A charred military vehicle is seen on a road, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, near the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region (Reuters)Russia Ukraine Crisis Live: Four people were killed when homes in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr were hit on Tuesday by a Russian cruise missile apparently aimed at a nearby air base, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said on his Telegram channel.
Russian defence ministry said that it was planning to launch “high precision strikes” in Kyiv and asked its residents to leave. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the defence ministry said that Russia was preparing to launch “high-precision strikes” against the “Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO)” in Kyiv. “We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kyiv residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes,” the statement said.
Earlier on Tuesday, an Indian student lost his life in the shelling in Kharkiv. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated, “With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family.We convey our deepest condolences to the family,” he tweeted. The student has been identified as Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, 20, from Karnataka. He was a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University.
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More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen were killed by a Russian rocket attack and dozens of civilians have died in “barbaric” shelling, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as a huge Russian military convoy approached the capital Kyiv. The Indian embassy in Kyiv, in an advisory issued Tuesday, asked Indians asked to leave Kyiv urgently through ‘any means available’. The UN has said that at least 102 civilians, including seven children, have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. Meanwhile, an embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its ties to the West by applying to join the European Union, a largely symbolic move for now.
People attend an anti-war protest outside the Russian Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday. (Photo: Reuters)
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his government will not impose any economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The president often cites a guiding principle of nonintervention in foreign affairs.
He said Tuesday that “we want to maintain good relations with all the world's governments, and we want to be in a position to be able to speak with all parties to the conflict.” Russian investment in Mexico is estimated at some $132 million and the bilateral trade at more than $2.4 billion. (AP)
Four people were killed when homes in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr were hit on Tuesday by a Russian cruise missile apparently aimed at a nearby air base, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said on his Telegram channel. (Reuters)
U.S. payment card firms Visa Inc (V.N) and Mastercard Inc have blocked multiple Russian financial institutions from their network, complying with government sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Visa said on Monday it was taking prompt action to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions, adding that it will donate $2 million for humanitarian aid. Mastercard also promised to contribute $2 million. (Reuters)
The European Union is speaking to U.S. counterparts about extending a ban on Russian flights, it said on Tuesday, as it gave more details of the EU's closure of airspace to Russian aircraft imposed after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Airlines already face potentially lengthy blockages of key east-west flight corridors after the EU and Moscow issued tit-for-tat airspace bans. Washington has not ruled out similar action.
United Airlines and United Parcel Service (UPS) (UPS.N) said on Tuesday they had suspended flying over Russian airspace, joining other major U.S. carriers Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) and American Airlines. (Reuters)
The UK government has launched an urgent review into how to reduce Britain's exposure to Russian gas imports and energy companies following the Ukraine's invasion, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met the heads of some of Britain's biggest energy groups on Friday as part of the review, which energy industry leaders said would require a close examination of ties between Russia's Gazprom and the public and private sectors in Britain, the report added. (Reuters)
Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-biggest city and Kyiv's main TV tower in what the country's president called a blatant campaign of terror.
“Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed after the bloodshed on the square in Kharkiv.
Ukrainian authorities said five people were killed in the attack on the TV tower, which is a couple of miles from central Kyiv and a short walk from numerous apartment buildings. (AP)
The United States said Tuesday it is expelling a Russian “intelligence operative” working for the United Nations in addition to the 12 members of the Russian Mission to the United Nations whose expulsions were ordered Monday for engaging in espionage. (AP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for an immediate cease-fire between the Russian and Ukrainian forces.
“Our call to both Russia and Ukraine is: let the firing stop as soon as possible, let Russia and Ukraine make a beautiful contribution to peace,” Erdogan said Tuesday during a joint news conference with Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, on Tuesday.
He however, urged the EU to “show the same sensitivity” toward Turkey. The country is a candidate to join the EU but its accession talks have been stalled over a number of issues, including the country's democratic backtracking.
“Are you going to bring Turkey's (application) on the agenda when someone declares war on it and attacks?” Erdogan said. (AP)
First flight out of Budapest in Hungary with Indian students is also ready for departure.
It is an Indigo airline flight with Minister Hardeep Puri overseeing the evacuation. Some students on this flight had been stranded at the Ukraine side of the land border with Poland for a day.
They were taken taken by a bus to the Hungarian border of Ukraine on Monday.
A batch of Indians being evacuated by an Indigo airlines flight from Warsaw to New Delhi shortly. This is the first repatriation flight that will take off from Poland; most Indians on board faced a tough time exiting Ukraine at Shehyni check point since Friday.
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More than half a million refugees have fled Ukraine for neighbouring countries since Russia invaded on February 24, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. (Graphics by Reuters)
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russia must stop bombing Ukrainian cities before talks about a ceasefire can begin, Reuters reports. He also urged NATO members to impose a no-fly zone to stop the Russian air force.
All Indian nationals have left Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday.
At a media briefing, Shringla said he has conveyed to envoys of Russia and Ukraine India's demand for 'urgent safe passage' for all Indian nationals stuck in Kharkiv and other conflict zones. He said at a high-level meeting on the Ukraine crisis, PM Narendra Modi expressed deep anguish over the loss of life of an Indian citizen in Kharkiv. 'We remain very concerned over the situation in Kharkiv, Sumy and other conflict zones,' Shringla said. 'Over the next three days, 26 flights have been scheduled to bring back Indian citizens,' he said.
Shringla said a C-17 IAF aircraft is expected to fly out at 4 am on Wednesday to Romania to repatriate our citizens. He further said that the body of the Indian student who died in Kharkiv has been taken to morgue in medical university in the city. (PTI)
Five killed in Russian strike on Kyiv TV tower, reports AFP quoting official. Ukrainian TV channels have stopped broadcasting several minutes ago. (Photo: Ukraine NOW/Telegram)
President of the European Council Charles Michel on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and conveyed his condolences over the death of an Indian student in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Michel said the European countries are wholeheartedly helping evacuation of Indian citizens from Ukraine, asserting that the world must unite in defence of international law.
In the first Indian casualty in the war in Ukraine, the medical student from Karnataka's Haveri district was killed in intense shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a native of Chalageri, was studying at a medical college in Ukraine. "I expressed my condolences to @PMOIndia for the loss of life of an Indian student in #Kharkiv today due to indiscriminate Russian attacks against innocent civilians," he said on Twitter.
The EU official said the attacks on Ukraine is aimed to "destroy multilateralism and cause pain and suffering". (PTI)
The UN's refugees chief is warning that many more vulnerable people will begin fleeing their homes in Ukraine if Russia's military offensive continues and further urban areas are hit.
Filippo Grandi told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that his agency has so far recorded 677,000 people fleeing from Ukraine to neighbouring countries, with about half of those currently in Poland.Queues along the border are now tens of kilometers (miles) long and some people are having to wait days to cross.
“It is likely that if the military offensive continues and urban centers are hit one after the other, that we will see more and more people with less resources, with less connections, more vulnerable in every respect,” he said.
Grandi criticised instances where non-Ukrainians fleeing the country had reportedly suffered discrimination, but said this did not appear to be the result of government policies. UN humanitarian coordinator Martin Griffiths said shelling and bombing have already damaged water pipes, electricity lines, basic services. "Hundreds of thousands of families are without drinking water," he said.(AP)
An Indian student lost his life in Russian shelling on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, on Tuesday. As Russians stepped up the onslaught, more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, even as a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened Kyiv.
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