of Russians are opposed to these barbaric actions. ”
Nobody attacked Russia, she attacked herself. This is not a fight against Nazism. This is a lie and insulting the history of Russia and Ukraine, an insult to the memory of our ancestors, who fought with Nazism shoulder to shoulder.
French President Emmanuel Macron
In the Steam Game store, they limited the payment methods for users from Russia - for this you can only choose PayPal or the internal wallet of the store, writes DTF.
The Ukrainian railway (Ukrzaliznitsa) accused the Russian military of an aviation strike at the South Station in Kyiv. The company noted that at the station the evacuation of thousands of Ukrainian women and children is taking place.
The shell hit the IBIS hotel. The station building stood and did not receive significant damage. Is there any victims is still unknown.
According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, as a result of the incident, a large heating main was torn and part of Kiev can be left without heat.
Interfax-Ukraine: A strong explosion occurred at the Kiev station. “Ukrainian Pravda” writes that the explosion occurred near the underground crossing of the Southern Railway Station.
The world's largest manufacturer of Oracle software wrote on Twitter that he had already suspended work in Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the creation of the headquarters for humanitarian response to help the population of Ukraine. Russian troops intend to provide Ukrainians with nutrition, water and essential things, as well as create humanitarian corridors to exit the fighting zones.
The largest European chain of H&M clothing stores also suspended work in Russia.
Roman Abramovich announced the sale of Chelsea. All funds will go to the Fund for helping the victims of the war in Ukraine.
The United States announced a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus. In Russia, the restrictions will affect the defense sector, as well as the supply of equipment for oil refining. In addition, the United States will close the sky for Russian aircraft. Minsk imposed restrictions on the import of high -tech goods.
RBC: At a meeting in the Ministry of Transport, to preserve foreign production aircraft, Russian companies discussed the possible nationalization of liners
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in order to demand from Russia to stop military operations in Ukraine and withdraw troops. For 141 countries voted, against 5 (Russia, Belarus, Syria, DPRK, Eritrea), 35 countries abstained.

The BBC has published detailed maps of three directions of invasion of Russian troops to Ukraine.
The number of detainees in anti -war protests in Russia for a week exceeded seven thousand people.
The Russian Ministry of Defense for the first time in the week of the war announced its own data on losses. The department emphasized that neither conscripts nor cadets participate in a “special operation”.

According to the head of the Russian delegation in the negotiations of Vladimir Medinsky, the Ukrainian side will come only on the morning of March 3.
Roscosmos gave London two days to terminate the state participation in the ONEWB satellite Internet. Otherwise, the head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin threatened to cancel the launch.
Georgia, following Ukraine, was about to submit an application for joining the European Union.
The Managing Director of Yandex Tigran Khudardyan called the war "monstrous", but rejected the calls "immediately stand on the armored car and loudly indicate his position." He recalled that the leadership of Yandex should protect the "services necessary for people living in the country as electricity or water supply."
The Roskomskvobod project, which tracks the registers of Roskomnadzor, wrote about the possible beginning of YouTube blocking in Russia. So far, the service address is blocked, which is used to store pictures and other elements.
Roskomnadzor denies YouTube's blocking.
Radio "Silver Rain" changed the broadcasting net. No comments.
Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the reserve broadcast of the Echo of Moscow broadcast on the Internet .
The Village website is blocked in Russia.
The striker of the St. Petersburg Zenit Artem Dziuba opposed any war. He emphasized that until the last did not want to speak out "on the topic of events in Ukraine", because "not an expert in politics." “I am against discrimination on a national basis. I am not ashamed that I am Russian. I am proud that I am Russian. And I don’t understand why athletes should suffer now, ”the football player added.
In the State Service for Emergency Situations of Ukraine, they said that “more than 2000 dead peaceful citizens” is an evaluative judgment, the department does not have accurate numbers.
The BBC Russian Service has collected a list of companies that have stopped business in Russia.
Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh and founder Tinkoff Bank Oleg Tinkov ceased to be dollar billionaires, RBC notes .
In Russia, anti -war protests continue. In Yekaterinburg, the detentions began at the rally and the audience went on a march around the city.
The former State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya urged to stop the war: “I appeal to all Russians and Ukrainians: you need to not share, but to unite with each other - without clarification, who is the patriot and who is not. We either realize everything together, or destroy the world, after which through suffering we will come to understand that we must be able to accept the choice of others. ”
The editor -in -chief of the rain (declared by the “ino -agent”) Tikhon Dzyadko left Russia. “After the illegal blocking of the rain site, rain accounts in a number of social networks, as well as threats to some employees, it is obvious that the personal security of some of us is at risk. We will appeal all the decisions made in relation to the rain and continue to work, partially,” he wrote.
