Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian officials negotiating with their Russian counterparts are to ensure direct talks between the countries’ leaders that could lead to bringing peace, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Sunday.
The body of Md Hadisur Rahman, a third engineer of the Bangladeshi ship ‘Banglar Samriddhi’, who was killed on March 3 in a rocket attack at a Ukraine port, reached Dhaka on Monday.
Brent Renaud, an award-winning US video journalist who had been covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was shot dead near Kyiv on Sunday, according to medics and witnesses.
Russian airstrikes killed 35 people at a military base outside Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, local officials said on Sunday, in an attack that brings the conflict dangerously close to the Polish border.
The United Nations will have multiple meetings this week about Russia’s war in Ukraine, though it is unclear if they will lead to the adoption of an official text, diplomats said.
The European Union on Friday eyed an extra 500 million euros for military support for Ukraine and fresh sanctions on Russia, as Moscow’s war spurred vows to bolster the bloc’s defences.
US President Joe Biden on Friday said that direct involvement by the US and NATO allies in the Russia-Ukraine conflict would result in ‘World War III’.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of carrying out genocide after officials said Russian aircraft bombed a children’s hospital in the city of Mariupol on Wednesday.
Twenty-eight stranded sailors of the Bangladeshi ship named ‘Banglar Samriddhi’ have been safely reached Dhaka from Romania’s capital Bucharest.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared a US ban on Russian oil and other energy imports, ramping up a pressure campaign on Moscow in vengeance for the invasion of Ukraine.
The 28 sailors of the Bangladeshi ship ‘Banglar Samriddhi’, who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, will leave for Bangladesh from Romania’s capital Bucharest by a special flight on Tuesday evening.
Ukraine’s military intelligence on Tuesday said its forces killed a Russian general near the besieged city of Kharkiv, the second Russian senior commander to die in the invasion.
Twenty-eight stranded sailors of the Bangladeshi ship named ‘Banglar Samriddhi’ have been safely evacuated to Romania from war-torn Ukraine.
Mastercard and Visa are suspending their operations in Russia, the companies said Saturday, in the latest blow to the country’s financial system after its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine will hold the third round of talks on Monday about ending hostilities, Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said in a Facebook post on Saturday, without providing further details.
The number of Ukrainian refugees is expected to reach 1.5 million on Sunday as Russia continues its attack 11 days after invading Ukraine and Kyiv pressed for further Western action, including more sanctions and weapons.
Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia’s defence ministry said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lashed NATO on Friday for ruling out a no-fly zone over his country saying the Western military alliance knew further Russian aggression was likely.
The UN refugee agency said that 1 million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than a week ago, an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed.
A Bangladeshi sailor named Md Hadisur Rahman of Bangladeshi ship Banglar Samriddhi has been killed after a missile hit the ship, which is stranded at the Olvia seaport due to war.
