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War in Ukraine. Online. Archive
Since the beginning of hostilities, Ukraine has severed diplomatic relations with Russia. The Council of Europe has suspended Russia's membership in the organization. Putin and Lavrov and several other Russian officials are included in the sanctions lists of the United States, the European Union and Great Britain. Almost all airspace is closed to Russia. In response to this, Putin ordered the transfer of the country's nuclear forces to a special alert regime. The EU said it would provide weapons to Ukraine, and the European Parliament accepted Ukraine's application to join the European Union. The Insider is following developments.
Russia continues its military invasion of Ukraine, launched on the orders of Vladimir Putin on February 24. Russian authorities call it a “special military operation” to protect people “from genocide.” Moreover, all these days Russia has been shelling not only military targets, but also residential areas in Ukraine, including with cluster bombs, which pose a particular danger to civilians.
Reuters: PepsiCo stops advertising activities and sales of drinks in Russia.
The company (in addition to Pepsi) produces soft drinks, juices, snacks and other food products under the brands “Agusha”, “Vesely Molochnik”, “House in the Village”, “Lubimy”, “Slovyanochka”, “Fruit Garden”, “Miracle”, “Ya” and others.
Sales of dairy products and baby food do not stop, the publication clarifies.
Coca-Cola is suspending business in Russia, Bloomberg reported.
The watch company Rolex stops exporting goods to Russia, Bloomberg reports.
Amazon has stopped accepting new cloud service clients in Russia and Belarus.
Starbucks is suspending business in Russia, cafes are closing - statement.
PepsiCo is not going to leave Russia, but is exploring different options - The Wall Street Journal.
McDonald's is temporarily closing all of its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The head of the publishing house Condé Nast (GQ, Vogue, Tatler, Glamour, AD) announced the suspension of all publishing operations with Condé Nast Russia.
The French branch of the RT television channel filed a lawsuit with the EU Court of Justice against the decision to restrict its broadcasting in the European Union, TASS reports .
Apple has unblocked access to the presentation broadcast for Russians. It was previously reported that the company had stopped selling all products in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.
The websites of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Ministry of Energy, Rosstat, the Ministry of Culture and other departments were hacked. Hackers posted there an image about the relationship between the state and the people in Ukraine and Russia.
The White House has banned American companies from investing in the Russian fuel and energy complex.
Cosmetics company L'Oreal will temporarily close its stores and online stores in Russia.
The CIA director said that Russia lost between 2 and 4 thousand troops in Ukraine.
On March 2, Russia officially recognized 498 killed military personnel. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the losses of the Russian army are approaching 12,000 people.
19:11 The American newspaper The New York Times is removing its employees from Russia in connection with the adoption in the country of a new law on criminal liability for fakes in relation to the Russian Armed Forces. This is stated in a statement by the newspaper's management, which was published on Twitter by deputy managing editor Clifford Levy.
The European Commission will oblige all EU countries to fill their gas storage facilities to at least 90% by October 1 of each year. The European Commission also proposed to EU countries a plan to completely phase out coal, oil and gas from Russia by 2030.
The European Commission's executive vice-president said it would be "terribly difficult" for the EU to replace two-thirds of Russian gas this year, but not impossible.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal made an appeal. He said that over the past six days, 20 thousand tons of humanitarian aid have been imported into Ukraine - food, clothing, medicine.
In addition, more than 10 billion hryvnia was transferred to a special account of the National Bank to support the army.
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) suspends Russia's observer status due to the situation in Ukraine.
St Petersburg University employee, participant in the ALICE and SHINE experiments at CERN Andrey Seryakov, in a conversation with The Insider, explained what this measure means:
“I would say that these are the minimum sanctions expected. This will not affect the work of physicists in CERN experiments in any way, and this is great. That is, now our state is completely removed from the management of CERN, but the participation of institutes, universities, and physicists is not limited.”17:50
The UK government is preparing to announce its intention to gradually reduce imports of Russian oil and gas, reports Politico journalist Alex Wickham.
Tire manufacturer Continental is suspending production and business in Russia.
We are talking primarily about the enterprise in Kaluga. The company is also stopping all export and import supplies.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 41 children have died and another 76 children have been injured—this data is provided by the Children's Ombudsman of Ukraine.
16:59 How credit holidays will work:
— The right to credit holidays is given to citizens, small and medium-sized businesses, including mortgages, if the loan agreement was concluded before March 1, 2022.
— From March 1 to September 30, you can contact the lender with a request for a credit holiday.
— The government will have the right to extend the grace period.
— Credit holidays can be provided for a period of no more than six months and provide for a deferment of payments on a loan or loan or a reduction in their size.
— Conditions for granting vacations: a drop in income by more than 30%, the loan is no more than the level established by the government, the borrower is no longer on such a vacation.
— Even those borrowers who have already used such a right during the “Covid” period will be able to apply for a credit holiday.
Putin signed a law on measures to support citizens and businesses under sanctions. Among them:
The possibility of introducing a moratorium on scheduled inspections of small and medium-sized enterprises in 2022 and IT companies in 2022-2024.
Possibility to operate without renewing the license.
Simplification of government procurement.
16:45 Yum! Brands (which owns the KFC and Pizza Hut brands) is suspending investment and development in Russia and redirecting income to humanitarian purposes.
In Mariupol, a six-year-old girl died from dehydration under the rubble, said the head of the city, Vadim Boychenko.
“Behind this story is the life of Tanya, whom we rescued from the rubble of a destroyed house. Her mother died. We cannot say how long our little, strong Mariupol woman fought for her life. We cannot imagine how much suffering this innocent child had to endure,” he wrote.
The girl’s death was confirmed by Vladimir Zelensky. “The child died from dehydration. In 2022,” he said in another address.
The White House will today announce a ban on Russian oil imports, fuel prices will rise across the planet, but “that’s the price of freedom,” Senator Chris Coons said on CNN.
Photo of the destroyed hospital in Izium. “I thought that the gates of hell had closed, but it turned out that it was only the first floor. This is the emergency department of our Central City Hospital. Probably another secret NATO base. The patients got out from under the rubble as best they could,” wrote Deputy Mayor Vladimir Matsokin.
Raisin is completely bombed. The bus station, court, railway station, executive committee, police, military registration and enlistment office, medical college, dozens of shops were destroyed. The explosions shattered windows in hospitals and destroyed bridges.
Due to incessant shelling, people have been sitting in shelters for six days. There is no bread, water, electricity, gas in the city, communications do not work. Because of the shelling, it is impossible to evacuate people.
Also St. Petersburg now.
Photo: SOTA
A protest continues in St. Petersburg dedicated to Women's Solidarity Day in the fight for their rights. Police officers detain the picketers and tear up their posters.
