Ukraine war: Russia has acknowledged for the first time that it has suffered losses.
New Delhi:
A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine will be held on Wednesday, two days after the first round of negotiations produced no tangible results. As the war rages in Ukraine, an Indian student was killed in Kharkiv in Russian shelling.
Here are the 10 latest developments:
- Ukraine said this evening eight people died in a Russian strike on a housing block in its second-largest city Kharkiv. Five people died and five were injured in a missile strike aimed at Kyiv's main television tower, knocking out some state broadcasting but leaving the structure intact.
- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the European Union to prove that it sided with Ukraine in its war with Russia and a day after signing a request to join the bloc. "The EU is going to be much stronger with us, that's for sure...We're fighting for our land and our freedom despite the fact that all our cities are now blocked. Nobody is going to break us, we are strong, we are Ukrainians," he said.
- Mr Zelensky said in a phone call with US President Joe Biden that it was important to stop "aggressor" Russia as soon as possible. "Just had a conversation with the US President. The American leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defence assistance to Ukraine was discussed," Mr Zelensky tweeted following the call.
- An Indian student was killed in shelling in Ukraine on Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs has said. The student, from Karnataka's Haveri, died when Russian soldiers blew up a government building.
- The UK government warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commanders in Ukraine could face prosecution for war crimes, comparing the "sickening" onslaught to the darkest days of the Yugoslav conflicts.
- The Russian military advance on Kyiv has momentarily stalled, hampered by Ukrainian resistance as well as fuel and food shortages, a senior US defence official said on Tuesday. "We generally sense that the Russian military movement... the overarching movement on Kyiv, is stalled at this point," the official told reporters.
- Russia continued to pay a heavy sporting price for its invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, frozen out by a snowballing list of sports with perhaps the most painful blows coming from ice skating and athletics. Russia, traditionally a powerhouse in figure skating - they won six medals at the Beijing Olympics including two gold - had their skaters barred from all competitions.
- The International Criminal Court has already opened a war crimes investigation against Russia since Moscow began its invasion on Thursday. Ukraine says more than 350 civilians, including 14 children, have been killed in the conflict so far.
- NATO foreign ministers will hold emergency talks in Brussels on Friday over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the alliance said in a statement. NATO allies have rushed to bolster their eastern flank after Putin ordered the attack, but remain adamant that they will not get involved militarily in the war in non-NATO member Ukraine.
- Around 4,000 refugees, including more than 300 children, arrived by train in Hungary's Budapest on Monday, according to police, and hundreds were provided with emergency accommodation in the city.
