– Russia used the powers of a permanent member of the UN Security Council and vetoed a draft resolution on responding to the act of armed aggression against Russia and bringing the Kremlin to justice.
– Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba said on his Facebook page that Western countries have agreed to disconnect the Russian Federation from the SWIFT payment system and have begun preparations for the implementation of this sanction.
– Mariupol city authorities said that Russian troops launched an air strike in the village of Sartana, near the city of Mariupol. According to preliminary data, three people were killed and three others were injured.
– Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podoliak stated that Ukraine does not refuse to negotiate with Russia, but will not accept any ultimatums and conditions from the aggressor. In turn, the occupiers claim that our state refused to negotiate because it did not agree to their demands. There was no refusal to negotiate on our part.
– Two correspondents of the Russian service of Radio Svoboda and two journalists of Novaya Gazeta were detained by the police in the city of Belgorod, located in western Russia.
– The mobile military hospital deployed on the territory of the hospital in Krasnoperekopsk in the north of the annexed Crimea is overcrowded with wounded soldiers who are being transported from the mainland of Ukraine. The medical staff of hospital told the correspondent of Crimea.Realities about it.
– President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree conferring the title of Hero of Ukraine Vitaliy Skakun (posthumously) for courage, heroism and devotion to the state and the Ukrainian people. The man sacrificed his own life when he blew up the Genichesky Bridge to stop the movement of a tank column of enemy troops.
– During February 26, the Russian occupation forces lost at least 11 helicopters of various types, three Su-30 SM fighters, 2 Su-25 attack aircraft and another military transport IL-76 MD with the occupiers’ landing.