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Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Biden To Visit Polish Town Near Ukraine Border Today

Ukraine War Updates: US President Joe Biden will visit a town in Poland near the border with Ukraine today, the White House said, as he seeks to show Western resolve against Russia's invasion.

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Updated : March 26, 2022 6:42 am IST

Ukraine War: The civilian death count in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion has crossed 1,000.

Kyiv:

US President Joe Biden will visit a Polish town near the border with Ukraine today, seeking to show Western resolve against Russia's invasion.

"NATO has never, never been more united than it is today," Biden said on Thursday after a NATO summit in Brussels. He also said NATO will "respond" if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says there is a "real" threat that Moscow will use chemical weapons in his country, accusing Russia of having already used phosphorus bombs against civilians in an overnight attack on a Ukrainian village that killed at least four people, including two children.

Russia has also accused NATO member Poland, which neighbours Ukraine, of embarking on a "dangerous escalation" in tensions between Moscow and the West after Warsaw expelled 45 Russian diplomats for alleged espionage.

The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that at least 1,035 people have been killed and 1,650 wounded in one month of war in Ukraine.

Here are the Highlights on the Ukraine-Russia War:

Mar 26, 2022 06:10 (IST)

Ukraine War: Pentagon claims Russia sending troops from Georgia to Ukraine
A senior US defence official told reporters that the Pentagon has seen indications of Russia sending troop reinforcements from "Georgia" to Ukraine to support its offensive in the Donbas region.

Mar 26, 2022 05:28 (IST)

Ukraine War: France Announces Joint Evacuation Mission In Mariupol With Turkey, Greece
President Emmanuel Macron said Friday France was working with Turkey and Greece on a "humanitarian operation" to evacuate people from the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol under attack by Russian forces.

"We are going to work with Turkey and Greece to launch a humanitarian operation to evacuate all those who wish to leave Mariupol," Macron said after an EU summit in Brussels.

Mar 26, 2022 03:27 (IST)

Ukraine War: Seven Russian generals killed in Ukraine named: Western official
Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine.

The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed.

Mar 26, 2022 02:36 (IST)

Ukraine War: Macron dismisses Putin demand for gas payments in rubles
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand for Europe to pay for gas in rubles as he accused Moscow of trying to sidestep sanctions over its war on Ukraine.

Macron told journalists after an EU summit in Brussels that the Russian move "is not in line with what was signed, and I do not see why we would apply it".

Mar 26, 2022 02:04 (IST)

Ukraine War: France, Turkey, Greece working on 'humanitarian operation' for Mariupol evacuations, says Macron
President Emmanuel Macron said Friday France was working with Turkey and Greece on a "humanitarian operation" to evacuate people from the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol under attack by Russian forces.

"We are going to work with Turkey and Greece to launch a humanitarian operation to evacuate all those who wish to leave Mariupol," Macron said after an EU summit in Brussels.

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Mar 26, 2022 01:40 (IST)

Ukraine War: French President Macron: hoping to have more talks with Putin in coming hours
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he was hoping to have more talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the coming hours" regarding the situation in Ukraine and any plans to help people leave Mariupol.

Mar 26, 2022 01:27 (IST)

Ukraine War: Putin Signs Law On Jail Terms For "Fake News" On State Actions Abroad
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday signed into law a bill introducing jail terms of up to 15 years for publishing "fake" information about Russia's actions abroad, as Moscow's troops continue their military operation in Ukraine.

The bill, adopted by Russia's parliament this week, sets out jail terms and fines for people who publish "knowingly false information" about actions abroad by Russian government agencies.

Mar 25, 2022 22:53 (IST)

Russian army says will focus on 'liberation' of Donbas

The Russian army said Friday that the first phase of its military campaign in Ukraine was over and troops would now focus on the complete "liberation" of the country's eastern Donbas region.

"The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed," said Sergei Rudskoi, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Russia's armed forces.

"The combat potential of Ukraine's armed forces has been significantly reduced, which allows (us) -- I emphasise once again -- to focus our main efforts on achieving the main goal -- the liberation of Donbas."

He said Russian forces had "practically" destroyed Ukraine's air force and anti-aircraft defences as well as the navy.

Mar 25, 2022 22:41 (IST)

Georgia mourns two fighters killed in Ukraine

Georgia mourned Friday two retired military officers who died fighting in Ukraine, in a war that has reminded Georgians of their own conflict with Russia in 2008.

The full-scale offensive on Ukraine unleashed by the Kremlin a month ago sparked an outpouring of solidarity in fellow ex-Soviet country Georgia, with hundreds of Georgians joining the ranks of the Ukrainian army.

Among them were retired military officers Giorgi Beriashvili and David Ratiani, both 53, who were killed on March 17 near the flashpoint town of Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Mar 25, 2022 22:16 (IST)

Ukrainian forces still control Mariupol city, says regional governor

The governor of Ukraine's Donetsk region on Friday said Ukrainian forces still controlled the besieged southern city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.