The first evacuation column from Sumy was able to get out. Then the shelling began and further evacuation was disrupted.
https://t.me/ressentiment_channel/18285 15:35Detentions at an anti-war rally in St. Petersburg.
Video: ASTRA
Binance will no longer support Mastercard and Visa cards issued in the Russian Federation starting March 9.
In addition, all transactions with Mastercard and Visa cards initiated by financial institutions outside of Russia will also not be available in the Russian Federation on Binance.
During the 12 days of the war, two million people were forced to leave Ukraine, said the official representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Shabia Mantu.
British Petroleum, following Shell, will stop concluding new deals to purchase oil and gas from Russia, Bloomberg reports.
Shell will close its gas stations in Russia.
The British-Dutch oil and gas company Shell announced its abandonment of Russian oil and gas, Bloomberg reports.
From March 9, Sputnik radio will begin broadcasting on the Echo of Moscow frequency. The first broadcast starts at 07:00 Wednesday.
“The historical injustice has been corrected that the most quoted radio station in Russia still did not have an FM frequency,” said the radio station’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky made a new video message. In particular, he stated ( translation of "Medusa"):
Over the past 30 years, Russia has not lost as much aviation equipment as during the 13 days of the war in Ukraine.
Blame for every death in Ukraine from airstrikes lies with Russia. But the West, which cannot ensure a no-fly zone over Ukraine, is also responsible for this.
Humanitarian corridors for Ukrainians to escape from blocked cities have not yet worked.12:57
Internet providers in the Netherlands have begun blocking Russian media sites in the country.
Cloudflare, which provides content delivery services and protection against DDoS attacks, will continue to provide services in Russia. The company said the departure would do little harm to the Russian government, but would make it more difficult for Russian citizens to access foreign sources of information and make them more vulnerable to persecution by authorities.
Vladimir Zelensky said that he had “lost interest” in the issue of Ukraine joining NATO: “Regarding NATO, I lost interest in this issue after we realized that NATO is not ready to accept Ukraine. The alliance is afraid of contradictory things and confrontation with the Russian Federation.”
The mayor of Irpen, Alexander Markushin, said that on March 7, “he received a message from the occupiers with threats to life and health and an actual demand for the complete surrender of Irpen.”
The Japanese payment system JCB will suspend operations in Russia.
The World Bank Council decided to provide Ukraine with $723 million. “The package approved by the Council consists of an additional $350 million in borrowing and $139 million in guarantees, as well as the mobilization of $134 million in grant funding and $100 million in matching funding,” the release said.
Russia has introduced a temporary ban on the export of foreign medical products from the country.
According to estimates of the General Staff of Ukraine, since the beginning of the war, the loss of Russian troops in manpower has exceeded 12 thousand people. The Russian military has not released casualty figures since March 2. Then the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that 498 people were killed in Ukraine, and another 1,597 people were injured.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk: Today the humanitarian corridor to Sumy should be operational. We are talking about the route Sumy - Golubovka - Lokhvitsa - Lubny - Poltava. The first column of buses should depart at 11:00 Moscow time.
She also said that Kyiv has sent the Red Cross and the Russian Federation routes of humanitarian corridors from Volnovakha, Mariupol to Zaporozhye, from Kyiv, Kharkov to the west, asking Russia to coordinate them.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that from 10:00 Moscow time humanitarian corridors from Kyiv, Chernigov, Kharkov, Sumy, and Mariupol are open.
The day before, the evacuation of Mariupol residents along the humanitarian corridor, announced on the morning of March 7 by the Russian Ministry of Defense, once again failed .
https://t.me/OP_UA/5819 10:24 Apple has disabled the ability for Russian users to watch its spring presentation on the official website and on YouTube.
Yanukovych addressed Zelensky: “You personally are obliged to stop the bloodshed at all costs and reach a peace agreement. This is what is expected of you in Ukraine, Donbass and Russia. The Ukrainian people and your partners in the West will be grateful to you.”
The American cosmetics and perfume manufacturer Estée Lauder has decided to suspend operations in Russia. The statement said the company was "deeply shocked by the tragedy of the invasion of Ukraine" and "stands with all those who suffer, including employees, their families and the people of Ukraine."
The owner of the brands MAC, Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone, Origins, DKNY, Tom Ford Beauty, Michael Kors will close the stores it owns in Russia.
Okhtyrka, Sumy region. City center after night bombing.
In Kharkov, four people were killed during night shelling. Their bodies were found under the rubble.
A group of 8 Ukrainians of military age were detained on the border with Moldova. The men tried to illegally cross the Ukrainian border so as not to defend it. Among those detained are the son and grandson of singer Sofia Rotaru - “Ukrainian Pravda”.
Consequences of a night attack on Sumy. 10 people died, including two children.
https://t.me/mkbelarus/22702 09:10Procter & Gamble is partially leaving Russia. Procter & Gamble CEO John Moeller said in a letter to employees that the company will cease all capital investments in Russia and significantly reduce the range of products sold there to basic hygiene and personal care products.
Procter & Gamble will also completely curtail advertising and marketing in Russia.
22:59The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports fires at oil depots in Zhitomir and the village of Chernyakhov in the Zhytomyr region after airstrikes pic.twitter.com/5GfSGIyjCZ
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 7, 2022
The third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine has ended. The head of the Russian negotiating team, Medinsky, said that Moscow’s expectations were not met. According to Advisor to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, “there are small positive changes in improving the logistics of humanitarian corridors... Intensive consultations have continued on the basic political block of the settlement, along with a ceasefire and security guarantees.”
All foreign OSCE employees, about 500 people, who worked in Ukraine, have been evacuated from the country, said the organization’s Secretary General Helga Schmidt.
Leaders of the US Congress agreed on a procedure for banning energy supplies to Russia and stopping normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus.
Broadcasts of Premier League and FA Cup games in Russia will be stopped within 24 hours.
Representatives of the Premier League and the English Football League decided to stop broadcasting competitions in Russia.
Lawyers gave league leaders permission to terminate the contract with Rambler Media.
Canada imposed sanctions against Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Konstantin Ernst and Oleg Deripaska.
The third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine has started in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Ubisoft, the creator of the games Assassin's Creed and Far Cry, is suspending sales in Russia. Previously, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Rockstar Games made a similar decision.
The EU expects that about 5 million refugees from Ukraine will enter the community countries, said the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
Large Finnish food manufacturers have decided to leave the Russian market due to the war in Ukraine. Among them was the dairy products manufacturer Valio (Viola brand). “The company has been operating in Russia for more than a hundred years, but in the current circumstances it considers it impossible to continue its activities,” Valio said in a press release.
Valio President and CEO Annikka Hurme said the company has “no ethical prerequisites to continue operating in Russia” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Valio also stopped all exports from Finland to Russia and Belarus and left supplies of raw materials and packaging materials from Russia to Finland, Kommersant writes . Valio operates the only plant in Russia in Ershovo in the Moscow region, where it produces Viola and Oltermanni processed cheeses, as well as hard cheeses. The rest of the range, including yoghurts, cottage cheese, cream, is produced at partner enterprises.
