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Refugees brave the cold in a frozen field after they fled from Ukraine because of the Russian invasion at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland.

Russia Ukraine Crisis Updates: An Indian student was killed during shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv today, the External Affairs Ministry said in a Twitter post. Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said: "With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family". He also said the Foreign Secretary had called in the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors stationed in Delhi to 'reiterate our demand for urgent safe passage for Indian nationals still in Kharkiv and cities in other conflict zones'. Bagchi also said Indian ambassadors in Kyiv and Moscow were undertaking similar action.

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Kharkiv is Ukraine's second largest city and was battered by Russian missile strikes today; an Ukrainian minister tweeted a clip of a stately building exploding after what he said was a Russian missile strike. "Russian missile hits Freedom Square, right in the centre of Kharkiv. More and more innocent civilians become victims of Russian barbaric actions. #StopWarInUkraine. (sic)," the minister, Emine Dzheppar, tweeted.

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Evacuation of Indian nationals from the eastern European country is taking place on a 'war footing', the government said earlier today.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is in its sixth day and over 300 civilians, including at least 14 children, have been killed so far, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

However Russia, despite facing harsh sanctions and global disapproval, has said it will pursue the Ukraine offensive until 'all goals' achieved, the defence minister was quoted by AFP.