Russian invasion of Ukraine: Top 10 developments at present

An Indian scholar misplaced his life in Russian shelling on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, on Tuesday. As Russians stepped up the onslaught, greater than 70 Ukrainian troopers have been killed in an assault on a navy base in Okhtyrka, a metropolis between Kharkiv and Kyiv, at the same time as a 40-mile convoy of tanks and different automobiles threatened Kyiv.

Russians on Tuesday threatened ‘high-precision strikes’ on Kyiv, whereas Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an emotional speech addressing the European Parliament, urging European leaders to “prove that you are with us”. He added that the “light will win over darkness”.

Here are high developments within the Russia-Ukraine battle:

🔴 An Indian scholar misplaced his life within the shelling on Kharkiv on Tuesday morning, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi acknowledged. “With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family. We convey our deepest condolences to the family,” he tweeted.

🔴 The Indian scholar was recognized as Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, 20, from Karnataka. He was a fourth-year medical scholar on the Kharkiv National Medical University. “Naveen was shot dead around 10.30 am Ukrainian time today. He was standing in the queue before a grocery shop when the Russian army fired at people. We have no information about his body. None of us was able to visit the hospital, probably where it is kept now,” stated Sridharan Gopalakrishnan, who was Naveen’s hostel mate.

🔴 More than 70 Ukrainian troopers have been killed by a Russian rocket assault and dozens of civilians have died in “barbaric” shelling, Ukrainian authorities stated Tuesday, as an enormous Russian navy convoy approached the capital Kyiv. Kharkiv area head Oleg Synegubov stated Tuesday that Russian missile assaults hit the centre of Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, together with residential areas and the regional administration constructing.

🔴 Addressing the European Parliament through a video name, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday delivered an emotional speech, urging European leaders to “prove that you are with us” and added that “light will win over darkness”. “We are just fighting for our land and for our freedom. And believe me, despite the fact that all the big cities of our country are now blocked, no one will enter our freedom and state. Do prove that you are with us. Do prove that you will not let us go. Do prove that you are indeed Europeans. And then, life will win over death and light will win over darkness,” he stated.

🔴 The mayor of Ukraine’s Mariupol stated on Tuesday morning the southern port metropolis was below fixed shelling that had killed civilians and broken infrastructure. The metropolis misplaced energy after fixed assaults, reported AFP.

🔴 A 40-mile convoy of Russian tanks and different automobiles threatened Ukraine’s capital on Tuesday. Later within the day, Russian defence ministry warned Kyiv residents to go away. In a press release issued on Tuesday, the defence ministry stated that Russia was getting ready to launch “high-precision strikes” in opposition to the “Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO)” in Kyiv. “We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kyiv residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes,” the assertion stated.

🔴 The Indian embassy in Kyiv, in an advisory issued Tuesday, requested Indians requested to go away Kyiv urgently by ‘any means available’. The advisory got here at a time when Moscow strengthened its assault on Ukraine and closed in Kyiv, at the same time as talks geared toward stopping the preventing yielded solely an settlement to maintain speaking.

🔴 Prime Minister Narendra Modi known as a high-level assembly this night on the Ukraine disaster, his fourth since Sunday, PTI reported citing official sources. Modi has asserted that his authorities’s high precedence is to make sure security and evacuation of Indian college students.

🔴 NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg known as on Russia to finish the struggle in Ukraine and withdraw all its forces, The Guardian reported. “The Russian assault is totally unacceptable and it is enabled by Belarus,” Stoltenberg stated on Tuesday after assembly Polish president Andrzej Duda. “Nato is a defensive alliance, we do not seek conflict with Russia. Russia must immediately stop the war, pull all its forces from Ukraine and engage in good faith in diplomatic efforts,” he added.

🔴 EU has disconnected key Russian banks from SWIFT. The union may even ban the transaction of Russia’s Central Bank to “turn off the tap on Russia’s and Putin’s war,” stated European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Meanwhile, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court stated he’ll open an investigation quickly into attainable struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity in Ukraine.