Russia Ukraine War News Highlights | The Russian army claimed on Wednesday it had taken control of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson as Moscow's invasion of the pro-Western country went into its seventh day. "The Russian divisions of the armed forces have taken the regional centre of Kherson under full control," defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in televised remarks.
At least 21 people were killed and 112 wounded in shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in the last 24 hours, regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on Wednesday. The authorities have said Russian missile attacks hit the centre of Ukraine's second-largest city, including residential areas and the regional administration building.
More than 113,000 Ukrainians have fled to Romania in the first six days since Russia invaded Ukraine by land, sea and air, border police data showed on Wednesday. They have entered Romania through its four land border checkpoints with Ukraine, but also through its checkpoints with Moldova, data showed. More than half of them have already exited the country on their way to Bulgaria and Hungary.
Over 450,000 people entered Poland from Ukraine since a Russian invasion of the country started last Thursday, Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker told private Radio Zet on Wednesday. He added that the number of people entering Poland fell slightly on Tuesday to 98,000 from a record number of over 100,000 on Monday.
Russia's war against Ukraine is a week old, but its consequences are already reverberating across the globe: it has upended international relations, left Moscow isolated, united a previously divided West, and raised the specter of a nuclear standoff.
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ING puts new business in Russia on ice over Ukraine: AFP
Top Dutch bank ING said Wednesday it will freeze any new business deals with Russian companies, as the European Union moved to cut Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system.
The Amsterdam-based ING also said it would abide by international sanctions and "have processes in place to respond to sanctions in a timely way across our network."
"We strongly condemn the invasion of Ukraine, the devastating and heartbreaking impact it has on people's lives and the threat it poses to international stability and security," said ING chief executive Steven van Rijswijk.
"We have decided to not do any new business with Russian companies," he said in a statement.
The freeze would mainly relate to new loans, a core business for ING in Russia, an ING official told AFP.
The bank said it would also waive fees for personal money transfer transactions to Ukraine and donate three million euros ($3.3 million) to the UN children's fund for relief efforts.
The EU on Wednesday cut seven Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system in the latest ratcheting up of the Western-coordinated sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, now in its seventh day.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | EU bans export of machinery to Belarus in new sanctions over Ukraine invasion
The European Union has approved new sanctions against Belarus for its supporting role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU said on Wednesday, including a ban on exporting machinery to Minsk. The fresh sanctions, which have not been published yet and, for now, spare Belarusian banks, come after Minsk allowed Russian troops to move into Ukraine from its territory. The French Presidency of the EU said on Twitter the measures will include fresh economic sanctions and new listings of Belarusian officials and military involved in the aggression against Ukraine. They will hit "some economic sectors, and in particular timber, steel and potash," it said in a statement. An EU official told Reuters that sanctions would include an import ban on several commodities, including mineral fuels, a ban on the export of EU machinery to Belarus, and other export control measures. Unlike Russian lenders, Belarusian banks have not been excluded yet from the SWIFT international payments system, the official said, adding that "will come".
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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan writes a letter to PM Modi & sought his "urgent intervention with the Russian leadership to set up a humanitarian corridor for students to come out of the war zone...
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Ukraine asks Russian mothers to fetch captured troops
Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in an apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow."A decision has been taken to hand over captured Russian troops to their mothers if they come to collect them in Ukraine, in Kyiv," the defence ministry said in a statement.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | NDRF sends relief material to war-hit Ukraine
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has sent relief material, including blankets and sleeping mats, to Ukraine facing an intense Russian military offensive. The move came following the government's decision to send humanitarian aid and medical supplies to Ukraine after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high level meeting.The relief material was sent in two consignments - through a flight that left for Poland this morning and another on an Indian Air Force aircraft that left for Romania on Wednesday afternoon. The NDRF has provided relief materials, including blankets, sleeping mats, and solar study lamps among others, for the people of Ukraine, an official statement said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Embassy in Kyiv was asked to set up a temporary office in Lviv to facilitate border crossings by Indian: MEA
MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said thatembassyin Kyivwas asked to set up a temporary office in Lviv to facilitate border crossings by Indians. "A substantial segment of our Embassy team is now at Lviv for this purpose. Location of the other segment of the Embassy team is dynamic," he said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Ukraine war impact on US economy 'highly uncertain': Fed's Powell
The impact of the conflict in Ukraine on the US economy is "highly uncertain" and the central bank will need to adjust quickly to ensure the recovery continues, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.With prices rising at their fastest pace in four decades and oil soaring above $100 a barrel, the Fed chief repeated that policymakers are ready to raise interest rates to tamp down inflation.But "the economy evolves in unexpected ways," he said, and "we will need to be nimble in responding."
