Vasiliy Lomachenko, a former three-division world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist with eyes on a title bout in June, has reportedly taken up arms to defend his native Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Hacking group Anonymous has claimed it was able to hack into Russian TV stations and show footage from Ukraine. The group said it was trying to ‘broadcast the truth’ about what is happening in the conflict. Pro-Kremlin Russian television stations have been criticised for repeating Vladimir Putin’s ‘propaganda’ that the invasion is a ‘special operation’ and Russia is not the aggressor.

Ukraine's vice prime minister wrote a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook Friday asking him to pull Apple's services out of Russia. Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who is also the country's digital minister, published his letter to Cook on Twitter. The letter appealed to Cook to help "protect Ukraine" and to "stop supplying Apple services and products to the Russian Federation, including blocking access to the App Store."

The Kremlin on Monday said Russia's economic reality had changed but saw no reason to doubt the effectiveness and reliability of the central bank, which hiked interest rates to 20% as it sought to shield the economy from unprecedented Western sanctions.

Meta said in a press release Sunday it detected and removed two disinformation campaigns run by groups in Russia and Ukraine. Russian troops began an invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. One of the campaigns was being perpetrated by Ghostwriter, a Russia-linked hacking and disinformation group. Meta said Ghostwriter gained access to real people's Facebook accounts where it then posted disinformation.

The Stockholm Film Festival, due to run November 9-20, says it will not program any films that benefit from Russian state funding due to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “That decision is regrettable but a necessary mark in a time like this. Russia’s actions are unacceptable,” said Beatrice Karlsson, program coordinator of the Stockholm Film Festival. The event added that the decision would stand as long as the current war is ongoing.

Airbnb Inc. is offering free short-term housing for up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees who are fleeing the Russian invasion of their country and will work with neighboring European states to provide long-term stays.

The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), Nikolai Arefiev, made this statement. He declared that the funds deposited by Russian citizens would be used in case of a new economic crisis.

Google will no longer allow Russian state media outlets to run ads, following a similar decision on Saturday by the tech giant's video subsidiary, YouTube. "In response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian state-funded media across our platforms," Google said in a statement to CNN Business on Sunday. "We're actively monitoring new developments and will take further steps if necessary."

Social media lit up with messages and videos decrying the war, ignoring the risk that comes with speaking against a Russian dictator

International hacking collective Anonymous claimed responsibility Saturday for a number of Russian website outages, including that of Russia’s Ministry of Defense and the Kremlin. “Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin’s state censorship machine,” @YourAnonNews tweeted. “We also have ongoing operations to keep the Ukrainian people online as best we can.”

"Saturday Night Live" returned from a nearly monthlong hiatus without a cold open. Instead of a funny satirical sketch, the NBC variety show chose to present a powerful tribute to the country of Ukraine.

The move does not mean Russia intends to use the weapons - but the move has been condemned by the US.

On February 24, the Russian military invaded Ukraine, attacking the nation’s capital and other major cities from the air, ground, and sea. “A full-scale war in Europe has begun,” Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the Associated Press.

Two Russian billionaires, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska, called for an end to the conflict triggered by President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine, with Fridman calling it a tragedy for both countries' people.

Elon Musk has said SpaceX will rescue the International Space Station if Russia tries to drop it from orbit after threats by Vladimir Putin’s space chief.

The U.S. and European countries are ramping up sanctions against Russia by moving to cut off certain Russian banks from the key bank messaging system.

Clutching a mobile phone number of a woman she had never met, Nataliya Ableyeva crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary entrusted with a precious cargo: a stranger’s children. Waiting at the border crossing on the Ukrainian side, Ableyeva had met a desperate 38-year-old man from her home town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, with his young son and daughter.

US President Joe Biden on Friday authorized a sanction of USD 350 million to Ukraine for procurement of Defense equipment and imparting military training and education. Authorization was also given to the secretary of state to sanction up to USD 250 million in assistance, if "it is important to the security interests of the United States," a Memorandum issued by the White House said. The aggregate assistance to Ukraine by the US is to the tune of USD 600 million.

The Kremlin has begun blocking access to Twitter, hours after the social media company stopped Russians from advertising on the platform. The decision to block access to Twitter followed Russia’s move hours earlier to restrict access to Facebook in the country as the government seeks to control the narrative around its invasion of Ukraine.