The coffee manufacturer Paulig, which owns a roasting plant in Tver, and the bakery holding Fazer Group, which manages three factories in St. Petersburg and one in Moscow, also announced the cessation of work in Russia. Fazer's turnover in Russia in 2021 is 157 million euros, which corresponds to 13% of the holding's total revenue, and has a staff of 2.3 thousand people.
At least 1,207 civilians have been killed or injured in Ukraine since February 24 - UN.
The Danish dairy products manufacturer Arla Foods, the largest in this sector in Scandinavia, has begun preparations to suspend its activities in Russia, the company reported.
The head of the European Council promised that Ukraine's application to join the EU would be discussed in the coming days.
The EU is preparing new sanctions against Russia; they may affect ports and ships, military technologies, and individuals. Bloomberg reports this.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba confirmed their readiness to hold negotiations in Antalya. The meeting is planned for March 10, TASS claims.
Foreigners have left the management of VKontakte, the company itself reported : “On March 4, Jaco Van Der Merwe, Charles Searle and Marc Remon Soror announced that they were leaving their positions as non-executive members of the board of directors of VK. As of March 7, Ian Boone and Sang Hoon Kim will leave their posts as independent directors of the company. In addition, Matthew Hammond will leave the position of managing director and chief financial officer of VK.”
The third round of negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation will begin at 17:00 Moscow time.
Nissan expects to soon stop production at its plant in St. Petersburg, TASS reports .
Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss&Co announced that it is temporarily leaving Russia.
Roskomnadzor unblocked the website of the magazine “Snob”, which was blocked the day before along with the sites “Sobesednik”, “Agency”, “Echo of Moscow in Chelyabinsk” and “Echo of the Caucasus”.
After the adoption of the “law on fakes” on March 4, the editors of “Snob” removed all materials related to Ukraine from the site and refused to cover this topic.
The Russian government has approved a list of unfriendly states. These are the USA , Ukraine , EU countries, as well as:
Australia
Albania
Andorra
United Kingdom
Iceland
Canada
Liechtenstein
Micronesia
Monaco
New Zealand
Norway
Republic of Korea
San Marino
North Macedonia
Singapore
Taiwan
Montenegro
Switzerland
Japan
Boeing has suspended the purchase of titanium from Russia, The Wall Street Journal reports .
The issue of introducing visas for Russians is not on the agenda of the Georgian government, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Georgia Levan Davitashvili said at a briefing after the government meeting.
According to him, in recent days, 20-25 thousand Russians have crossed the border with Georgia.
“We are of the opinion that people who do not have problems with the law, are not subject to sanctions and do not pose a danger to our country should be allowed to come to Georgia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is already conducting all kinds of checks.”
13:40In the Ivanovo and Tula regions, the first sentences were passed for discrediting the RF Armed Forces, Interfax writes . According to the press service of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a 26-year-old resident of the Kineshma district held a single picket in the city of Plyos and demonstrated a poster, the content of which “discredited the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.” He was fined 30 thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security).
A 27-year-old resident of the city of Aleksin, Tula Region, “posted visual propaganda leaflets while under the influence of drugs.” She was fined 45 thousand rubles and arrested for 10 days, also under Part 1 of Art. 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, as well as under Article 6.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (consumption of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances without a doctor’s prescription).
Russian General Oleg Makovetsky, who gave the order to bomb Ukrainian territory, was born in the Kharkov region. The captured pilot of the plane shot down near Kharkov spoke about his orders.
In 2020, by decree of Vladimir Putin, Makovetsky was appointed to the post of commander of the Leningrad Army Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District.
Uniqlo stores will continue to operate in Russia, said Tadashi Yanai, head of the Japanese Fast Retailing Co., the parent company of Uniqlo.
“Clothing is a necessity of life. The people of Russia have the same right to life as we do,” Yanai said in a statement, as quoted by Bloomberg and AFP .
At the same time, Yanai spoke out against the war in Ukraine: “There should never be war in the world. Every country must stand up to this."
Navalny’s team called on women to go to anti-war protests on March 8. A video message to Russian citizens was recorded by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh:
"Tomorrow is a holiday - March 8. Women's Day. Everyone will congratulate us on the spring holiday or on the day of struggle for equal rights. This is not so important. The important thing is that this is the very moment when we must firmly state what we really want on this day. We want this war not to happen. We want it to stop immediately. We are here too and our opinion must be taken into account. March 8, 14:00, the central square of your city. I urge you to go out into the street and say it's there. When if not now?"
The OSCE mission is finally leaving Ukraine. "The process of temporary evacuation of all international members of the Mission is almost completed. The last group - the head of the Mission and senior management - will now leave Ukraine," the organization said in a statement .
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk called on Russia to agree to humanitarian corridors with people traveling to Ukrainian territory. She also asked the leaders of the United States, Britain and France to help open “real” humanitarian corridors.
12:07 The Russian delegation flew to Belarus for the third round of negotiations with Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.
At least 150 journalists left Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Agency writes .
In many media outlets, a significant part of the editorial staff has left—for example, almost all of Meduza’s Moscow employees—about 20 people. Journalists from Dozhd, Ekho Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta also left.
The Ukrainian authorities called the option of opening humanitarian corridors proposed by Russia unacceptable.
“Our people will not go from Ivanky, Dymer, Vyshgorod [in the Kyiv region], from near Kyiv to Belarus, and then fly by plane to Russia,” said Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk.ch.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense proposed to evacuate residents of Ukrainian cities along humanitarian corridors to Russia and Belarus.
The Ukrainian military captured the pilot of the plane shot down near Kharkov. According to Ukrainian media, he turned out to be the deputy commander of an aviation regiment stationed in Voronezh. It is also reported that he made three flights between Izyum and Balakleya.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced which routes refugees from Ukraine can take to leave the cities in which Russia is conducting military operations. Residents of these cities are invited to travel to the territory of Russia and Belarus.
Moscow is seeking help from foreign fighters to take Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, The Wall Street Journal reports .
The publication cites information from four sources among US officials. According to them, Moscow is recruiting Syrians skilled in urban warfare to fight in Ukraine, as the Russian invasion could spread deeper into the cities.
In the Nikolaev region, Russian soldiers fired at and robbed a journalist from Switzerland, the Kirovograd region police reported . Independent journalist Guillaume Briquet was driving an armored car towards Nikolaev when he came under fire. Briquet was wounded in the face and forearm. Having stopped the car, the Russian military took away the journalist’s money, documents, photo and video equipment, and laptop.
Briquet reached the Ukrainian checkpoint in Kropyvnytskyi. There the police helped him get to a medical facility, where the journalist was treated.
