NATO country calls for Ukraine no-fly zone as UN leader urges caution: LIVE UPDATES

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with oil and gas industry leaders on Monday to discuss his country’s energy security as it looks to move away from Russian hydrocarbons following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

"We’ll continue to back them in building up our domestic energy security, where neither the U.K. nor our allies can be blackmailed by the likes of Putin, and in accelerating some of the solutions we need to reach net-zero, from low-carbon hydrogen to carbon capture and storage," Johnson said.

The U.K. said last week it would phase out oil imports from Russia, which account for around 8% of the country’s oil supply. The U.K.’s European allies are anticipated to have a tougher time weening themselves off Russia’s oil, given their great reliance on imports. 

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Sec. of State Antony Blinken spoke today with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, reaffirming both countries' support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's continued aggression.

Blinken also thanked Prime Minister Plenkovic and his government for supporting Ukraine, including providing security assistance and accepting refugees, and for Croatia’s active role in NATO, according to a readout from the U.S. Department of State.  

Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg joined "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Monday to offer his latest analysis of Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine.

Kellogg, formerly the national security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, remarked that if the West won't let Ukraine have additional MiG fighter jets to fend off Kremlin attackers, they should seek projectile-based help from certain NATO-member countries.

The general said two Balkan countries, Greece and Bulgaria, along with fellow NATO member Slovakia, all have S300 missile technology that itself was originally designed by Moscow.

"The thing they should do is go to Bulgaria, Slovakia and Greece, which are three NATO nations, and they've got a system called the S300, which is a Russian system that shoots down ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft [projectiles] as well, and put it around those point-targets and defend it," he said.

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The Ukrainian military said that their forces have defeated a Russian attempt to take the port city of Mariupol, according to the Associated Press.

The Ukrainian military's General Staff said that Russians have been forced to retreat after suffering losses during their attack on the city, which has now been under heavy Russian fire for over a week and resulted in the deaths of 2,500 residents.

Those still in the city have faced a dire situation, lacking adequate power, food, and water. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk  said that attempts have been made to deliver food and medicine to the city, though those have been interrupted by heavy Russian shelling.

A growing number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to facilitate a deal with Poland to send MiG-29 planes to Ukraine for additional air support as Russia continues its multi-front war on the country.

The Pentagon last week rejected Poland’s proposal for the U.S. and NATO to deliver MiG-29 planes to the Ukrainian military, arguing that the move could be mistaken as "escalatory" and could result in "significant Russian reaction" that could increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.

On Monday, a group of 15 bipartisan House lawmakers penned a letter to President Biden, urging the administration to provide additional defense material to Ukraine and strengthen economic sanctions directed at Russia.

"Despite heroic and skillful resistance by Ukrainian forces, Russia currently retains air superiority over Ukraine," they wrote. "Russia’s advantage in this domain could soon develop into air dominance if the Ukrainians do not receive necessary military aid."

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person died and six more were injured Monday when a Russian rocket landed on a civilian bus in Ukraine’s capital city – an attack captured by a surveillance camera at a nearby park.

Residents said their houses shook after the impact and a source in the city told Fox News Digital he could feel the shockwave from within an underground bunker nearby.

"Today was quite stressful," he said.

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While Russian forces invade Ukraine and the West responds with unprecedented sanctions, an American astronaut is preparing to hitch a ride with two cosmonauts on a Russian spacecraft back to Earth from the International Space Station later this month. 

Mark Vande Hei, a retired Army colonel, is set to break the record on Tuesday for the longest continuous stay in space by a U.S. astronaut before he departs the ISS on March 30.

 There were some fears after Russia invaded Ukraine that the cosmonauts would ditch Vande Hei when they return to Earth in a couple of weeks.

 Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos and a longtime ally of Putin, posted a video of the US flag being removed from a Soyuz rocket and has publicly sparred with retired U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly.

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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail  Mishustin signed off on a temporary ban on the export of grains to the Eurasian Economic Union, according to Russian state media.

“Russia is introducing a temporary ban on the export of grain to the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), as well as on the export of white sugar and raw cane sugar to third countries. The resolutions on this was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Restrictions on grain will be valid until June 30, on sugar - until August 31, 2022," reads a translation of the report.

Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat, while Ukraine also ranks in the top five.

The move comes as wheat prices have been on the rise in recent weeks.

Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russia’s First Channel employee ran onto a live state TV news Monday to protest the war posted a video to social media explaining her actions.

“What’s happening in Ukraine is a crime and Russia is the aggressor. And there is only one person responsible for this, this man is Vladimir Putin," Ovsyannikova said in the video. "My father is Ukrainian and my mother is Russian, they have never been enemies, and this necklace is a symbol – that Russia must immediately stop this war and our brotherly nations can still come together.

"Sadly, I’ve been working on the First Channel during last couple of years, have been doing Kremlin propaganda, for which now I am very ashamed," she continued. "I am ashamed that I let lies be spread on television, I’m ashamed that I participated in turning Russian people into zombies, we kept quiet when it all started in 2014, we did not rally when Kremlin poisoned Navalny, we have silently been watching this anti-human regime, and now, the whole world turned back to us, next 10 generations will not be able to get rid of the shame of this war.”

A woman interrupted a live broadcast of Russian television to deliver an anti-war message, carrying a sign that read “Stop the war, no to war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here," according to a translation provided to Fox News.