Russia Ukraine Conflict Live News, Russia Ukraine War Crisis News Today, 27 Feb: The Ukrainian health minister said on Saturday that 198 people have been killed and more than 1,000 others injured to date
This comes after Ukraine’s outgunned forces held the capital for the third day on Saturday as the war continued across the country. A defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told citizens to defend the nation as he himself refused to leave Kyiv.
Meanwhile, evacuation of Indians stranded in Ukraine, mostly students, continued as 219 people got off from the first flight that flew them home from Bucharest in Romania. Union Minister Piyush goyal who was at the Mumbai airport to receive those evacuated, said: “We are happy that 219 of our citizens, who are mostly students, the majority of them girls, have come back safely. The Prime Minister especially asked me to go to Mumbai to ensure that they are taken care of.”
Russia-Ukraine crisis: Two large explosions near Kyiv and oil tanks on fire; Ukrainians put up stiff resistance; Russian banks expelled from SWIFT; Over 120,000 Ukrainians have left country; Follow this space for latest updates:
As the sun rises on Sunday, Ukrainians are waking for the fourth day since Russia invaded. “It’s another morning in Ukraine and Russia still can’t advance in Kyiv,” Illia Ponomarenko, defence reporter at the Kyiv Independent writes. “Even when we are attacked and everything around us is burning, we continue to work,” Ukraine’s armed forces tweeted early on Sunday
Japanese billionaire Hiroshi ‘Mickey’ Mikitani has said he will donate $8.7 million to the government of Ukraine, calling Russia’s invasion “a challenge to democracy”. The founder of e-commerce giant Rakuten said in a letter addressed to Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the donation of 1 billion yen ($8.7m) will go toward “humanitarian activities to help people in Ukraine who are victims of the violence”, Agence France-Presse reported
A blaze at an oil terminal in the Ukrainian town of Vasylkiv, southwest of capital Kyiv, was reported early on Sunday. The town’s Mayor, Natalia Balasinovich, said Russian missiles hit the oil storage area southwest of the air base’s main runway in a video posted online, which was confirmed by the National News Agency of Ukraine. Videos, which The Indian Express could not verify, of a gas pipeline being blown up in Kharkiv have also surfaced on the Internet
Russian forces are facing stiff resistance in Ukraine and making slower progress than they planned, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense in a statement late on Saturday. "Russian forces are not making the progress they had planned. They are suffering from logistical challenges and strong Ukrainian resistance," the United Kingdom MOD intelligence update said, according to Reuters. The MOD added that Russian forces are “sustaining casualties and a number of Russian troops have been taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces”.
Why India abstained on UN vote against Russia
India’s abstention from the vote on the draft resolution with text “deploring in the strongest terms” Russia for its operations inside Ukraine was no surprise, given the fine balance Delhi has sought to strike between crucial partnerships with both Moscow and Western allies over the last month of the escalating crisis.
Russia used its veto to kill the draft resolution co-sponsored by the United States and Albania, and which was also sponsored by more than 40 other members of the General Assembly. When a resolution is taken up for vote, UNSC members have to cast their vote before any of the Permanent 5 decide to use their veto on it. With the abstention, India has managed to hold its balancing act for another day, despite the considerable pressures from the West to get off the fence, and an open call from the Russian envoy in Delhi for its support.
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