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⚡️⚡️⚡️BREAKING: Ukraine confirms peace talks with Russia today.

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⚡️Hacking group Anonymous interrupts Russian state TV programs with footage of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and an anti-war message. It claims to have accessed TV channels “Russia 24”, “Channel 1”, “Moscow 24”, & streaming services Wink and Ivi.

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⚡️Switzerland adopts EU sanctions, freezes Putin's assets. Switzerland broke its historically neutral status to adopt EU sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine.

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⚡️Zelensky posts another video filmed in central Kyiv. "There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said. "I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state."

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⚡️BREAKING: Ukraine officially applies for NATO membership.

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⚡️Hungary now supports cutting Russia off SWIFT. Hungary was the last EU country who opposed the measure.

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⚡️Ukraine’s Air Force, along with units of the army and territorial defense, destroyed a large Russian military convoy near the city of Bashtanka in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region. Military bloggers reported that the convoy contained up to 800 vehicles.

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⚡️BREAKING: UN suspends Russia from Human Rights Council.

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Kazakhstan reportedly denies Russia's request for troops. Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s closest allies and a southern neighbor, is denying a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine, NBC reports citing its sources.

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⚡️Google Maps disables Google Maps’ live traffic overlay and Live Busyness, a feature that displays how popular a location may be at a given time. Google reportedly made the change in an effort to help keep Ukrainians safe.

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⚡️Ukrainian forces have retaken Mykolaiv airport, according to regional governor Vitaliy Kim.

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Updated numbers of Russia's casualties and other losses as of Feb. 27, according to Ukraine's Defense Ministry.

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⚡️️Zelensky doesn't believe in the positive outcome of the negotiations with Russia. "But let them try, so that no citizen of Ukraine doubts that I, as president, tried to stop the war when there was still a chance, however small," he said in a video address.

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⚡️State Telecommunications Service: Kremlin website down. Ukraine’s telecoms agency also announced that the Russian media regulator’s site was down and that Russian TV channels had been hacked to broadcast Ukrainian songs.

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⚡️Zelensky: "Today, a family of four, parents and two children, were killed in Irpin as they were trying to leave the city. We will not forgive. We will not forget."

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⚡️Zelensky: “The world doesn’t believe in Russia’s future, doesn’t talk about it. They talk about us, they are helping us, they are ready to support our recovery after the war.” “Because for a nation, defending itself so heroically, there will most certainly be a future.”

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⚡️ Zelensky on Ukraine's EU candidate status: "It's a victory. Now, we will defeat the enemy, rebuild Ukraine, become a EU member state, and then – we will finally rest."

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⚡️Zelensky: Close the sky or give us aircraft. While speaking with media, President Zelensky called on NATO to close the sky over Ukraine. He asked how many more Ukrainians have to be injured for this decision to be made. If it can't be made, "give us planes,” he said.

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⚡️Zelensky: “Already 4,500 Russian soldiers have been killed. Why did you all come here? Drop your weapons and leave, don’t trust your commanders, don’t trust your propagandists, just save your lives - leave.”

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⚡️Zelensky: "Russia announced that tomorrow it will be bombing our defense industry enterprises. Most of them are located in our cities, with civilians around. It’s a murder, simply a murder. And I didn’t see any world leader react to it today, any Western politician."

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⚡️Three Ukrainian supermarket chains - Silpo, Novus, and Varus - stop selling Coca-Cola products as the company continues to operate in Russia.

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⚡️Zelensky: "After the war, we will rebuild everything very fast and very well. Every city that was affected will get a special development program. There will be the best architects, the best companies, the best projects for every city."

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⚡️Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny predicts that the war with Ukraine, "planned by crazy old men," will lead to the collapse of Russia.

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⚡️ Russian state TV interrupted by "No War" protest. During the “Vremya” news program on Russia’s main TV channel, Maria Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, rushed in front of the camera with a poster saying “stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda.”

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⚡️Zelensky addresses Ukrainians: I admire each of you. The whole world admires you - from Hollywood stars to politicians. Today you, Ukrainians, are the symbol of invincibility. The symbol that people in any country can become the best people on earth at any moment.

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⚡️Zelensky to NATO: Don't say Ukraine's army doesn't meet Alliance's standards. In a virtual address to NATO, President Zelensky said that he has one demand. “After such a war against Russia… Please, never, never again tell us that our army does not meet NATO standards.”

