Bhubaneswar: Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine entered its 24th day today. The humanitarian crisis continued as Russians pushed deeper into the battered port city of Mariupol as local authorities pleaded for more Western help.
- Russia warns of Ukrainian mines in Black Sea
- Ukraine on Saturday called on China to join the West in condemning “Russian barbarism” after the US warned Beijing of consequences if it backed Moscow’s attack on the country
- Russia’s space agency on Saturday dismissed Western media reports suggesting Russian cosmonauts joining the International Space Station (ISS) had chosen to wear yellow suits with blue trim in support of Ukraine
- Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help
- US oil field services companies Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger said they are suspending operations in Russia as the Houston, Texas-based businesses respond to U.S. sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- A Russian mortar attack on the Ukrainian town of Makariv in the Kyiv region killed seven people and hospitalised five on Friday, local police said in a statement on Saturday
- More than 3.3 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Saturday, while nearly 6.5 million are thought to be internally displaced within the country
- Lack of humanitarian access is making it almost impossible to deliver emergency food supplies to the besieged port city of Mariupol, the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the northeastern city of Sumy
- Aid agencies struggle to reach people trapped in Ukrainian cities ringed by Russian forces, the UN’s World Food Programme said Saturday, including hundreds of thousands of women and children
- The West must not try to “normalise relations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after his invasion of Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday, calling the crisis a “turning point for the world”
- Denied easy victory, Russia presses reduced goals in Ukraine
- Dozens dead after shelling of military barracks in south Ukraine
- The Russian military fired at Mariupol, Avdiivka, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, Novoselydivka, Verkhnotoretske, Krymka, and Stepne
- Ukraine’s National Police said in a statement today that at least 37 residential buildings and infrastructure facilities were damaged; dozens of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the attacks
- Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces have fired at eight cities and villages in the eastern Donetsk region, using aviation, rocket and heavy artillery
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow to stop its invasion of Ukraine, saying it would otherwise take Russia “several generations” to recover from its losses in the war
- Poland proposes total EU ban on trade with Russia
