Not a single bank or payment service provider is working with the Russian payment system in Georgia, the country's national bank said. The financial regulator warned that for this reason the reception for payment of bank cards "Mir" would be qualified as illegal commercial activities. Earlier, local media reported about the plans of shopping centers in Batumi to accept the Mir card for payment.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine showed that the UN Security Council needs reforms. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Chavushol at a press conference after negotiations with the Japanese colleague Yoshimasa Hayashi, Siyaset Canli reports . “Recent events once again showed that the international system, primarily the UN Security Council, needs serious reform. We agreed with Japan on this issue, ”he said.

According to the UN on March 18, from the beginning of the war in Ukraine 816 civilians were killed, 2149 was injured. The documents noted that real numbers are probably much higher, since fierce battles continue throughout the country. Almost 6.5 million people fled from the war within Ukraine, more than 3.3 million left the country's territory - in total, this is 23% of the country's population.

The FSB said that the mines installed by the Ukrainian Navy on approaches to the ports in the Black Sea can drift towards the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean Sea because of the cliffs of the cables. The Russian department claims that the Ukrainian military allegedly used obsolete anchor mines, which were produced in the first half of the last century. According to the FSB, the cables that connect mines with anchors began to break during the storm.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a panic due to the possibility of the so-called color revolution in Moscow, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to him, Putin did not believe that Ukraine would join NATO and knew that no missiles on its territory would be placed. Putin's statements about the historical past of Russia and Ukraine Johnson called mythical nonsense. The British leader expressed confidence that Putin attacked Ukraine because he was afraid of her democracy.

The last 11 employees of the Embassy of Belarus left the territory of Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the diplomatic mission Igor Sokol. Earlier, he said that Ukrainian border guards inspected employees who left the country for about 20 hours. One of the border guards tried to give Igor Sokol “30 Serebrennikov” to Igor Sokol, so that he would transfer them to the head of the state border committee of Belarus Anatoly Lappo. The diplomat refused.

“Yevtushenkov kills Ukrainians” and “money of Russian oligarchs = bombs” - with such posters and flags of Ukraine, activists in London came to the house of the founder of AFC “System” by Vladimir Yevtushenkov. According to the BBC, the protesters said that Yevtushenkov owns a company that supplies military drones of the Russian army for the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Yevtushenkov escaped the new sanctions of Great Britain and the EU.

The Polish authorities invited colleagues from the European Union in addition to the already accepted sanctions to arrange a complete trade blockade of Russia. Such an initiative at the press conference was made by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravetsky. “I expect that a new sobering of European leaders will come, who at the next meeting of the European Council will be able to accept a new package of sanctions.

Cosmonauts successfully started with the Baikonur cosmodrome rented by Russia in Kazakhstan on their Union MS-21 spacecraft on Friday at 20:55 local time. And smoothly came up with the station a little more than three hours later, joining two Russians, four Americans and a German at the orbital outpost. The war in Ukraine led to the abolition of spacecraft launches and the breakdown of contracts.

Several thousand residents of the Ukrainian Mariupol fell into filtration camps, then they were taken out by the Russian military from the territory of their country, the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko said . He compared this to the actions of the Nazis during the Second World War. Boychenko emphasized that all war crimes from Russia should receive the most severe punishment. Mariupol is in the siege of Russian troops and undergoes shelling.

On March 19, on March 19, a district police officer came home to the journalist of the Sota publication in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg. The policeman explained his visit by the fact that the journalist was detained at the inconsistent rally. He did not find Ivanov at home, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to explain his intentions, Sota reports . Peter Ivanov was detained along with a number of other journalists for promotions on March 6 in St.

Bulgaria intends to stop buying gas from Russia after the expiration of the current contract with Gazprom, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Asen Vasilev. In an interview with the Bulgarian national radio, he said that the country would look for alternative gas sources and hope for a single contract for the European Union. Vasilev noted that there are gas supplies from Algeria and Qatar. Bulgaria will increase the import of energy from Azerbaijan, said Deputy Prime Minister.

In Belarus, after the elections of 2020 and the protests followed in prisons, both men and women were raped. This was stated by the Supreme Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Michel Bachelet, presenting a report on the situation with human rights in the country. Bachalet spoke about the collected evidence of unprecedented torture and violence against civilians. The report was prepared on the basis of 145 interviews with participants in events and analysis of evidence.

On February 24, the Russian military established control over the Ukrainian island Zmein in the Black Sea. An audio recording was distributed in social networks, on which the Russian warship offers Ukrainian soldiers to surrender, and they refuse him. Immediately after the battle of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, it said that all the military on the island were killed by Russian fire. The Russian side said that 82 people were captured.

In Ukraine, 112 children have died since the beginning of the war, more than 140 children have suffered. These data are given by the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The most injured in Kyiv - 57, Kharkov - 36, Donetsk region - 28, Chernigovskaya - 30, Nikolaevskaya - 21, Zhitomirskaya - 15, Sumskaya - 14 and Kherson.