Five people were detained on the evening of Saturday, March 1, near the Federation Council building on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in the center of Moscow. This was reported by the OVD-info portal. Activists went out on single pickets to protest against the decision of the upper house to grant the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin to send troops into the territory of Ukraine. OVD-info provides the names of those detained.

The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the patrol ship Hetman Sahaidachny, left the main base of Sevastopol. All other naval ships located in the city's roadstead received the same order, RIA Novosti reports, citing a representative of the naval headquarters. Odessa is mentioned as a possible location for the relocation of Ukrainian ships. It is not reported whether any specific task was assigned to the ships.

"Berkutovets" at a checkpoint on the highway near the city of Armyansk, under the Russian flag. Photo: Victor Drachev / AFP The Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Simferopol has begun issuing Russian passports to employees of the Ukrainian special forces "Berkut". reports this ITAR-TASS . The first six Berkut members received passports on March 1. They were presented by Consul General Vyacheslav Svetlichny.

Aircraft designer Rostislav Belyakov, honorary general designer of the Mikoyan Design Bureau, has died. reported this on Saturday Interfax . Belyakov died on February 28 after a serious long illness. He was 94 years old. Belyakov’s entire career was associated with the creation of MiG aircraft. Arriving at the special design department of Chief Designer Mikoyan in 1941, he served as the bureau's general designer since 1969 and worked in this post until 1997.

Russian Consul General in Crimea Vyacheslav Svetlichny denied earlier information about those killed or injured during the attempt to seize the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. Svetlichny told LB.ua about this. He explained that when the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Avrutsky, appointed by Kiev, and his escort, arrived at the building, several shots were fired into the air.

The leader of the UDAR party, one of the leaders of Euromaidan, Vitaliy Klitschko, called for the denunciation of the agreement on the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. reports this UNIAN with reference to Espreso.TV. The politician also called for a general mobilization in Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry reported that on the night of March 1, unknown armed people sent by Kiev tried to seize the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Crimea, but they were prevented by self-defense units. According to Moscow, several people were injured as a result of the incident. It is not specified who exactly was injured.

In Donetsk, participants in a pro-Russian rally tried to storm the regional administration. According to the portal Zadonbass.org, after the activists failed to enter the building, they lowered the Ukrainian flag and raised the Russian one in its place. People with the flags of Russia and the Donetsk Republic took part in the seizure, the portal clarifies. Before this, two numerous rallies took place in the center of Donetsk.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday asked the Federation Council for permission to use the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine. The text of the appeal was published on the official website of the head of state.

The State Duma adopted an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation, in which they called for measures to stabilize the situation in Crimea. Speaker of the lower house of parliament Sergei Naryshkin announced this on Saturday. According to him, the deputies called on the head of state to use all available opportunities to protect the population of Crimea from arbitrariness and violence, RIA Novosti reports .

Ukrainian troops are put on full combat readiness. This decision was made on the evening of Saturday, March 1, by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Ukrayinska Pravda reports with reference to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov. Nuclear power plants, airports and other strategic infrastructure facilities are under protection.

A rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has ended in Moscow. Police detained 26 people at an event on Manezhnaya Square, which was not coordinated with the capital authorities, Interfax reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow . The police noted that all detainees were taken to the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where they will be subject to protocols for violating the rules for holding mass protests.

Residents of Sevastopol did not allow Vitaly Malikov, whom the new Ukrainian authorities appointed head of the city police, to work. reports this Sevas-Info . On the morning of March 1, as the publication notes, 500-600 people gathered at the building of the city police department “with the firm intention not to let the Kyiv appointee inside.” They blocked all the entrances, as a result Malikov was unable to get inside.

An attack by a group of men armed with knives at one of the largest railway stations in southwest China killed 27 people and injured at least 109. This was reported on the night of March 2 by the Xinhua agency. According to police, the attack occurred on March 1 at a railway station in the city of Kunming, the administrative center of Yunnan province, around 21:00 local time (17:00 Moscow time). The section of the railway was cordoned off.

Russia “will not ignore” the appeal of the Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov to the President of the Russian Federation to provide assistance in ensuring peace and tranquility in the territory of the autonomous republic. This was stated in the administration of Vladimir Putin in connection with Aksenov’s appeal, Interfax reports . Who exactly made such a statement is not specified.