Recent major developments:
- Ukraine has declared a general mobilization,
- The EU has announced “massive and targeted” sanctions targeting 70 percent of the Russian banking market, as well as measures to strangle Russia’s energy sector
- After a group of anonymous hackers “declared war on Russia,” websites belonging to the propaganda network Russia Today started crashing.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian attacks have already killed at least 137 people, including all 13 soldiers stationed on Zmiinyi Island who died in combat before it fell to Russian forces.
- Japan and multiple European states have stopped issuing visas to all Russian nationals.
- The United States, Great Britain, and Canada have announced new sanctions, including measures targeting Aeroflot and Sberbank
Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported the following update on its invasion of Ukraine:
- Russian troops have disabled 118 military facilities, including 11 airfields;
- shot down five Ukrainian jets, one attack helicopter, and five drones;
- destroyed 18 Ukrainian tanks, seven multiple rocket launchers, 41 vehicles, five boats, and 14 “Osa” and S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems; and
- seized control of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Russian officials say the area’s background radiation levels are normal.
Moscow claims that 82 Ukrainian soldiers have laid down their arms and surrendered near Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea in Ukraine’s Odesa region.
Ukrainian updates
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has announced that an enemy infiltration group is active in the Kyiv residential district of Obolon. The Ukrainian military is calling on the public to report the movement of any military vehicles and use Molotov cocktails against the enemy.
Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to President Zelensky, has stated that Ukraine is ready to hold talks with Russia to negotiate Kyiv’s neutrality, but it must receive security guarantees, he says.
“Ukraine has always and always will leave room for negotiations — including now, when Russia has launched a full-scale invasion. This war must be stopped. These military actions must stop,” said Podoliak.
