Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

The US Department of the Treasury has banned transactions with the Central Bank and the Russian Treasury Department.

“This action effectively immobilizes any assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation held in the United States or by US persons, wherever located," said in the statement of the Department of the Treasury.

The occupiers in Berdyansk get into cars and leave as people chant "Berdyansk is Ukraine!"

The text in the post says:

OVER A THOUSAND CIVIL UKRAINIANS IN BERDYANSK FORCE RUSSIAN NAZISES TO LOAD INTO THEIR TRUCKS

Ukrainians, if Russian Nazis appeared in your city, go out and drive them out. Do not be afraid. Chase them.

Switzerland has imposed sanctions against Russia in defiance of its neutrality. It will join all sanctions imposed by the European Union.

Ukraine appeals to the European Court of Human Rights over Russian attacks on civilian targets.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba addressed the Russian occupiers: No result, except thousands of coffins and impoverishment, awaits you.

"The shock of the world community has been replaced by anger and action. You may have already noticed their results on the scoreboards in the exchange offices in your cities. "The external conditions for the Russian economy have changed dramatically." That's a quote. That's what the Central Bank of Russia said today. Of course they have changed, just to put it very mildly," Kuleba said.

The Minister noted that the ruble has actually "fallen into the abyss," along with the entire Russian economy. According to him, "the bottom has not been reached yet, but the flight has already started".

"Ukraine is not going to give up. Today there are queues at military enlistment offices all over our country and queues at offices of the military commissar all over your country," Kuleba said.

The occupants shelled villages near Chernihiv, the State Emergencies Service reports. Kiyenka and Pavlovka villages suffered the most. There were fatalities. 

An occupant helicopter is shot down in Kharkiv Region. - Anton Gerashchenko

An occupant helicopter is shot down in Blyznyuki, Kharkiv Region.

Checked with the AFU. The helicopter was shot down by a Stinger, the same one handed over by the Allies a month ago!

Ukraine is winning! (Video) Anton Gerashchenko’s Telegram channel

Press Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on bombardments in Kharkiv, death of civilians and what Putin is trying to achieve:
The Ministry of Internal Affairs Press Centre continues its work.
Unfortunately, we must state that Russian army is massively shelling residential areas in the city of Kharkiv. Now, as we speak there’s an ongoing tremendous shelling of Kharkiv by missile weapons, there’re already numerous victims, there’re killed. These are solely civilians and this is purely shelling of a peaceful city.
Why is this all happening? The reason is that Ukrainian army has started fighting the enemy and the sanctions imposed started bringing down the Russian economy.
Vladimir Putin seems to be aiming at gaining any kind of victory, in order to provide a picture of a pseudo victory in Ukraine for Russian citizens.
It’s the fifth day that Russian president has been hiding in a bunker, it’s the fifth day that he hasn’t appeared in front of his people, it’s the fifth day he is afraid to be in public. Why? Because he has obviously started having paranoiac fear for his own life.
Of course, we cannot expect any revolutions in Russia at present, but Putin is paranoiac and he is obviously very much afraid of his elites, that’s the reason he’s been hiding in a bunker for the fifth day, that’s the reason he doesn’t appear in public and that’s the reason he’s been waging war against Ukraine for the fifth day now.
His actions in Kharkiv today, his murdering of civilians, the fact that all the rules of war are being broken at the moment – all of these will be proves for future court hearings and he will definitely face the Hague court. And we, in our turn will defend the city of Kharkiv because it’s our Ukrainian Patriotic war and we will win our Patriotic war!

