On the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine with the aim of “protecting the inhabitants of Donbass.”
We continue to follow the main events in our online. Read about how events unfolded. online for February 24. About major events February 25 here
About the events of the third day we conducted online here. The main events Fourth day read here.
Please remember: during hostilities, no one can be completely trusted with information about the course of a military operation.
13:05
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergei Guriev, Evgeny Chichvarkin announced the creation of the Anti-War Committee of Russia. The committee also included the 13th world chess champion, politician Garry Kasparov, historian Vladimir Kara-Murza, writer Viktor Shenderovich (included in the list of foreign agents), businessman Boris Zimin.
“As citizens of the Russian Federation, we, against our will, found ourselves responsible for the violation of international law, the military invasion and the mass death of people. The enormity of the crime committed leaves no room for silence or passive dissent. For people who grew up on the ideals of liberating the world from Nazism, a war of conquest is the most terrible and shameful phenomenon. Non-resistance to such a war is complicity. And opposition is the only possible and worthy course of action,” the message says.
12:55
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus informedthat the platform for talks between Russia and Ukraine has been prepared, the arrival of delegations is expected. Negotiations should take place in the coming hours.
12:45
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12:15
South Korea has banned the export of strategic materials to Russia. South Korea “as part of joining the international sanctions against Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine” banned the export of strategic materials to Russia, reported news agency “Yonhap” with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the agency, Seoul also plans to join the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT payment system.
12:00
Trading in shares on the Moscow Exchange will begin no earlier than 15:00. The Central Bank said that the decision on the exact opening time will be made at one in the afternoon.
11:40
Kharkiv resident Elena Kalinina tells how the night went:
“Another night passed, passed in relative silence. I woke up abruptly and incomprehensibly at 5:12. By itself or from the barking of dogs. Homeless dogs bark, which means that everything is still fine. Not scared means good. A woodpecker hammers – it means spring and calm. I looked at the news, contacted those who are online, everything is fine with everyone.
According to Elena, the airport was shelled.
“Next to me, in Pisochin, they got into the courtyard of a residential building, damaged the pipeline for the delivery of water, at 0:25. I don’t think that an emergency gang will be brought to them, they will most likely sit without water. Pisochin and Vysoky is the road to Kyiv, they are trying to “close” Kharkov. High fired too. I understand that most of the air defense is shot down, if everything that was fired fell, we would not be there.
At the same time, the woman writes that the inhabitants of the Belgorod region are also sitting in the cellars.
“I am a terrible coward, I am even afraid to leave the house, forgive me! I’m not afraid of dogs, darkness, bandits, but I’m afraid of what is happening! I’m so afraid that words can’t describe it! Note that I am the granddaughter, daughter and ex-wife of a military man and I am afraid! Both of my cases went through the war, both said that it was dirt, death and blood! And all these propaganda films were horror and nightmare for me, because I knew that it was all lies! I have always been a pacifist, I was against weapons, because I knew at the gene level that war is the most terrible thing in the world!”
11:20
The Guardian writesthat the British authorities are considering the possibility of banning Russian ships from entering British ports.
11:00
The Moscow Exchange has scheduled the start of currency trading at 10:00. This decision was taken by the Central Bank, says in the site message. Trades and settlements on currency repo transactions will not be conducted on the money market.
10:30
The ruble during currency trading on the Forex market is weakening against the dollar and the euro. The euro is trading at all-time highs.
As of 06:46 Moscow time, the euro on Forex traded at 127.15 rubles (+32.73%), the dollar – at 83.89 rubles (+0.03%).
10:00
New EU sanctions officially come into force
- Operations related to the management of reserves and assets of the Central Bank of Russia are prohibited
- EU airspace closed to Russian airlines
09:30
The third State Duma deputy condemned the war in Ukraine. It turned out to be a member of the Communist Party Vyacheslav Markhaev.
“Under the auspices of the recognition of the DPR and LPR, we hid plans to unleash a full-scale war with our closest neighbor. <…> I am convinced that neither the peoples of Russia nor the peoples of Ukraine need such a war,” Markhaev wrote on Facebook. Markhaev is a State Duma deputy from the Republic of Buryatia. Earlier, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was condemned by two other MPs from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation – Mikhail Matveev and Oleg Smolin.
Highlights of the night
Australia has imposed sanctions on Putin, Lavrov, Shoigu, Mishustin and Kolokoltsev. According to message office of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrisson, Russian politicians are banned from visiting Australia, and personal financial sanctions are imposed on them.
“President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and Defense Minister Shoigu are directly responsible for Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. <...> Putin joins a very small group that includes Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
The EU may impose sanctions against the richest people in Russia, writes Bloomberg. By data edition, the European Union is studying the possibility of introducing personal restrictions against Alisher Usmanov, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Alexei Mordashov.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin in the morning. This is written with reference to sources “Ukrainian Truth” And TASS.
In Russia, during the day of February 27, 2,667 people were detained for participating in anti-war actions. Since February 24, 5814 people have been detained.
Petition to stop the war collected almost 950 thousand signatures.