❗️The Western Union Company suspends its operations in Russia and Belarus. Read a full statement below.

"All of us share the shock, disbelief, and sadness around this tragedy and humanitarian disaster. Our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine and to our colleagues, customers, agents, and partners who have been impacted.

For the past weeks, our teams have been working to support our Ukrainian customers, including the millions who have been forcibly displaced, in the best ways we can. This includes donations to support humanitarian relief efforts and fee-free money transfer services.

We also have engaged in extensive dialogue with a wide variety of stakeholders in an earnest effort to arrive at the right decision regarding our services in Russia and Belarus. We have thoroughly evaluated internal and external considerations, including the consequences for our valued teammates, partners, and customers. Ultimately, in light of the ongoing tragic impact of Russia’s prolonged assault on Ukraine, we have arrived at the decision to suspend our operations in Russia and Belarus.

We join the international community in expressing sincere hope for a diplomatic and peaceful resolution. Meanwhile, our priorities remain the well-being and safety of our employees as well as continuing to support the people of Ukraine, including the growing number of refugees seeking safety.

💪 🇺🇦 Arnold Schwarzenegger has increased the prize money at the 2022 Arnold Strongman Classic for a Ukrainian athlete Oleksii Novikov and event runner-up who intends to rejoin his country's defense efforts against the Russian military.

"You're very special," he said. "I just want to tell you that I know that you have to go back to the Ukraine to fight, and to risk your life. And you also, I know, want to take the cash money that you're making here today and donate it to buy body armor, to protect innocent people in the Ukraine. And so I just want you to know, because of that, the selflessness of you, the courage that you show, I just want you to know that we are going to award you not the regular cash prize as the second place winner, but you will be awarded the same cash prize that the winner gets, so you can donate that money for body armor when you go back."

"We're brothers!", they say. "We just do it for your own good", they say. "Never again", we say. 🇺🇦

Imagine that every morning you have to wake up at a sound of missile explosion near your house. Imagine that every day you need to get evacuated from city to city under the shelling. Imagine that you have been out of contact with your relatives for more than a week, and you do not know what has happened to them.
Imagine that all you have now is hope.

Help Ukraine stop the war. Help Ukraine save the whole world.

As a result of the invasion of tussian troops in Ukraine, infrastructure, buildings and other total tangible assets worth at least $100 billion have been destroyed to date.

The war resulted in a complete shutdown of 50% of Ukrainian enterprises, and the other half is stretched to the limit.

This assessment was given by Oleg Ustenko, Adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky on economic issues.

#worldwithus

In Vilnius, the street where the Russian embassy is located has been officially renamed to Ukrainian Heroes Street.

Thank you, Lithuania!🇱🇹❤️

Iryna Vereshchuk Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine on the work of humanitarian corridors:

▪️ More than 60,000 people were evacuated from the cities of Sumy, Trostianets, and Krasnopillia in the direction of Poltava in two days.

▪️ About 3,000 people managed to leave the city of Izium for the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region. Humanitarian aid was brought to the city of Izium: medicines, food, and water. In total it’s more than 100 tons.

▪️ About 20,000 people were evacuated from Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin, Vorzel and other regions of Kyiv yesterday.

▪️ More than 100 tons of aid were delivered to the city of Energodar.

▪️There is still a real humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol. Russian invaders didn’t let even aid trucks go through. People have no water, no medicine, no food being under constant russian fire for several days in a row.

⚡️Google has stopped accepting new cloud customers in Russia, the company told Insider.

"We can confirm we are not accepting new Google Cloud customers in Russia at this time. We will continue to closely monitor developments," — a spokesperson said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

💪🏻 Special Operations Forces of Ukraine

Another successful operation, another "special" trophy: the russian self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system Pantsir-C1.

🚇 Life in the Kharkiv metro. Russian invaders have been bombing the city for two weeks.

⚡️ The building of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service in Mariupol was destroyed in the invaders’ shelling.

🙏 US is to allocate additional nearly $53 million to support civilians affected by russia's invasion of Ukraine.

⚔️ Chronicles of the defense of Kyiv by the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.