Ukraine war highlights: British PM Boris Johnson meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv amid Russian invasion

Moscow's more than six-week long incursion has seen over 4 million people flee abroad, killed or injured thousands, left a quarter of the population homeless and turned cities into rubble as it drags on for longer than Russia expected.

Ukrainian soldiers walk past a destroyed Russian tank amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha in Kyiv region in Ukraine. (REUTERS PHOTO.)

Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: At least 50 people were killed and hundreds wounded as Russian troops bombed civilians waiting at a train station to be evacuated from the Donetsk region on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said as the war entered its 45th day....Read More

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• 9 Apr 2022, 09:02:52 PM IST

  Residents return to a charred and changed Bucha in Ukraine

  Before the war in Ukraine, Bohdan Zubchuk's job as a community police officer involved patrolling the quiet streets of Bucha outside Kyiv and dealing with petty crime, while handling minor complaints from residents.

• 9 Apr 2022, 07:54:26 PM IST

  Ukraine President Zelenskiy meets British PM Johnson in Kyiv

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was meeting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv on Saturday, a senior official on Zelenskiy's staff said.

• 9 Apr 2022, 06:48:03 PM IST

  More civilians flee east Ukraine after deadly station strike

  Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people at a train station where thousands were waiting to leave the increasingly vulnerable region before an expected Russian onslaught.

• 9 Apr 2022, 06:29:32 PM IST

  Ukraine 'still ready' for talks with Russia: Zelensky

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that 'Ukraine 'still ready' for talks with Russia", AFP reported.

• 9 Apr 2022, 05:38:10 PM IST

  More than 4.4 million Ukrainians flee war: UN

  More than 4.4 million Ukrainian refugees have fled their country since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion on February 24, according to figures from the UN refugee agency.

• 9 Apr 2022, 05:15:16 PM IST

  Civilians trickle out of Kramatorsk after station attack

  Mini-vans were headed to a church in Kramatorsk in east Ukraine on Saturday morning to collect evacuees after a deadly rocket attack on a train station in the city.

• 9 Apr 2022, 03:48:42 PM IST

  Civilian deaths in Ukraine's Bucha were war crimes, Germany's Scholz says

  The perpetrators of civilian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were guilty of war crimes and must be held accountable, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday.

• 9 Apr 2022, 02:53:00 PM IST

  Evacuation routes to open in eastern Ukraine

  Ten humanitarian corridors for civilian evacuations are to open in Ukraine's east on Saturday, according to Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. The corridors will allow residents to leave a number of cities in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.

• 9 Apr 2022, 02:19:53 PM IST

  Ukraine urges civilians to flee as rail attack toll rises

  Ukraine on Saturday called on civilians in the eastern Luhansk region to flee from Russian shelling after officials said more than 50 civilians trying to evacuate by rail from a neighbouring region were killed in a missile attack.

• 9 Apr 2022, 01:53:52 PM IST

  US official says Russian tanks retreated from Kyiv ‘heavily damaged’

  A senior US defense official says the Pentagon has determined that some of the Russian combat units that retreated from the Kyiv area in recent days are so heavily damaged and depleted that their combat utility is in question, news agency AP reported.

  The official described these units as “for all intents and purposes eradicated,” with only a small number of functioning troops and weapons remaining. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal US military assessments, did not say how many units sustained such extensive damage.

• 9 Apr 2022, 01:27:20 PM IST

  Evacuation routes to open in eastern Ukraine

  Ten humanitarian corridors for civilian evacuations are to open in Ukraine’s east on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. The corridors will allow residents to leave a number cities in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, news agency AP reported.

  Those in Mariupol, Enerhodar, Tokmak, Berdyansk and Melitopol will be able to evacuate to the city of Zaporizhzhia, while those in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Girske and Rubizhne can evacuate to the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

• 9 Apr 2022, 12:48:28 PM IST

  EU chief warns of Russian 'decay'

  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Russia will descend into "economic, financial and technological decay, while Ukraine is marching towards a European future", speaking after meeting Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

• 9 Apr 2022, 11:54:16 AM IST

  British defence ministry says Russia targeting civilians

  Britain's defence ministry said on Saturday that Russian forces were targeting civilians, a day after a missile attack on a train station crowded with women, children and the elderly killed at least 52 people, according to Ukrainian officials.

  Russia was focusing its offensive, which included cruise missiles launched by its naval forces, on the eastern Donbas region, the British ministry said in a daily briefing as per news agency Reuters.

• 9 Apr 2022, 11:20:34 AM IST

  More evacuations needed from Ukraine's Luhansk as shelling increases : Guv

  More evacuations are needed from the Luhansk region in Ukraine as shelling has increased in recent days and more Russian forces have been arriving, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Saturday as per news agency Reuters.

  He said that some 30% of people still remain in settlements across the region and have been asked to evacuate.

  "They (Russia) are amassing forces for an offensive and we see the number of shelling has increased," Gaidai told the public television broadcaster.

• 9 Apr 2022, 10:46:19 AM IST

  Would prefer if India moves away from NAM, Russia: Top US diplomat

  US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman said Washington will, obviously, prefer that India moves away from its long-term history of non-alignment G77 partnership with Russia. The diplomat said this in response to a question from Congressman Tim Burchett during a Congressional hearing early this week.
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• 9 Apr 2022, 09:36:47 AM IST

  Biden administration broadens crackdown on Russian access to foreign goods

  The Biden administration on Friday broadened its export curbs against Russia and Belarus, restricting access to imports of items such as fertilizer and pipe valves as it seeks to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and Minsk, Reuters reported.

• 9 Apr 2022, 08:54:18 AM IST

  NATO Secy Gen says Ukraine war could last years

  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned of a war that could last months or even years.

• 9 Apr 2022, 07:42:13 AM IST

  UK follows US in sanctioning Putin's daughters

  Britain added Vladimir Putin's daughters to its sanctions list, mirroring moves by the United States, in what it said was an effort to target the lifestyles of those in the Russian president's inner circle.

• 9 Apr 2022, 06:10:31 AM IST

  Zelenskyy says he expects a tough global response after train station attacked

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who says he expects a tough global response, and other leaders accused Russia’s military of deliberately attacking the station. Russia, in turn, blamed Ukraine, saying it doesn't use the kind of missile that hit the station — a contention experts dismissed, news agency AP reported.

• 9 Apr 2022, 06:05:15 AM IST

  Zelenskyy says ‘evidence of war crimes’  received by intercepted communications of Russian troops

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s security service has intercepted communications of Russian troops that provide evidence of war crimes, news agency AP reported.

  “There are soldiers talking with their parents about what they stole and who they abducted. There are recordings of prisoners of war who admitted killing people,” Zelenskyy said in an excerpt of an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Friday.