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The officials of the Indian Embassy in Warsaw (Poland) have identified a new entry point at Poland border for the Indian nationals stuck in western Ukraine. According to the advisory issued a few hours ago, the officials of the embassy said that the Indians presently in Lviv and Ternopil and other places in western Ukraine may travel at the earliest to 'Budomierz' border check-point for a relatively quick entry into Poland.

In the Sumy region, Russian forces are engaged in looting and robbery in the city of Trostyanets. This was announced by the head of the Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to Zhivitsky, the aggressors robbed a second-hand store in order to change into civilian clothes. Earlier, it became known that the Russian forces occupied Trostyanets. They demolished the gate to the Round Yard with a tank, smashed the art gallery and created "headquarters", the report said.

The Russian military appears to have taken central Kherson, screenshots posted to social media and a video show, CNN reported The screenshots from a webcam and the video have been geolocated, and their authenticity verified. The video shows Russian military vehicles at a roundabout in northern Kherson on Tuesday. The screenshots from the webcam show Russian military vehicles parked on Svobody Square in central Kherson, CNN reported.

The US is also closing its airspace to Russian aircraft, joining a number of countries that took similar measures this past week, "further isolating Russia," Biden said. Biden noted that Putin's aggression had only made the world's democracies strengthen their resolve to counter rising autocracies.

“It's like the massacre arranged by the Mughals against Rajputs. We are asking all influential world leaders, among them Modi Ji, to use every resource against Putin to stop bombing and shelling,” ANI quoted the Ukrainian envoy as saying. Ambassador Polikha on Sunday requested the Indian Foreign Secretary Igor Polikha for humanitarian assistance on Sunday which was granted the next day.

Russian troops have parachuted into Kharkiv stepping up an attack on Ukraine's second-largest city which saw dozens of civilian killings in bombings Tuesday. According to the Ukrainian military, the aerial assault began just as air raid sirens were starting to sound in Kharkiv and the surrounding region. The statement adds that the Russian troops attacked a regional military hospital, and that fighting is ongoing, BBC reported.

A video has shown people's desperate bid to flee Kyiv overnight as explosions struck residential areas and as many as 15,000 troops -- an entire Russian army division -- bore down on Ukraine's capital, Daily Mail reported. Footage from Kyiv station showed hundreds of civilians, some with young children, trying to cram onto an already packed train amid fears that the city could soon be turned into a war zone.

FS Shringla also mentioned that he has asked the Russian and the Ukrainian envoys to permit a safe passage for the Indian nationals to escape the warzone, especially in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. “We remain very concerned over the situation in Kharkiv, Sumy and other conflict zones… Over the next three days, 26 flights have been scheduled to bring back Indian citizens,” FS Shingla informed in a press briefing.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on the foreign ministers of Poland, France and Germany to increase sanctions pressure on Russia and provide more weapons and financial support to Ukraine. Kuleba also said via an online briefing that Ukraine is working with its partners towards various solutions to close the airspace over the country, Xinhua news agency reported.

President Joe Biden has announced that the US will close its airspace to all Russian planes in response to Moscow's ongoing military operations in Ukraine.Biden made the announcement on Tuesday while delivering his State of the Union address, the first of his presidency, to a joint session of Congress, Xinhua news agency reported. The US move followed similar ones made by the European Union and Canada on Sunday.