Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Renat Chubarov called on the Crimean people to prepare shelters. According to him, this year the army of Ukraine may launch an offensive to liberate the peninsula. 

From February 2022 to March 1, 2023, 114,000 people came to Armenia from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Almost half are ethnic Armenians.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov met in Moscow with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. We carry out all your orders. Chechens fully support the special operation in Ukraine. Thank you for everything you do for Chechnya», - Kadyrov reported.

As long as the "Georgian Dream" party is in power, the government will not allow the opening of a second front. Georgia will not fight Russia or join anti-Russian sanctions, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said.

The North Caucasus republics have emerged as leaders among regions with minimal redundancy. In the first place on the ratio of bank debt to the annual salary of Ingushetia - 12.2%. On the second place Dagestan (24.3%), on the third - Chechnya (24.4%). The highest level of redundancy among COAF regions in North Ossetia - 69%. 

Fierce fighting is taking place in the center of Bakhmut.
An air raid alert has been declared in the Odessa region.
A bill has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation to raise the draft age - to 21-30 years instead of 18-27 years.

The relatives of students from Ingushetia, Malik and Ramazan Gandaloev, who disappeared on 27 February, began to search for them themselves. They toured the route the brothers travelled, asking about them at Astrakhan Medical University.

Since the beginning of the war Russia and Ukraine officially confirmed the death of at least 94 residents of Chechnya. The last of them is a native of Gudermessky district, employee of OMON "Akhmat-1" Askhab Yunaev.

The court in Makhachkala dismissed four participants of the action against mobilization from the remand centre. They were re-qualified for a softer article. 

US National Security Advisor Sullivan during a conversation with Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili warned that Georgia should not help the Russian Federation bypass Western sanctions
Earlier, Turkey, after a visit of officials from the USA without warning, stopped the transit of sanctions goods to Russia from March 1.