Over the past 24 hours, 133 thousand people have left Ukraine across the western border, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Of these, 85 thousand Ukrainians left for Poland. During the same time, 18 thousand people crossed the border in the opposite direction, including 14 thousand Ukrainians.
The head of the Gostomel territorial community (community), Yuriy Prilipko, was killed, reports the founder of the Khvilya publication, Yuriy Romanenko, citing Prilipko’s relatives. According to Romanenko, the body of the deceased head of the community was mined. Two volunteers died with him in Gostomel.
Evacuated residents of Irpen say that Russian soldiers stand at every intersection and shoot at civilians. At one of the intersections, a family came under mortar fire. Two children and one of the parents died.
People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Dubinsky reported that the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, was “wounded by Kadyrov’s men.” His words are quoted by the Telegram channel “Irpen | Bucha | Gostomel.”
Hidden mobilization has begun in the Krasnodar region, says the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He attributes this to the heavy losses of the Russian army during the invasion of Ukraine. According to the General Staff, from February 24 to March 6, the losses of Russian troops amounted to 11 thousand people. The Russian army also lost 285 tanks, 985 units of other armored vehicles, and about a hundred planes and helicopters.
20:50 The capital's police departments are running out of space for those detained at anti-war protests, writes The Village. Detainees are transported from one department to another. According to reports from one group of detainees, they were first brought to the Sokol Department of Internal Affairs, then to the Khoroshevsky Department of Internal Affairs, then to the Khovrino Department of Internal Affairs, where they were also not accepted. Many have been transported in a paddy wagon for more than 4 hours. In total, on March 6, more than 4.3 thousand people were detained in 56 cities of the Russian Federation during protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A TV tower was shelled in Kharkov. Because of this, the broadcast of some channels was interrupted.
In 11 days of war in Ukraine, at least 364 Ukrainian civilians have already died, and 759 people have been injured, according to a UN report published on March 6. In the 24 hours since the publication of the previous report by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 13 dead and 52 wounded were added to the list.
Eight missiles fired by the Russian side at a civilian airport in the Ukrainian Vinnitsa were launched not from Transnistria, but from the Black Sea, reports Evropeyskaya Pravda with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Moldova. “There have never been any types of cruise missiles on the territory of Transnistria. In Transnistria there are only Grad multiple rocket launchers with a firing range of 20 km,” said one of the Moldovan officials. They are convinced that the missiles were launched from Russian ships in the Black Sea. But their flight path ran over Transnistria.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to Moldova that the US is considering transferring combat aircraft to Poland to replace those that could be transferred to Ukraine to repel Russian aggression. Poland has old Soviet MiG-29 fighters, which Ukrainian pilots do not need to retrain to fly. And the United States can give F-16 fighters to the Poles instead.
In the center of Moscow, on Bolotnaya Square, there are military armored vehicles.
Photo: SOTA
During a rally in Moscow, a missile strike was carried out at the Ukrainian Vinnitsa airport. The airport was virtually destroyed.
A video has been published showing the flight of a cruise missile that hit the airport near Vinnitsa. According to eyewitnesses, the missiles were fired at the airport from Transnistria, where Russian army units are located.
In Moscow, a paddy wagon was involved in an accident on Komsomolsky Prospekt. The author of the video told OVD Info that there were 27 people in it and there were casualties.
15:51In Moscow, a paddy wagon was involved in an accident on Komsomolsky Prospekt. The author of the video told OVD Info that there were 27 people in it and there were casualties. pic.twitter.com/CcwAzMboIM
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 6, 2022
The BBC has announced that its BBC World News channel has been taken off the air in Russia.
Zelensky said that 8 missiles hit Vinnitsa. He called it a harsh and cynical blow. The airport was completely destroyed.
“We repeat every day - close the sky over Ukraine. It is your humanitarian duty to protect people or at least give us planes. If you don’t do this, we will draw the conclusion that you want us to be killed slowly,” Zelensky said.
https://t.me/verkhovnaradaukrainy/8030 15:36 Human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina was detained at Teatralnaya. Today she turns 80 years old.
The airport in Vinnytsia was shelled.
https://t.me/u_now/24859 14:53Novaya Lukyanova photojournalist Elena Lukyanova was detained in St. Petersburg. She had all the necessary documents: assignment, press card, “Press” vest.
Zaks.ru correspondent Andrei Okun and two SOTA journalists, Pyotr Ivanov and Victoria Arefieva, were also detained.
14:37Footage of shelling of civilians leaving Irpen by Russian troops pic.twitter.com/Ll8BN1OBJI
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 6, 2022
In Moscow, during an anti-war picket on Manezhnaya Square, the chairman of the board of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Oleg Orlov was detained.
In St. Petersburg, near Gostiny Dvor, police officers announced over loudspeakers that anti-Covid restrictions are in force in the city: according to security forces, everyone who walks without masks will be outside the law, Novaya’s correspondent reports. A military band is playing at the entrance to the Gostiny Dvor metro station.
14:08In Novosibirsk, more than 200 people have already been detained at an anti-war rally pic.twitter.com/hOuAUuqNNs
— Ilya Yashin (@IlyaYashin) March 6, 2022
Manezhnaya Square in Moscow is closed.
OVD-Info reports on more than a thousand people detained in different cities of Russia today alone.
In Novosibirsk - 260, in Yekaterinburg - 202, in Tyumen - 121. Promotions begin in central Russia.
Roskomnadzor blocked the Mediazona website.
There are 15 police paddy wagons, 9 police buses and a dozen minibuses on duty on Teatralnaya Square in Moscow, Novaya Gazeta reports. Mostrans buses are parked next to the police cars.
The rally in Moscow is scheduled for 14:00.
13:05 Thousands of people book and pay for housing in Ukraine through Airbnb simply to support apartment owners. In the first two days of the campaign in Ukraine, 61 thousand nights of accommodation were booked for about $2 million. The idea was submitted by an American from Salt Lake City, Sarah Brown, Radio Liberty reports .
One of the protesters in Yekaterinburg was beaten with batons. An It's My City correspondent is pushed aside and told to "not interfere with police officers."
1,500,000 people have left Ukraine since the start of hostilities, the UN reported. This is about 3.5% of the country's population.
In Omsk, the anti-war rally ended, the participants either dispersed or were detained. According to estimates by the Telegram channel "Omsk Civil Association", there are now about 30 people among those detained in police stations. At the same time, many participants were immediately released from paddy wagons and buses, having rewritten their passport data.
The police also released most of the people blocked near the Drama Theater, having also copied their passport details.
In Novosibirsk, a bicycle was also detained along with a resident.
Photo: “Taiga. Info".
More than 420 people were detained at anti-war rallies in Russian cities - data from OVD-info as of 12:25 Moscow time.
