❗️ Assault troops from "Right Sector" who arrived from Lvov region "terrorising civilians" in Mariupol – Russian Defence Ministry

Ukrainian nationalists in Severodonetsk are acting as anti-retreat forces, trying to stop retreating Ukrainian Armed Forces under the threat of shooting, four officers killed – Russian Defence Ministry

❗️LPR troops with fire support of Russian Armed Forces advanced 56 kilometres and are developing offensive rapidly - MoD

❗️ Spain and Canada close their airspace to Russian aircraft

❗️ White House says Putin's order on high alert is part of a pattern of manufacturing threats that don't exist to justify aggression

❗️ White House: Impact on global economy stops US from imposing energy sanctions on Russia

❗️ Ukraine's FM Kuleba said the negotiations with Russia could result in peace but stated that Kiev won't "surrender"

⚡️NATO increases supply of anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine – Stoltenberg

⚡️NATO supports Ukraine's desire to join alliance, but it requires the consensus of all member countries - Stoltenberg

❗️ Stoltenberg stated that NATO does not consider Russia as the "inevitable" threat to its security, but believes that its actions have become more aggressive

❗️Advisor to the head of Zelensky's office stated that "a foreign legion" is already being formed in Ukraine

⚡️Chairman of Russia's Investigative Committee Bastrykin instructed to investigate reports of prohibited ammunition used by Ukrainian military

❗️ The Russian side reports that negotiations between Moscow and Kiev have not yet begun

❗️ With Japan on board, all G7 countries agree to sanctions against Russia's Central Bank, exclusion of some Russian banks from SWIFT - White House

⚡️Telegram CEO: Messenger may restrict work in Ukraine, Russia if situation escalates

❗️ Portugal closes its airspace to Russian aircraft

❗️ EU's Von der Leyen says "state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war and to saw division in our union"

❗️EU сompletely сloses its airspace to Russian airlines

❗️ Russian MoD: Our losses are many times less than those of nationalists and Ukraine's army

Recap – Russia held strategic deterrence forces drills with ballistic missile tests a week ago

❗️ Russian MoD: The tortures committed by Ukrainian Nazis are the same as those carried out by German Nazis during WWII