Russia Attacks Ukraine HIGHLIGHTS: Air Raid Alert In Ukraine's Capital Kyiv
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European countries and Canada on Sunday took extraordinary steps to close their airspace to Russian planes in an effort to put pressure on President Vladimir Putin to cease his invasion of Ukraine, the worst attack on a European state since World War II. Read More
UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday about Ukraine, news agency Reuters reported.
Ukraine files case against Russia at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. “We request an urgent decision ordering Russia to cease military activity now and expect trials to start next week”, says the Ukrainian President.
Special UNSC session on Ukraine to be held at 3 pm New York Time on 27th February.
Big explosion in Irpen, Ukraine. There was chaos in the area after the blast.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict could last a "number of years" and the world needs to be prepared for Moscow "to seek to use even worse weapons", British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Sunday.
Zelensky hails establishment of pro-Ukraine 'international coalition'. Zelensky hailed the assistance Ukraine was receiving from its international allies in an online speech. "We are receiving weapons, medicine, food, diesel, and money," he said. "A powerful coalition in support of Ukraine has been formed -- an anti-war coalition.
Zelensky says night was 'brutal', Russia striking residential areas, reports AFP. Ukraine has said it is ready for peace talks with Russia but not in Belarus.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is willing to hold talks with Russia - but not in neighbouring Belarus as it's being used as a launchpad for invasion. "Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku. We proposed all of them," he said in an online address: AFP News Agency
Ukraine's leader says country is ready for peace talks with Russia but not in Belarus, which was invasion staging ground, reports AP
While the Russian troops have entered Ukraine's second largets city Kharkiv, AFP reported that Kremlin is ready for talks with Ukraine In Belarus.
The Kremlin says a Russian delegation has arrived in the Belarusian city of Homel for talks with Ukrainian officials, reports AP
Russian troops have entered Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and fighting is under way, the head of the regional administration said: AFP News Agency.
"The Russian enemy's light vehicles broke into the city of Kharkiv... The Ukrainian armed forces are eliminating the enemy," he said.
The fourth flight has left from Bucharest (Romania) to bring 198 Indian nationals to Delhi safely: EAM Dr S Jaishankar.
Russia claims to have besieged two big cities in south and southeast of Ukraine: AFP News Agency
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Sunday that he was grateful for the financial sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and its allies.
“Thanks to our friends ... for the commitment to remove several Russian banks from SWIFT and for the paralysis of the assets of the central bank of Russia,” Shmygal tweeted.
Indian nationals, mostly students, who were evacuated from Ukraine heaved a sigh of relief as the Air India flight carrying them landed at the airport here in the early hours of Sunday.
Suriya Subhash from Maharashtra's Solapur, who was among the 250 Indian citizens brought back on the flight from Romanian capital Bucharest, said she was relieved to be back in her country after a "hectic journey".
"The situation is very bad there (Ukraine). People are stranded," she said.
The returnees belonged to different states, including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and Kerala etc.
They thanked the Indian government for evacuating them and saving their lives.
Karnataka Minister R Ashoka welcomed students of the state who were stranded in Ukraine amid Russia Ukraine conflict and arrived here earlier today.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, is in disarray after a natural gas pipeline was blown up early Sunday morning. The government has warned that the explosion’s smoke could lead to a “environmental catastrophe,” and has advised residents to cover their windows with damp cloth or gauze.
The UN humanitarian agency reports 240 civilian casualties, including 64 people killed, in the fighting in Ukraine that erupted since Russia’s invasion.
Two large explosions lit up the night sky to the southwest of Kyiv early Sunday morning. CNN reported that they appear to have been around Vasylkiv, some 30 kilometers, or about 18 miles, south of Kyiv — a town with a large military airfield and multiple fuel tanks.
Lufthansa says it is suspending flights to Russia and its use of Russian airspace amid Moscow's attack on Ukraine
EU foreign ministers to meet Sunday to discuss more Russia sanctions, AFP quoted the diplomats.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that he asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to strip Russia of its vote at the UN Security Council as punishment for invading Ukraine.
"To deprive the aggressor country of the right to vote in the UN Security Council, to qualify Russian actions and statements as genocide of the Ukrainian people, to help with the delivery of corpses of Russian soldiers. Talked about it in a conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres," Zelensky wrote on Twitter.
Russia is one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council with the right to veto decisions, along with China, France, the UK and the United States.
Background
Russia-Ukraine Crisis HIGHLIGHTS: The Russian army will be broadening its Ukraine advance "from all directions" after Ukraine said it had repulsed an attack on capital Kyiv but "sabotage groups" remained in the city.
Western allies announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow on Saturday, including kicking key Russian banks off the main global payments system, as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.
The announcement came as fighting continued across Ukraine. Reuters in Kyiv reported occasional blasts and gunfire in the city on Saturday evening, but it was not clear exactly where it was coming from. The capital and other cities have been pounded by Russian artillery and cruise missiles.
Meanwhile, Air India's second evacuation flight from Romanian capital Bucharest carrying 250 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine landed at the Delhi airport in the early hours of Sunday, government officials said.
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia welcomed the evacuees at the airport by handing out roses to them.
India on Saturday began the evacuation of its stranded citizens amid the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, with the first evacuation flight, AI1944, bringing back 219 people from Bucharest to Mumbai in the evening.
The second evacuation flight, AI1942, carrying 250 Indian citizens landed at the Delhi airport around 2.45 am on Sunday, the officials said.
Air India's third evacuation flight, AI1940, which has departed from Hungarian capital Budapest, is also scheduled to return with 240 evacuees to Delhi on Sunday, they said.
Addressing the returnees, Scindia said, "I know you all have been through a very, very difficult time, a very, very trying time. But know this that the PM is with you at every step, the Indian government is with you at every step, and 130 crore Indians are with you at every step."
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