Ukraine: As It's Happening

American clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. announced it was "temporarily" ceasing operations in Russia.

Russian national currency ruble keeps falling. Euro costs more than 150 rubles, the lowest rate since Putin became president.

The third round of talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine will take place at 14:00 GMT on Monday in Belarus, a Ukrainian negotiator said in a tweet.

"Third round. Start at 16:00 Kyiv time. Delegation unchanged," Mikhailo Podolyak wrote. There was no confirmation yet from Russia.

A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday demanded France protect Moscow's representative offices in the country, claiming an attack had occurred at a building used by a Russian government agency in Paris.

"We demand that the French authorities ensure the proper security of our official institutions," wrote Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, on Telegram. 

The Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers are expected to meet in Turkey's resort city Antalya on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced. The meeting will be the first face-to-face meeting for the two foreign ministers since the start of the war.

“The meeting will be in a trilateral format. I will also join them,” Cavusoglu said.

A Russian delegation has arrived in Belarus. Talks with Ukraine are expected in the near future, the state-run TASS news agency reports, citing a source close to the negotiations. 

Russia's Foreign Ministry has updated its list of "unfriendly countries," a term that was previously applied to only the United States and the Czech Republic.

The new list includes Australia, the UK, all EU member states, Iceland, Canada, Liechtenstein, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, San Marino, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, Montenegro, Switzerland and Japan.

Between 20,000 and 25,000 Russian citizens have entered Georgia in recent days, according to the the country's deputy prime minister and economy minister Levan Davitashvili.

Georgia has become a hub for Russians fleeing heightening repression at home since Russia invaded Ukraine almost two weeks ago.

An evacuation route out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine was mined by Russian forces, the Red Cross has said.

Dominik Stillhart, the humanitarian organization's director of operations said that roads agreed for the evacuation of civilians had been "mined."

Humanitarian corridors out of the city, where water and electricity are said to be unavailable, have been agreed several times in recent days, only to collapse amid renewed shelling.

Russia has declined to attend a hearing at the United Nations' top court aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague said Monday.

Nine people were killed when Russia forces bombed the airport in Vinnytsia on Sunday, 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian rescue services said.

"At 05:00 GMT on Monday, 15 people were pulled from the rubble. Nine of them were dead -- five civilians and four soldiers," they said on Telegram, adding that they were continuing to look for survivors.

Ukraine has described Russian proposals for humanitarian corridors for civilians to flee the fighting as "completely immoral" after it emerged that the corridors would lead to Russian and Belarusian territory.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Monday stressed that the friendship between Beijing and Moscow was still very strong, despite international condemnation of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, as he said China was open to helping mediate peace.

"The friendship between the two peoples is rock-solid, and both sides' future cooperation prospects are very vast," said Wang at an annual press briefing.

But he said China was "willing to work with the international community to carry out necessary mediation, when necessary."

Russian forces have destroyed 211 schools across Ukraine in the 11 days since Moscow launched its offensive, Ukraine's education minister says.

At least 150 journalists have left Russia since the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 and the criminalization of free press over the weekend, according to a tally by Russia’s Agentstvo news outlet.

They include staff from Russian news outlets Medusa, Dozhd, Ekho Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta, as well as from international organizations BBC, Bloomberg and the Russian news desk of RFE/RL.

Russia announced Monday it will open humanitarian corridors to allow the evacuation of civilians from several Ukrainian cities experiencing heavy fighting, including the capital Kyiv and besieged port city Mariupol.

"Russian forces, for humanitarian purposes, are declaring a 'regime of silence' from 10:00 am on 7 March and the opening of humanitarian corridors," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.