How has eight years of war changed Ukraine’s Donbas? Meduza asks human rights expert Varvara Pakhomenko. Heidi Levine / Sipa / Scanpix / LETA An armed member of the territorial defense walking along the trenches dug by one of the command centers. Kyiv, Ukraine. February 28, 2022. On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, under the pretext of defending two unrecognized, Kremlin-backed “republics” in the country’s east.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing Russian debtors to pay large debts to creditors from "unfriendly" countries in rubles. We are talking about debts, payments on which exceed 10 million rubles per month or the currency equivalent of this amount at the official exchange rate of the Central Bank on the 1st day of each month. The list of unfriendly countries should be established by the Russian government within two days.

By the tenth day of the war, the parties managed to agree on a “regime of silence” in the besieged areas in the southeast to ensure humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. But by evening, the parties accused each other of violations of this regime. Ukraine said that Russia continues to shell Mariupol and the surroundings. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the continuation of the offensive.

Russian invasion of Ukraine. The eleventh day of the war. Online "Medus" “Medusa” since February 24, the clocks of the war in Ukraine live around the clock. Read about the events of March 5 here . The main thing in the last hours : Tiktok forbade Russian users to upload new videos and streams, Spotify canceled premium subscriptions in Russia, and Netflix decided to suspend work in the Russian Federation.

The main thing about the tenth day of the war Emilio Morenatti / AP / Scanpix / Leta family evacuation in the vicinity of Kyiv, March 5, 2022 The opening of humanitarian corridors fell. On March 5, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the introduction of the regime of silence from 10 a.m. Moscow time and the opening of corridors to leave civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha Donetsk region.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the evening of March 5 announced the death of its employee, intelligence officer Denis Kireev, while performing a special assignment. Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that Kireev, who worked in the banking sector, was allegedly suspected of treason and was killed by SBU officers during his arrest.

Updated . The American Express payment system also announced the suspension of operations in Russia. International payment systems Visa and Mastercard announced the suspension of their activities in Russia. Visa and Mastercard cards issued in Russia will not work abroad and in Apple Pay and Google Pay wallets, and cards issued by foreign financial institutions will not work in Russia.

The Prosecutor General's Office announced that the case of journalist Ivan Safronov , accused of treason, has been sent to court.

The third round of talks between Ukraine and Russia will be held on Monday, March 7, said a member of the Ukrainian delegation, head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, David Arakhamia. The Russian side did not confirm this information at the time of publication of the news.

During the war in Ukraine, at least 351 civilians were killed and 707 were injured. Such data are provided by the UN for the period from the beginning of the war to March 4 inclusive. Most of the deaths came from heavy artillery shelling, multiple launch rocket systems, rocket and air strikes. In the territory controlled by the separatists, 23 deaths and 93 injuries were recorded. Among the dead were 22 children. At least 36 children were injured.

Update. "Pskovskaya Guberniya" announced the blocking of its website. Employees of the "E" center, accompanied by OMON officers, came to the editorial office of the Pskovskaya Guberniya newspaper, according to the telegram channel of the publication. Computers and phones were confiscated from employees. At the same time, a search with the seizure of equipment took place in the office of the Pskov branch of Yabloko, said Lev Shlosberg.

Here are five schedules that help answer this question AFP / Scanpix / Leta Promotion in support of a special operation in Ukraine in the village of Zuya under Simferopol. March 5, 2022 According to the results of sociological surveys of VTsIOM and FOM , more than 60% of Russians support a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Do you know who benefited from the war of Russia and Ukraine? China. What exactly did he get? And how does the world power No. 2 use these advantages to confront with the United States? Russian hostilities in Ukraine led to large -scale sanctions from the West. Europe and the United States refuse to sell Russia high -tech electronics. The largest retail chains and brands suspend their activities in the country or leave it at all.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added the publication Important Stories and the international association of investigative journalists OCCRP to the register of “undesirable” organizations, Mediazona reports. The register includes the Latvian company iStories fonds (the legal entity of Important Stories) and the American organization The Journalism Development Network, which manages the OCCRP project.

Report "Medusa" from Berlin Tobias Schwarz / AFP meeting friends in Berlin at the train from the Ukrainian border According to the UN, over ten days of war with Russia, more than a million people left Ukraine. Ukrainians with things and pets cross the border with Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Poland. There, many are transplanted to trains and buses and go further to the west of Europe.