Ukraine & Russia say they have agreed to temporary local cease-fires to create

“humanitarian corridors” so civilians can be evacuated & food & medicine can be delivered

This was reported earlier about the corridors but the cease-fire was new to me

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1499448966055878658?

Ukrainian officials are warning that hackers have broken into local government websites to spread

false reports that Ukraine has capitulated and signed a peace treaty with Moscow, Reuters reports.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainians-say-hackers-used-local-government-sites-spread-fake-capitulation-news-2022-03-03/

Russia has drawn up plans for public executions in Ukraine as and when cities are captured by Russia

Bloomberg cites a European intelligence official as saying that Moscow has drafted strategies to break morale in order to discourage Ukrainians from fighting back as cities fall under the Kremlin’s control.

The official said Moscow plans to crack down on protest, detain opponents and potentially carry out public executions, the news agency writes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/03/ukraine-news-russia-war-vladimir-putin-biden-latest-live-updates-kherson-kyiv-kharkiv-refugees-russian-invasion

Russian Federal Security Service leaked information that alerted Ukraine to an assassination plot

The Russian Federal Security Service leaked information that alerted Ukraine to an assassination plot against president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, according to the cyber-hacking collective Anonymous.

In a recently published tweet, the group said: Russian FSB leaked information alerted Ukraine to assassination plot against President @ZelenskyyUa. Now, we can expect an internal power struggle within the Kremlin to overthrow the Putin regime. In the meantime, let’s continue with the attacks,” the tweet read.

Anonymous also claimed responsibility for taking down the Russian Space Agency website for a second time.

From The Guardian live feed

https://twitter.com/LatestAnonPress/status/1499218376723476481

take it with a grain of salt but is an interest turn if true.

Yellen says U.S. will address potential gaps in Russia sanctions

Source: Reuters


"Russia is increasingly an economic island," she said at the University of Illinois-Chicago after visiting Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood.

Asked whether sanctions to curb Russia's oil and gas exports could follow, she said "nothing is off the table," but added that the United States had not taken this step to spare Americans, Europeans and other people around the world from "punishing consequences."

Sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector's assets and "immobilized" about half of the Russian central bank's assets, she said.

The rouble, which has lost about a third of its value since the start of the year, touched a fresh record low of 110 to the dollar in Moscow on Wednesday as the country's financial system teetered under the weight of Western sanctions

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-us-will-address-potential-leakages-russia-sanctions-2022-03-02/

sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector

The US Treasury Secretary added that sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector’s assets and “immobilised” about half of the Russian central bank’s assets, according to remarks cited by Reuters news agency.

The rouble, which has lost about a third of its value since the start of the year, touched a fresh record low of 110 to the dollar in Moscow on Wednesday.

The former chair of the US Federal Reserve said she knew there were concerns about members of Russia’s elite using cryptocurrencies as a possible means to evade sanctions, but noted there were anti-money laundering laws in place to prevent that from happening.

The Treasury will continue to “go after oligarchs or Russian elites who are key to President Putin’s corrupt power,” she said.
Washington is preparing a sanctions package targeting more Russian oligarchs as well as their companies and assets, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The original Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-us-will-address-potential-leakages-russia-sanctions-2022-03-02/

Russian police have also reportedly detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad,

Yelena Osipova, at an anti-war protest in St Petersburg.

https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1499080826599919633

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.