Interior Ministry spokesman: Kharkiv shelling, civilian deaths and what Putin is trying to achieve. Interior Ministry of Ukraine

Horenka, Kyiv Region, was shelled.
A shell hit the village of Horenka near Kyiv. The Russian army still hopes to capture the sector in the direction of Demydiv, Bucha, Irpin, and Vyshhorod. Horenka and Pushcha-Vodytsia are in Russians’ sights, too. The Armed Forces of Ukraine drove Russians out of Bucha, destroyed a part of their forces in Hostomel, and pushed back the Russian Federation’s military in the Vyshhorod direction. The shelling of villages and residential quarters is a sign of Russians’ powerlessness and their attempt to amp up the stakes during negotiations. They are hinting that we need to accept their terms to stop violence in Ukraine.

We are confident that Zelenskyi’s team is very well aware that Russians use negotiations to buy themselves some time, have a breather, and prepare for an offensive. The Russian army has been beaten down by Ukrainian Armed Forces’ success. We need not a pause now, but a counteroffensive.

Kherson. Mothers-to-be at a bomb shelter. “Say hi to that scumbag that herded us in here.”
[Pregnant women at a bomb shelter in Kherson.]

Russia fired 180 missiles at Ukraine, including cruise missiles and those from the Iskander tactical systems, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said.

Justice Minister Denis Maliuska:

Ukraine has applied to the European Court of Human Rights for preventive measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court for the Russian Federation, demanding inter alia "an immediate halt to military attacks against civilian objects, including residences, private cars, anti-help facilities and other specially protected civilian objects, such as schools and hospitals, on Ukrainian territory". 

Switzerland is joining the EU’s sanctions against Russia that attacked Ukraine and launched an all-out war in the center of Europe.

"In Berdyansk, which is temporarily occupied by Russia, locals are booing the invaders." - Gerashchenko

[Berdyansk tells the invaders to fuck off]

15:53 Curfew in Kyiv will run from 20:00 to 07:00, transport - until 19:00

“I am ashamed—as a person and as a citizen.” The head of the Russian UN climate delegation spoke against Putin and his war with Ukraine.

“”I am ashamed—as a person, as a citizen of this country. I am ashamed that we failed to establish any civil society institutions in our country that could impact the president’s and government’s decision-making. It was simply presented to us—just as to the citizens of Ukraine—as a fait accompli. The fact that we, citizens of Russia, are involved in a military conflict,” Oleg Anisimov, professor, doctor of science in geography, said during the online UN climate conference, representing Russia.

Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has recorded a video with a gun in his hands. He declares that he will defend Ukraine and that the Ukrainians will win because the Ukrainians are fighting for values and the Russians are fighting for nothing. 

Watch this, Russians. This is your doing. And you’ll pay heavy price for it.

[Putin: “We don’t attack peaceful cities. We don’t fight with Ukrainian people. We just want to purge Ukraine from the Nazi!” SEND ALL VIDEOS OF ROCKET ATTACKS ON OUR CITIES TO RUSSIA!]

Ukrainian delegation at talks with Russia on the Pripyat River.

A batyr from Buryatia in town. He was lucky to stay alive.

[The Ukrainian army is attending to a captured Russian Nazi from Buryatia. This one will go back to his mom, of course. Lucky one.]

15:32 A “Russian military ship” has been spotted in Sumy. Locals captured a Russian invaders’ tank and put the famous Ukrainian slogan “Russian military ship, go f*ck yourself” on it. The phrase was the response Ukrainian border guards on the Zmiinyi Island gave to Russian military ships that demanded their surrender.

Kyiv will become "Stalingrad" for Putin - said Denys Monastyrsky, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

The convoy of Russian machinery has been partly destroyed. The battle near Bohdanivka continues.

[The Russian machinery, including around 100 tanks, armoured vehicles, and Kamaz trucks, is moving toward Brovary. The AFU destroyed part of this convoy. A battle started near Bohdanivka. Bayraktars destroyed some of the tanks.]

State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine reports: The shell of the occupiers hit the kitchen window of a residential apartment in Kharkiv

[An enemy shell hit an apartment building in Kharkiv.

The shell hit the kitchen window, the woman tore off her leg and died in hospital. - said the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.]

