— 🇷🇺🖥📉 Russia's Yandex stocks going down following the escalation of tensions in Eastern Europe

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Council of EU foreign ministers may meet in Kiev to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine, Borrell said

🇺🇦⚡ Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov appealed to the media with a request to reduce the heat around the security situation.

There are no reasons for panic in Ukraine today, the situation is under control, nothing new is happening, Danilov said following the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council.

🇺🇦 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council said that the Ukrainian security forces are not going to attack anyone

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Kiev sees no reason to talk about plans for a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has been recording the movement of troops near the border for a long time, said the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council

🇺🇦 4 countries notified Ukraine of their intention to evacuate the families of their diplomats - the USA, Britain, Australia and Germany

MFA OF UKRAINE

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡White House says it is refining military plans for all Ukrainian crisis scenarios

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡U.S. not yet ready to announce responses to Russian proposals on security guarantees - White House

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Speaker Pelosi has asked the White House for an all-member, bipartisan briefing on Ukraine/Russia situation

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 BuzzFeed News, quoting source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

“Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in Los Angeles ... or any other crime-ridden city in the US.”

⚡️US increases readiness of its troops at home & abroad due to Ukraine crisis - Pentagon

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🇷🇺 Russian Military Channel, 'Military Corner' on Telegram:
— "🇺🇦⚔ The authorities of Ukraine are forming the first stage of the Territorial Defense Forces (STO), in the border areas they are formed by 70% - 🇺🇦⚔ Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov"

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🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense Press Secretary John Kirby during the ongoing press conference:
— "The 🇺🇸 US is taking steps to heighten the readiness of forces at home and abroad so they are prepared to support a range of contingencies, including the NATO Response Force if it is activated"

🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense/Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby:
— "About 8,500 American units have been placed on a "heightened preparedness to deploy.""

— 🇺🇸🦅 US Department of Defense Spokesman John Kirby announcing steps to ready multi-national NATO response force (NRF) of 40,000 troops "if it is activated...to defeat aggression, if necessary" against Russia.

🇺🇲 As of now the decision has been made to pace these units on heightened alerts & heightened alert only" per Pentagon PresSec. Some units been told to be ready to deploy in as little as 5 days, he says "No final decision has been made to deploy them"

🇺🇲 🇷🇺 "It's very clear the Russians have no intention right now of deescalating" per Pentagon PresSec on timing of this announcement of heightened alert

🇺🇲 🇺🇦 No decision to pull out those US forces currently in Ukraine working as military advisers/trainers, Pentagon spox Kirby says