new Delhi: By the end of the seventh day of Russia’s military advance, Ukraine claimed it was fighting in the port of Kherson, the first major city Russia claimed to have seized, as airstrikes and bombings wreaked havoc on the cities. Moscow’s army has failed to capture.
It has now been almost a week since Russia is trying to achieve its objective of overthrowing Ukraine’s government, reportedly killing more than 2,000 civilians and destroying government buildings, hospitals, kindergartens and homes. Used to be.
As Russia continues to close bunkers and bomb shelters in Ukraine’s major cities, an Indian government advisory directed citizens to evacuate Ukraine’s Kharkiv ‘immediately’, leaving them on a long journey across the borders. was forced to
Here are the top 10 updates from the seventh day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
India asks its citizens to leave Kharkiv ‘immediately’
As fighting intensified in Kharkiv, India on Wednesday asked its citizens to leave the second largest Ukrainian city “even on foot” at three nearby locations, while Russia called for “humanitarian corridors” to evacuate Indians from conflict zones. “Promised to make Read more: https://bit.ly/3hypQcG
PM Modi talks to Russian President Putin
PM Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and discussed the issue of safe evacuation of Indians from war-torn Ukraine. Read more: https://bit.ly/3hvpEa
PM Modi holds fifth high level meeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday night chaired a high-level meeting on the Ukraine crisis, as India ramped up its efforts to evacuate its citizens, mostly students, from the country under attack from Russia. Read more: https://bit.ly/3vOjCxR
India, among 34 others, refrained from voting against Russia at UNGA
India absented itself for the third time in less than a week from participating in a UN General Assembly resolution on Wednesday that strongly condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Read more: https://bit.ly/3tluKiB
External Affairs Ministry on India’s evacuation program
The Indian Foreign Ministry said that the number of Indians leaving the war-torn nation has increased rapidly. Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said the government estimated that around 17,000 Indian nationals had left the Ukrainian border. Read more: https://bit.ly/3trPbdE
Second Indian student dies in Ukraine
A 22-year-old student from Punjab’s Barnala district, who had suffered an ischemia stroke and was undergoing treatment for nearly a month, died in war-torn Ukraine on Wednesday. Read more: https://bit.ly/3sxdIPs
Russia says third world war will be ‘nuclear and destructive’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that if a third world war happens, it will involve nuclear weapons and it will be devastating. Lavrov said Russia would face a “real threat” if Kyiv acquired a nuclear weapon. Read more: https://bit.ly/36YoO7R
Ukraine’s Kherson under Russian military control: reports
The crisis in Ukraine escalated with the Russian military taking control of Kherson. According to the news agency Reuters, the governor of Kherson, Ukraine, has said that the city is completely surrounded by Russians. Read more: https://bit.ly/35IAVp1