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28 February 2022
Ukraine's mobile operator Kyivstar has blocked all text messages coming from Russia and Belarus to the numbers of its subscribers due to a large number of spam messages with unreliable information.
Ukrainian marines and border guards, who offered resistance to Russian invaders during an attack on Zmiinyi (Snake) Island are alive. Now they are in Russian captivity.
NATO Allies continue to increase assistance to Ukraine, including the provision of necessary air-defense missiles and anti-tank weapons, as well as financial and humanitarian support.
The Ukrainian forces defending Odesa region say that the area is "stuffed" with subversive elements who provide assistance to Russian invaders, including passing tips on the movement and deployment of the Ukrainian troops, photographing the area, launching drones, and more.
In Kharkiv, Russian troops inflicted massive strikes on residential neighborhoods in two city districts. According to preliminary data, three people died and 14 were injured, a local volunteer, Natalia Popova, has told Ukrinform.
Japan intends to join international sanctions against the Central Bank of the Russian Federation by restricting transactions.
The Lithuanian government has decided to appeal to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with the request to investigate crimes committed by Russia and Belarus in Ukraine.
Several thousand foreigners have already expressed their willingness to join the International Legion.
Ukrzaliznytsia has called on all European and Asian countries to suspend any cooperation between railway administrations and an aggressor country, the Russian Federation.
Japan is allocating another $100 million to support Ukraine in opposing the Russian army.
The enemy is mercilessly shelling Chernihiv, private houses and multi-storey apartment blocks come under fire.
Enemies dropped bombs, probably fuel-air, on Okhtyrka, Sumy region. Fire broke out at the oil depot.
The situation regarding the Russian invasion
The BelTA news agency showed on its YouTube channel that the Ukrainian and Russian delegations had sat down at the negotiating table.
Anonymous international hacker group has taken down more than 300 websites of Russian government agencies, state media outlets, banks, as well as websites of leading Belarusian banks, including Belarusbank, Priorbank and Belinvestbank.
As many as 16 children have been killed and 45 more have been wounded in Russian shelling in Ukraine.
In the city of Berdiansk, which was captured by Russian invaders, the family members of Oleh Nikolaiev, a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), are being threatened with murder, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The Russian Federation has willfully and maliciously violated existing international standards and agreements. Together with current political and economic sanctions, as well as a ban to compete in sporting and other international events, we call for sanctions that would limit Russia's presence within the international cultural arena.
The Ukrainian authorities are calling on the European Union for Ukraine’s immediate accession under a special procedure.
The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is completely controlled by Ukrainian troops, and all reports about the possible encirclement of the city by the Russian army are false.
Several dozens of local residents holding national flags have come in front of Berdiansk City Council, which was captured by Russia’s military, to sing the Ukrainian national anthem.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has thanked international partners for their support and quick decisions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that every crime and every shelling committed by the Russian troops against Ukrainians further unite citizens of Ukraine and its international partners.
Ukrainians who have real combat experience will be released from custody, and some sanctions will be lifted from participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation.
Russian terrorists have made an attempt at physically eliminating a number of Ukrainian government members, which has failed – everyone is alive and continues performing their duties.
The situation regarding the Russian invasion
The Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the area of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to take part in talks with representatives of the Russian Federation.
The Russian army shelled the city of Izium in Kharkiv region.
Facebook parent company Meta says it has uncovered Russian efforts to undermine trust in the Ukrainian government and a separate attempt to hack Ukrainian military officials and journalists using its platform, according to NPR.
Two people were killed after the Russian army shelled the Saltivka residential area in Kharkiv.