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.

Pavel Ulibegov was arrested for five days in Nalchik after an anti-war picket. He held a picket with a poster «No War» at the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria. On charges of disobedience to the police, the court ordered him administrative detention. In the future, he will be fined under the article on «discrediting» of the Armed Forces.

The defence of the famous Ingush paediatrician Bagaudin Gaitukiev filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office against the decision of the investigative committee. He had previously indicted a man on the new charges of aiding and abetting terrorist activities and illegal possession of weapons. This was reported by the Human Rights Center «Memorial».

Russian occupiers continue to try to reach the administrative border of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. To do this, they concentrated their efforts on conducting offensive operations in 5 directions: Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky.

For a year and a half, the colony was given to Adam Hajiyev for participating in protests in Dagestan against mobilization for the war with Ukraine. He was accused of using unnecessary violence against a government official.

The Russian armed forces shelled Slavyansk and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region, as well as three settlements in the Chernigov region.