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Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said the Russians are deliberately trying to create a humanitarian crisis in the Donetsk region, Ukrayinska Pravda reported. The administration said along with Volnovakha and Mariupol, the citizens of Manhush are also under fire. On Wednesday, Manhush was heavily shelled. The exact number of victims is impossible to determine since the town has no telephone signal.

On Thursday in the North Saltivka residential district of Kharkiv, multiple buildings and structures were destroyed as a result of shelling on a multi-story residential complex, Ukrayinska Pravda reported. Seventy people and 20 equipment items were involved in the search operation, including rescue and firefighting teams. The State Emergency Service reported that fires broke out in more than 40 apartment and private buildings after the shelling of Kharkiv on Thursday. At the same time, most of the emergency calls come from the Saltovka district.

"I will never give up my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Even despite the fact that some of the inhabitants of Ukraine were intimidated. Many are fooled by Nazi, nationalist propaganda, and someone deliberately, of course, followed the path of Bandera, other Nazi henchmen who fought on the side of Hitler during the Great Patriotic War," he said, RT reported.

"There is a possibility of a temporary ceasefire for the period when the evacuation will be carried out in the sectors where it is being carried out," he said, RT reported. According to Podolyak, during the talks between the representatives of Kiev and Moscow, the humanitarian aspects of the situation in Ukraine were discussed in detail.

The meeting came was the conflict between Russia and Ukraine entered its eighth day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military operation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Office, in a statement, said that he participated at a virtual summit of Quad leaders, along with US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

"Today it is already clearly visible, including from the intelligence information that comes to us, that the American administration and the Ukrainian regime obedient to it are betting on the maximum prolongation of the conflict, its development into a positional war of a high-degree of intensity," the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said in a statement, RT reported.

Students stuck in war-torn Ukraine have almost "run out" of food and essentials. An Indian medical student, Faisal, sent a video to IANS narrating his ordeal in the north-eastern city of Sumy in Ukraine.In the video, he said that around 500 Indian students are stuck in Sumy, which is 350 km from Kiev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that the tasks of the Russian special operation in Ukraine would be fulfilled in any case. It was emphasised that the tasks of the special military operation will be fulfilled in any case, the Kremlin said, RT reported. Putin also detailed the fundamental approaches and conditions in the context of negotiations with representatives of the Ukrainian side.

India's Defence Ministry on Thursday issued survival guidelines for Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine, especially Kharkiv, while warning them of aerial raids and drone attacks. The ministry also told stranded Indian citizens to learn a few sentences in Russian language, such as telling people they were students from India.

US military intelligence has launched a large-scale campaign to recruit contract soldiers from private military companies (PMC) to be sent to Ukraine, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov."US military intelligence has launched a large-scale campaign to recruit PMC contractors to be sent to Ukraine," he said.