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Moscow’s more than six-week long incursion has seen over 4 million people flee abroad, killed or injured thousands, left a quarter of the population homeless and turned cities into rubble as it drags on for longer than Russia expected.
Updated on Apr 09, 2022 06:05 AM IST
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: At least 50 people were killed and hundreds wounded as Russian troops reportedly bombed civilians waiting at a train station to be evacuated from the Donetsk region on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said as the war entered its 45th day.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv and promised more sanctions and financial aid. The EU Commission head plans to host a Ukraine aid fundraiser in Warsaw today.
Meanwhile, The UK and Germany vowed to send more weapons. Russia ordered the closing of the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International offices in the country. Its central bank unexpectedly slashed interest rates and eased some capital controls, after the ruble rebounded close to pre-war levels.
Moscow’s more than six-week long incursion has seen over 4 million people flee abroad, killed or injured thousands, left a quarter of the population homeless and turned cities into rubble as it drags on for longer than Russia expected.
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Russia-Ukraine War LIVE Updates- April 9, Saturday
Moscow’s more than six-week long incursion has seen over 4 million people flee abroad, killed or injured thousands, left a quarter of the population homeless and turned cities into rubble as it drags on for longer than Russia expected.
Updated on Apr 09, 2022 06:05 AM IST
Pak PM Imran Khan says no superpower can dictate terms to India: ‘khuddar qaum’
- Pakistan Supreme Court rejected the Deputy Speaker’s ruling as unconstitutional and directed to hold a sitting of the National Assembly “not later than 10.30 am on April 9” for the no-trust vote against Imran Khan.
Published on Apr 09, 2022 05:51 AM IST
Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station
The attack that some denounced as yet another war crime in the 6-week-old conflict came as workers unearthed bodies from a mass grave in Bucha, a town near Ukraine’s capital where dozens of killings have been documented after a Russian pullout.
Published on Apr 09, 2022 04:58 AM IST
Ukraine begins excavation of Bucha mass grave
The grave — a long deep trench in the mud behind a gold-domed church — was used by Ukrainians to bury neighbours they claim were killed at the hands of Russian armed forces which arrived on February 26.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 11:22 PM IST
Ukraine war: EU bans Russian coal, airstrike kills 50 at Kramatorsk | Top points
- EU president Ursula von der Leyen visited Ukrainian town Bucha on Friday after having reached the country. Referring to the civilian killings in the region last week, which Ukraine alleged were war crimes committed by retreating Russian troops, she said “humanity is shattered”.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 11:10 PM IST
Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Sohini Goswami, New Delhi
Afghan-Pak border forces on alert after Pak military chopper shot at
- The political flux in Pakistan has emboldened the Taliban to attack a Pak Army helicopter in pursuit of Durand Line as the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 10:50 PM IST
Imran Khan says unhappy with Pak SC order, calls for Sunday protests
- Imran Khan A day ahead of a vote against the no-confidence motion against him in the National Assembly, the embattled leader said Pakistan was being turned into a banana republic.
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 10:52 PM IST
Vladimir Putin’s approval rises to 81% among Russians since invasion of Ukraine
- State-run VTsIOM said that as many as 78.9 per cent of Russians in its latest survey approved of President Vladimir Putin’s actions as opposed to 64.3 per cent in the poll conducted before the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 09:14 PM IST
Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Sohini Goswami, New Delhi
Richer than the queen: UK finance minister Rishi Sunak’s mega-wealthy wife
Rishi Sunak ,once seen as a future prime minister, has seen his popularity sink because of surging consumer prices, while recent reports that Murty’s foreign earnings are shielded from British tax authorities have added to the pressure.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 08:14 PM IST
‘Russia, an evil with no limits’: Zelenskyy on east Ukraine rocket attack
The Russian defence ministry, meanwhile, denied its troops were behind the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station. At least 35 people were killed in the strike.
Published on Apr 08, 2022 05:11 PM IST
In a first, EU bans Russian coal imports, targets Putin’s daughters
- The EU was under pressure from the US and Ukraine on adopting more sanctions against Russia in the aftermath of the alleged executions of at least 20 civilians in Ukrainian town of Bucha last weekend.
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 05:34 PM IST
Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan, New Delhi
‘Absolutely untrue…’: Russia denies Ukraine station attack that killed over 30
Ukraine train station attack: Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia as ‘an evil with no limits’.
Updated on Apr 08, 2022 04:25 PM IST
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