EU will accept all people fleeing the violence in Ukraine, Germany says
The European Union will accept all people fleeing the violence caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday. “We need to do everything to accept without delay the people who are now fleeing the bombs, the tanks,” she told reporters as she arrived for a meeting with her EU counterparts in Brussels.
Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See on Friday to relay his concern over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Moscow’s ambassador, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope spent more than half an hour at the embassy.”He went to express his concern over the war,” Bruni said, declining to give details about the visit or the conversation.
Russia has lost 2,800 troops, 80 tanks, 516 armored vehicles, 10 airplanes, and 7 helicopters in its invasion of Ukraine: deputy defense minister.
Another call with my American friend and counterpart
@SecBlinken
on the need to use all US influence on some hesitant European countries in order to ban Russia from SWIFT. We also discussed further supply of defensive weapons to Ukraine.
From Berlin to Beirut, Paris, Rome and Washington D.C., people around the world are expressing their anger over Russia’s attack on Ukraine and pleading with world leaders to stop it. CNN’s Lynda Kinkade reports
In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis personally visits to the Russian Embassy in Rome to scold the Russian ambassador and demand that Putin put an immediate end to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. RT TO THANK POPE FRANCIS FOR CALLING RUSSIA OUT!
France in favour of cutting Russia off from SWIFT interbank system, other European states have ‘reservations’: Finance minister
Russia’s attacks on Ukraine are continuing unabated on the second day, and the capital Kyiv has been targeted in a series of explosions. Reports say Ukrainian forces are engaging with Russian soldiers just outside the capital city. The Ukrainian president has said that 137 people were killed on the first day of the Russian invasion, including civilians. Pictures have emerged of some apartment blocks in Kyiv heavily damaged in airstrikes. MEA is sending teams to four points on Ukraine’s borders with Romania, Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic to assist in evacuation of Indian nationals. Stay with TOI for live updates
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on Ukraine army to remove leadership in Kyiv. The Russian leader also called Ukrainian authorities ‘gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis’.
All through the night, as Russian forces drove deeper into Ukraine, a small group of Indian medical students in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv cowered in a dark basement under their apartment building, hearing a barrage of explosions.
The International Olympic Committee, angry at the Russian invasion of Ukraine breaching the ‘Olympic Truce’, on Friday urged all international sports federations to cancel their forthcoming events in Russia. “The IOC EB (executive board) today urges all international sports federations to relocate or cancel their sports events currently planned in Russia or Belarus,” read the IOC statement.
Two loud blasts were heard in central Kyiv early Friday, an AFP journalist said, as Russian troops push closer to the Ukrainian capital in an invasion of its Western-backed neighbor. Ukraine’s army said that Russia fired on civilian areas of Kyiv but that Ukraine’s air defense systems repelled “two deadly gifts”, according to a post on its verified
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the Ukraine army to remove leadership in Kyiv, according to AFP. The Russian leader also called Ukrainian authorities ‘gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis’.
The Russian central bank increased the daily limit for its foreign exchange swap operations in euros to 3.5 billion euros from 2 billion euros, it said on Friday, further increasing liquidity supply after some of its top banks were hit by U.S. sanctions.
Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in their pockets [so that flowers would grow when they die on the Ukrainian land]