The head of the Russian private army Wagner has said his fighters have completed the capture of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv immediately rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on. Ukraine rejects claim.

The Pentagon is poised to shortly relocate the programs unfinished in Ukraine to other post-Soviet states, as well as to Eastern European states, such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and the Baltic states.

Russian and Ukrainian officials have signed a deal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the agreement would help ease a global food crisis.

At least 30 others were wounded when two Russian missiles hit a nine-storey apartment building and a resort near the Black Sea port city, a day after Ukraine retook Snake Island.

An agreement in the European Council on the latest round of sanctions against Russia came only after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn demanded a deal that allows his country to import Russian oil even if the pipeline across Ukraine to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic is blocked.

Russia is struggling to replace frontline military equipment lost in its war in Ukraine. But China, its second-biggest arms buyer, has reduced dependency in recent years.

Russian military vehicles destroyed at river crossing. More than 210,000 children deported to Russia, Kyiv says. Kremlin mulls retribution for Finland and Sweden NATO moves.

Ukrainian foreign minister says it would be a big step to stop the humanitarian catastrophe from worsening. Further conflict would not be in China’s interests, he says in interview with Chinese state news agency.

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, addressed the people in a live televised speech today (March 1, 2022) on the occasion of Eid al-Mab'ath, the day on which the Holy Prophet of Islam (pbuh) was appointed to prophethood.

Britain is considering making a major NATO deployment as part of a plan to strengthen Europe's borders in response to Russia massing troops on the border with Ukraine, the government said on Saturday.

The U.S. said it had instructed the families of its diplomats to leave Kiev on Sunday, the same day Ukraine said it had received a second batch of American weapons to boost its defense amid an alleged threat of Russian military invasion.