Highlights: India abstains from voting against Russia at UN General Assembly

Ukraine's foreign ministry set up emergency hotline and questionnaire to collect data on foreign students who are forced to leave the country. The ministry made the announcement on its Twitter handle

The European Union has banned broadcasts of Russian state media RT and Sputnik as part of a sweeping package of sanctions over President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, reports AFP

Union minister General VK Singh shares video of his interaction with Indian nationals at Poland border. 

British prime minister Boris Johnson has demanded more sanctions on Russia over its invasion on Ukraine.

First IAF’s C-17 aircraft to return from Romania tonight with around 200 Indian citizens returning from Ukraine at 11 pm tonight. Two more planes will return from Poland & Hungary by early morning tomorrow, ANI quotes IAF officials

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Hindustan Times that the government is working round the clock to bring back all Indian nationals who are stranded in the warzone. Read here

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) joins efforts under Operation Ganga to provide relief material to Indian students being evacuated from Ukraine, the home ministry tweeted

Indian embassy in Ukraine asks stranded students in Kharkiv to leave ‘immediately’ and move to other locations by 6pm local time

U.S. airplane manufacturer Boeing said it was suspending parts, maintenance and technical support for Russian airlines as well as major operations in Moscow after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, reports Reuters

German logistics giant DHL has announced it is stopping deliveries to Russia and Belarus, joining a growing list of Western businesses to cease operations in the countries after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, reports AFP

Chandan Jindal (22) was studying at Vinnytsia National Pyrogov, Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia Ukraine. He fell ill and was admitted in Emergency Hospital in Vinnytsia . He was admitted to ICU after suffering from Ischemia Stroke in brain. He breathed his last today.

His father has wrote to the Centre to make arrangements for brining his body for last rites. Full report

Four people have been killed and another nine wounded during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the emergencies services said on Wednesday, AFP reported

Russian troops delivered an ultimatum to the local authorities. If inhabitants resist, the city will be shelled with heavy artillery, says the mayor

If  World War happens, it would involve ‘nuclear weapons and be destructive’, reports Reuters quoting Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. Read here

Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons, news agency Reuters quotes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who told TASS news agency

Russia is gathering troops closer and closer to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in an online post on Wednesday. "We are preparing and will defend Kyiv!," he was quoted by news agency Reuters. "Kyiv stands and will stand."

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has said that holding more talks with Russia was under discussion and that a "substantial agenda" was needed, Reuters.

“PM Modi and the ministry of external affairs are working on it. Given the situation in Ukraine, there is no airstrip... even a plane can't land there,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on bringing the body of Karnataka's Naveen Shekharappa, an MBBS student who died in shelling in Ukraine

Russia 'ready' to continue talks with Ukraine Wednesday night, reports AFP News Agency. Read

Ukraine's south-eastern port of Mariupol was under constant shelling from Russia and unable to evacuate the injured while Kherson, on the Black Sea to the west, was completely surrounded by invading forces, Ukrainian authorities told Reuters

SpiceJet will operate special evacuation flights from Kosice in Slovakia on 3rd and 4th March and from Bucharest in Romania on March 4 and 6 to bring home Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine. The airline will use its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for these special flights. The private carrier will operate ferry flights to Kosice on 2nd and 3rd March from Delhi and to Bucharest from Delhi and Amritsar on 4th and 5th March. The airline has already operated two evacuation flights under ‘Operation Ganga’. SpiceJet’s evacuation flight from Budapest with Indian students will be arriving at the IGI airport in Delhi at 6.30 pm today.

Russian ambassador-designate Denis Alipov said on Wednesday that deliveries of five regiments of S-400 air defence systems to India would not be hit by sanctions imposed by western countries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Read here

Spain will supply "military hardware" to Ukraine following Russia's invasion of its pro-Western neighbour, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tells parliament, AFP reports

Belarus said it had upped its security on the western and southern borders as Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine, news agency Reuters reports.

Two days after an emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was convened - and over 100 countries gathered to discuss Russia's war on Ukraine - the global body is set to vote on a non-binding resolution demanding Moscow withdraws its troops. Read here