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Russia-Ukraine war LIVE Updates: On February 22 when Moscow recognised the separatists territories Donetsk and Luhansk, 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Moscow, the website stated.

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Russia-Ukraine war LIVE Updates: Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world, finds watchlist site

People cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine. In Irpin, near Kyiv, a sea of people on foot and even in wheelbarrows trudged over the remains of a destroyed bridge to cross a river and leave the city. AP

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Russia is most sanctioned country in the world, says watchlist site

 

Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world, according to sanctions watchlist site Castellum.ai. On February 22 when Moscow recognised the separatists territories Donetsk and Luhansk, 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Moscow, the website stated. After this, 2,778 more sanctions were imposed on the countrin, pushing the tally to 5,532. With this, Russia outranked Iran’s 3,616 sanctions.

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Mar 08, 2022 - 12:17 (IST)

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Pakistan sends plane to evacuate 300 who fled fighting in Ukraine

Pakistan sent an aircraft to Poland on Tuesday to evacuate more than 300 Pakistanis who escaped fighting in Ukraine. Pakistan International Airlines says most of them are students.

Pakistan has refused to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even as it has denounced war as a solution to differences and called for negotiations and a cease-fire. Prime Minister Imran Khan met with President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin just hours after the Russian leader sent tanks into Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Pakistan abstained from last week’s U.N. General Assembly vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mar 08, 2022 - 12:06 (IST)

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Japanese automaker Nissan to halt production in Russia over ‘logistical challenges’

Japanese automaker Nissan is planning to halt production at its plant in Russia because of “logistical challenges.”

Nissan Motor Co. did not provide a specific date but said Tuesday production will stop “soon.” Its plant in St. Petersburg produced 45,000 vehicles last year, including the X-Trail sport utility vehicle.

The Yokohama-based manufacturer said the safety of its employees is its top priority. Nissan earlier stopped exports to Russia.

Mar 08, 2022 - 11:53 (IST)

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Putin says will not call conscript soldiers up to fight

Russian President Vladimir Putin releases a video saying that conscripts and reservists are not being called up to fight on the frontline against Ukraine, reported BBC. “Let me emphasise that soldiers who are doing military service do not and will not participate in hostilities... the assigned tasks are solved only be professional military men,” he says.

Mar 08, 2022 - 11:42 (IST)

Russia-Ukraine war LATEST Updates

Russia is most sanctioned country in the world, says watchlist site

 

Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world, according to sanctions watchlist site Castellum.ai. On February 22 when Moscow recognised the separatists territories Donetsk and Luhansk, 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Moscow, the website stated. After this, 2,778 more sanctions were imposed on the countrin, pushing the tally to 5,532. With this, Russia outranked Iran’s 3,616 sanctions.

Mar 08, 2022 - 11:31 (IST)

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IAEA reports second Ukraine nuclear facility damaged

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has received reports of artillery shells damaging a nuclear research facility in Ukraine's besieged second city Kharkiv, but there was no "radiological consequence".

The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities reported an attack took place on Sunday, adding that no increase in radiation levels had been reported at the site.

Because the site's "inventory of radioactive material is very low" and kept at a "subcritical" state, the IAEA said "the damage reported to it would not have had any radiological consequence."

Mar 08, 2022 - 11:22 (IST)

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Russia dangles prospect of safe corridors; Ukraine skeptical

India has compulsions with Russia, and in their neighbourhood, issues with China over territory, a former top American diplomat has told US lawmakers.

The diplomat made the remarks replying to lawmakers' questions on New Delhi abstaining from several UN vote on Russian aggression against Ukraine.

India has compulsions with Russia, they have compulsions in their neighbourhood, with territorial issues with China. I think, as Americans, we have an affinity toward Indians for their democracy, and the pluralism of their system, Atul Keshap said.

Mar 08, 2022 - 11:13 (IST)

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Asian markets fall again, oil builds on gains as Ukraine war rages

Asian markets mostly fell again Tuesday as investors try to assess the economic impact of the Ukraine war, while oil prices extended gains after rocketing to a near 14-year high.

As Russia's invasion of its neighbour continues, commodity prices have been sent to record or multi-year highs, forcing observers to re-evaluate their outlook for the global recovery with some now warning of a period of soaring inflation and low growth or recession.

Mar 08, 2022 - 10:36 (IST)

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As Lviv swells with 200,000 refugees, mayor says city needs help

The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled here from war-torn regions of the country.

“We really need support,” Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.

More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are now in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church buildings. The historical city once popular with tourists had a population of 700,000 before the war.

The mayor said the city needs big tents equipped with kitchens so food can be prepared.

Mar 08, 2022 - 10:11 (IST)

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Ukraine says aircraft bombed cities overnight

Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv.

In Sumy and Okhtyrka, to the east of Kyiv near the Russian border, bombs fell on residential buildings and destroyed a power plant, regional leader Dmytro Zhivitsky said. He said there were dead and wounded but gave no figures.

Bombs also hit oil depots in Zhytomyr and the neighboring town of Cherniakhiv, located west of Kyiv. In Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.

Mar 08, 2022 - 10:03 (IST)

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Dutch aid groups raise 106 mn euros for Ukraine

More than 106 million euros have been collected in the Netherlands to help victims of the war in Ukraine, a collective of aid groups said Monday.

"The counter showed 106.2 million euros at the end of this national day of action," said a statement on a website for 11 humanitarian groups involved in the collection, including the Red Cross and Unicef Netherlands.

It said the collection, which started accepting donations on March 1, would remain open.

Russia-Ukraine war LATEST Updates:  Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world, according to sanctions watchlist site Castellum.ai.

The mayor of Lviv said the city in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and house the tens of thousands of people who have fled here from war-torn regions of the country.

Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the capital, Kyiv

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on Instagram, showing himself working from his Presidential Office in Kyiv. "I’m not hiding, and I’m not afraid of anyone," he said in a 9-minute long self-recorded video.

India, which has managed to safely bring back over 20,000 of its nationals from Ukraine amid the ongoing war, said it is deeply concerned that despite its repeated urgings to both Russia and Ukraine, the safe corridor for Indian students stranded in eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy did not materialise.

Russia is recruiting Syrians and other foreign fighters as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, the Pentagon said Monday.

Moscow entered the Syrian civil war in 2015 on the side of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and the country has been mired in a conflict marked by urban combat for more than a decade.

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened Monday as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce, in what the country condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.

A third round of talks between the two sides ended with a top Ukrainian official saying there had been minor, unspecified progress toward establishing safe corridors that would allow civilians to escape the fighting. Russia’s chief negotiator said he expects those corridors to start operating Tuesday.

But that remained to be seen, given the failure of previous attempts to lead civilians to safety amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.

Well into the second week of the invasion, with Russian troops making significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions, a top U.S. official said multiple countries were discussing whether to provide the warplanes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pleading for.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued to pummel cities with rockets, and fierce fighting raged in places. In the face of the bombardments, Zelenskky said Ukrainian forces were showing unprecedented courage.

“The problem is that for one soldier of Ukraine, we have 10 Russian soldiers, and for one Ukrainian tank, we have 50 Russian tanks,” Zelenskky told ABC News in an interview that aired Monday night. He noted that the gap in forces was diminishing and that even if Russian forces “come into all our cities,” they will be met with an insurgency.

In one of the most desperate cities, the encircled southern port of Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people — nearly half the population of 430,000 — were hoping to flee, and Red Cross officials waited to hear when a corridor would be established.

The city is short on water, food and power, and cellphone networks are down. Stores have been looted as residents search for essential goods.

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