15:16 Negotiations. Oleksiy Arestovych, Speaker of the Office of the President of Ukraine, believes that Ukraine's position in negotiations with Russia should be as follows: Moscow should withdraw all troops from Ukraine, including the army in Crimea and Donbass. Negotiations are currently underway on the Pripyat River on the border between Ukraine and Belarus.

Russian saboteurs tried to get into St. Michael's Cathedral. Metropolitan Epiphanius was one of their targets.

The guards of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral neutralised a sabotage group of the Russian occupants. They also found the marks left on the territory of the cathedral, Archbishop Eustratius of Chernihiv and Nizhyn reported.

According to “international and Ukrainian sources,” Archbishop Eustratius said, head of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church Epiphanius was one of the targets for the saboteurs to neutralise. Archbishop Eustratius said that Metropolitan Epiphanius is well-guarded and has no intention to leave Ukraine.

A convoy of evacuation vehicles, dispatched to Volnovakha earlier today to evacuate civilians, came under fire of the Russian “Grad” combat vehicles. It was reported by Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of Donetsk military administration. He said that all the convoy personnel is alive and well and hiding in bomb shelters.  

At the same time, a dozen of cars left Volnovakha in the morning on their own, moving toward Uhledar. The residents of Volnovakha get calls from the local officials telling them the name of a locality where the authorities are waiting for them. Another attempt to evacuate civilians will be made as soon as the shelling stops.

FSB’s (Federal Security Service) website is down!

Irina Venediktova: It’s even more hellish in Kharkiv today than it was yesterday. A missile went through the kitchen window, ripping off a woman’s leg. The woman died in hospital.

By 14:00 more than 200 units of Russian equipment have been destroyed near Kyiv on the Irpin -Zhytomyr highway, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office, said. "My God, you should know how we have been sweeping them in the morning near Kyiv," he wrote.

Russia has to be excluded from Interpol, Denys Monastyrskyi, Minister of internal affairs, believes. “For violating the organisation’s fundamental principles and mass abuse of its instruments and services to cover up their crimes and persecute political enemies, in particular, in Ukraine. We call on the Executive Committee to adopt this decision,” the minister posted.

Pravda Gerashchenko

Quick! Quick!
Holy shit!
They are shelling civilians!

Shelling of Kharkiv residential quarters.
Putin is a war criminal!

DISSEMINATE ALL VIDEOS OF CITY SHELLINGS IN RUSSIA!

Oleksii Honcharenko : A bit of the Russian army for your news feed. Near Kyiv, our defense met the "liberators" "with flowers.

FSB is sending out phishing emails. Everyone be careful not to open unfamiliar emails, don't install anything.

We'll now take over the FSB's information systems...

Has been negotiating with the occupants. The military detained Oleksandr Briukhanov, mayor of Yuzhne (Kharkiv region), on suspicion of high treason. It was reported by Oleh Syniehubov, head of Kharkiv military administration. Briukhanov’s deputy, head of the local district police department, and district police officer (their names not reported) were also detained.

“It is a reminder for those who haven’t yet realised that we’re at war and who take a liberty of negotiating with the enemy,” Syniehubov said.

In a battle near Kherson, Ukrainian fighters disabled and captured a cutting-edge Russian Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system valued at $20 million apiece for exports, journalist Yurii Butusov wrote on Facebook. According to him, the “beaten-up Russian soldiers” panicked and fled.

[Kharkiv. Derevyanko Street 19.

ALL VIDEOS OF MISSILE STRIKES ON CITIES MUST BE SENT TO RUSSIA!]

The Azov Battalion posted a photo of what they claim is a chain of text messages between a Russian soldier and his mother. Its authenticity has yet to be verified.

