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Rosbalt continues to talk about the events that followed after statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the start of a special operation in the Donbass and in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the LPR and DPR. On demand Roskomnadzor media should use data on its progress only from official Russian sources. With information about events that took place in previous days can be found here: February 24, February 25, February 26, February 27, 28th of February, March 1, 2nd of March, March, 3rd, March 4, 5th of March, March, 6, March 7, March 8, 9th of March, March 10 and March 11.
00:08. The US is imposing sanctions on Gennady Zyuganov, the US Treasury said.
00:30. During a special Russian military operation in Ukraine, 27-year-old paratrooper Roman Filatov from the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd region, was killed. It is reported by V1.ru with reference to the city administration. Filatov became the 13th dead soldier from the region.
00:37. The Russian government has abandoned the idea to abolish liability for the use of unlicensed software if the rights to it belong to countries that support anti-Russian sanctions. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the latest version of the plan of anti-crisis measures.
00:59. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that sending volunteers from Syria to Ukraine to participate in a military special operation can be seen as a further escalation of the conflict by Russia. In addition, in his opinion, the need to attract volunteers from the Middle East suggests that the Russian side “met resistance.”
06:30. Kazakh airline Qazaq Air suspends flights to Russia due to lack of insurance coverage in the country. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the company. Earlier, Air Astana stated the same, as well as the Turkish airline Pegasus.
06:35. The United States imposed sanctions on the wife of the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Tatyana Navka, as well as his two adult children, Nikolai and Elizaveta. This means that their assets in America will be frozen and American companies will not be able to do business with them.
06:50. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba discussed the results of Kuleba’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. This is reported by the State Department. Blinken also spoke about the actions of the United States and its partners to increase pressure on Russia and support Ukraine in the security, economic and humanitarian fields.
07:11. The UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) said they would work to create a safe maritime corridor through which merchant ships in the Black and Azov Seas can leave these areas. IMO Secretary General Kitak Lim noted that this will be done with the assistance of relevant parties, including coastal states.
07:19. Statements by US State Department spokesman Ned Price about the possibility of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine are unsubstantiated. According to Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov, this is another attempt to demonize Russia. His comment was posted on the embassy’s Telegram channel.
07:35. Over 15 days of the special operation, Ukrzaliznytsia ensured the evacuation of more than 2 million people, of which 226,000 went abroad, Ukrinform reports. Most people were evacuated from Kyiv and Kharkov, and the most popular of the international rail routes is the Polish one.
07:43. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has suspended the payment of about 50 million euros to the Russian company Metrovagonmash for the manufacture of 44 carriages for the Tbilisi Metro.
According to Sputnik Georgia, in December last year, Metrovagonmash won the tender announced by the EBRD.
08:41. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 2,617,349 refugees out of almost 2,000 settlements in Ukraine have expressed a desire to evacuate. Our country delivered about 1,421 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine.
09:01. Roman Abramovich’s deposits in American private investment funds are blocked. This was reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing its sources. The publication notes that this happened after the imposition of sanctions against Abramovich in the UK.
09:08. Kazakhstan reaffirmed its readiness to help resolve the situation in Ukraine. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Roman Vasilenko during a visit to Slovakia, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said.
09:43. The military special operation of Russia in Ukraine has changed the attitude of the whole of Europe towards defense issues. This opinion was expressed by Estonian Prime Minister Kaya Kallas. According to her, the leaders of the states of the European Union agreed the day before at the summit in Versailles on the need to develop collective defense capability and reduce energy dependence on the Russian Federation.
10:03. About 10,000 refugees from Ukraine are registered in Lithuania. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, Agne Etim, informs Delfi. According to her, these people are provided with social guarantees and the opportunity to work.
10:12. Over the past day, from 8.00 on March 11 to 8.00 on March 12, 217 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. This was reported at the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DNR. In total, 708 citizens have been evacuated from Mariupol since March 5.
10:45. eBay has suspended all transactions with Russian addresses, the company said in a message to sellers from Russia, Interfax reports. The company promised to “continue to assess the situation and make necessary changes to our policies and service delivery as events unfold.”
11:02. The Senate of the University of Latvia unanimously decided to cancel the honorary doctorate of the University of Latvia for the Russian billionaire Petr Aven, because “he has not yet voiced an unequivocal condemnation of Russian aggression” in Ukraine. As the rector of the university noted, this is the first such case in its history.
10:10. A humanitarian convoy left Zaporozhye for Mariupol, which is supposed to deliver more than 90 tons of food and medicine to the city, Ukrainian media report citing local authorities. The DPR authorities, in turn, reported that over the past day they managed to evacuate more than 200 people from Mariupol.
11:22. Serbian Innovation Minister Nenad Popovic condemned Meta for inciting hatred towards Russia on Facebook. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to his press service. “This is inhumane, immoral and irresistibly reminiscent of the persecution of Serbs, Jews and Russians in World War II,” Popovich said.
