22:05 Ukrainian President Zelenski says he is ready for talks with Vladimir Putin.
21:59 Boris Johnson – on Estonia’s Tapa military base: I want to be very clear on this: we will not fight Russian troops in Ukraine. Our reinforcements here at Tapa are firmly within the borders of NATO member states, and that is profoundly the right thing to do.
21:38 Basurin: HQ of Ukrainian army’s Task Force North destroyed in strike by joint Russian and LDNR forces, majority of officers killed in strike”
19:46 Personal vehicles taken away from civilians in Kharkiv “for military needs”. Are there no vehicles left for the AFU?
19:40 US and NATO are not even discussing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. There will be no no no-fly zone there – Pentagon.
19:19 Kremlin: Maduro in conversation with Putin expressed strong support for Russia’s decisive action in Ukraine, condemned destabilising US and NATO activity.
19:10 Ukrainian propaganda publishes another fake: they passed off the shelling of the centre of Donetsk by Ukrainian armed formations as a photo from Kharkiv.
18:56 “I believe that Russians do not want to shoot civilians,” Vitaliy Kim, governor of Ukraine’s Mykolayiv Region, on the actions of the Russian Armed Forces.
17:07 The website of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has published a list of Belarusian pilots who are allegedly bombing Ukrainian cities.
The lists include heroic pilots Aleksandr Marfitsky and Aleksandr Zhuravlevich who died in 2009 – Solovyov writes in tg channel.
16:53 According to reports from airborne troops in Kiev’s suburbs, some of the not-so-rebellious Nazis, having looked at the situation around them, decided to hand over to our paratroopers the weapons that had previously been “thoughtfully” handed out by Zelensky. It seems that not everyone in Kiev has gone mad and is gradually coming to their senses.
16:48 Ukrainian media are reporting that the first prisoner exchange has taken place in Sumy Region. Five Ukrainians from the military were exchanged for a Russian army officer.
16:05 Russian government launches information resource Explain.rf with verified information amid fakes and rumours.
16:01 The Russian Defence Ministry has urged all those living near relay nodes in Kiev to leave their homes. High-precision weapons will be used to hit the technological facilities of the SBU and the 72nd main SIG centre in Kiev in order to stop information attacks against Russia.
15:41 Anti-fascist special forces take control of Zaporizhzhya NPP in Energodar.
15:40 The Russian Defence Ministry says it has carried out high-precision strikes with long-range air and sea-based weapons. Two airfields and three air defence posts in Ukraine were hit. They destroyed 395 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 59 multiple rocket launchers, 179 field artillery pieces and mortars of the Ukrainian armed forces. A total of 1,325 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities destroyed.
15:38 AFU’s access to the Sea of Azov blocked
15:36 DPR advance detachments have reached the border of Donetsk Region and joined Russian forces that were taking control of areas along the Azov Sea coast- the Russian Defense Ministry said
15:34 DPR army assault groups have entered Volnovakha and started mopping up
15:33 According to local residents, there is no strike on ours in Berdyansk.
15:24 On Tuesday evening, members of the delegations will start arriving in Belarus for talks between Russia and Ukraine, a source said.
15:20 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have just launched an MLRS strike on residential areas of Kharkiv.
15:19 The town of Starobelsk in Luhansk Region has taken control of the Allied Forces.
15:13 Zelenskyy says all major Ukrainian cities blocked – Zelenskyy.
15:00 Second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine may take place on 2 March – Ukrainian media citing Ukrainian diplomatic sources.
14:50 Our artillery has today hit the headquarters of the Vostok task force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Combined Forces operation with a precision strike. This HQ controlled an enemy grouping defending from Donetsk to Mariupol. Most of the officers of the East group headquarters were killed or wounded. According to unconfirmed information, the commander of the Vostok grouping, AFU General Sodol, was killed. Only a timely escape from the command post could save him. He had no other options for survival. The control of the East grouping brigades of the AFU has been lost for the time being. The enemy is disorganized
14:41 Polish President Andrzej Duda said after meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that the Polish side will not send its planes to Ukraine as NATO is not a party to the conflict.
13:40 The head of the Kherson regional administration, Hennadiy Laguta, has said that Russian units have occupied the Tavricheskyy district and are moving towards the railway station and the city centre.
13:36 Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that the Kremlin is not going to organise a presidential election there after the special operation in Ukraine. It is a different country. The Kremlin considers Zelensky to be Ukraine’s legitimate president.
