The Indian Air Force: India abstained on a United Nation General Assembly resolution that strongly condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine on Wednesday, the country’s third abstention in less than a week in the world body on solutions to the escalating crisis between Moscow and Kyiv. Stay tuned to TOI for the most recent developments.
The Kyiv Independent reports on air raids in Kyiv also Kyiv Oblast, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk. Chernihiv and Chernihiv Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Kirovohrad Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Zaporizhzhia and Odes
If Russia withdraws and pursues diplomacy, we will do the same. We will back the Ukrainian government’s diplomatic efforts to a cease-fire and withdraw Russian forces.
According to the Chancellery of the PM of Poland, 1,299 Indians have been evacuated from Ukrainian territory.
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin “chose war. But he will keep in touch with the Russian leader to try to end the conflict and prevent it from spreading beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Spotify has closed its Russian office in response to the attack on Ukraine.
Both sides claim that Indians are being hold, hostage.
In a readout following the Modi-Putin call, the Russians said that Indian students had been “taken hostage” by Ukrainian forces to “use them as a human shield.”
The Ukrainian foreign ministry responded that the students had “become hostages of Russian armed aggression in Kharkiv and Sumy” also urged India and others to press Moscow for a “humanitarian corridor” to other cities.
The rouble falls to a new low in Moscow before recovering outside of the country.
Chelsea’s Russian owner, Roman Abramovich, has confirmed that he will sell the Premier League club. Pledging that the proceeds will go to victims of Ukraine’s civil war; he is concerned about possible sanctions targeting his assets.