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Arindam Bagchi, MEA spokesperson:
In principle, we're always ready to help other countries. If we get a specific request on it, then our stand will be guided by it. If we get an opportunity like that, and we are able to do it, then we will definitely help.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Shipping delays may spoil food, medical shipments to Russia, Maersk says
Shipments of foodstuffs and medical supplies to Russia risk being damaged or spoiled due to significant delays at ports and customs, shipping group Maersk told its customers on Wednesday. Maersk and two other large container lines have temporarily suspended cargo shipments to and from Russia in response to Western sanctions on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine. The suspension did not include foodstuffs, medical and humanitarian supplies. "We do, however, warn caution on still placing bookings for perishable cargo due to significant delays in key transshipment hubs that may damage the cargo," Maersk said in a customer advisory on its website. It said customs authorities in the European Union and UK are inspecting all containers to and from Russia transiting their terminals and ports to identify sanctioned and restricted shipments. As a consequence, Maersk said it could not provide any guarantees and saw a "significant risk to our customers' perishable cargo". For the past year the world has been struggling with supply chain bottlenecks caused by surging demand for retail goods transported on container ships amid lockdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Chandan Jindal, an Indian national in Ukraine lost his life due to natural causes, family also in Ukraine:Arindam Bagchi
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Arindam Bagchi, MEA:
Indian Air Force aircraft have joined Operationwith the first C-17 flight from Bucharest (Romania) expected to return to Delhi later tonight. 3 more IAF flights will be undertaken today from Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania) & Rzeszow (Poland).
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Sanctions hurt but unlikely to stop Russia: Expert
Western sanctions on Russia will have a significant impact on the economy, but are unlikely to stop its assault on Ukraine, an expert on economic warfare told AFP.Gary Hufbauer, a researcher at Washington's Peterson Institute for International Economics, has studied 100 cases of sanctions being used over the past century, from World War I to Iraq."The success rate in terms of achieving the foreign policy objective was less than a third of the cases," said the author of "Economic Sanctions Reconsidered"."Most of the countries where there was success were smaller countries, weaker countries, not so much bigger countries as in the case of Russia," Hufbauer said in an interview.
Economic pressure worked against countries like Panama, Peru or Sierra Leone, and helped topple dictators in some mid-sized countries like Brazil and South Korea. They were also "made a contribution" to the end of the racist apartheid regime in South Africa, he said.But Washington's sanctions failed to prevent Pakistan from obtaining nuclear weapons.And while US sanctions on China over the Korean war in the 1950s were economically and militarily painful, "China persisted" in supporting the North Koreans -- as did the Soviet Union.The one time Moscow did withdraw, from Afghanistan in the 1980s, "was not so much because of the sanctions" but due to US arming of Afghans, the loss of Russian forces and political turmoil at home, Hufbauer said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Arindam Bagchi, MEA spokesperson:
During the last 24 hours, 6 flights have landed in India, taking the total number of flights that have landed in India to 15 and the total number of Indians who have returned on these flights to 3,352.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Arindam Bagchi, MEA spokesperson:
There has been a sharp increase in the number of Indians who have left Ukraine. We now estimate that nearly 17,000 Indian nationals have left Ukraine borders since our advisories were issued.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | UN says Ukraine refugee surge soon to hit 1 million
The UN refugee agency says more than 874,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion last week and the figure is rising exponentially, putting it on track to cross the 1 million mark possibly within hours. UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said Wednesday that people are continuing to stream into Ukraine's neighbouring countries to the west, with more than 200,000 fleeing since Tuesday. A day earlier, Mantoo had cautioned that the outflows from Ukraine could make it the source of the biggest refugee crisis this century eclipsing the one from Syria's war over the last decade. She noted that UNHCR had previously projected that as many as 4 million people might flee Ukraine, but noted that the agency will be re-evaluating its forecast.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | UK calls Vladimir Putin a war criminal, urges UN vote against invasion
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and urged UN unanimity to condemn his invasion of Ukraine.His comments came in parliament, where MPs gave a standing ovation to Ukraine's ambassador in attendance. Johnson wore a UK-Ukraine flag pin, and many lawmakers wore clothing in Ukraine's blue and yellow colours."What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin's regime, in the use of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians, in my view already fully qualifies as a war crime," Johnson said.
