4:14 AM: Russian forces stormed an apartment complex and held its resients hostage in a suburb of Ukraine. Some of the assault was even videotaped.
6:17 AM: Mariupol, UKR: Russia wanted the Ukrainians to surrender to them, lay down their weapons and to raise a white flag in exchange they would grant safe passafe out of the city. The Ukrainians there have rejected the offer.
6:44 AM: Moscow, RU: A top commander of Russia’s Federal Security Service intelligence agency has reportedly been placed in house arrest after infighting in the government has occurred and President Putin is very angry over how the military operatation has happened.
9:32 AM: Ukraine has accused Russia of deporting Ukrainians from Mariupol and took them to “remote cities” somewhere in Russia, then transported them to the eastern part of Russia.
12:45 PM: The United States is sending some Soviet-made air defense equipment, that it had acquired secretly over the years. This hopefully would give the Ukrainians a way to stop Russia’s air supremacy.
12:57 PM: Moscow, RU: Russia’s Foreign Ministry called a meeting with the United States Ambassador to let him know that Russian-American relations are on the verge of rupturing. During the meeting, the Kremlin warned that President Joe Biden’s words have been pushing the relationship to the breaking point.
1:04 PM: Mariupol, UKR: Russians have been hunting down reporters from all over the world and had a list of names they were searching for. Because of the kidnappings, no reporters are left inside the city to report the terrible crimes Russians are committing on the Ukrainian people.
1:52 PM: There has been a growing support for a European Union ban on the buying of Russian oil.