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🔹 ZSU shelled Leninsky village in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces launched massive strike on ZSU positions in Vuhledar; 🔹 Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary demand EU to ban grain and other agricultural imports from Ukraine till 2024; 🔹 RIA: Russian top new tanks T-14 Armata are already being used for striking Ukrainian positions, but yet to take part in direct combat; 🔹 ZSU accumulates reserves in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Borrell reports that EU gave Kyiv 13 bln euro worth of weapons and military equipment and provided training of over 16 000 ZSU personnel.
🔹 In the night, 2 ZSU marine UAVs attempted to attack Sevastopol harbor, both were destroyed; 🔹 Government of Latvia to spend 4 mln euro to teach Ukrainian refugees Latvian language in 2023; 🔹 RuMOD: Russian forces landed strikes on over 130 ZSU targets in Lyman front; 🔹 Ukrainian loitering munition with 17 kg of explosives crashes near Moscow; 🔹 US Congressman Paul Gosar proposed a ban of foreign aid due to costs of helping Kyiv; 🔹 The Economist: old MiG-29 fighter jets given to Kyiv by Poland and Slovakia are inoperative and are being cannibalized for spare parts.
🔹 Kyiv refused Iraq's offer to be mediator in peace talks with Moscow; 🔹 Bus with 200 grams of RDX explosives; 🔹 Ukraine resumed power supply to Slovakia; 🔹 ZSU shelled 6 bordering villages in Russia; 🔹 Over 100 ZSU servicemen opened up as gays, bi and trans-persons, seeking to "attack" Russian army by such gesture; ; 🔹 US-supplied M2 Bradley ODS-SA first time noticed with ZSU.
🔹 Poland PM Mateusz Morawiecky announced transfer of another batch of MiG-29 fighter jets for ZSU; 🔹 Slovakia Agriculture Ministry discouraged import of Ukrainian grain after identification of pesticides; 🔹 EU Council: Peace Fund funded 4,6 bln dollar worth military aid for Kyiv; 🔹 Three members of ZSU infiltration and sabotage group caught in Melitopol; 🔹 Moldova willing to help Kyiv with mine clearing on controlled territories; 🔹 Die Welt: EU will have to give back frozen Russian assets; 🔹 Evgeniy Prigozhin says that Wagner Group eliminated at least 38 000 Ukrainian troops.
🔹 Over a 1000 ZSU troops trained by Spain; 🔹 EU wants to help rebuild Ukraine using seized Russian assets; 🔹 Washington Post: ZSU servicemen learned to use US-supplied equipment from video lessons on YouTube; 🔹 Former CIA analyst Fleiz: attempt to change Ukraine borders by US may lead to escalation; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov says no NATO servicemen are present in Ukraine; 🔹 Slovakia Minister of Agriculture says high levels of pesticides were detected in Ukrainian grain; 🔹 Two parishes in Zhitomir Oblast switched from canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Kyiv-sponsored Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
🔹 EU summit confirmed pledge to give Kive 1 million artillery shells; 🔹 US to give Kyiv older Abrams tanks from reserves, not newly manufactured; 🔹 High court in DPR sentenced ZSU servicemen Andrey Nayden and Danila Kolenov for 25 years for murdering civilians in Mariupol; 🔹 Kyiv received first four MiG-29 fighter jets from Slovakia; 🔹 Kyiv Rada plans to cancel lifetime bonuses for ZSU veterans due to pressure on budget; 🔹 France MOD refutes claims about ZSU pilots trained to fly Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
🔹 Zelensky visited ZSU positions on Bakhmut front; 🔹 Zelensky's aide calls to cut Russian oil price cap by half; 🔹 Kyiv reports that production of 122 mm munitions ZSU has started abroad; 🔹 Russian Kherson governor Saldo: Line of defense along left bank of Dnieper in Kherson Oblast was strengthened threefold; 🔹 UK FM says supplying Kyiv with depleted uranium munitions does not lead to nuclear escalation; 🔹 Russian MP: Russia confirmed that NATO created military facilities in Ukraine under guise of biolaboratories; 🔹 DPR reports that tens of thousands ZSU soldiers are positioned in Chasiv Yar; 🔹 US Congress to hold hearings on Ukraine aid audit; 🔹 Slovakia reports Ukrainian technicians started acceptance procedures for MiG-29 fighter jets.
🔹 Slovakia Government approves transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets for ZSU, Kyiv calls them "obsolete"; 🔹 US still США won't give Kyiv F-16; 🔹 Russian governor of Kherson Oblast says ZSU attempted a largest yet attempt to cross Dnieper; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities await ZSU offensive in coming days; 🔹 Head of DPR reports Russian forces advance in Adviivka front; 🔹 SBU raids gas distribution companies of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash; 🔹 Kyiv admits that half of public regulation is useless; 🔹 Kyiv urges civilians in Dniepropetrovsk Oblast to return all earlier distributed firearms within 10 days; 🔹 Reports that EU MODs to approve another 2 bln euros to buy munitions for ZSU.
🔹 LPR PM speaker says Ukrainians after forced mobilization are brought to Kupyansk; 🔹 Reports that Switzerland authorities demand that Ukrainian refugees sell elite cars or be stripped of social security payments; 🔹 Slovakia acting PM Eduard Heger pledges to give MiG-29 fighter jets to ZSU; 🔹 Transnistria's president Vadim Krasnoselsky blames Kyiv for attempts to drag the republic into Ukrainian conflict; 🔹 Kyiv Ministry of Culture proposed monks of Kyiv-Pechersk Orthodox Lavra to join schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine; 🔹 RuMOD says Russian forces captured parts of industrial area on Kupyansk front; 🔹 Zelensky pledges to strengthen defenses in overrun Bakhmut.
🔹 RuMOD says Kyiv plots a provocation involving containers with radioactive matter brought from one of European countries; 🔹 10 civilians wounded after ZSU shelling hit central Donets; 🔹 Kyiv Rada to discuss most egregious cases of forced mobilization of civilians in Ukraine; 🔹 Slovakia to give Kyiv fighter jets that were long out of use; 🔹 France to give Kyiv first batch of AMX-10RC wheeled tanks on next week; 🔹 Borrell: EU to hold emergency "munitions summit" on March 6 and 7 to discuss sending all available ammunition in Europe to Kyiv.
🔹 Poland creates a legion for intelligence and sabotage operations against Russian forces; 🔹 European Parliament adopts a resolution for persistent support of Kyiv with all types of weapons; 🔹 Loud explosion heard in Armyansk in Russian Crimea; 🔹 ZSU shelled Voznesenovka village in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 101 Russian prisoner returned from Kyiv-controlled territories via prisoner exchange; 🔹 For a few weeks Slovakia does not accept German-made weapons from Ukraine for repairs.