About 100 people gathered at the rally in Vladivostok, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports, about 15 of them were detained. Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have not yet reported data on the number of detainees.
Photo: Valeria Fedorenko / Novaya Gazeta
Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Ministry of Economic Development to prepare a draft resolution on a moratorium on business inspections in 2022 by March 9.
12:12Residents of Omsk also took part in the anti-war rally. The National Guard is running after the protesters in a crowd pic.twitter.com/dYB7lObZj8
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 6, 2022
Detentions at an anti-war rally in Krasnoyarsk.
“The police surrounded the protesters in a ring and took them one by one into a paddy wagon, eyewitnesses reported,” reports NGS24.
They are also detained in Novosibirsk.
At the exit from the city of Irpen, Russian troops opened fire on civilians when they tried to evacuate from the city, a Radio Liberty correspondent reports . At least three people died, including two children, and another person in serious condition due to injury.
What happened in police departments on the night of March 6th. "OVD-Info" data.
In Novokuznetsk, at the Kuibyshevsky OP, police tried to take fingerprints from a detainee, threatened and used force.
A girl detained in Sochi was beaten on the head at the police department; she was not allowed to undergo an examination and have her injuries recorded.
At the Moscow Mitino police station, the detainee was handcuffed, his passport was taken away and his jacket was torn.
11:42Shopping centers today . Moscow, shopping center "Europolis".
The day before, the owner of Zara, Zara Home, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Massimo Dutti, Inditex, announced that it was ceasing trading in Russia, closing offline stores and online trading.
Withdrawing money from Russian Visa and Mastercard cards abroad will become impossible on March 10, Tinkoff reports. The bank, like a number of other credit institutions, promises to begin issuing Mir-UnionPay co-branded cards as soon as possible.
11:11 In Mariupol, the evacuation of civilians begins at 12:00. From 10:00 to 21:00 there will be a silence regime. The route Mariupol – Portovskoye – Mangush – (bypassing Nikolskoye) Republic – Rozovka – Bilmak – Pologi – Orekhov – Zaporozhye was chosen as a humanitarian “green” corridor.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has limited transfers abroad to spouses and relatives to the amount of $5 thousand per month.
10:48Tomsk Rally against the war.
— FBK (@fbkinfo) March 6, 2022
Sent to us in the bot https://t.co/Aj8wqhZD47 . They write that people with flags were sent specifically to create the feeling that this was a pro-government rally 🤷♂️
Come out in your city at 14:00! Places here: https://t.co/6iAU2K64De pic.twitter.com/JyhxJ6Co00
Roskomnadzor will restrict access to the Zello application.
In Novosibirsk, 40 people have already been detained at protests against military actions in Ukraine - Taiga.info.
More than 64 people were detained at anti-war protests in Vladivostok and Irkutsk - OVD-Info.
10:26And also Irkutsk.
— FBK (@fbkinfo) March 6, 2022
Video from the bot https://t.co/Aj8wqhZD47 pic.twitter.com/DpkPIOctOB
The situation in the regions of Ukraine at 8 a.m. Sunday
Office of the President of Ukraine about the situation on March 6 at 8 a.m. according to reports from regional administrations.
Kherson: relatively quiet. Mobile communications have been turned off.
Zhitomir: there was an air raid alert twice at night. In Korosten, 10 private residential buildings were destroyed as a result of an air strike (1 person was killed, 5 were injured, including 1 child).
Ovruch : 15 private residential buildings were destroyed. There are no dead or wounded.
Khmelnitsky : Strikes on the airfield in Starokonstantinov (2 wounded)
Chernigov : at night - constant air raids. Fights in the surrounding area. Fighting in the Kiev direction.
Poltava : air raid alerts for Lubny, Mirgorod, in the morning and Poltava.
Lugansk : the night passed more or less calmly. Yesterday afternoon there was heavy shelling: in the villages nearby Severodonetsk, now cut off from the city, there is a humanitarian catastrophe.
Donetsk : Mariupol is under siege. Volnovakha too, but about 400 people were able to be taken out of Volnovakha and the region yesterday. Evacuation attempts will continue today.
Nikolaev . In the evening shelling by "tornadoes". There are dead. Overall the situation is under control
Dnepr : There was one air raid warning at night
Kharkov. Night in the regional center again with explosions: areas of Alekseevka, New Houses, KhTZ, Saltovka, August 23 and in the center of Kharkov.
Kiev: Battle in Irpen, Gostomel, Makarov. Movement of the enemy in Bucha, Nemishaevskaya community. The Zhytomyr highway area remains the hottest spot.
In other areas the situation was assessed as calm
ZSU General Staff:
The enemy's total combat losses from 24.02 to 06.03 were approximately:
personnel - more than 11 thousand people,
tanks - 285 units,
AFV - 985 units,
artillery systems – 109 units,
MLRS -50 units,
air defense systems - 21 units,
aircraft - 44 units,
helicopters - 48 units,
automotive equipment - 447 units,
light speed boats - 2 units,
tanks with PPM - 60,
UAV of operational-tactical level – 4,
Russian Ministry of Defense: in one day, Russian fighter aircraft shot down two Mi-8 helicopters in the Kyiv area, six drones, including Bayraktar TB-2;
On the evening of March 5, the Russian armed forces hit 61 military infrastructure facilities of the Ukrainian troops with a massive strike;
On the morning of March 6, the Russian Armed Forces disabled the Ukrainian Air Force airfield in Starokonstantinov with a precision weapon strike;
The air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Su-27s, one MiG-29 in the Zhitomir area, Su-27 and Su-25 in the Radomyshl area and Su-25 in the Nizhyn area;
During offensive operations, units of the Russian Armed Forces took control of the settlements of Priyutnoye, Zavitne-Bazhanne, Staromlynovka, Oktyabrskoye and Novomaiskoye. The advance was 11 kilometers;
The missile forces in Ukraine destroyed the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system.
Zhytomyr region. Consequences of night shelling of private sectors in Korosten and Ovruch. Photo by State Emergency Service.
25 houses destroyed. In Korosten, one person died and two were wounded. In Ovruch, according to preliminary data, there are no casualties or injuries.
Students detained at anti-war rallies are expelled from St. Petersburg State University. Among them is SOTA photojournalist Nika Samusik.
Vice-Rector Alexander Babich justifies the order of expulsion by the fact that the students violated the clause of the charter, which requires compliance with the laws of the Russian Federation, and were charged under Part 1 of Article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - on organizing or participating in a mass simultaneous presence of people, which led to a violation of public order.
Boris Johnson has developed a six-point plan to counter the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“It is not enough to express our support for the rules-based international order - we must defend it against constant attempts to rewrite the rules through military force,” the British Prime Minister said.
