The Executive Council of the International Monetary Fund is ready to approve $ 1.4 billion on Wednesday as part of emergency financing for Ukraine to help it respond to the Russian invasion, the head of the IMF Kristalin Georgieva said on Tuesday. According to Georgieva, the money will be sent in addition to $ 700 million allocated by the Ukrainian fund in December, and $ 2.7 billion emergency reserves that it received as part of the August August allocations.

St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) prepared orders for the expulsion of students who were detained at anti-war rallies, Kommersant reports . Among them, journalist Veronika Samusik, who covered rallies on working with an editorial assignment from Sota.Vision. “I was informed about the order by the guys from the Studsovet, the university itself only demanded an explanatory,” Samusik told The Insider.

In Belarus, a criminal case was opened against a minor, writes Gomel Pravda. He was charged after a schoolboy photographed Russian military equipment and its movement. He sent these photos to the Telegram channel recognized by the Belarusian authorities extremist. The teenager was charged with part 1 tbsp. 361–4 of the Criminal Code ("Promotion of extremist activity"). He faces a punishment in the form of three years in prison.

According to Rosstat, weekly inflation has accelerated to 2.2%, becoming maximum since 1998, when the country survived the default. An annual inflation in Russia accelerated to 10.42% per week from February 26 to March 4. A week earlier, inflation was 9.05%, according to a review of the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, which is referred by Kommersant.

News “We asked to transport at least insulin, but they told us - turn around.” The Russian military did not let the car with medicines into Energodar 9 march 2022 The Russian military did not miss the Red Cross car with vital medicines, in particular, with insulin into Energodar.

News “Close the sky! Finally remove the white gloves, the next Putin can come to you! " - Open letter of Elena Zelenskaya 9 march 2022 The first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya published an open letter to the world media, in which she again called on the world to make a decision to close the sky over Ukraine. The appeal is posted on the website of the president’s office.

The State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation approved the amendments to the legislation involving the creation of a unified register of individuals declared by “foreign agents”, “media - foreign agents”, as well as related to “foreign agents”. We are also talking about employees and members of organizations declared by “foreign agents”, as well as founders, heads and foreign media employees “performing the functions of a foreign agent”.

The International Economic Forum in Davos freezes relations with the Russian Federation because of the invasion of Ukraine. Russians who have entered the sanctions lists will not be able to take part in the forum, France24 reports . Usually, forums in Davos are held in January, but this year the meeting was postponed until the end of May due to the pandemic of coronavirus. Earlier, high -ranking Russian officials and influential businessmen came to the forum.

Among the Russian troops who took part in hostilities in Ukraine, there were military service soldiers. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense denied this information. “Unfortunately, several facts of the presence of military servicemen in units of the Russian armed forces participating in the special military operation in Ukraine were discovered,” Konashenkov said.

The dollar updated the historical maximum at the Moscow Bill reaching the cost of 119.91 rubles. The euro exchange rate during trading on Wednesday morning also updated the historical maximum and set a new record of the upper border - 127.425 rubles. Compared to the level that formed by this time, the average weighted US dollar rose by 102723 points. Before the start of the war, growth and fall ranged in the region of 2000-3000 points (1 point corresponds to 0.01 kopecks)

For four days, Russian soldiers have been tortured for four days and hold the personnel of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant hostage. This was announced by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko on his Facebook page. According to him, about 500 Russian military and 50 units of heavy equipment are located inside the station. The station employees are in physical and psychological exhaustion.

EU countries impose sanctions against 160 people representing power and business in the Russian Federation. This was stated by the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrel and the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain. “We tighten a number of sanctions in response to the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine, include 160 more persons in the sanctions lists: oligarchs, members of the Federation Council,” she said .

Maria Alekhina, who was arrested for 15 days, is threatened by physical reprisal in a special projector due to a refusal to move to another camera. The audio recording with threats was handed over to Sota by the municipal deputy Lucy Stein. “I warned you that I am a police officer, in case of resistance, I have the right to apply physical force. If this does not work out, plus special prevention.

News The Russian military could not achieve significant success in the week of the attack on Ukraine - Jane's Information Group 9 march 2022 The British analytical company Jane's published cards of promoting the Russian military in Ukraine and their successes to capture the territory over the past week. Judging by the analysts, from March 1 to March 8 there were practically no such successes, like advancement.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published documents captured by the Russian military in Ukraine, namely the order of the commander of the National Guard, Colonel General Mykola Balan. According to the order dated January 21, in March, the beginning of an offensive operation in the Donbass was planned.