a rocket strike near Kyiv's rail station, may leave parts of Kyiv without heat during freezing temps

More on blasts heard in Kyiv: In an online post, interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said that a large heating supply service may have been destroyed in a rocket strike near Kyiv’s rail station, possibly leaving parts of Kyiv without heat during freezing temperatures.

Here’s video posted to social media of possible damage to the central heating supply:

https://twitter.com/ukrainenewstop/status/1499104571607633926

Update: A Russian air strike hit near Kyiv’s southern rail station on Wednesday where thousands of women and children are being evacuated, Ukraine’s state-run railway company Ukrzaliznytsya said in a statement.

The station building suffered minor damage and the number of any casualties was not yet known, it said, adding trains were still operating.

Another update: its now reported as being caused by the downing of a russian cruise missile

Pooty has two weapons that threaten the US, nukes & repukes. nt

China won't join the United States and EU in imposing financial sanctions on Russia

the country’s bank regulator has announced.

China is a major buyer of Russian oil and gas and the only major government that has refrained from criticizing Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, the Associated Press reported.

Beijing opposes the sanctions, said Guo Shuqing, the chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.

Reuters: Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission on Russian sanctions: "We will not participate in such sanctions. We will continue to maintain normal economic and trade exchanges with relevant parties..."


(so, china is basically siding with russia, surprise surprise, and they will laugh all the way to the bank.

Konotop mayor given an ultimatum to surrender or the city would be razed by shelling

Russian forces in Ukraine moved to tighten their siege of key cities, including the capital, Kyiv, and the southern port of Mariupol, as one mayor told residents he had been given an ultimatum to surrender or the city would be razed by shelling.

At an outdoor meeting Artem Semenikhin, the mayor of Konotop, in the eastern Sumy region, told residents: “They have given us an ultimatum. If we start resisting, they’ll wipe out the town using artillery.”

“If you are for it, we’ll fight,” Semenikhin is heard telling a crowd of residents. “Who votes to fight?” he shouts as residents shout back, insisting they will resist.

Amid renewed heavy shelling, the mayor of Kharkiv, also in the country’s east, said he had no intention of surrendering.

per guardian

Russian airborne troops have reportedly landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine

second most populous city, according to the Security Service of Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities said at approximately 3am local time, Russian airborne troops landed and engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian forces.

“A Russian landing party landed in Kharkiv,” an alert from Ukraine’s State Special Communications agency read just before 3am.

The agency said the soldiers attacked the military medical clinical centre hospital, adding that a “battle broke out between the invaders and the Ukrainian defenders.”

per guardian

Exxon Mobil has also said it will exit Russia oil and gas operations that it has valued at more than

$4b and halt new investment as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The decision will see Exxon pull out of managing large oil and gas production facilities on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East, and puts the fate of a proposed multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility there in doubt, Reuters reports.

“We deplore Russia’s military action that violates the territorial integrity of Ukraine and endangers its people,” the company said in a statement critical of the intensifying military attacks.

A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical

Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator told Reuters.

Officials from Ukraine’s defense ministry last week approached Ukrainian businessman and local cybersecurity expert Yegor Aushev to help organise a unit of hackers to defend against Russia.

On Monday, Aushev said he planned to organize hacking attacks that would disrupt any infrastructure that helps bring Russian troops and weapons to his country.

Aushev said his group has already downed or defaced dozens of Russian government and banking websites, sometimes replacing content with violent images from the war. He declined to provide specific examples, saying it would make tracking his group easier for the Russians.

(so, maybe it wasn't anonymous taking down them russian sites after all.)

Apple has confirmed that it has paused all product sales in Russia in response to Russia's attack on

Ukraine. RT News and Sputnik News, two state media sources, will also be unavailable outside of Russia. per the guardian

More heavy shelling on Kharkiv this evening, once again it seems that Russia are using cluster

More heavy shelling on Kharkiv this evening, once again it seems that Russia are using cluster munitions - likely fired by Smerch MLRS.

https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1498739221598715908

The International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war

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#BREAKING The International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war in Ukraine as fighting intensifies