Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte signed a security agreement with Ukraine on Friday in Kharkiv and said the Netherlands would help finance the delivery of 800,000 artillery shells. Rutte met President Volodymyr Zelenskyi during a surprise visit to the northeastern city, just 40 km from the Russian border, and became the seventh Western leader to sign a 10-year security deal with Ukraine in the past two months.

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08:43As a result of an attack by a Russian drone on the city of Odesa, two people were killed and at least seven were injured, Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko reported on March 2, writes The Kyiv Independent.

Among the seven victims is a three-year-old boy who is currently hospitalized with a leg injury. Other victims include a pregnant woman and a 26-year-old woman in critical condition.

It is reported that the drone crashed into the ninth floor of a high-rise building. Two people were found dead, buried under the rubble. According to Klymenko, seven more people are considered missing under the rubble of the building.

Another attack by a Russian drone took place in the Kharkiv region, where a man died, local authorities reported.

A 76-year-old man died under the rubble of his house after a Russian drone hit his house in the Kupyan district of the Kharkiv region.

01:00Bulgaria has prematurely stopped importing crude oil from Russia as part of measures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

00:40Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan released an audio recording of allegedly high-ranking German officers discussing asking Great Britain for help in planning an attack on the Crimean bridgehead with Taurus missiles. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense has launched an investigation into whether the conversations of representatives of its air force were intercepted

A brief retelling of the last events of the war:

• Russia is ready to hand over to Ukraine the bodies of those killed on January 24 after the crash of the Il-76 plane near the border with Ukraine
• On the night from Thursday to Friday, the Sverdlov weapons factory in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia, was attacked by drones.
• Russian dissident Oleksii Navalny was buried in Moscow on Friday
• The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported on Friday about the successful tests of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile.
• On Friday in Kharkiv, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte signed an agreement on security guarantees.
• Russia will raise the age limit for the mobilization of non-commissioned officers from 51 to 65 years, reports the British Ministry of Defense
• Emmanuel Macron’s comment on the possible “official” introduction of troops into Ukraine revealed that representatives of various Western services already exist on Ukrainian soil, Le Monde reports.
• Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan published an audio recording in which high-ranking German officers allegedly discuss planning an attack on the Crimean bridge with Taurus missiles.
• Russian writer Lyudmila Ulytska was classified as a “foreign agent”

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