⚡️Pink Floyd raises $600,000 for Ukraine.

⚡️BREAKING: Ukraine officially applies for NATO membership.

⚡️ Zelensky on Ukraine's EU candidate status: "It's a victory. Now, we will defeat the enemy, rebuild Ukraine, become a EU member state, and then – we will finally rest."

⚡️⚡️ BREAKING: European Council decides to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine, Moldova.

⚡️Zelensky: 'The territory where Russia should protect the rights of Russian speakers is Russia itself.' A country where there is "no freedom of speech, no freedom of choice, no right to dissent, where poverty thrives and human life is worthless," Zelensky said of Russia.

⚡️ Russia warns Czechia against supplying weapons to Ukraine, Prague says won't respond to blackmail. Russia claimed that the Czech Republic isn’t allowed to provide Ukraine with Soviet-made weapons without Russian permission. Czech Defense Minister brushed off these claims.

⚡️Zelensky reacts to train station attack in Kramatorsk: “Lacking the strength and courage to fight with us on the battlefield, they (Russians) are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop.”

⚡️BREAKING: UN suspends Russia from Human Rights Council.

⚡️Zelensky about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine: "Concentrated evil has come to our land. Murderers, butchers, rapists, looters, who call themselves an army and who only deserve to die after what they have done," Zelensky said.

⚡️ Lithuania becomes first EU country to ban Russian gas. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that starting in April, the country will not import Russian gas. He added that other European countries should follow the Lithuanian example.

⚡️ US President Joe Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should no longer lead Russia. “For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said during his speech in Warsaw.

⚡️Zelensky to NATO: Don't say Ukraine's army doesn't meet Alliance's standards. In a virtual address to NATO, President Zelensky said that he has one demand. “After such a war against Russia… Please, never, never again tell us that our army does not meet NATO standards.”

⚡️Bucha City Council: Ukraine's military surround the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near Kyiv. It means that the Russian troops north-west of Kyiv are now encircled.

⚡️Ukrainian forces shoot down Russian plane bombing the city. The plane was taken down by Ukrainian military at 4:45 p.m. on March 22, Mariupol City Council reports.

⚡️Ukrainian troops liberate Makariv.  The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on March 21 that “the Ukrainian flag was raised over the town of Makariv” and Russian forces have been pushed back. Makariv is located 60 kilometres west from Kyiv.

⚡️Russian social media VK allegedly hacked, spreads truth about war in Ukraine. Users of VK have received messages from the social network’s official account informing them of the true casualties and impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to screenshots posted online.

⚡️General Staff: Russia loses tank detachment in failed Kyiv assault. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army’s 6th tank regiment has been destroyed on March 20.

⚡️Ukraine’s military intelligence claim that Russia’s elites scheme to overthrow Putin to restore economic ties with Western countries. Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of FSB security agency, is allegedly being considered as Putin’s successor, according to Ukraine's intelligence.

⚡️Zelensky: "We now have a chance to show not only to Russia, but also to any aggressor in the world, any terrorist state that war will destroy not the victim, but the one who unleashed it." President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the citizens of Switzerland on March 19.

⚡️International Court of Justice orders Russia to immediately suspend all the military operations that it started in Ukraine on Feb. 24.

⚡️Ukraine's electricity system now linked to EU's grid, not Russian. The measure that loosens Ukraine's ties to Russian energy was originally scheduled for 2023.

At the end of his address to the U.S. Congress, Zelensky switched to English: "Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine. We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing our lives in the name of the future."

⚡️Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny predicts that the war with Ukraine, "planned by crazy old men," will lead to the collapse of Russia.

⚡️ The Hague sets date for ruling on Russia's war. Ukraine is requesting that Russia be ordered to end its war and withdraw troops from the country. The International Court of Justice will issue a ruling on March 16.

⚡️ Russian state TV interrupted by "No War" protest. During the “Vremya” news program on Russia’s main TV channel, Maria Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, rushed in front of the camera with a poster saying “stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda.”

⚡️Russian troops no longer in southern city of Skadovsk. The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Yakovlev, said the situation in Skadovsk is under control and there is electricity, gas and water supply.

⚡️Zelensky: Sergeant Inna Derusova is the first woman to be awarded the Hero of Ukraine title posthumously. A field medic, she was killed during the artillery attack on Okhtyrka on Feb. 24, the first day of Russia's invasion. She saved more than 10 soldiers that day.