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First IAF’s C-17 aircraft to return from Romania tonight with around 200 Indian citizens returning from Ukraine at 11 pm tonight. Two more planes will return from Poland & Hungary by early morning tomorrow. Indian Air Force has till now launched four flights to bring back Indian nationals from Ukraine: IAF Oficials
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | EU excludes 7 Russian banks from SWIFT under sanctions
The EU on Wednesday excluded seven Russian banks from the global SWIFT network, as sanctions were ratcheted up over Moscow's war on Ukraine.The seven banks cut out from the secure interbank messaging network that permits transactions are Russia's second-biggest lender VTB Bank as well as Bank Otkritie, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Rossiya Bank, Sovcombank and VEB (Vnesheconombank), effective immediately, according to an official EU publication.The list did not name two major Russian banks, Sberbank and Gazprombank, which were left connected to SWIFT to allow EU countries to pay for Russian gas and oil deliveries.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain:
Important thing is that someone needs to take leadership. This'll help in decision-making. Resources need to be conserved. There's a pattern of bombings & shellings, people need to understand that, use time between them to gather resources&supplies.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Indians have almost been evacuated from Kyiv, says Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said thatcurrent situation in Ukraine is that Indians have almost been evacuated from Kyiv. "The current situation in Ukraine is that Indians have almost been evacuated from Kyiv. There are Indians in Kharkiv where air action & shelling is on. It's an extraordinary situation that won't end in 1-2 days. Need to be ready that it'll last long," he said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Verenderjeet Singh,president,United Sikhs India:
We met Ukrainian Ambassador Igor Polikha. To help people in Ukraine, we made a request that visas should be provided to our volunteers. He told us about their requirements, we'll provide humanitarian aid as soon as possible.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Ukrainian official says Kherson not captured by Russia, fighting continues
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Russia had not captured Kherson and that there was street fighting going on in the southern port, which sits at the Dnepr river's exit into the Black Sea. "The city has not fallen, our side continues to defend," said the adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | EU excludes 7 Russian banks from SWIFT network under sanctions: official
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Russian, Belarusian athletes allowed to compete: Paralympic Committee
Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the international committee said Wednesday, after questions were raised about their participation as the world reacts with alarm to Russia invading Ukraine.The International Paralympic Committee said in a statement that the athleteswill take part as neutrals and will compete under the Paralympic flag and not be included in the medal table.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | After Kyiv, Embassy asks Indian Nationals to 'immediately leave' Kharkiv
Indian Embassy has asked nationals to “immediately leave” Kharkiv. In an advisory, it wrote, "Urgent advisory to all indian nationals in kharkiv. For their safety and security they must leave kharkiv immediately. Proceed to pesochin, babaye and bezlyudovka as soon as possible. Under all circumstances they must reach these settlements *by 1800 hrs (ukrainian time) today*."
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Germany registers over 5,300 refugees from Ukraine so far
A total of 5,309 people have been registered entering Germany from Ukraine according to federal police, the government said on Wednesday. "But as you know, there are no border controls, at least no regular border controls, only random checks. That's why it is very possible that significantly more people have already reached Germany," an interior ministry spokesperson told a regular news conference.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | DHL suspends deliveries to Russia and Belarus
German logistics giant DHL announced Wednesday it was stopping deliveries to Russia and Belarus, joining a growing list of Western businesses to cease operations in the countries after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.The "inbound services to Russia and Belarus have been suspended", DHL said in a statement, adding that it was "not accepting shipments to those countries until further notice" after also closing its offices and operations in Ukraine.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Indian student dies of illness in Ukraine: Report
AnIndian student from Punjab hasdied of illness in Ukraine, Hindustantimes has reported. Twenty-two years oldChandan Jindal was studying at Vinnytsia National Pyrogov, Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia Ukraine. He fell ill and was admitted in Emergency Hospital in Vinnytsia. He suffered Ischemia Stroke in brain and breathed his last today.His father has wrote to the Centre to make arrangements for brining his body for last rites.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | WB CM Mamata Banerjee:
I don't want to criticise govt, especially for matter of external affairs, because we're one. But sometimes I've seen that external affairs matter, because of some coordination gap & political business, we're lagging behind & our students are stuck there.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Aluminium price hits record high on Ukraine fallout
The price of aluminium struck a record high on Wednesday following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, a major producer of the industrial lightweight metal.Aluminium, used in a variety of items including drinks cans and aircraft components, jumped to an all-time peak of $3,552 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange.