“Liosha, how are you, haven’t heard from you for a long while. Are you really at the military drill?”
“Mom, I’m no longer in Crimea. No drills.”
“Where are you then? Dad asks if he can send a package to you.”
“Forget about packages, mom. I just wish I don’t get blown up.”
“What is it you’re saying? What happened?”
“Mom, I’m in Ukraine. It’s real war here. I’m scared, we shell the holy fuck out of everyone we see, even civilians. Everyone. We were told they’d welcome us but they’re throwing themselves in front of our machines and don’t let us move on. They call us fascists. Mom, it’s very hard for me.”

Japan will provide $100 million in addition to the already approved aid of $100 million, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said, summing up his conversation with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. According to Zelenskyi, Japan has voiced full support of the severe sanctions against the Russian Federation.

The websites of TASS, Kommersant, and Izvestiya are now looking like this. “Putin makes us lie and puts us in danger. What for do we need it? Do we need Putin to go down in the history textbooks? This war is not ours. Let’s stop him!” Judging by the logo at the bottom, the websites were hacked by Anonymous.

Kharkiv has just been heavily shelled with BM-21 “Grad,” Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, reported. He said dozens of people died and, most probably, hundreds were injured as a result of the shelling. Ambulances are rushing to the site of disaster.

Ukraine applies to join the EU under a special procedure, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has announced. He said Slovakia’s Eduard Heger proposed yesterday to accept Ukraine into the EU under a new special procedure. President Zelenskyi discussed this with Ursula von der Leyen at night.

Foreigners have already filed a few thousand applications to the International Legion, Hanna Maliar, deputy Minister of Defense, said.

As reported, on Feb 27, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced formation of the International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine. To join the legion, please contact the military attache at the Ukrainian embassy.

Ukraine creates International Legion to fight Russia: how to join

Territorial Defense Force drills, February 5 (Photo: Territorial Defence Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)

Yesterday, on February 27, president Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced the creation of the International Legion of the Territorial Defence Force of Ukraine. Read on to learn how you can join.

“Everyone willing to defend the security of Europe and the word can come and stand together with the Ukrainians to fight the 21st-century invaders,” Zelenskyi said.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba explained that all foreigners willing to join the International Legion of the Territorial Defence Force can do so by applying at Ukraine’s diplomatic offices in their respective countries.

“Together, we defeated Hitler, and we can defeat Putin,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

As per the provisions on performing active duty in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for foreigners and stateless persons, foreigners can voluntarily perform an active duty under a contract specifically as a part of the Territorial Defence Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

To enlist into the International Legion, contact the Defence Attaché with the Embassy of Ukraine in your country.

Embassy of Ukraine in Poland:
Address: Al. J. Ch. Szucha 7, 00-580
Tel.: +48 22 621 39 79

Embassy of Ukraine in Germany:
Address: Albrechtstrasse 26, 10117, Berlin
Tel: +49 (030) 2888 71 16

Consular Department of the Embassy of Ukraine in Denmark:
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +45 81 45 52 60

Embassy of Ukraine in France:
Address: 21, avenue de Saxe, 75007, Paris
Email: [email protected]

Embassy of Ukraine in the USA:
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 202-349-2963

Embassy of Ukraine in the UK:
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 20 7727 6312

Embassy of Ukraine in Spain:
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +34 917 48 93 60

Berdiansk now! Glory to Ukraine!

Talks between Ukraine and Russia started in Gomel region. After the parties sat down at the negotiating table, live broadcast stopped, and the journalists were asked to leave.

The EU countries will send their combat aircraft to Ukraine as early as today, Head of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security Yurii Mysiahin (Servant of the People party) said.

Specifically:
- Bulgaria will provide MIG-29 and SU-25 fighters
- Poland will provide MIG-29 fighters
- Slovakia will provide MIG-29 fighters

The jets will immediately join the battle against the aggressor, the PD said. “For us, these jets are crucial because they will replace those destroyed by Russian invaders over the four days of the war in Ukraine. Our pilots perfectly know their way around this kind of aircraft! The exact number of jets is strictly classified.”