India has told the UN Security Council that diplomacy will be a lasting casualty, while underscoring the immediate need to evacuate innocent civilians from areas witnessing intense fighting in Ukraine.
Speaking at the UNSC briefing on Ukraine on Thursday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Trimurti, said India remains on the side of peace. Stay with TOI for latest updates:
The British military believes Russia wants to take the port city of Mariupol and its vast steel mill before it marks Victory Day on Monday. The British military said: “The renewed effort by Russia to secure coastal and complete the capture of Mariupol, is likely linked to the upcoming 9 May Victory Day commemorations and Putin's desire to have a symbolic success in Ukraine.” It added: “This effort has come at personnel, equipment and munitions cost to Russia. Whilst Ukrainian resistance continues in coastal, Russian losses will continue to build and frustrate their operational plans in southern Donbas.”
India has told the UN Security Council that diplomacy will be a lasting casualty, while underscoring the immediate need to evacuate innocent civilians from areas witnessing intense fighting in Ukraine. Speaking at the UNSC briefing on Ukraine on Thursday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Trimurti, said India remains on the side of peace. Trimurti emphasized that India has strongly condemned the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha and supported the call for an independent investigation. New Delhi also supports all efforts to alleviate the suffering of the people of Ukraine, he said.
Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath Mariupol’s immense steel plant refused to surrender in the face of relentless attacks, with the wife of one commander saying they had vowed to “stand till the end.” Some 2,000 Ukrainian fighters, by Russia's most recent estimate, were holed up in a maze of tunnels and bunkers beneath Mariupol's sprawling coastal steelworks. A few hundred civilians were also believed trapped there.
US First lady Jill Biden is using her second solo overseas trip to get an up-close look at the Ukrainian refugee crisis by visiting Romania and Slovakia, where she will spend Mother's Day meeting with displaced families in a small Slovakian village on the border with Ukraine. Biden who opens the visit Friday in Romania, told reporters traveling with her Thursday night, “It’s so important to the president and to me that the Ukrainian people know that we stand with them.” She said earlier in the week she wants the refugees to know “their resilience inspires me.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised for remarks made by his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had "Jewish blood", Israel said on Thursday. "The Prime Minister accepted President Putin's apology for Lavrov's remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust," PM Bennett's office said in a statement.
Washington has provided to Ukraine details on Russia's expected troop movements and the location and other details about Russia's mobile military headquarters, and Ukraine has combined that help with its own intelligence to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers, an NYT report said
Russian forces practised simulated nuclear-capable missile strikes in the western enclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday, the defence ministry said. During war games in the enclave on the Baltic Sea located between EU members Poland and Lithuania, Russia practised simulated “electronic launches” of nuclear-capable Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems.
The US Defense Department denied Thursday that it provided intelligence on the locations of Russian generals on the battlefield so that Ukrainian forces could kill them. Reacting to an explosive New York Times report on US support for Ukraine's military, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said it was true that the United States supplies Kyiv's forces with military intelligence "to help Ukrainians defend their country."
The US says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship, an incident that was a high-profile failure for Russia's military.
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