His plan, which excludes Western military intervention in the fighting in Ukraine:
- formation of an international coalition to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine;
- support for self-defense of Ukraine;
- increasing economic pressure on Russia;
- preventing the “creeping normalization” of Russian activities in Ukraine;
- strengthening security and resilience throughout the Euro-Atlantic region;
- using diplomatic routes to de-escalation with the full participation of Kyiv.
In the coming days, Johnson intends to discuss his plan with the leaders of Canada, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
Regarding the situation with Visa and Mastercard:
Banks clarify that Russian Visa and Mastercard cards will continue to work within Russia, but will cease to operate in other countries (Alfa Bank assumes that this will happen in 3 days).
Central Bank:
When traveling abroad, it is recommended to take cash currency and a Mir card for those countries where it is accepted. These are Türkiye, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
National payment card system:
To pay for purchases and withdraw cash abroad, you can apply for a co-branded “Mir”-UnionPay card, which will be accepted both in Russia and in 180 countries that support Union Pay.
Radio Liberty is temporarily suspending work in Russia. The media company's statement cites as reasons that on March 4, Russian tax authorities initiated bankruptcy proceedings for the Russian radio division, "and the police increased pressure on its journalists."
On March 5, the Moscow Arbitration Court registered a statement from the Federal Tax Service demanding that Radio Free Europe LLC (“Radio Liberty”) be declared bankrupt. The amount of debt was not listed in the file of court cases.
By mid-2021, the amount of fines imposed on Radio Free Europe LLC due to the lack of foreign agent labeling reached 169 million rubles. Last May, Radio Liberty reported that the bank accounts of its Moscow branch had been blocked.
Azerbaijani airlines AZAL and Buta Airways are suspending all flights to Russia.
Royal Flightbecame the sixth Russian airline to cancel flights from Russia. Earlier, Aeroflot, Pobeda, S7, Nordwind and Azur Air reported the suspension of flights abroad.
Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of 5 million rubles to the families of military personnel killed in the war with Ukraine. Payments are reported on the Kremlin website.
Military personnel who are wounded are entitled to a one-time payment of 3 million rubles.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense confirmed the death of Denis Kireev, a member of the first delegation at the negotiations with Russia. According to the department, he died while performing a special task.
Putin has simplified entry into Russia from the territories of Ukraine and the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, and also signed a decree on additional social guarantees for military personnel, national guardsmen and members of their families.
One of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of software, IBM, is leaving Russia and ending cooperation with Russian military organizations.
22:18IBM stands with Ukraine. Read the statement from IBM CEO Arvind Krishna: https://t.co/z49ksERAYX pic.twitter.com/CDYpZm87OS
— IBM (@IBM) March 4, 2022
21:19Residents of Irpen are hiding from shelling by the Russian army under a destroyed bridge. pic.twitter.com/UKpGNPfuEo
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 5, 2022
The Pskov Province website is blocked. Earlier, the publication's office was searched.
“The inspection is taking place as part of an administrative matter. Allegedly, the anonymous person said that the PG office called for a rally against the special operation,” the publication explained.
Ildar Dadin was detained in Moscow. He stood on a picket against the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian journalist Andrey Tsaplienko writes that in Novopskov the Russians opened fire on civilians.
https://t.me/Tsaplienko/1920 20:01 The third round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will take place on Monday, March 7, said David Arakhamia, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.
Russian developers report losing access to QT accounts. This is the second most popular framework for software development in the C++ programming language.
There is no official statement from the company about leaving Russia yet. If such a departure takes place, there may be difficulties with the official sale of applications using development tools from the QT system.
Adobe, the developer of Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and Lightroom, has stopped sales in Russia.
The publication “Important Stories” and the managing organization of the consortium of investigative journalists OCCRP were recognized as undesirable organizations in Russia.
Pobeda Airlines, following Aeroflot, is suspending flights abroad from March 8.
An air raid alert has been declared in Kharkov.
17:56 American ammunition manufacturer Remington will send a million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine.
Russia will not tolerate attempts by the Anglo-Saxons to interfere in internal Russian affairs and destabilize the situation - Russian Foreign Ministry.
16:48Melitopol, March 2. Unarmed Ukrainians face armed Russian soldiers. pic.twitter.com/ye1ym9feoB
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 5, 2022
16:31Putin and Lavrov vs. Putin with flight attendants and female pilots. pic.twitter.com/chGzjJLAg2
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 5, 2022
“Russia will consider any attempts by other countries to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in military operations,” Putin.
16:11⚡️ In Nizhnekamsk, at the Gemont plant, workers went on strike because they would lose money due to a jump in the dollar exchange rate.
— FBK (@fbkinfo) March 5, 2022
The leader came out to the strikers and promised that wages would be increased.
In general, you know what to do if your salary is not indexed. pic.twitter.com/Yq6mTAi20F
“Martial law is introduced in case of external aggression. We don’t have such a situation and, I hope, won’t happen,” Putin during a meeting with female pilots and flight attendants.
On the eve of March 8, Putin holds a meeting with female pilots and flight attendants.
Aeroflot will stop all international flights from March 8, except flights to Belarus. For those who have already departed, the airline will offer to return earlier. For the rest, Aeroflot will try to organize export flights.
The Russian government aircraft Il-96-300 took off in the morning from St. Petersburg to Washington.
On this plane, Russian diplomats, whom the US government declared persona non grata - Zakharov, will return to their homeland.
Pussy Riot member Rita Flores told The Insider that unknown people painted the inscription “Law war on them” on the door of her apartment and pasted a photo of Rita offering intimate services:
“I went out to throw out the trash and discovered this illiterate masterpiece. Included is an attached photograph that was distributed by the 'Men's State' this summer after my 37 days in a special detention center. This photo was stored on my phone and was not sent anywhere, which gives me the right to assume that my phone was hacked in the special detention center, and then the scheme is familiar to everyone.”
Employees of the Italian Financial Guard of Italy arrested the property of Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, who were included in the EU sanctions list in connection with the events in Ukraine, La Repubblica newspaper reported.
According to her, we are talking about two Solovyov villas on Lake Como, as well as Usmanov’s villa in Sardinia.
Solovyov also has a third villa in Italy.
Previously, Alexey Navalny published documents about the real estate of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, as well as video footage of his houses, including in Peredelkino near Moscow and on the Italian island of Como. Among Solovyov’s official real estate are three apartments with a total area of 450 square meters. m in an elite house on Dolgorukovskaya Street in the capital, a dacha with an area of 1046 sq. m, as well as villas on Lake Como in Italy. The person involved in the investigation told The Insider that he is a wealthy man and is simply envied.
Russia has not yet received a deadline from Ukraine for the third round of negotiations - Lavrov
Ural Airlines canceled flights to Egypt from March 14 until at least May 20.
The Federal Air Transport Agency recommends that airlines with aircraft in foreign registries stop flights abroad from 00.00 on March 6, and flights from abroad from 00.00 on March 8.
