Russia-Ukraine War LIVE Updates: Ukraine President Says Over 6,000 Russians Killed in 6 Days; Kremlin Claims Taking Control of Kherson
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE Updates: Russian airborne troops landed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, the Ukrainian army said, adding that there were immediate clashes. “Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv… and attacked a local hospital,” the army said in a statement on messaging app Telegram. “There is an ongoing fight between the invaders and the Ukrainians…
The Indian Embassy in Poland issued an urgent advisory to Indian nationals stranded in Ukraine where it said that Indians in Lviv and Ternopil in the western side of the country may travel to Budomierz border for quicker entry into Poland. “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,” the Embassy of India in Poland said in a statement.
It also said that Indian nationals should avoid Shehyni-Medyka border which continues to be congested. Alternatively, they are advised to travel south to transit via Hungary or Romania, the embassy added.
President Joe Biden will announce a ban on Russian aircraft from using US airspace during his State of the Union speech Tuesday, US media reported.
The sanction, reported by CNN and other media, will add the United States to Canada and a host of European nations closing airspace to Russian airliners and other aircraft in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, deadly Russian air strikes hit a residential block in Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv and the main TV tower in the nation’s capital, Kyiv said Tuesday, with Ukraine’s president accusing the Kremlin of a “war crime” as the civilian toll of the invasion mounted.
Despite sanctions and warnings of a humanitarian crisis, the fresh assaults on day six of Russia’s invasion came as a massive military convoy was closing on the capital, and Moscow warned terrified residents living near security infrastructure to leave their homes.