11:45. The military-political leadership of Ukraine has completely lost control over the situation. This opinion was expressed by the Assistant Minister of Defense of Belarus, Major General Leonid Kasinsky. “Only this can explain the complete inconsistency in actions and the presentation of information,” he said. This is, according to the general, about a fake launched on the eve of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine about the alleged air strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on Belarusian territory with the aim of provocation. Subsequently, an official of the office of the Ukrainian president denied this information. The general called the statements of the Ukrainian leadership “an attempt to destabilize the situation or a screen to cover up their own provocations.”
11:59. The armed forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic have now taken control of about 80% of the territory of the LPR (coincides with the territory of the Luhansk region, which Ukraine considers its own). This was stated by the representative of the People’s Militia Andrei Marochko on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel. It should be noted that today the Russian Ministry of Defense published a map of the territories of Ukraine and the DPR that came under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
12:48. At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, technicians have begun repair work on damaged electrical networks. This was announced by the Director General of the IAEA Mariano Grosi, the press service of the organization informs. The IAEA noted that since March 9, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been provided with emergency diesel generators.
12:59. Turkey has no problems with gas supplies from Russia, despite the current difficult situation. This was stated by the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the country Fatih Donmez, the Hurriyet newspaper reports. He also recalled that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already said that Turkey did not want to support sanctions against Russia.
13:07. To date, five applications have been received from citizens of Latvia about their desire to fight on the side of the Ukrainian army against the RF Armed Forces. Sandra Brale, press officer of the Latvian Armed Forces Commander, told LETA about this. Amendments to the law allowing citizens of Latvia to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine came into force on March 1.
13:28. The office of the President of Ukraine denied the information of the Jerusalem Post that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet allegedly recommended that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accept Russia’s demands to end the military special operation. This was stated by adviser to the head of the office Mikhail Podolyak.
13:46. The movement of the Armed Forces of Belarus across the territory of the republic is not connected with their preparation for participation in hostilities in Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Belarusian General Staff, Major General Viktor Gulevich, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry reported. “I can assure the relatives and friends of the servicemen (…) that our Armed Forces perform the tasks of ensuring the military security of the Republic of Belarus only on their territory,” the general said.
14:06. The first in the Donbass cathedral mosque “Akhat Dzhami”, located in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, was damaged as a result of shelling, DAN reports. The mosque was opened in 1999, it already came under fire on June 4, 2019, the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
14:38. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is at his workplace in Kyiv. “Hello, Bankova and I, the president is working, the president’s office is also at work,” Kirill Tymoshenko, deputy head of the office, said in a video message on the Telegram channel. Earlier in the Russian Federation, it was repeatedly stated that Zelensky hastily left Kyiv and went either to Lviv or to Poland.
14:47. Russia has warned the United States that if weapons are transferred to Ukraine, arms convoys would become “legitimate targets” for the Russian Armed Forces. This was announced on the air of the Big Game program on Channel 1 by Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov.
14:58. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said that, together with his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki, he is working on a project to restore Ukraine after the end of hostilities – a kind of “Marshall Plan”, an analogue of the American plan to restore Europe after World War II.
15:08. In the near future, thousands of volunteers may arrive in Donbass to assist the armed forces of the DPR and LPR, and first of all, we are talking about volunteers from the Middle East, “who are faced with that rabid radicalism.” This was stated by the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, on the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
15:15. Under the most unfavorable scenario for the development of events in Ukraine, famine could threaten up to 100 million people. This opinion was expressed by a German expert in the field of agrarian economics, Professor Matin Kaim, in an interview with the online version of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper. He recalled that about a third of all wheat sold on the world market, a fifth of corn and three-quarters of sunflower oil are grown in Russia and Ukraine.
16:05. During a military special operation in Ukraine, a native of the Khiva region, contract soldier Gadzhimurad Farzaliev, died. The head of the region, Yarmet Yarmetov, expressed condolences to the family and friends of the serviceman and noted that, unfortunately, there is more and more news about the tragic death of Russian citizens in Ukraine.
16:09. PayPal has decided to block all electronic wallets of Russians from March 18, 2022. Probably, in the coming days, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will revoke the license from its bank in Russia LLC NPO “PayPal RU”, according to telegram channels. In this regard, a recommendation is made to the Russians to take all the balances from the electronic wallets of this payment system as quickly as possible.
16:24. The yacht of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich sailed to Montenegro and anchored near Cape Selyanovo. The ship departed Barcelona on March 8 following the imposition of EU sanctions against Russian oligarchs, although Abramovich is not yet among the EU’s sanctions targets. Perhaps the movement of the oligarch’s yacht is connected with an investigation in Portugal into the circumstances of Abramovich’s obtaining the citizenship of this country.
Source: Rosbalt
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