Russia Ukraine War Updates: Sheikh Hasina thanks PM Modi for evacuating Bangladeshi nationals
Two million people — half of them children — have fled Ukraine in the less than two weeks since Russia invaded the country, as Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II grows by the day.
Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol, hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding the cities of Ukraine. Nearly two weeks into the invasion, the Russians have advanced deep along Ukraine’s coastline Mariupol, in what could establish a land bridge to Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014. Mariupol, which sits on the Azov Sea, has been surrounded by Russian soldiers for days. Across the country, many people are relying on their car radios for information, picking up news from stations broadcast from areas controlled by Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists. Thousands are thought to have been killed, both civilians and soldiers, in nearly two weeks of fighting. Russian forces have seen their advances stopped in certain areas — including around Kyiv, the capital, where a vast armored column has been stalled for days — by fiercer resistance than expected from the Ukrainians.
Bangladesh thanks PM Modi for rescuing its nationals from Ukraine
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanks PM Narendra Modi for rescuing its nationals under ‘Operation Ganga’. India rescues 9 Bangladeshis from Ukraine. India rescued Nepalese, Tunisian students too.
21 civilians were killed in Sumy strike
The death toll from an overnight strike in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has now risen to 21 civilians, according to the Regional Prosecutor’s Office. The office confirmed “the death of 19 adults and 2 children as a result of an air strike in the city.” “As a result of the bombing, one house was completely destroyed, 16 were partially destroyed. As of 7:00, the bodies of 21 people, including 2 children, were found during an inspection,” it added.
No contact with Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s data systems: UN agency
The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Tuesday said that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data. The agency voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the plant which is the largest in Europe.
WHO official calls for health, humanitarian principles in resolving Ukraine crisis
A World Health Organization (WHO) official has urged that health and humanitarian principles should play as key drivers of peace in Ukraine.
“Through personal experience in other conflicts, I firmly believe that health and humanitarian principles remain key drivers of peace, and I am using all diplomatic resources that are at my disposal as elected WHO leader to reduce the impact of this human catastrophe,” Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
Russia now global economic pariah, claims Biden administration
Russia has become a global economic pariah after it attacked Ukraine and the international community has joined the US in imposing tough sanctions against Moscow, the Joe Biden administration has claimed.
US President Biden termed the package of economic sanctions enforced against Russia “most significant in history” and claimed that it has caused consequential damage to the Russian economy.
“It has caused the Russian economy to crater. The Ruble is now down 50 per cent and worth less than one American penny since Putin announced his war,” he told reporters at the White House after announcing an immediate ban on import of Russian oil and gas.
“We cut Russia’s largest banks from the international financial system and it has crippled their ability to do business with the rest of the world,” Biden said.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the US would ban the import of Russian oil and gas, “targeting the main artery of Russia’s economy” in response to its invasion of Ukraine.
Pakistan’s Asma Shafique thanks Indian embassy in Kyiv and PM Modi for evacuating her
#WATCH | Pakistan’s Asma Shafique thanks the Indian embassy in Kyiv and Prime Minister Modi for evacuating her.
Shas been rescued by Indian authorities and is enroute to Western #Ukraine for further evacuation out of the country. She will be reunited with her family soon:Sources pic.twitter.com/9hiBWGKvNp
— ANI (@ANI) March 9, 2022
US redeploys two Patriot air defense system units to Poland
US is redeploying two Patriot air defense system units to Poland, the Pentagon tells Sputnik
All Indian students moved out of Ukraine’s Sumy: MEA
All Indian students stranded in the war-torn Ukrainian city of Sumy have been moved out and flights under Operation Ganga are being prepared to bring them back home, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday.
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the Indian students moved out of Sumy were being taken to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine. Poltava is at a distance of about 175 km from Sumy.
“Happy to inform that we have been able to move out all Indian students from Sumy. They are currently en route to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine,” Bagchi tweeted.
“Flights under Operation Ganga are being prepared to bring them home,” he said.
Former Miss Ukraine describes escape from Kyiv, asks for aid
A former Miss Ukraine winner on Tuesday described her journey with her young son to escape Kyiv and her homeland as Russian troops invaded the country last month, and called on countries to do more to arm her countrymen and women. Veronika Didusenko, who was crowned Miss Ukraine in 2018, said she and her 7-year-old son were awoken on the first day of the invasion to the sounds of air raid sirens and explosions, and they joined thousands of others on the road to evacuate.
“On my … journey to the border of Ukraine, there was no place where sirens would not sound, where rockets and bombs would not explode,” she said.
“Right now, millions of Ukrainian children and their mothers are trembling at every sound in the subway stations and bomb shelters. Even more heartbreaking that women are giving birth in such conditions in these shelters,” Didusenko said.
She said her request to get a visa for her son to travel to the US has been rejected. She plans to return to Geneva this weekend to reunite with him. Allred said she was hoping US officials would relax visa policies to allow more Ukrainians to travel.
US rejects Poland’s offer to give it Russian-made fighter jets for Ukraine
US rejects Poland’s offer to give it Russian-made fighter jets for Ukraine
