[03.03.2022] The end of the "blitzkrieg": the main results of the first week of the war

The main thing this day:

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Hungary does not support the European Commission's initiative to provide protection to Ukrainians.

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More than 5,000 climate activists on Fridays for the future protested against the war in Ukraine on Thursday outside the Berlin Reichstag

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At least 22 people were killed in air strikes in Chernihiv.

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Due to constant shelling by the Russian armed forces, Mariupol is left without electricity, water and heating.

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An Estonian-owned Helt cargo ship flying the flag of Panama sank behind a 12-mile zone on the South Port traverse. The reason was an explosion from a Russian missile. All crew members were rescued.

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Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak announced the completion of the second round of talks with Russia. "Unfortunately, Ukraine does not have the results it needs yet. There is a decision only on the organization of humanitarian corridors," he wrote on Twitter.

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The death toll from Russian airstrikes in Chernihiv has risen.

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The United States is imposing sanctions on a number of Russian oligarchs for its continued support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky is asking the West to close the skies over Ukraine due to the constant bombing of non-military facilities by Russia.

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The Polish Foreign Ministry considers it realistic to grant Ukraine EU candidate status in the coming days.
Lukashenko hints that Belarusian troops will not go to Ukraine.
At a meeting on Thursday, the Estonian Cabinet of Ministers approved the positions presented by the country's Foreign Minister and supported giving Ukraine a quick and clear prospect of joining the European Union and candidate status.
Russia's losses during the week of the war in Ukraine amounted to nine thousand

The Hague tribunal has launched an investigation
In Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, peaceful protests against Russia's war in Ukraine continue.
Zelensky - West: "If you do not have the strength, strength to close the sky, then give me planes. If we do not happen, God forbid, then there will be Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then there will be Georgia, Moldova, Poland. So they will go to Berlin Wall ".
The occupiers have run out of Z-vehicles and they are switching to civilian cars.

While Alexander Lukashenko is trying to convince the world that his armed forces are not taking part in Vladimir Putin's "military operation" and Western countries are accusing Minsk of collaborating with the Kremlin, more and more Belarusians are going to fight as volunteers on Ukraine's side.
A Belarusian military convoy lined up in the village of Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske in the Chernihiv region is refusing to move further toward Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor demanded that Google stop disseminating to Russia "false political information about Russia's special operation in Ukraine" through contextual advertising. LOL
IKEA suspends operations in Russia and donates 20 million euros to Ukraine
In the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, as a result of a shell hit a residential building, 8 people died, including children.
The youngest is 19 years old: 27 occupiers are in captivity in Sumy region.

Germany accepts refugees from Ukraine under a simplified procedure

The crime rate in Ukraine dropped to almost zero during the war
Ukraine receives hundreds of Stinger missiles from the United States

The world supports Ukraine: “My dear friends in Ukraine, we will help everyone we can. Justice will win

Putin told how much the life of a Russian soldier costs in rubles. Direct speech: "All members of the families of servicemen who died during a special military operation in Ukraine (as Putin calls the war in Ukraine - ed.), Will receive insurance and one-time assistance - 7 million 421 thousand rubles. Also paid monthly cash compensation to each a member of the family of the victims ". It will be recalled that over 9,000 occupiers were killed during the week of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Thus, Russia must pay at least 67 billion rubles in one-time payments only. It is difficult to calculate how much it is in dollars, because the ruble is constantly falling.
"We do not support any of the parties": the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan declared a neutral position in Russia's war against Ukraine.
"We will generously offer asylum": The Netherlands will help Ukrainian refugees.
Hollywood Attorneys and World Famous Musicians Express Support for Ukraine in the Shah of Old Russia (Benedict Zumberbatch, Nicolas Tsage, MUSE and Otgers)
Ukraine has stopped exporting gas since midnight
"Guarantees for what?" We are not attacking Russia, we are not going to attack it. Guarantee of what? Are we in NATO? No. Do we have nuclear weapons? No. What should I say? Who should I give something to? You see, the fact is that this is also an information bomb that everyone is talking about. What to give, Lord? What do you want from us? Get out of our land. If you don't want to go now, sit down at the negotiating table. I am free. Sit with me, but not 30 meters, as with Macron, Scholz. I'm a neighbor, I don't need to be kept 30 meters away, I don't bite, I'm a normal man. Sit with me, talk, what are you afraid of? We do not threaten anyone, we are not terrorists. We do not seize banks and we do not seize other people's lands, "Zelensky said.

Putin has not been able to come up with a conscious "belly incident" to attack Ukraine. In the end, he abandoned absurd attempts to talk about some "Ukrainian terrorist attacks" and in his address called the real reason for the attack: Ukraine's independence.