Speaking on national television, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said around 65,000 people had so far fled the city in private vehicles or on foot although official efforts to organise mass evacuations under temporary ceasefires have mostly failed.

Mar 25, 2022 21:28 (IST)

Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: Negotiation Process With Russia Very Difficult

Ukraine said Friday that talks with Moscow were "very difficult" and vowed not to back down on its demands, more than a month into Russia's invasion. Read here

Mar 25, 2022 20:51 (IST)

Russia Hits Ukraine Fuel Storage Site Outside Kyiv
A huge plume of black smoke rose from a fuel storage facility in the village of Kalynivka outside Kyiv on Friday, AFP reporters saw, as Russia said it had destroyed the military site with Kalibr cruise missiles. Read here

Mar 25, 2022 19:15 (IST)

Ukraine says Chernobyl workers' town is isolated by Russian forces

Local authorities in Ukraine said on Friday the town of Slavutych that services the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant was "completely isolated", with Russian forces just beyond the town's limits.

In a statement, the Kyiv region administration said: "Slavutych is completely isolated. The enemy is 1.5 km (one mile) from the town."

Mar 25, 2022 18:47 (IST)

Ukraine claims another Russian general killed

Kyiv announced Friday its forces had killed a high-ranking Russian military official, the latest in a series of claims against the leadership of Moscow's forces one month into their invasion of Ukraine.

In a video statement, presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said Ukraine forces had killed the senior Russian military official during fighting in the south of the country, near Kherson.

Ukrainian forces "killed commander of the 49th Russian Southern District Army, General Yakov Ryazantsev, in a strike on Chornobayivka near Kherson," he said.

Several residents of Kherson, the first Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces after they attacked Ukraine, have recently told AFP they have heard heavy fighting from Chernobayevka every night.

Mar 25, 2022 18:01 (IST)

UK PM Boris Johnson speaks with Chinese president about Ukraine: Spokesman

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the situation in Ukraine, Johnson's spokesman said on Friday, as Western leaders call on China to refrain from supporting Russia in its invasion.

"This morning the prime minister has spoken to the president of China on the ongoing situation in Ukraine," the spokesman said, adding the call lasted about 50 minutes.

Mar 25, 2022 17:02 (IST)

Russian military chaplain killed by rocket near Ukraine border, says church

A Russian military chaplain has been killed by a Ukrainian rocket attack in southwestern Russia close to the border with Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church said on Friday.

Oleg Artyomov was in the village of Zhuravlyovka in Russia's Belgorod region when he "came under shelling from a Ukrainian Smerch (rocket launcher) and died" on Thursday, the Moscow Patriarchate's military department said on social media.

Mar 25, 2022 16:12 (IST)

Kremlin says Biden 'diverting attention' from US chemical, biological weapons programme

The Kremlin on Friday accused US President Joe Biden of seeking to divert attention from his country's chemical and biological weapons programme after he said Russia could use such weapons in Ukraine.

"We see this as an attempt to divert attention to some kind of ephemeral, allegedly existing threat against the backdrop of a scandal that is flaring up in the world involving chemical and biological weapons programmes that the United States has been carrying out in various countries, including Ukraine," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Mar 25, 2022 15:52 (IST)

Russian ambassador sues Italian daily over Putin article

The Russian ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, said on Friday he was suing Italian newspaper La Stampa over an article that had raised the possibility of killing President Vladimir Putin.

"Needless to say that this goes against the rules of journalism and morality," Razov told reporters in front of the prosecutor's office in Rome after he had deposited the suit.

On March 22 La Stampa published an analysis headlined "If killing the tyrant is the only option". The piece said if all other options failed to halt the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the only solution would be for someone to kill the president.

Speaking through a translator, Razov said his suit accused the newspaper of soliciting and condoning a crime.

La Stampa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mar 25, 2022 15:27 (IST)

Russian strikes kill four at Kharkiv medical facility: Police

Russian strikes killed four civilians and wounded several others while targeting a medical facility in Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv on Friday, Ukrainian officials said.

"This morning, following a bombardment on civilian infrastructure from several rocket launchers, seven civilians were injured, four of them died," said police in the eastern city near Russia's border.

The strikes targeted a medical centre in the Osnovyansky district of the city, police said. It said investigators were working on the site of the strike.

"Police are documenting this crime against the Ukrainian people and are gathering all material evidence to bring the perpetrators to justice," the statement said.

Mar 25, 2022 14:59 (IST)

Russia-Ukraine War: 300 Feared Dead In Russian Strike On Ukraine Theatre Last Week, Says Report

Ukrainian officials in the strategic port city of Mariupol said Friday some 300 people could have died in last week's Russian strike on a theatre where hundreds were sheltering.

"From eyewitnesses, information is emerging that about 300 people died in the Drama Theatre of Mariupol following strikes by a Russian aircraft," Mariupol city hall wrote on Telegram.

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