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Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Nearly 836,000 refugees have fled Ukraine conflict: UN
Nearly 836,000 refugees have now fled the conflict in Ukraine for safety in neighbouring countries, United Nations figures showed Wednesday.In all, 835,928 people have fled the country's borders, the according to the website of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR -- a huge jump from the 677,000 announced Tuesday afternoon by agency chief Filippo Grandi. More than half have headed west into Poland.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | AISA holds protests demanding safe evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine
Left-affiliated All India Students' Association held a protest at Jantar Mantar here on Wednesday demanding the safe evacuation of Indian students strand in war-ravaged Ukraine. The protesters carrying placards raised slogans supporting Ukraine. In the first Indian casualty in the war in Ukraine, a medical student from Karnataka's Haveri district was killed in intense shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Navalny urges Russians to protest daily against Ukraine
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, saying the country should not be a "nation of frightened cowards"."I am urging everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace," he said in a statement posted on Facebook, calling on Russians not to be afraid of going to prison. "Everything has a price and now, in the spring of 2022, we should pay that price."
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Navalny urges Russians to protest daily against Ukraine invasion
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Russia's Sergei Lavrov says a third World War would be nuclear and destructive
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that if a third World War were to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive, the RIA news agency reported
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Kyiv mayor says Russia is massing troops closer to the capital
Russia is gathering troops closer and closer to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in an online post on Wednesday. "We are preparing and will defend Kyiv!," he added. "Kyiv stands and will stand."
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | China says citizen shot and injured in Ukraine
China says one of its citizens was shot and injured while evacuating from Ukraine. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the incident occurred on Tuesday while the person was leaving on their own. The Chinese Embassy in Kyiv immediately contacted the person to provide assistance.Wang told reporters at a daily briefing that the injured person is out of danger. He said the embassy is following the person's progress and will continue to provide aid. Details surrounding the shooting are unclear, pointing to the chaotic situation as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and thousands of foreigners seek to escape the fighting.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Europe gas price hits record high on Ukraine conflict
European gas prices surged Wednesday to a new record high on concern about supplies from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.Europe's reference Dutch TTF gas price hit 194.715 euros per megawatt hour in morning deals.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | EU approves new sanctions against Belarus over Ukraine invasion: Report
European Union diplomats have approved new sanctions against Belarus for its supporting role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an EU senior diplomat told Reuters on Wednesday. A second official said this week that the aim of new sanctions against Minsk is was stop exports of any further Belarusian goods to the EU, on top of those already subject to sanctions. Sanctions would also hit oligarchs, the central bank and would cut Belarusian banks off from the SWIFT banking system, the second official had said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Russia 'ready' to continue talks with Ukraine Wednesday evening: Kremlin
The Kremlin said Wednesday that a Russian delegation was ready to continue peace talks with Ukraine as Moscow's invasion of the pro-Western country entered its seventh day."Our delegation will be ready to continue talks," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Moscow's delegation expected the talks to resume Wednesday evening.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on bringing the body of Karnataka's Naveen Shekharappa, an MBBS student who died in shelling in Ukraine:
Our MEA, PM working on it. Given the situation in Ukraine, there is no airstrip... even a plane can't land there
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Difficult to foresee scope of sanctions over Ukraine: Russian Deputy PM
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Wednesday it was difficult to foresee the scale and depth of Western sanctions the Russian economy in response to Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported.Western countries have taken unprecedented measures to isolate Russia's economy and financial system over its invasion of Ukraine, including sanctions on its central bank and the exclusion of some of its lenders from global payments system SWIFT.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Top UN court to hold Ukraine war hearings on March 7, 8
