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Russia-Ukraine war Highlights: Nearly four million civilians have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war on February 24.
As the war in Ukraine has entered the fifth week, Russia said on Tuesday that it will significantly scale back military operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv. The announcement was made after both countries held the latest round of talks in Turkey. ...Read More
However on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials reported shelling outside Kyiv and fighting around Chernihiv.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country will not ease off its defence efforts despite Russia's announcement to scale back the military operations.
"We can say the signals we are receiving from the talks (with Russia) are positive but they do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells," Zelensky said in a late night address Tuesday.
The United States was also skeptical about Russia's pullback promise.
Since the beginning of the war on February 24, thousands of civilians have died in Ukraine and nearly four million have fled the country. The United Nations launched efforts to immediately explore arrangements for a humanitarian cease-fire in Ukraine to allow delivery of aid and also pave the way for serious political talks to end the war.
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- Mar 30, 2022 10:13 pm IST
US working around the clock to fullfill Ukraine's security assistance requests: Biden tells Zelenskyy
In call with Zelenskyy, Biden discusses how the United States is working aorund the clock to fulfill the main security assistance requests by Ukraine, says White House.
- Mar 30, 2022 09:21 pm IST
Britain not seeking to remove Putin: UK's Johnson
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- Mar 30, 2022 08:40 pm IST
Putin misled by advisers on Ukraine, US intel determines
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- Mar 30, 2022 08:11 pm IST
Biden to speak with Ukraine's Zekenskyy today
President Joe Biden will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday to discuss US support in his country's battle against the Russian invasion, the White House said.
During the call at 10:45 am (1445 GMT), Biden will "discuss our continued support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression," a statement said.
- Mar 30, 2022 05:44 pm IST
‘Ukrainians are not naive people': Zelenskyy
"Ukrainians are not naive people," said President Zelenskyy. "Ukrainians have already learned during these 34 days of invasion, and over the past eight years of the war in Donbas, that the only thing they can trust is a concrete result."
- Mar 30, 2022 05:03 pm IST
Russian strikes hit Red Cross building in Mariupol
- Mar 30, 2022 04:56 pm IST
Support the ‘cooling’ of the current Ukraine situation as soon as possible: China
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi says support the ‘cooling’ of the current Ukraine situation as soon as possible.
- Mar 30, 2022 03:50 pm IST
Kremlin welcomes written Ukrainian demands, but no sign of breakthrough
The Kremlin on Wednesday welcomed the fact that Kyiv has set out its demands for an end to the conflict in Ukraine in written form, but said there was no sign of a breakthrough yet.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia had not noticed anything really promising or that looked like a breakthrough, and said there was a long period of work ahead.
- Mar 30, 2022 02:52 pm IST
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit India on Thursday
Amid war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay an official visit to India from March 31 to April 1, says ministry of external affairs.
- Mar 30, 2022 02:48 pm IST
Russia denies striking Ukrainian site of Hasidic Jewish pilgrimage
Russia denied on Wednesday a claim by Ukraine that it had struck the town of Uman, visited by tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews each year, and showed pictures of what it said were Ukrainian forces loading arms near a synagogue there.
- Mar 30, 2022 02:23 pm IST
Shelling 'all night' casts doubt on Russian vow to de-escalate in Ukraine
Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of shelling Chernigiv in northern Ukraine despite promising to scale back military activity around the city and the capital Kyiv after more than a month of war.
- Mar 30, 2022 02:01 pm IST
Poland to cut all Russian oil imports by year-end
The Polish government announced on Wednesday that it is cutting all Russian imports by the end of this year.
- Mar 30, 2022 01:27 pm IST
Ukrainian officials report shelling outside capital Kyiv, fighting around Chernihiv
A day after Russia said that it will significantly scale back military operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv, Ukrainian officials on Wednesday reported shelling outside Ukraine's capital and fighting around Chernihiv.
- Mar 30, 2022 01:13 pm IST
Industrial facilities hit in Western Ukraine
Khmelnitskyi's governor Serhiy Hamaliy said on Wednesday that Russian forces hit industrial facilities in three strikes in the region.
- Mar 30, 2022 12:25 pm IST
Russia must withdraw forces from Chernobyl, says DY PM Olga
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said on Wednesday that Russian forces must withdraw from Chernobyl as Ukraine's military warned of danger of Russian ammunition exploding at the site.
- Mar 30, 2022 11:46 am IST
Moscow will be tested by its actions not words, says UK Dy PM
Dominic Raab, the deputy Prime Minister of the UK, said on Wednesday that Russia will be tested by its actions and not words.
Raab's comment comes after Russia said on Tuesday that it will significantly scale back military operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv.
- Mar 30, 2022 11:27 am IST
Over 70 staff, patients forcibly taken from a maternity hospital in Mariupol
Mariupol military officials said on Wednesday that more than 70 staff members and patients were forcibly taken from a maternity hospital in the city.
- Mar 30, 2022 10:38 am IST
Residential areas in Ukraine's Lysychansk shelled
Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Wednesday that residential areas in his city have been hit by Russian heavy artillery, and a number of high-rise buildings have been damaged.
“A number of high-rise buildings have been damaged. Information on casualties is being confirmed. Many buildings have collapsed. Rescuers are trying to save those still alive,” Gaidai wrote on Telegram.
- Mar 30, 2022 10:11 am IST
Russian foreign minister Lavrov arrives in China, his first visit since Ukraine war
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Wednesday, his first visit to the ally country after Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine.
Lavrov will attend a series of meetings hosted by China to discuss ways to help Afghanistan.
- Mar 30, 2022 09:35 am IST
Donald Trump asks Vladimir Putin to reveal compromising information on Joe Biden's son
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- Mar 30, 2022 08:42 am IST
US advises against travel to Russia amid detention fears
The United States embassy in Moscow warned Americans not to travel to Russia amid fears of being detained.
- Mar 30, 2022 08:31 am IST
Ukrainians in China fight disinformation war
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- Mar 30, 2022 07:59 am IST
Talks in Turkey show Russia may be ready to 'make steps forward': Ukraine envoy
Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya said on Tuesday that the talks between his country and Russia showed that Moscow may be ready to make steps forward.
"Today's negotiations in Istanbul have demonstrated that Russia may be ready to make steps forward, although it is still a long way to a sustainable ceasefire and comprehensive de-escalation," Kyslytsya said.
- Mar 30, 2022 06:59 am IST
US accuses Russia of causing global food crisis
The United States has accused Russia of causing a global food crisis due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. "Putin started this war. He created this global food crisis. And he is the one who can stop it," US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told the UNSC meeting on Tuesday.
- Mar 30, 2022 06:10 am IST
12 killed, 33 injured in Russian airstrike on regional administration building in Mykolayiv
Twelve people were killed and 33 others were injured after Russian forces carried out an airstrike on a regional administration building in Ukraine's Mykolayiv city on Tuesday. According to the Ukrainian interior ministry, the airstrike destroyed the central section of the administration buidling.
- Mar 30, 2022 05:53 am IST
Ukraine war to have global impact: UN food chief
David Beasley, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, said that the ongoing war in Ukraine will have a global impact beyond anything one has seen since the Second World War.