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⚡️Ukrainian soldiers win back Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant. According to Energy Minister Herman Halyshchenko, Ukraine regained full control over the plant after a fierce battle. The plant’s staff left shelters and returned back to work.

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⚡️ Poland to supply the U.S. with its entire stockpile of MIG-29 jets, free of charge. The planes are then expected to be shipped to Ukraine. The Polish government asked other NATO members to follow the country’s example.

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⚡️Ukrainian military has destroyed Russian Su-30 fighter aircraft in the Black Sea. Ukraine’s Air Force reported the downing, writing “welcome to hell.”

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The Times: Volodymyr Zelensky survives 3 assassination attempts in days. Two different groups have been sent to kill him, yet both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia’s Federal Security Service, according to the Times' sources.

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⚡️Ukrzaliznytsia: All rail links to Russia destroyed. The state rail service announced that all railway tracks from Russia to Ukraine have been blown up by Ukraine’s armed forces.

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⚡️Zelensky: A state that commits war crimes against civilians can't be a member of the UN Security Council. Such a state can't have access to all ports, canals, airports in the world.

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First foreigners have already joined International Legion, Ukraine's volunteer military force, and are fighting outside of Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian Ground Forces, the volunteers came from the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Lithuania, Mexico, and India. 📷 Ukrainian Ground Forces

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⚡️International Court of Justice orders Russia to immediately suspend all the military operations that it started in Ukraine on Feb. 24.

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⚡️Ukraine kills Russian Major General Vitaly Gerasimov near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry said. Gerasimov was a senior military official who participated in the second Chechen war and was awarded a medal for “capturing Crimea.”

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⚡️Russian troops in Crimea refuse to take part in Ukraine invasion. The Center for Defense Strategies, citing their sources in the marine personnel in Crimea, says members of Russia’s 810th Detached Marine Brigade are in a “demoralized state."

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⚡️Zelensky asks the EU for membership. “We ask the European Union for Ukraine's immediate accession under a new special procedure,” said Zelensky in video address.

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⚡️FM: Ukraine will not capitulate. “We will be happy if the result of these negotiations is peace,” Dmytro Kuleba said. "But, and I emphasize this again, we will not give up, we will not capitulate, we will not give away a centimeter of our territory.”

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⚡️BREAKING: German government says allies cutting Russia out of SWIFT.

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⚡️Zelensky says that Ukraine is in possession of maps and records, obtained from those captured. “They are planning to bomb Odesa.”

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⚡️Ukraine’s military intelligence claim that Russia’s elites scheme to overthrow Putin to restore economic ties with Western countries. Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of FSB security agency, is allegedly being considered as Putin’s successor, according to Ukraine's intelligence.

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⚡️Ukraine's electricity system now linked to EU's grid, not Russian. The measure that loosens Ukraine's ties to Russian energy was originally scheduled for 2023.

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⚡️Lviv-based Pravda brewery switches to making Molotov cocktails. The brewery announced the plans after Ukraine’s Defense Ministry instructed civilians to make Molotov cocktails to resist invading Russian forces.

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⚡️President Volodymyr Zelensky told British PM Boris Johnson this evening that he believed the next 24 hours was a crucial period for Ukraine.

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⚡️Ukrainian tennis champion Elina Svitolina defeated Russia's Anastasia at the Monterrey Open on March 1, pledging to donate her prize money to Ukraine's military. “I was on a mission for my country,” Svitolina said.

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⚡️The situation in Kyiv is under Ukrainian control, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. “All Russian efforts to occupy it have failed,” their statement reads.

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Ukraine's president said that Russia will attack with full force this night. Our team will be up through the night to bring you the latest news. Our people are placed in and out of Kyiv. Even if the Internet goes down in Kyiv, we should be able to continue to post updates.

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⚡️Zelensky addresses the nation: "Today is Saturday but it means nothing. Our country doesn’t have weekends anymore. It doesn't matter what’s on the clock or in the calendar. And it will be this way until we win."

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⚡️EU shuts its airspace to all Russian-owned, Russian-registered, or Russian-controlled aircraft, President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Twitter. “Including the private jets of oligarchs,” she wrote.

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⚡️SBU: Intercepted phone calls shows that Russian troops near Kharkiv were ordered to shoot at civilians, including children.

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Zelensky's briefing: "We survived (the night). And we are successfully fighting off the enemy attacks."