13:00 In Energodar, where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located, locals report that Nazi provocateurs are preparing terrorist attacks by carrying explosives around the city. There may be a danger of a terrorist attack on Zaporizhzhya NPP. It was decided to introduce Rosgvardia units into the city to protect civilians and stop provocations and looting.
12:58 A convoy of heavy equipment of Russian troops has entered Trostyanets, head of the Sumy regional state administration Dmytro Zhyvitsky said.
12:30 From Thailand people send such photos. The fight against Nazism is becoming an international affair, as before.
12:26 On the morning of 1 March, Russian troops launched a missile attack on a military unit in the village of Loshchynivka, Odessa Region. No information on casualties
12:20 Ukrainian media report that Ukraine has enacted a decree on a temporary visa-free regime for foreigners who travel to the country to take part in combat operations.
12:18 Marines of the 36th AFU brigade flee their positions and abandon their equipment.
12:10 Ukrainian telegram channels panic: Russian troops are reported to be on the outskirts of Mariupol. The city is practically without electricity. All of Akhmetov’s industrial facilities are mothballed.
12:00 Chernihiv authorities and the AFU have blockaded civilians in the city by booby-trapping all exits – people are being held hostage. Vyacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv regional state administration himself, does not hesitate to write about this: “ALL exits from the city are mined. ‘Mined’ means that there are mines there and one can be blown up on them.”
11:48 Ukraine is almost out of Stinger MANPADS and Javelin anti-tank missiles, Kiev is asking for more weapons supplies, Politico writes, citing the ambassador to the US.
11:40 Lukashenko says Belarus has put air defence equipment on standby to prevent Russian forces from stabbing them in the back. According to him, had it not been for Russia, missiles would have landed in Gomel and Mozyr.
11:38 A German MP said that the West itself provoked the escalation of the situation around Ukraine by refusing to have a dialogue with Russia. Peter Bystron recalled that Putin had long proposed a plan for common security in Europe, but the EU had refused.
Operation denazification of Ukraine: operational summary on March 1 (updated)
11:12 Nazis in Ukraine prepare massacre of fellow countrymen. Nazis in closed TG-kagals and chats in Izyum have compiled lists to eliminate all those who participated in the 2014 referendum on self-determination of the Kharkiv region. Be careful not to let armed people into your homes!
11:10 A Kharkiv resident filmed the morning situation in the city – asking for forgiveness from residents of the LDPR. “I have always advocated maximum correctness, while Luhansk and Donetsk were being bombed at the same time. Sorry, residents of Donetsk and Luhansk… Forgive us all,” the man says.
11:06 Photos of a woman whose home was allegedly bombed and she was a victim of Russia’s “bloody actions” in Ukraine turned out to be fake. So, meet the employee of the 72nd Centre for Information and Psychological Operations who played the role so brilliantly.
11:02 Russian Armed Forces destroy Kanatovo airfield near Kiev.
10:58 US video bloggers arrive in Poland to stamp anti-Russian fakes.
10:40 In Mykolayiv, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have set up equipment positions under the spans of the Shirokobali Bridge in the south of the city.
10:13 EU sponsors Ukrainian fascism! According to Borel, Ukraine will be transmitted space intelligence data on Russian troops.
10:05 Telegram channel Novoe Edition reports that in Ukraine, looters with weapons walk through flats at night and knock on doors under the guise of tero-defence.
9:50 An American citizen living in Kiev says that weapons issued by the Zelensky regime have led to a large number of lootings and rapes. He attributes this to the fact that military weapons have fallen into the hands of criminals.
9:45 First footage of the aftermath of the strike on the Kharkiv regional state administration building.
9:40 AFU blows up the bridge between Bucha and Irpen.
9:20 The mayor of Kherson has admitted that the city is blockaded. Russian units are currently advancing in the western part of the city.
8:51 Near the town of Hnutovo, near Mariupol, two Nazi tanks have been sent to Bandera.
8:44 According to the mayor of Izmail, the Russian military launched a missile attack on an AFU military base in Loshchynivka, Odessa region.
8:24 Local sources report that Russian units are entering Kherson from several sides at once and gradually moving deeper into the city.
8:19 According to the mayor of Akhtyrka and local Ukrainian sources during yesterday’s strike on a military unit in Akhtyrka, about 70 AFU soldiers were put to rest.
7:49 Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, at a special UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine, says Russian troops will provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainian populations in territories freed from radicals.
2:39 Explosions can be heard near Kherson airport. According to local residents, Kherson is surrounded. Artillery preparation and destruction of AFU strongholds has begun. Explosions from MLRS rockets on the northern outskirts of Kherson in Stepanivka and Chornobaivka.