In St. Petersburg, searches were carried out at 80 addresses of activists. In addition, police go to apartments for “prevention” to obtain explanations for previous arrests or warn about the inadmissibility of participation in unauthorized public events. Those who do not open the door are kept on guard outside the house, reports the Telegram channel “Detentions of St. Petersburg.”
After the search, activist Maria Malysheva was detained. Now she is being interrogated at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Petrogradsky district, says her lawyer Georgy Melkov.
Another activist, Evgenia Smetankina, managed to report that she was being taken to the temporary detention center on Zakharyevskaya.
Evgenia Smetankina and Maria Malysheva are considered suspects under Article 207.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - the eighth initiative group reports this.
Photo: Evgeniya’s apartment after the search
The owner of Zara, Zara Home, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Massimo Dutti, Inditex, is stopping trading in Russia, closing offline stores and online trading.
New comment from Peskov:
On the law on criminal punishment for fakes about the RF Armed Forces and calls for anti-Russian sanctions:
— The law has been adopted. And it must be fulfilled. Times are not easy right now. You see that the law was necessary and urgently needed. In connection with an absolutely unprecedented not campaign, but an information war that was unleashed against our country. Against the backdrop of the information war, it was necessary to pass appropriate strict laws, which was done,
When asked how Russians can express their point of view if it does not coincide with the official position, Peskov replied: “Within the framework of the law.”
Peskov also said: it is impossible to talk about the isolation of Russia; the USA and Europe are not the whole world.
13:05During a search of Memorial's office, security forces painted the premises with Putin's swastika. pic.twitter.com/bbruPMcncl
- Milov. Team (@team_milov) March 5, 2022
The online publication Colta announced a temporary cessation of work due to the adoption of a law on criminal liability for fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
“Friends, in connection with the events of last week, the State Duma adopted a law that sharply limits the possibilities of journalists.
We are talking not only about filtering and censoring materials related to Ukraine and the actions of Russian troops, but also about direct administrative and criminal prosecution of those media outlets, editorial offices and authors who talk about these events, not coinciding with the official point of view.
All these years - first under the name OpenSpace, then under the name COLTA - our editors of the site “about culture and the spirit of the times” did not present them in isolation from each other. Writing only about culture, leaving society aside, does not seem possible to us. But freedom of expression has now been reduced to zero."
Colta noted that they consider it fair to “keep silent for a while” given the loss of freedom of expression.
Yulia Galyamina was arrested for 30 days. There is no information yet where she is being taken.
Message from President Zelensky:
“I am sure that soon we will be able to tell our people: come back! Come back from Poland, Romania, Slovakia and all other countries. Come back, because there is no longer a threat.
We are already thinking about the future. How to restore our cities, restore the economy. There is already an agreement to allocate tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine for reconstruction, and these are only the first decisions.
We are inflicting losses on the occupiers that she never saw in her worst nightmare. The Russian army did not reach the planned lines, but reached almost 10 thousand killed. It’s scary, these are 18-20 year old soldiers, almost children, to whom they couldn’t even explain why they were going to fight and why they were on foreign soil. Russia could give them something other than death."
The Ukrainian army shot down a Russian combat helicopter, a video is being circulated on social networks.
12:21A year ago, ours shot down a Russian combat helicopter. Aerial reconnaissance will share operational videos with you.
— Anatoly Stefan (Shtirlitz) (@Shtirlitz53) March 5, 2022
Glory to the nation 🇺🇦 @ArmedForcesUkr #stoprussia
Telegram - https://t.co/GLExONwd4u pic.twitter.com/T6PlPUiPsR
The Formula 1 team Haas terminated its contract with Uralkali and stopped cooperating with Russian driver Nikita Mazepin.
The Russian military began shooting into the air in Kherson to disperse the rally. Residents of the city do not disperse.
Roskomnadzor blocked the independent media outlet in the south of Russia, Protocol, without explanation.
As its editors write , “it was not possible to find a specific link in the register on the RKN website, because of which the department blocked our website. The “RKN block check” telegram bot, which monitors blockings, says that “Protocol” was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office.”
“If we have to switch to a print format,” says Protocol editor Alexander Savelyev, “we will do it. If we have to distribute flash drives with our videos and films to people, we will do that. We have our own audience for which we work.”
Russian furniture manufacturers may face a shortage of components within a month due to international sanctions and logistics problems, Timur Irtuganov, general director of the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Industry Enterprises of Russia, told RIA Real Estate.
Searches continue in Moscow and St. Petersburg. As reported on social networks, Daniil Ken, head of the Teachers Alliance, is currently being searched under 207.2 (dissemination of false information). Daniil is now in a special detention center for participating in an action against the war.
Earlier, OVD-INFO reported that police officers came to the home of 73-year-old Tatyana Shmakova in Moscow because of anti-war posts on social networks. The woman was detained and is now in the Chertanovo police station.
11:38In Moscow, police came to the home of 73-year-old Tatyana Shmakova because of anti-war posts on social networks. The woman was detained and is now in the Chertanovo police station.
— OVD-Info (@OvdInfo) March 5, 2022
More than 787 thousand refugees have arrived in Poland from Ukraine since February 24, TASS reports citing the Polish border guard.
The Gorillaz band came out in support of the people of Ukraine and those Russians “who are opposing this senseless war.”
Elon Musk refused to block Russian media on the StarLink network. According to him, the request came from some - not Ukrainian - authorities, but he would only take such a step at gunpoint.
“Sorry for being a free speech absolutist,” Musk wrote.
10:33Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2022
Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.
PayPal is shutting down Russia, the head of the service, Dan Shulman, announced. He added that the company condemns Russia's military aggression in Ukraine along with the international community.
The main thing for this hour:
📍The Russian Ministry of Defense announced a regime of silence and the opening of humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha.
📍On March 5-6, the third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will take place.
📍UN: More than 1.2 million people left Ukraine, more than half went to Poland.
📍EPAM stops working in the Russian Federation.
📍Samsung will suspend supplies of phones, chips and household appliances to Russia.
📍Singapore introduced economic sanctions against Russia. Investment in new securities of the government and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is stopped.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today from 10 a.m. Moscow time a regime of silence and the opening of humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha. Exit routes have been agreed upon with the Ukrainian side.
Singapore has imposed economic sanctions against Russia. Investment in new securities of the government and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is stopped, financial institutions are prohibited from conducting operations that would help attract capital, in particular, by the government and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Sanctions have also been introduced against banks Rossiya, VTB, Promsvyazbank, as well as VEB.RF. The supply of electronics, computers and military goods to Russia is prohibited.
Elon Musk expressed support for Ukrainians, as well as Russians, who oppose the actions of the Russian authorities.
05:18 Industrial equipment makers Komatsu and Hitachi Construction Machinery, along with Panasonic, have joined a growing list of Japanese companies severing business ties with Russia.