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⚡️Russian troops no longer in southern city of Skadovsk. The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Yakovlev, said the situation in Skadovsk is under control and there is electricity, gas and water supply.

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⚡️General Staff: Russia loses tank detachment in failed Kyiv assault. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army’s 6th tank regiment has been destroyed on March 20.

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⚡️President Zelensky signs decree on March 8 recalling Ukrainian peacekeeping forces to defend Ukraine. The decree declares that all soldiers and equipment dedicated to U.N. peacekeeping operations must return to Ukraine to assist in the war effort.

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⚡️Zelensky: We have survived two world wars, three famines, the Holocaust, Babyn Yar, the Great Purge, the Chornobyl explosion, the occupation of Crimea, and the war in the east of our state. "They wanted to destroy us so many times, but they couldn't," he said.

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⚡️Ukrainian forces shoot down Russian plane bombing the city. The plane was taken down by Ukrainian military at 4:45 p.m. on March 22, Mariupol City Council reports.

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⚡️⚡️ BREAKING: European Council decides to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine, Moldova.

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⚡️Ukrainian troops liberate Makariv. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on March 21 that “the Ukrainian flag was raised over the town of Makariv” and Russian forces have been pushed back. Makariv is located 60 kilometres west from Kyiv.

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⚡️Zelensky: 'The territory where Russia should protect the rights of Russian speakers is Russia itself.' A country where there is "no freedom of speech, no freedom of choice, no right to dissent, where poverty thrives and human life is worthless," Zelensky said of Russia.

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⚡️Zelensky tells Putin to leave Ukraine or meet him for talks. During a press conference with media, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, urging him to sit down for negotiations between the two. “What are you afraid of?" Zelensky asked.

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⚡️Russian forces kill Hero of Ukraine, captain Chybineiev. Thirty-four-year-old Ukrainian captain Valeriy Chybineiev was killed in the battle near Hostomel, a city on the outskirts of Kyiv, on his birthday on March 3.

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⚡️Zelensky: "While Russians are to blame for the killings, responsibility is shared by those who for 13 days in their Western offices haven’t been able to approve an obviously necessary decision, who didn’t save our cities from these bombs and missiles – although they can."

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⚡️Zelensky: "Together, we need to return to some Western leaders their bravery, so that they do what they should have done on the first day of this invasion: either close the Ukrainian sky or give us fighter jets so we do it ourselves."

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⚡️ The Hague sets date for ruling on Russia's war. Ukraine is requesting that Russia be ordered to end its war and withdraw troops from the country. The International Court of Justice will issue a ruling on March 16.

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⚡️ EU bans Russia Today, Sputnik. Russia’s two main propaganda networks are now to shut down all across the union.

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⚡️EU countries to send ‘fighter jets’ to Ukraine to fight off Moscow’s invasion by countering Russian air and land assaults, the EU's Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said.

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⚡️Zelensky: They lied they wouldn't touch the civilians, but from the first hours of the invasion, Russian troops were attacking civilian infrastructure. They deliberately chose tactics to strike at people and everything that makes life normal - electricity, hospitals, homes.

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Zelensky on the Russian shelling of a kindergarten in Ukraine that killed at least one child and injured more: "What kind of war is that? Were these children neo-Nazi? Or were they NATO soldiers?"

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At the end of his address to the U.S. Congress, Zelensky switched to English: "Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine. We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing our lives in the name of the future."

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⚡️Zelensky: “The citizens of Russia are right now making the choice between freedom and slavery. Today, tomorrow, this week, is still the time when you can defeat evil.” “Don’t miss this opportunity.”

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⚡️Russian social media VK allegedly hacked, spreads truth about war in Ukraine. Users of VK have received messages from the social network’s official account informing them of the true casualties and impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to screenshots posted online.

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⚡️Ukraine to receive 70 fighter jets from the EU. Ukraine’s Air Force said on March 1. Bulgaria will provide 16 MiG-29s and 14 Su-25s, Poland will provide 28 MiG-29 units, and Slovakia – 12 MiG-29s.

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⚡️Zelensky: Launching a rocket at the central square of Kharkiv is an outright, undisguised terror. After that, Russia became a terrorist state. No one will forgive. Nobody will forget.

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⚡️Zelensky urges Poland, US to decide on logistics of sending fighter jets to Ukraine immediately. “Listen, we have a war! We do not have time for all these signals,” Zelensky said. “It’s about human lives! We ask once again: Solve it faster. Do not shift the responsibility.”

