00:00 - The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) will hold a hearing on February 27 on "American technology fueling Russia's war in Ukraine" regarding the use of American chips in Russian weapons systems.

00:01 - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and the first Russian gains on the battlefield in months should help focus the attention of NATO and its allies on the urgent need to support Ukraine.

00:05 - Lithuanian will close 2 more border checkpoints with Belarus beginning March 1.

03:38 - Spanish Defence Minister, Margarita Robles, warned there is a "real risk" that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attack NATO “in the short or medium term”.

04:30 - Prominent independent Russian milblogger Andrei Morozov reportedly committed suicide on February 21 after refusing the Russian military command’s orders to delete his reports about high Russian casualty rates around Avdiivka - ISW.

04:31 - A Ukrainian HIMARS strike against an undefended Russian training ground near occupied Volnovakha, Donetsk oblast, likely inflicted significant casualties, triggering criticism among the Russian ultranationalist milblogger community - ISW.

04:32 - Russian-installed Zaporizhzhia governor Yevgeny Balitsky openly admitted that Russian authorities are forcibly deporting Ukrainian citizens who oppose Russia and possibly alluded to Russian occupation forces’ summarily executing Ukrainian citizens - ISW.

06:43 - Ukrainian air defence units downed 8 of 10 Russian UAVs launched on Ukraine overnight.

08:01 - A Russian MLR strike on Mykolaiv oblast injured a civilian and damaged residential buildings.

08:45 - Over the previous day, Russian forces launched 578 artillery, MLR, UAV, and airstrikes on 9 settlements in Zaporizhzhia oblast, destroying residential buildings and infrastructure facilities.

09:15 - Over the previous day, Russian troops launched artillery and mortar strikes on 15 settlements in Kharkiv oblast, killing 1 civilian and injuring another.

09:54 - Russian Security Council Deputy Chair, Dmitry Medvedev claimed that in order to "achieve the goals of the Special military operation", Russian troops will have to reach Kyiv again "if not now, then at some point", and that Russia has "long desired the city of Odesa".

11:56 - Russian forces threatened to shoot down French flights patrolling last month in international airspace over the Black Sea, signals of increasingly aggressive behaviour from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, according to French Defence Minister, Sébastien Lecornu.

12:00 - The Ukrainian Security Service has documented Russian air attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure using North Korean long-range weapons. Since December 2023, Russia has launched over 20 Hwasong-11 (KN-23/24) ballistic missiles on Ukrainian cities.

12:25 - Denmark signed a 10-year security agreement with Ukraine.

12:25 - The first Danish F-16 fighter jets are expected to be delivered to Ukraine this summer - Danish Ministry of Defence.

13:50 - New Zealand announced NZ$26 million (US$16 million) in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

14:00 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree allowing foreigners and stateless persons to serve in the National Guard of Ukraine.

14:29 - Polish and Ukrainian officials will meet in Warsaw on March 28 to resolve the border blockade..

14:50 - Russian shelling of Kherson oblast over the previous day injured 6 police officers, and damaged numerous residential and administrative buildings, garages, warehouses, and vehicles.