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Ukraine crisis: Indian national shot at in Kiev, stable
Harjot's brother Prabhjot Singh, who resides in Delhi's Chhattarpur, told IANS: "The last conversation I had with Harjot was on February 26 at 9 p.m. I haven't spoken to him since then. On March 2, at night, he contacted the family and informed them about his injuries.
Ukraine braces for power outage as Russian forces aim energy system
According to Starukh, the Russian forces fired blank bullets to intimidate people, and now ZNPP is under the control of the Russian military. "The city is blocked on all sides. There is a lot of enemy equipment. The station is working stably. Our experts say that such actions of the Russian forces are aimed at destroying the country's energy system and causing power outages," he said.
First Russian general killed in Ukraine war
This was announced by Anton Gerashchenko, the Advisor to Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, UNIAN reported. "The first has left! The first Russian general has been destroyed in Ukraine. Prepare for others! Or, gentlemen generals, report to the mountain that the invasion of Ukraine is a bloody adventure that will destroy Russia if not stopped immediately!" he wrote.
Anti-war elements in Russia thwarted assassination attempts on Zelensky
Ukriane President Volodymyr Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times, UK, reported. Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Ukrainian President -- mercenaries of the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces. Both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the report said.
Two more flights ferry 369 Indians to Mumbai from Ukraine
The first flight, IX-1204 landed around 2.10 a.m. and the evacuees were accorded a warm welcome by Minister of State for Railways, Raosaheb Danve in the special enclosure at the CSMIA, where he chatted with them. Among its 185 passengers, the largest number of evacuees are from Kerala (31), followed by 19 from Andhra Pradesh, 18 from Telangana, 16 from Maharashtra, 14 from Bihar and remaining 87 from other states in the country.
'Russia transporting prisoners from Crimea to organise riots in Ukraine'
"The movement of a large number of vehicles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, where the occupiers are transporting criminals from places of execution of punishments to organize riots in the Nikolaev region," the statement said.
India has cancelled critical defence orders from Russia due to western sanctions on Moscow: US
The US government on Wednesday claimed that the wide range of sanctions on the Russian government has forced the Indian government to cancel critical defence import orders such as “MiG-29 orders” and “anti-tank weapon orders”. These claims were made by Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Ukraine-like unilateral and forcible changes to staus quo should not be allowed in Indo-Pacific: Japan PM Fumio Kishida
“We've agreed that unilateral changes to the status quo with force like this (citing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) should not be allowed in the Indo-Pacific region… We've also agreed this development makes it even more important to work toward realising a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said to reporters after the meeting.
US to activate nuke response team
In response to the fire at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said on Friday that the Department of Energy has "activated its Nuclear Incident Response Team" and is monitoring the situation. The fire erupted earlier in the day on the third, fourth and fifth floor of the plant's training building after Russian troops shelled the complex.
Zelensky urges Europeans to 'wake up' over nuke plant fire
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged European leaders to "wake up" as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in the continent, is on fire, while also appealing for "immediate action" against Russia. Invoking the "global catastrophe" at Chernobyl in 1986, he warned the consequences of a meltdown at Zaporizhzhia would be far worse.
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