Evacuation of the population has been announced in ORDLO. Women and children are being taken to the Rostov region of Russia. Men aged 18 to 50 years are prohibited from traveling. In Donetsk, the car of one of their bosses exploded. There are no casualties or injuries. In Lugansk at night there was an explosion and fire on a gas pipeline. TV shows empty streets and the sound of sirens in Donetsk.

         President Joe Biden said late in the evening that, according to intelligence information, Putin had decided to attack Ukraine, but there was still a chance to resolve the problem diplomatically.