Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events day 1.096

Here are the most important developments on 1,096. Day of the full invasion of the Ukraine of Russia.

Here is the situation on Monday, February 24th, the third anniversary of the start of the war:

Battle

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its armed forces confiscated the Ulakly and Novoandriivka of East Ukraine in the Donetsk region.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine is working on a domestic alternative to the US Patriot Air Defense system.
According to the Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, social media film material showed a Russian soldier who carried out a Ukrainian prisoner in an unadorned area of the Kursk Oblast, according to the institute for the war.
Demonstrators in many countries, including the United States, France, Turkiye and Greece as well as the island of Taiwan, took to the streets to celebrate the third anniversary of the war.

On the eve of the anniversary, President Vladimir Putin said that Russian soldiers defended “national interests” at the risk of their lives in Ukraine and promised to continue a “unchanged” strategy to strengthen the armed forces.
Putin also said in a military decoration price ceremony that God and the fate entrust him and the Russian army with the “mission” to defend the country.
The spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia will never sell captured Ukrainian areas and claims that “people have decided to join Russia a long time ago”.

Peskov also said that the hostility of US President Donald Trump was “understandable” to Zelenskyy and that Zelenskyy accused of repeatedly making “inappropriate remarks” against Trump.
Zelenskyy's top adjutant Andriy Yermak said at a press conference that Kyiv could not endanger independence, territorial integrity or sovereignty.
The spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump was “very confident” that the war would end this week.
The deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, announced reporters at a press conference that there are critical minerals worth around $ 350 billion in the regions of the state occupied in Russia.
Kyrylo Budanov, the Ukrainian military spy spy chief Kyrylo Budanov, said in a press conference that 50 percent of Russia ammunition needs for the war of North Korea were met.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that the country had examined alternatives to the Starlink satellite internet service because the United States could set access to Kyiv. “We are already working on it. There are alternatives, ”he said.
Steve Witkoff, special representative of Trump, said that the United States is expecting Washington and Kyiv to sign an agreement for rare earth this week.
Zelenskyy said he was ready to withdraw as President if it meant that Ukraine's entry into NATO was guaranteed. “If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my contribution, I am ready,” he said.

He refused to accept Kyiv Washington owes $ 500 billion for the help provided in the past, and said the United States had given $ 100 billion to help Ukraine in the past three years, and an advertised mineral contract could not work If the United States demands that the help be repaid.
Zelenskyy found that about $ 15 billion to previously pledged US help for Ukraine did not yet have to be delivered, and said that the use of American soldiers in Ukraine would be logical if the bilateral mineral contracts were included.