The International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold genocide hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war in Ukraine, as fighting intensifies.The Hague-based ICJ, the United Nations' top court, will open the public hearings after Ukraine lodged a complaint with the court to order Russia to stop its invasion."The hearings will be devoted to the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Ukraine," the court said in a statement.More than 660,000 people have already fled abroad, the UN refugee agency said, estimating that a million people are displaced within ex-Soviet Ukraine, which has a population of 44 million.The UN estimates that up to four million refugees may need help in the coming months and 12 million more will need assistance within the country.The ICJ, which is based in the Netherlands' seat of government in The Hague, does not have a mandate to bring criminal charges against individual Russian leaders behind the invasion.But it is the world's top court for resolving legal complaints between states over alleged breaches of international law.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan had already announced he was launching an investigation on the "situation in Ukraine" following Russia's invasion."I am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to believe that both alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in Ukraine" since 2014, Khan said in a statement Monday.Russia has defied international bans, boycotts and sanctions to press ahead with an offensive it says is aimed at defending Ukraine's Russian speakers and toppling the leadership.The United States trusts "the Court is taking into consideration the dire circumstances and rapidly unfolding events," the State Department said in a statement Tuesday.Spokesman Ned Price said Washington hopes the court "will act with utmost urgency on Ukraine's request for provisional measures" in the hearing."Each day that Russia is unconstrained in its aggression is a day that brings more violence, suffering, death, and destruction in Ukraine," he said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Just in: Moody's puts Ratings of 51 Russian companies on review for Downgrade.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Russia metals firm Severstal to stop Europe deliveries
Russian metals company Severstal said Wednesday it was halting deliveries in Europe after the EU imposed sanctions on its main shareholder, metals magnate Alexei Mordashov."We are redirecting the flows of raw materials to alternative world markets," Russian news agencies quoted the company as saying in a statement.It said the decision to stop deliveries to the European Union was made "in the framework of sanctions imposed on the shareholder".Deliveries to Europe amount to about 2.5 million tonnes of steel a year on average, making up about a third of the company's total sales, Severstal said.On Monday, the EU added Mordashov -- one of three men ranked within Russia's 10 top richest by Forbes -- to its sanctions blacklist of people considered close to the Kremlin. The tycoon, in a statement Monday, said he had nothing to do with the politics around Ukraine."I have never been close to politics," he said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Spain to send 'military hardware' to 'Ukraine resistance'
Spain will supply "military hardware" to Ukraine following Russia's invasion of its pro-Western neighbour, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told parliament on Wednesday."I... want to announce to you that Spain will deliver offensive military hardware to the Ukrainian resistance," Sanchez said.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | Information about stranded Malayalis in Ukraine handed over to MEA, Embassy officials: Kerala CM
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said information about Malayalis stranded in the eastern region of Ukraine, which was witnessing a raging battle, was handed over to the External Affairs Ministry and the Indian Embassy there.
Over 3500 people have already registered online and through other means with Norka Roots, the state government's Non-Resident Keralites (NRK) welfare agency, which opened a 24x7 control room at its headquarters here for the same, he said. Those who are yet to enlist with the Norka should register at the earliest, he said.
Stating that his government was ensuring that all Keralites repatriated from the eastern European country get to reach back home safely, he said the Norka officials were working round the clock in Mumbai and Delhi to receive the returnees. Arrangements have also been made at the four airports in the state for the same, he said in a statement.
As many as 180 students would reach Kochi from Delhi in a chartered flight, arranged by the state government, this evening, he said adding that special vehicles would be arranged for them to reach home in various districts. "180 students will be flown down from Delhi to Kochi in an @AirAsiaIndia chartered flight at 4 pm, by the Govt. of Kerala. We are ensuring that all Keralites repatriated from #Ukraine, reach back safe and sound. Those who are yet to register should do so with @Norka_Roots," Vijayan tweeted earlier in the day.
Russia Ukraine War News LIVE Updates | EU Commission proposes temporary residence rights for Ukraine refugees
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed to grant temporary protection to people fleeing war in Ukraine, including a residence permit and access to employment and social welfare. Designed to deal with mass arrivals of displaced persons in the EU, the new legislation will provide the same level of protection in all member states. The proposal, which had been previously announced, will be discussed by EU interior ministers on Thursday.
