Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a high-level meeting on the Russia-Ukraine issue as crsis continue to worsen amid challenge to bring back stranded Indians.
Zelenskyy said in a video message Sunday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine amounts to an act of genocide, saying that “Russia has taken the path of evil and the world should come to depriving it of its U.N. Security Council seat.”
Taking a sigh of relief, a student after she was evacuated from Ukraine said that the Indian embassy has remained in constant touch with the students and assisted with all immigration, official work. They were evacuated amid full security, food and water were also provided, she said.
As dawn broke in Kyiv, it was not immediately clear how far the soldiers had advanced. Skirmishes reported on the edge of the city suggested that small Russian units were probing Ukrainian defenses to clear a path for the main forces.
In a video that went viral on social media, the Ukrainian guards and Russian forces engaged in an exchange. After the exchange, all 13 guards of the Ukrainian island were killed.
An Indian student stuck in Ukraine said that the embassies are not picking up their calls, as they are flooded with cries for help. Many Indians were seen outside the embassies earlier. She, however, is sure that the Government of India will help evacuate them.
Ukraine is under attack by Russia for the take over of three main cities of the nation - Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson. Attempts are being made by India and other countries to stop the ongoing war.
NATO said that they don't have troops in Ukraine, and don't have any plans to send NATO troops into Ukraine
NATO's envoys had met in an emergency session on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
NATO ambassadors said in a statement after emergency talks that “we have increased the readiness of our forces to respond to all contingencies.”
US President Joe Biden announced that they are ordering heavy financial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs, declaring that Moscow had flagrantly violated international law in what he called the “beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Leaders of the separatist regions released televised statements earlier Monday pleading with Putin to recognize them as independent states and sign friendship treaties envisaging military aid to protect them from what they described as an ongoing Ukrainian military offensive
As tensions continue to brew between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, Moscow has once again reiterated that it is not planning any attack on Ukraine.
With Western fears high that Russia is planning to invade, tensions also spiked Thursday along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country's east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling.
US officials dismissed claims of Russian troops withdrawal and said that the invasion is set for February 16 with a massive missile blitz and 200,000 troops.
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe and is the second-largest country by area after Russia. Ukraine and Russia share borders to the east and north-east.
The two presidents spoke a day after Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, warned that U.S. intelligence shows a Russian invasion could begin within days and before the Winter Olympics in Beijing end on Feb. 20.
Russia says NATO, the American-led alliance that has on its hands the biggest European crisis in decades, must never offer membership to Ukraine, which gained independence as the Soviet Union broke apart about 30 years ago.
Russia now has more than 100,000 troops stationed near Ukraine's northern and eastern borders, raising concern that Moscow might invade again, as it did in 2014, and destabilize the Ukrainian economy. Russian officials deny that an invasion is planned.
Since coming to power in 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked steadily and systematically to reverse what he views as the humiliating breakup of the Soviet Union 30 years ago.
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