Indian students stuck in Shehini, Lviv Oblast before crossing the Ukraine-Poland border as part of evacuating Indians from war-torn Ukraine.
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- Indians trying to enter Poland face racial abuse by security forces: Report
- The official said the women were beaten up, either held for several days or not allowed to leave Ukraine at the border.
- This kind of news is coming continuously since last one week.
Both the BBC and CNN confirmed on Saturday that Indians in Ukraine are facing racial abuse by Ukrainian security forces trying to enter Poland. This kind of news is coming continuously since last one week.
Amit Lath, vice-president of the Indo-Polish Chamber of Commerce, claimed that even the women were beaten up, either held for several days or not allowed to leave Ukraine at border posts.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinkin visited North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries in Eastern Europe on Saturday, while a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that the two countries were talking through certain channels.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed at a news briefing: “We are maintaining certain channels of dialogue with the United States.”
He was responding to a question on the current state of relations between Russia and the US following the sanctions imposed by Washington and the generally strained relations between them as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was no ratification from Washington’s side.
The claims of casualties vary widely between the two directly warring countries in Russia-Ukraine, which is actually a battle between Russia and the West for strategic advantage on the security front.
In Moscow, Major General Oigor Konashenkov of the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian armed forces have attacked more than 2,000 Ukrainian military infrastructure as of Saturday morning, according to the Russian news agency, TASS.
Konashenkov has stated: “In total, approximately 2,037 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities were affected during the operation. They included 71 command posts and communications centers of the Kyiv forces; 33 Osa missile systems of the S-300, Buk and 9K as well as That’s 61 radar stations.”
He further said that some 66 aircraft were killed on the ground and 16 in the air, while there were also 708 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 74 multiple rocket launchers, 261 field artillery and mortars, 505 units of special military vehicles. 56 unmanned aerial vehicles were also destroyed.
The Russian Defense Ministry insisted that Russian troops were not targeting Ukrainian cities; and limited itself to disabling Ukrainian military infrastructure. Even if this is true, there have apparently been collateral civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, after Russia Today was banned in the European Union, Britain and the United States, the Kremlin has retaliated in Russia by berating Western counterparts such as the BBC and CNN. US social media platform Facebook is also no longer available in Russia.
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