Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv, has refuted false rumours claiming capitulation of Kharkiv; he assured that Kharkiv was holding on and would not surrender to the aggressor.
Ukraine's Nuclear Energy Agency Energoatom published a video showing the damage to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Enerhodar as a result of last night's shelling by Russian invading forces.
On the ninth day of the Russian invasion, Russia's primary efforts are focused on surrounding Kyiv and weakening resistance in the areas they have blockaded.
On the outskirts of Mykolaiv near the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, fighting between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian invaders continues. The Ukrainians have managed to drive Russian units from the Kulbakino Air Base.
A member of Russia's Federation Council has said that Russia is sending conscripted soldiers to fight in Ukraine, and that only four members of a 100-unit company survived.
On 3 March, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law allowing the sale of Russian property held in Ukraine. Preparations are underway for the sale of such assets.
The Russian independent newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, one of the few that has openly called Russia's attack on Ukraine a war and an invasion, has decided to remove materials on the topic from its website at the request of the authorities.
Russian troops have been mercilessly shelling Mariupol for five days, destroying its infrastructure – the city has been left without heat, water and electricity, there are 300 injured people in hospital, but these are being targeted as well.
The leader of President Zelenskyy’s Sluha Narodu [Servant of the People] party and one of the participants in the talks between Ukraine and Russia, David Arakhamiya, believes that Russia does not have much control over the Russian-allied forces sent by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, so-called Kadyrovites, that seized nuclear facilities in Ukraine.
At least five people, three of them children, have been killed because of shelling by the Russian troops in the village of Markhalivka in the Kyiv region.
The mayor of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, drove through checkpoints and confirmed that combined forces are ready to defend the city.
Presidential advisor Mykhailo Podoliak, a participant in Ukraine's negotiations with Russia's delegation, does not believe that the Belarusian army will join Russian invading forces in their war against Ukraine.
Since the countries of the European Union closed EU airspace to Russian aircraft, a very lively air connection has sprung up between Moscow and Istanbul.
Mariupol is being shelled for the fourth day. The city is without communications, electricity, water and heating. There are almost no windows left in the houses.
Russian troops have advanced in Enerhodar in the Zaporizhia Region, and near the town of Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv Region, but in general Ukrainian forces maintain control of the situation.