Piskarev told how a criminal punishment for fakes on the actions of the Russian troops will work:
To accelerate the adoption of amendments, they were introduced to the second reading to another bill. According to Piskarev, the document will be adopted in all three readings at the next meetings - the first of them is scheduled for March 4.
The former head of the Yandex.qua service, Tonya Samsonova, announced the departure from the company "Due to the fact that Yandex does not display the information on the main page of Yandex.ru that Russian troops are firing the cities of Ukraine and killing civilians."
The head of the State Duma Committee on Security, Vasily Piskarev, announced that a bill on criminal punishment “For the spread of fakes on actions” of the Armed Forces was submitted to the parliament. There are no details or text of the bill yet.
Let's not really enter into political disputes at work, at home, in social networks. They only burn the forces that we need to do our job. I consider it my personal goal to make people and companies go through this period with as fewer loss as possible.
The head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina - in the internal appeal to employees
The Central Bank forbade some foreigners to withdraw money from Russia to their foreign accounts, the regulator said in a statement . According to RBC , we are talking about citizens of those countries who imposed sanctions against Russia.
Russians (tax residents of Russia) were banned from taking currency to foreign banks from March 1.
In Moscow, the police closed the workshop of Partisan Press, where they printed anti -war posters.
The consequences of the shelling of the Kharkov center.
The European Union prohibited the transfer of banknotes to Russia.
The chief editor of the Russian version of RT, the defendant of the “Swamp business”, Maria Baronova, said that she had quit from the channel.
The European Union disconnected from the SWIFT system Russian banks VTB, “Opening”, VEB.rf, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Russia and Sukombank.
Journalist of Lake Katerji published photographs of the consequences of yesterday's bombing of the Kyiv television tower, which was held by Russian troops. He wrote that although the television is located directly next to Babim Yar, the complex of memory of the victims of mass executions was not affected. As a result of the bombing, according to the Kyiv city hall, five people were killed.
Kiev confirmed that negotiations will continue on the evening of March 2.
The Russian government announced a delay from the army and a preferential mortgage for IT specialists. All IT companies will be released for three years from checks and income tax.
In social networks, they began to talk about problems with paying for purchases via Apple Pay, in particular, in Auchan . The Muscovite, who asked not to give her name, told the cold that when the payment from the Tinkoff card did not work, the employee of the cash zone came up and said that only the Mir payment system was working. The telephones of the Auchan press service specified on the network website also do not work.
Alfa-Bank reported that his cards work through Apple and Google Pay, but advised to have a physical plastic card just in case.
Several Russian men told Mediazone (declared an “ino -agent”) that before flying abroad at the airport they arranged an “interview”, which was asked about the attitude to the war with Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Unknown employees of the law enforcement agencies also demanded to unlock the phone to see the correspondence and channels to which people are signed in Telegram.
Other replicas from the morning briefing of the Kremlin.

Kremlin: The Russian delegation in the evening of March 2 will be on the spot for the second round of negotiations.
The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, threatened to remove the OneWeb rocket from the start, which provide Internet access from anywhere in the planet. He demanded that the company of guarantees "will not be used for military purposes." Earlier, the SPACEX Mask Mask Mask Mask was put on Ukraine.
Alexei Navalny called on people, “wherever you are”, to go out every day to stocks against the war with Ukraine.
The Central Bank forbade paying dividends abroad.
Ukrainian embassy in Moscow.
UNIAN and Ukrainian Pravda report the landing of a landing at Nikolaev airport.
Bellingcat (declared “ino -agent”) found that the blow to the central square of Kharkov was inflicted on a winged rocket, which in its outlines resembles a “caliber”. Such missiles are in service with only the Russian army.
Earlier, the Kharkov regional administration said that over the past day 21 people died under shelling.
Russian troops came close to the city of Energodar, where the largest Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Europe is located. Employees of the power plant went out onto the road so as not to miss them, said the representative of the press service of the nuclear power plant Andrei Tuz.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously argued that it controls the territory around the nuclear power plant.
After the release of the circulation with anti-war calls, the police came to the Ural Publishing House of VK-Media, Znak.com reports .