⚡️SBU: Intercepted phone calls shows that Russian troops near Kharkiv were ordered to shoot at civilians, including children.

⚡️Italy seizes $578 million mega yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko. The vessel, called “SY A,” is one of the largest superyachts in the world, according to its manufacturer, Nobiskrug.

⚡️Lithuanian parliament approves a resolution calling for immediate EU candidate status for Ukraine.

⚡️Zelensky: "After the war, we will rebuild everything very fast and very well. Every city that was affected will get a special development program. There will be the best architects, the best companies, the best projects for every city."

⚡️Zelensky: "Together, we need to return to some Western leaders their bravery, so that they do what they should have done on the first day of this invasion: either close the Ukrainian sky or give us fighter jets so we do it ourselves."

⚡️Zelensky urges Poland, US to decide on logistics of sending fighter jets to Ukraine immediately. “Listen, we have a war! We do not have time for all these signals,” Zelensky said. “It’s about human lives! We ask once again: Solve it faster. Do not shift the responsibility.”

⚡️Zelensky: “The world doesn’t believe in Russia’s future, doesn’t talk about it. They talk about us, they are helping us, they are ready to support our recovery after the war.” “Because for a nation, defending itself so heroically, there will most certainly be a future.”

⚡️ Poland to supply the U.S. with its entire stockpile of MIG-29 jets, free of charge. The planes are then expected to be shipped to Ukraine. The Polish government asked other NATO members to follow the country’s example.

⚡️Zelensky: "While Russians are to blame for the killings, responsibility is shared by those who for 13 days in their Western offices haven’t been able to approve an obviously necessary decision, who didn’t save our cities from these bombs and missiles – although they can."

⚡️President Zelensky signs decree on March 8 recalling Ukrainian peacekeeping forces to defend Ukraine. The decree declares that all soldiers and equipment dedicated to U.N. peacekeeping operations must return to Ukraine to assist in the war effort.

⚡️Ukraine kills Russian Major General Vitaly Gerasimov near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry said. Gerasimov was a senior military official who participated in the second Chechen war and was awarded a medal for “capturing Crimea.”

⚡️Ukraine’s air defense forces shoot down Russian aircraft over Kyiv. Soon after that, at 9:10 p.m., another Russian plane was destroyed in an air battle on the city’s outskirts, according to Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerіy Zaluzhny.

First foreigners have already joined International Legion, Ukraine's volunteer military force, and are fighting outside of Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian Ground Forces, the volunteers came from the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Lithuania, Mexico, and India. 📷 Ukrainian Ground Forces

⚡️Ukrainian forces have retaken Mykolaiv airport, according to regional governor Vitaliy Kim.

⚡️Hacking group Anonymous interrupts Russian state TV programs with footage of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and an anti-war message. It claims to have accessed TV channels “Russia 24”, “Channel 1”, “Moscow 24”, & streaming services Wink and Ivi.

⚡️Russian invaders failed to break through eastern front in the Luhansk direction, according to Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation.

⚡️Zelensky: "We will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war. We will find every scum who was shelling our cities, our people, who was shooting the missiles, who was giving orders. You will not have a quiet place on this earth – except for a grave."

⚡️Zelensky: "Today, a family of four, parents and two children, were killed in Irpin as they were trying to leave the city. We will not forgive. We will not forget."

⚡️Zelensky: "Russia announced that tomorrow it will be bombing our defense industry enterprises. Most of them are located in our cities, with civilians around. It’s a murder, simply a murder. And I didn’t see any world leader react to it today, any Western politician."

⚡️Zelensky says that Ukraine is in possession of maps and records, obtained from those captured. “They are planning to bomb Odesa.”

⚡️Zelensky: “The citizens of Russia are right now making the choice between freedom and slavery. Today, tomorrow, this week, is still the time when you can defeat evil.” “Don’t miss this opportunity.”

⚡️Cyprus forbids 5 Russian navy ships from mooring and refueling in Limassol. Cyprus banned Russian ships from its port following EU sanctions over Russia’s war, Philenews reported.

⚡️Russian forces kill Hero of Ukraine, captain Chybineiev. Thirty-four-year-old Ukrainian captain Valeriy Chybineiev was killed in the battle near Hostomel, a city on the outskirts of Kyiv, on his birthday on March 3.