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⚡️Cyprus forbids 5 Russian navy ships from mooring and refueling in Limassol. Cyprus banned Russian ships from its port following EU sanctions over Russia’s war, Philenews reported.

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⚡️Zelensky: "We will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war. We will find every scum who was shelling our cities, our people, who was shooting the missiles, who was giving orders. You will not have a quiet place on this earth – except for a grave."

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⚡️Zelensky about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine: "Concentrated evil has come to our land. Murderers, butchers, rapists, looters, who call themselves an army and who only deserve to die after what they have done," Zelensky said.

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⚡️BREAKING: European Parliament recommends giving Ukraine EU candidate status. The decision follows President Zelensky’s speech, where he called on the EU to “prove” that the union is with Ukraine. The resolution also demands that Russia withdraws all its troops from Ukraine.

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⚡️ Lithuania becomes first EU country to ban Russian gas. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that starting in April, the country will not import Russian gas. He added that other European countries should follow the Lithuanian example.

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⚡️70% believe in Ukraine’s victory, 91% support Zelensky, according to a Feb. 26-27 survey by the group Rating. Across Ukraine, pessimistic sentiment is low and the level of faith in Ukraine’s armed forces has grown significantly, Rating says.

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⚡️Zelensky to Russia: Learn the word "reparation." In the most recent video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia will compensate Ukraine for all the damages it suffered during Moscow's brutal war. "We will restore every house, every street, every city."

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Zelensky: "This night they will launch an assault. The enemy will use all of their power on all fronts to break our defense. This night we have to stand ground. The fate of Ukraine is being decided now."

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⚡️ US President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should no longer lead Russia. “For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said during his speech in Warsaw.

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⚡️Zelensky: "We now have a chance to show not only to Russia, but also to any aggressor in the world, any terrorist state that war will destroy not the victim, but the one who unleashed it." President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the citizens of Switzerland on March 19.

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⚡️Zelensky: Sergeant Inna Derusova is the first woman to be awarded the Hero of Ukraine title posthumously. A field medic, she was killed during the artillery attack on Okhtyrka on Feb. 24, the first day of Russia's invasion. She saved more than 10 soldiers that day.

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⚡️Zelensky delivered a televised speech to the people of Europe. “Do not be silent, support Ukraine. Because if Ukraine does not survive, the whole Europe will not survive. If Ukraine falls, the whole Europe will fall.” Video: President’s Office.

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⚡️Ukraine to pay $3,400 (Hr 100,000) per month to military personnel. The significant pay raise will be implemented to show the soldiers "that the country is grateful to them," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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⚡️Possible war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ukraine will be investigated, prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague Karim Khan announced on Feb. 28.

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⚡️Ukraine’s air defense forces shoot down Russian aircraft over Kyiv. Soon after that, at 9:10 p.m., another Russian plane was destroyed in an air battle on the city’s outskirts, according to Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerіy Zaluzhny.

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⚡️Zelensky reacts to train station attack in Kramatorsk: “Lacking the strength and courage to fight with us on the battlefield, they (Russians) are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop.”

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⚡️Bucha City Council: Ukraine's military surround the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near Kyiv. It means that the Russian troops north-west of Kyiv are now encircled.

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⚡️Lithuanian parliament approves a resolution calling for immediate EU candidate status for Ukraine.

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⚡️Italy seizes $578 million mega yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko. The vessel, called “SY A,” is one of the largest superyachts in the world, according to its manufacturer, Nobiskrug.

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⚡️Germany allows supplying weapons to Ukraine in a major turnaround. The country has authorized the Netherlands to send Ukraine 400 rocket-propelled grenade launchers produced in Germany.

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⚡️ Russia warns Czechia against supplying weapons to Ukraine, Prague says won't respond to blackmail. Russia claimed that the Czech Republic isn’t allowed to provide Ukraine with Soviet-made weapons without Russian permission. Czech Defense Minister brushed off these claims.

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⚡️Pink Floyd raises $600,000 for Ukraine.

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⚡️Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system providing internet access is now active in Ukraine. Satellite terminals are on the way to Ukraine. This could be useful if Russia’s attacks destabilize Ukraine’s internet.

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⚡️President Zelensky orders to temporarily lift visas for foreigners wishing to join the International Legion and fight for Ukraine against Russia.

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⚡️Russian invaders failed to break through eastern front in the Luhansk direction, according to Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation.

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