Bhubaneswar: Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg says Russia may use chemical weapons following its invasion of Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime. He told a German newspaper that Russia could manipulate false claims of possible western deployment of such weapons as a pretext for its own use of them.
On the other hand, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host leaders from countries along Russia’s northwestern flank next week to discuss ways they can respond to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, including finding new ways to isolate Russia’s economy, reports stated.
Watch this space for Live Updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the armed conflict enters Day 18:
- We were able to evacuate nearly 125,000 people using humanitarian corridors: Zelenskyy;
- Pope Francis says ‘massacre’ in Ukraine must stop;
- 35 killed in air strikes on Lviv military base: Regional Governor;
- Ukraine accuses Russia of abducting Dniprorudne mayor;
- Indian Embassy in Ukraine to be temporarily relocated in Poland: MEA;
- Germany to end dependence on Russian energy by 2022 end;
- Morgues in Belarus fill up with bodies of Russian soldiers: Locals;
- Airbase in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine attacked;
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy claims Russian forces have neither the strength nor the spirit to conquer Ukraine;
- The town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region of Ukraine has been totally destroyed by Russian bombardment, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko;
- Seven civilians have died after coming under Russian fire while trying to flee fighting near Kyiv;
Russian forces fired eight missiles at a Ukrainian military facility near the Polish border on Sunday, officials said; - British PM will host leaders from countries along Russia’s northwestern flank to discuss ways they can respond to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, find new ways to isolate Russia’s economy;
- A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre to facilitate the continuation of studies of Indian medical students who have returned from war-hit Ukraine in domestic colleges;
- Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion;
- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Russia might use chemical weapons following its invasion of Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime, according to an interview in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag;
- US President Joe Biden on Saturday authorized $200 million in weapons and other assistance for Ukraine, the White House said, as Ukrainian officials said heavy shelling by Russian forces were endangering attempted evacuations;
- Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a televised address, said 7,144 people were evacuated from four Ukrainian cities on Friday;
- Zelenskyy accused Russia of refusing to allow people out of the besieged city of Mariupol and said Ukraine would try again to deliver food and medicines there on Saturday;
- Indian exporters are sitting on large orders as the Russia-Ukraine conflict has sharply increased logistics costs. Exporters are concerned over availability of containers and port-related issues: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari;
- Residents of Mariupol, a strategically important city of over 400,000 in peacetime, have been without power or water for more than a week;
- The United States issued a sharp rebuke of Russian aggression at nuclear power plants in Ukraine, accusing Kremlin of violating nuclear safety principles;
- The US, European Union and other allies on Friday escalated their economic pressure on Russia, moving to strip Moscow of privileged trade and economic treatment among other punitive steps;
- Fighting raged near Kyiv on Saturday and heavy shelling in other areas threatened new attempts to evacuate trapped civilians as France said Russian President Vladimir Putin showed no readiness to end the war in Ukraine;
- France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, spoke to Russian president Vladimir Putin by phone on Saturday and urged him to order an immediate ceasefire.
