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Ukraine calls third round of talks ‘positive’, Russia did not: 10 points – India Times Hindi News – Henry Club

March 8, 2022
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Ukraine and Russia today disagreed on the outcome of the third round of talks in Belarus. While a Kyiv negotiator spoke of a “positive outcome”, a Russian negotiator said his hopes were “not met”, AFP news agency reported.

Here are the 10 latest developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:

  1. The third round of talks with Ukraine focused on opening humanitarian corridors from Ukrainian cities. After the meeting, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said, “The talks did not meet our expectations. We hope that next time we will be able to take more important steps.”

  2. However, Mikhailo Podolik, adviser to the President of Kyiv, indicated that some progress had been made, tweeting, “We have achieved some positive results related to the logistics of humanitarian corridors,”

  3. Earlier today, Ukraine rejected Russian plans for a humanitarian corridor for Russia and Belarus for Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Sumy. According to maps published by the RIA news agency, the corridor from Kyiv will lead to Belarus, while citizens of Kharkiv will only be allowed into Russia. Russia also said it would launch an airlift to take Ukrainians from Kyiv to Russia.

  4. Ukraine called the plan an “immoral stunt”. Spokesperson of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia was trying to “use people’s suffering to create a television picture”. “They are citizens of Ukraine, they should have the right to vacate the territory of Ukraine,” news agency Reuters quoted the spokesman as saying.

  5. The mayor of Sumy, Alexander Lysenko, along with the commander of the national battalion, announced that “there will be no green corridor, not a single civilian will go to Russia, and those who try to do this will be shot.”

  6. Russia declared a ceasefire in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Sumy from 12.30 pm on Monday. But it also failed when Ukraine rejected the corridor plan.

  7. earlier today, PM Modi talks to Russian President Putin and President Zelensky of Ukraine. Government sources said PM Modi has urged President Putin to hold direct talks with President Zelensky in addition to the ongoing talks between his teams. Mr Putin previously said he would achieve his goals in Ukraine “through dialogue or war”.

  8. PM Modi had also stressed on the importance of evacuating Indian citizens from Sumi at the earliest. Government sources said President Putin had assured PM Modi of all possible cooperation in his safe evacuation.

  9. The top UN court is hearing Ukraine’s appeal for an emergency decision that requires Russia to halt its invasion. Kyiv filed an urgent case on 27 February, saying that Russia had illegally justified its war by falsely alleging genocide in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Russia refused to attend the hearing,

  10. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its twelfth day, has seen more than 1.5 million people flee the country as the United Nations deals with Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II.