Russian media reports conflicting information about the second round of negotiations with Ukraine. At first, the source of Interfax said that they were shifting by the end of the week. Then the interlocutor of TASS said about the postponement. But then RIA Novosti, also without telling where the information came from, wrote that negotiations could still go through on the evening of March 2.
The Polish border service said that 453 thousand refugees from Ukraine have already arrived in the country. The total number of refugees, according to the UN on March 1, reached 677 thousand people.
The head of the Ministry of Health of the Belgorod Region Andrei Ikonnikov responded to the reports that the local hospital began to accept only wounded Russian soldiers from Ukraine. At the same time, he never mentioned neither the soldier, nor war, nor Ukraine: “We continue to work in the same mode, no changes have occurred.”
“Yesterday morning, on Freedom Square, we were all Kharkiv residents ... Last night we were bombed in Kyiv and we all died again in Babi Yar from a missile strike, although the whole world promised constantly: never again,” Zelensky made a morning appeal to the Ukrainians.
Russian troops took control of Kherson, they say to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Nick Cave canceled concerts in Russia and Ukraine, which were supposed to take place in the summer.
“Our thoughts and love to the brave people of Ukraine, their heroic leader and all those who suffer from this meaningless war. Ukraine, you and I and everyone in Russia who opposes this cruel act, and we pray that this madness is more completed, ”the musician and his group said in a message on the page of the musician.
The editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Alexei Venediktov, said that YouTube blocked the Echo channel in Europe as a Gazprom. However, when viewing from Moscow, the YouTube channel of the radio station is still available.
On the eve of Roskomnadzor blocked the Echo website in Russia and turned it off from the radio.
In the center of Kharkov, after the blow of the Russian military, the buildings of the regional police department and the sociology faculty of the Karazin National University, which stands near the building of the Internal Affairs Directorate, are burning, according to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.
The American Institute for the Study of the War, sponsored by the country's defense complex, published a new map, which indicates what parts of the territory of Ukraine Russia controls. The card has practically not changed per day - from the new only the fact that the borders of Mariupol are marked as controlled by Russian troops, at the request of Russia itself.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia on the afternoon of February 28 claimed that the troops blocked the city.
The Ural Publishing Group of VK Media released newspapers with anti-war covers, drew attention to Znak.com. The group produces newspapers that are published in the northern cities of the Sverdlovsk region.
On today's issues of newspapers “Evening Krasnoturinsk”, “About Severouralsk”, “Evening Karpinsk” and “Globus” (this newspaper is published in the city of Serov) says “This madness should be stopped!”.
Also, newspapers are called upon to leave a signature under the petition against the war with Ukraine. It has already signed more than 1 million people.
Sberbank announced the departure from the European market, RIA Novosti reports .
Центробанк решил не возобновлять сегодня торги на московской бирже в секции фондового рынка, передает РИА «Новости».
American Express приостановила сотрудничество с российскими банками, попавшими под санкции, а крупнейшая частная нефтяная компания в мире ExxonMobil объявила о начале выхода из проекта «Сахалин-1».
Российские войска заняли железнодорожный вокзал и речной порт в Херсоне еще 1 марта, рассказал «Радио Свобода» мэр города Игорь Колыхаев.
Леонид Агутин выступил против войны: «Я не собираюсь произносить политические лозунги. Я не собираюсь анализировать ситуацию. All this is in the past. Я не требую, ибо кому нужны мои требования. Я МОЛЮ — ОСТАНОВИТЕ ВОЙНУ! Договоритесь!».
США закроют воздушное пространство для российских самолетов, сообщил американский президент Джо Байден в своем обращении к Конгрессу.
С начала вторжения более полумиллиона человек покинули Украину в поисках убежища.
Вчера в центре Харькова у здания обладминистрации был нанесен мощный удар. В результате обстрела погибло не менее 10 человек, 20 пострадало. Обстрелы продолжались весь день.
В Киеве в результате ударов произошел взрыв в районе телебашни, которая стоит у мемориала Бабий Яр, где в годы второй мировой войны были убиты и захоронены тысячи евреев. По данным Украины, при обстреле погибли пять человек.
По требованию Генпрокуратуры были заблокированы сайты телеканала «Дождь» и радиостанции «Эхо Москвы». Станцию также отключили от радиоэфира. Власти обвиняют медиа в публикации ложных сведений о событиях в Украине.
Пентагон считает, что Россия задействовала в Украине уже более 80% подготовленной боевой силы, а многие воюющие с российской стороны — призывники.
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