Hermes and Cartier are temporarily suspending operations in Russia. This was announced by the Swiss holding Richemont, which owns both companies.
The holding announced the closure of three Hermes stores and five Cartier stores in a post on LinkedIn.
“Richemont expresses its deepest sympathy and thoughts to our colleagues, their families and friends affected by the tragic situation in Ukraine,” the statement said. “With a focus on the care and well-being of our colleagues, we are in close contact with our people on the ground and ensure they receive all the financial, logistical and moral support they need.”
Earlier, the French fashion house Louis Vuitton, as well as the Chanel company, announced the closure of stores in Russia.
The sky closure regime in southern Russia has been extended until March 14, 03:45 (Moscow time), TASS writes , citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Transport.
Samsung will suspend supplies of phones, chips and household appliances to Russia amid “current geopolitical events.” Bloomberg writes about this. The Samsung smartphone market in Russia is larger than Apple's.
In Polesie, Russian troops have begun engineering work on laying tracks in the Borodyanka area, probably with the aim of further advancing in the direction of Kiev, the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine reports . Occupation units were stopped in the Shibene and Katyuzhanka areas. In the Dymer area, the occupier continues to create a defense area.
According to the department, in the Donetsk direction, the Russian military is actively using mobilization resources from the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions as part of the advanced detachments of the Russian Armed Forces operating in directions to Kharkov and Mariupol. The occupiers are not giving up attempts to identify weak points in the defense of Mariupol.
In the Tauride direction, enemy units from the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are trying to continue the offensive towards Zaporozhye, and units from the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are attempting to bypass Kharkov and move in a southwestern direction.
In the Black Sea, after completing demonstrations of readiness for an amphibious landing in the Odessa-Zatoka area, due to worsening weather conditions, the invader withdrew the naval group and landing ships to the area west of the Crimean Peninsula.
The defense of Kyiv continues to repel the enemy's offensive.
01:55Journalists from the British Sky News channel came under fire in the Kiev region - video pic.twitter.com/Zhh9soVcwO
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 4, 2022
Louis Vuitton is closing 124 stores in Russia.
The United States, like NATO, believes that there is no need to close the sky over Ukraine - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Booking.com has stopped working in Russia and does not show hotel vacancies in the country.
Twitter has been completely blocked in Russia. This is indicated by data from the GlobalCheck monitoring service.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law criminalizing “fakes” about the Russian military and calls for anti-Russian sanctions.
22:03Fighting in Bucha (Kyiv region) from a bird's eye view. pic.twitter.com/ZMcc8gXvhx
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 4, 2022
The International Boxing Association has banned athletes from Russia from participating in its international competitions.
21:40President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky addressed those gathered at rallies in Tbilisi and seven European cities:
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 4, 2022
“Don’t be silent, go out to your streets, support Ukraine. If Ukraine falls, all of Europe will fall.” pic.twitter.com/CjV76QCPvp
Porsche has donated one million euros to provide emergency assistance to those affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
The IAEA will urgently inspect the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in connection with the Russian attack. An inspection is also planned in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant zone. Energoatom reported this
21:31 Republic said it would remove or change materials about the war in Ukraine due to the likelihood of criminal prosecution under the law on “fake news.”
The European Union is discussing cutting off new Russian banks from SWIFT. This was stated by the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
Leading American Internet provider Cogent Communications is stopping servicing Russian clients.
Roskomnadzor has decided to block Facebook in Russia.
The publication Baza, fearing blocking and a criminal case under the article on “fakes,” stated that it was forced to “become more careful and calm.”
“We continue to work, we do not close the topic of Ukraine to ourselves, as some of our colleagues, whom we fully understand, did. But now we ask you to understand us too. We really want to work as long as possible. There is still such an opportunity,” the publication said in a statement.
YouTube has disabled advertising and monetization in Russia.
Audiobook streaming service Storytel is suspending its operations in Russia.
Electronic Arts is withdrawing its games from sale in Russia and Belarus.
Business publication The Bell is completely stopping coverage of the war in Ukraine due to a new law on “fake news.” After the adoption of amendments to the Criminal Code on criminal liability and punishment of up to 15 years in prison for disseminating “fake stories” about the actions of the Russian armed forces, “personal risks for journalists moved to a new level.” “In this regard, we have decided to completely stop covering the “special military operation,” the editors said in a statement. At the same time, The Bell “continues to work and cover the consequences of what is happening, primarily economic.”
The BBC said it was temporarily ceasing operations in Russia and would operate outside of it.
An air raid alert has been declared in Kyiv.
19:07 Novaya Gazeta stated that due to the threat of blocking and prosecution under the new law on fakes, it will remove materials about the war with Ukraine from the site and will continue to work exclusively with socio-political topics.
“We have no right to risk the freedom of our comrades. But we cannot ignore the position of you, our readers, who clearly spoke out in favor of continuing to work under military censorship,” the editorial board said in a statement.
Carlsberg stops exporting its products to Russia. Because of this, its Russian subsidiary Baltika will also suffer.
Since February 24, 28 children have died and 64 children have been injured due to the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine. This was announced by the adviser and commissioner of the President of Ukraine for children's rights Daria Gerasimchuk.
18:14“Yesterday, conscripts who were forced to sign a contract or were signed for them were withdrawn from the combat zone in Ukraine. But in the end, out of a company of one hundred people, only four remained alive,” Senator Lyudmila Narusova acknowledged the losses of the Russian army at a meeting of the Federation Council. pic.twitter.com/gOa9yzZGpQ
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 4, 2022
Swiss watch manufacturer The Swatch Group is stopping sales of its products in Russia. At the same time, branded stores will remain open - they will sell watches of those brands that are still in the country.
17:59This is how valuable sculptures are saved in Lviv. Some are removed and moved to storage facilities, others are wrapped in special fireproof material. pic.twitter.com/fUVL8N4ccb
— The Insider (@the_ins_ru) March 4, 2022
The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky is in Kyiv, he did not leave the country, the Verkhovna Rada claims. Earlier, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that Zelensky left Ukraine and went to Poland.
Marks & Spencer stops supplies to Russia.
The third round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia may take place on March 5 or 6 - Ukrainian delegation.
Türkiye will not close its airspace to Russia - Turkish Foreign Ministry.
Microsoft suspends sales of goods and provision of services in Russia.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg accused Russia of using cluster bombs and other weapons that violate international law.
American network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems Inc. suspended all business operations in Russia and Belarus.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “We continue to support Ukraine. NATO will not engage in military conflict by providing ground troops or closing the skies. Such steps could lead to further escalation."
The UN Human Rights Council voted to conduct an investigation “in connection with Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.” 32 countries voted “for”, two countries voted “against”, and 13 countries abstained from voting.
