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Air India is planning to operate two flights to Romanian capital Bucharest on Friday to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to a Russian military offensive, senior government officials said.
Indian nationals who have reached the Ukraine-Romania border by road will be taken to Bucharest by officials of the Indian government so that they can be evacuated in the two Air India flights, they added.
The Ukrainian airspace was closed for civil aircraft operations by the country’s authorities on Thursday morning and therefore, the evacuation flights are operating out of Bucharest.
– PTI
Russia Ukraine crisis LIVE Updates:
Air India is planning to operate two flights to Romanian capital Bucharest on Friday to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to a Russian military offensive, senior government officials said.
Indian nationals who have reached the Ukraine-Romania border by road will be taken to Bucharest by officials of the Indian government so that they can be evacuated in the two Air India flights, they added.
The Ukrainian airspace was closed for civil aircraft operations by the country’s authorities on Thursday morning and therefore, the evacuation flights are operating out of Bucharest.
– PTI
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We are ready for talks once Ukraine’s Army stops fighting, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, reports Reuters
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VIDEO: Ukrainians are taking shelter deep underground in Kyiv’s metro system as Russia’s invasion continues.
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Hungary has extended temporary legal protection to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, as countries in eastern Europe prepare for the arrival of refugees at their borders, reports AP.
Hungary, which borders Ukraine to the west, has in the past taken a firm stance against all forms of immigration. It has controversially refused to accept refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
But in a decree published late Thursday, Hungary’s government announced that all Ukrainian citizens arriving from Ukraine, and all third-country nationals legally residing there, would be entitled to protection.
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Russian forces are approaching Kyiv from the north and northeast, Ukraine’s army said Friday, with rising fears the capital could fall on the second day of Moscow’s offensive, reports AFP.
The soldiers are trying to “bypass” the northern city of Chernigiv — where they were “rebuffed” — to attack Kyiv, the Ukrainian army said on Facebook.
They were also advancing on Kyiv from the eastern city of Konotop, which is under Russian control, Kyiv’s army said.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the Russian military’s claim it is not targeting civilian areas is “a lie”. He says both military and civilian areas in Ukraine are being hit by the Russians, AP reports.
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The Union of European Football Associations has announced that will no longer host the Champions League final in Russia after Moscow launched an attack on Ukraine. The game has been moved to Paris from Russia’s St Petersburg.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has issued a statement saying that the Taliban was closely watching the Russia-Ukraine situation and that they were concerned about civilians.
The Taliban is gravely concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and extends an offer to hold ‘talks’, urging both parties to show restraint in order to avert the possibility of more civilian casualties.
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