❗️ US President Biden will announce new measures against Russia on Friday in response to the operation in Ukraine, the White House said.

"At 10:15 a.m. EST (15:15 GMT), the president will announce actions to further hold Russia accountable", Biden's schedule for Friday reads

⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire 40 Grad rockets at Gorlovka in Donbass, DPR says

⚡️⚡️ DPR forces take control of Volnovakha city - Russian MoD

⚡️Ukrainian military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk put out of operation - Russian MoD

⚡️ Hungarian PM Viktor Orban says EU will not impose sanctions on Russia affecting gas and oil sectors.

"The most important issue for us has been settled in a favourable way: there won't be sanctions that would apply to gas or oil, so Hungary's energy supply is secure in the upcoming period", the prime minister said

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❗️Key takeaways from the Russian Defence Ministry's latest briefing:

🔹 On the morning of 11 March, high-precision long-range weapons struck at Ukrainian military infrastructure, and put out of action military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankovsk;

🔹 The DPR forces have taken control of Volnovakha; the settlements of Olginka, Velika-Anadol, and Zeleny Gai were also taken under control; the advance was up to 6 kilometres.

🔹 Units of the Russian military have reached the Petrovskoye-Evgenovka-Oktyabrskaya line. The advance was 17 kilometres;

🔹 Three Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters, eight unmanned aerial vehicles, including five Bayraktar TB-2s, were shot down, 107 targets were hit by aircraft.

🔹 In total, 3,213 Ukrainian military infrastructure have been disabled since the operation began

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⚡️⚡️ Kiev will no longer procure Russian nuclear fuel, Ukrainian company Energoatom says

"Energoatom completely refuses to purchase Russian nuclear fuel", the company said on its Telegram channel

📹: The Russian MoD has shown a video of a Forpost drone in action — destroying a stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists from a height of about four kilometres

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⚡️⚡️ Putin agrees to idea of sending volunteers to Ukraine

⚡️ Putin supports Shoigu’s proposals on transferring captured western-made military equipment to DPR, LPR

❗️ Shoigu: Huge number of volunteers ready to come to help DPR and LPR, most applications come from the Middle East - over 16,000 people

📹: Russian President Putin holds meeting with members of Security Council

https://sputniknews.com/20220311/russian-president-putin-holds-meeting-with-members-of-security-council-1093768752.html

⚡️ Borrell says West made number of mistakes in its relations with Russia, including promise of NATO membership to Ukraine

⚡️ NATO сhief: Turkey is informed alliance expects all members to impose sanctions against Russia

❗️Norwegian energy giant Equinor has stopped trading Russian oil, its CEO Anders Opedal has said.

"When we said we started the process of leaving the projects in Russia, we also stopped trading in Russian oil from that very date", Opedal said at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas, as quoted by national broadcaster NRK.

📌 In stopping its oil purchases from Russia, Equinor joined fellow majors including Shell, BP, and France's TotalEnergies, which all play a key part in Europe's energy supplies.

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❗️ Turkey not planning to impose sanctions against Russia now, wants to maintain dialogue of trust - Erdogan’s spokesman

⚡️⚡️ 'Necessary' to ban Facebook, Instagram if they allowed calls for violence against Russia - Kremlin

⚡️ Meta's decision to allow incitement to violence against Russians raises concern, issue to be discussed with company - OHCHR

⚡️ Canadian PM says the country is imposing sanctions on 5 more Russians, including Abramovich, as well as on 32 "Russian military organisations"

⚡️ UK announces sanctions against 386 Russian lawmakers who voted for recognition of DPR, LPR - Foreign Ministry

⚡️ Russian Prosecutor General’s Office asks court to recognize Meta as extremist organization and ban its activities