Chip company Qualcomm has stopped selling processors to Russian companies due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine, a company spokesperson said on March 16.

Serhiy Orlov, the Deputy Mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of news magazine Forbes on March 16, said that 80-90% of the city had been destroyed by Russian shelling.

Mikhail Fridman’s last functioning credit card was blocked in the wake of the latest wave of UK and EU sanctions against Russian oligarchs, Fridman said in an interview with business new outlet Bloomberg Businessweek on March 17. He claims that Russian business elites hold no sway over Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

The export of Russian gas to non-CIS countries in March 2022 (according to data for the first half of the month) reached its maximum level over the past seven months.

The parent company of the French home improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin has disconnected its Ukrainian office from corporate communications, according to HR Director of Leroy Merlin Ukraine Lyudmyla Dziuba, who broke the news on LinkedIn, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on March 16. The retailer also stated that it would continue to work in the Russian Federation and increase supplies.

Airlines belonging to Russia’s largest air freight group, Volga-Dnepr, have ceased almost all flights, reported Russian business news outlet RBC on March 17. Prior to the imposition of Western sanctions, they would normally have conducted dozens of flights per day.

Ukraine will not adopt the so-called "Swedish or Austrian model of neutrality" to end the war with Russia as proposed by the Kremlin, advisor to the chief-of-staff of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak told the Novoye Vremya weekly news magazine on March 16.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. The document was supported by senators from both parties, Reuters reports.

The Ukrainian military has “inflicted crushing blows” on groups of invading Russian troops in temporarily occupied territories and has even launched counteroffensives in some areas, according to the Ukrainian army command.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Security and Defense Committee Jarosław Kaczyński, together with Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala and Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Janša, will arrive in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv on March 15, the Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister reported on its website.

South Korea will send non-lethal military supplies to Ukraine amid Russia's full-scale invasion of the country, the U.S.-based CNN television news channel quoted South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Boo Seung-chan as saying at a briefing on March 15.

A draft law on the approval of a presidential decree on extending martial law in Ukraine has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, as reported in the parliament's Telegram messenger channel on March 14.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has already lost 13,500 soldiers, according to data provided by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Invading Russian forces have tried to seize the port city of Mariupol, but their attacks were successfully repulsed by the Ukrainian military, Ukraine's General Staff wrote on Facebook on March 15.

Israel has assumed the “challenging, yet noble” role of a mediator between Ukraine and Russia, the chief-of-staff of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, said in a Facebook post on March 14.

Two people have been killed after an artillery shell hit a residential building in the Obolon district of the capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported on its Telegram messenger channel on March 14.

The head of the Rivne Oblast Military Administration, Vitaliy Koval, said that a Russian air strike on western Ukrainian infrastructure has resulted in substantial damage to a television tower, during an interview with Ukrainian TV on March 14.

A pregnant women has died after being injured in an airstrike on a maternity ward in the port city of Mariupol, Voice of America journalist Asya Dolina wrote on Facebook on March 13.

Eleven humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from active combat zones will be opened in Ukraine on March 14, said Liudmyla Denisova, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky predicted a return for Russians to the 90s as a result of the sanctions imposed against Russia, due to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in an video address on March 12.