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No Progress: Ukraine Foreign Minister Kuleba After Meeting Russian Counterpart Lavrov.

The Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said that there was no progress with regard to the ceasefire during his discussions with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, news agency AFP reported. The news agency also reported that Sergey Lavrov raised concerns that dangerous arms and ammunition were being provided to Ukraine.

According to Turkey-based news agency, Anadolu Agency, Lavrov said that Russia does not want to attack any countries and Ukraine created security risks for Russia. Lavrov also said that the meeting was a ‘show’ for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky not a measure to decrease hostilities. He, however, said that Russia wants to hold negotiations with Ukraine.

The Ukrainian foreign minister said that Russia is seeking complete surrender from Ukraine and says that Russia is in no position to establish a ceasefire, according to Anadolu. “We also talked about the ceasefire, a 24-hour ceasefire, but no progress was accomplished on that. It seems that there are other decision-makers for this matter in Russia,” Kuleba was quoted as saying by news agency AFP. “Ukraine has not surrendered, does not surrender, and will not surrender,” he further added.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov also spoke on the Mariupol children’s hospital bombing incident and said that it was a base from where Ukrainian nationalists were operating, news agency AFP reported. Russian government officials earlier said that it will gather information from the military regarding the bombing of the children’s hospital in the coastal city of Mariupol.

At least 17 people were injured when a hospital was bombed by the Russian army in the coastal city of Mariupol. Three people, one children among them, died in the bombing. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that bombing of the hospital was a ‘war crime’.

The two ministers met for the first time after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a ‘military operation’ in Ukraine on February 24. Earlier three rounds of meetings were held by delegations from both sides but they could only agree upon humanitarian corridors from Ukrainian cities to evacuate civilians.

The talks were hosted on the sidelines of the Anatalya Diplomatic Forum with Turkey acting as a mediator. Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was also present in the meeting.

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Russian Minister Lavrov Says Idea of Nuclear War in Heads of Western Politicians

 The United States raised the alarm Wednesday over the “staggering” human cost of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as the apparent deployment of cluster bombs and other treaty-violating weapons raised fears of a brutal escalation in the week-old conflict. The American warnings came as Russia revealed 498 of its troops had been killed in the assault on ex-Soviet Ukraine — the first official death toll it has given and one Kyiv says is by far an undercount.

And they came on the eve of the resumption of ceasefire talks after a first round Monday failed to produce a breakthrough. On the ground in Ukraine, Russia appeared despite determined resistance to be intensifying the offensive ordered seven days earlier by President Vladimir Putin — in defiance of almost the entire international community. “Today was the hardest, cruellest of the seven days of this war,” said Vadym Boychenko, the mayor of the key southeastern port of Mariupol who said Russian forces pummelled the city for hours and were attempting to block civilians from leaving.

“Today they just wanted to destroy us all,” he said in a video on Telegram, accusing Russian forces of shooting at residential buildings. Boychenko said more of the city’s vital infrastructure was damaged in the assault, leaving people without light, water or heating. In Washington, top US diplomat Antony Blinken warned the human costs were already “staggering,” accusing Russia of attacking places that “aren’t military targets.”

“Hundreds if not thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded,” said the secretary of state, who will travel to eastern Europe next week to shore up support for Ukraine — and for efforts to secure a ceasefire. Kyiv is sending a delegation to the Thursday ceasefire talks, at an undisclosed location on the Belarus-Poland border, but has warned it would not accept “ultimatums.”

At the United Nations, the General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Wednesday that “demands” Russia “immediately” withdraw from Ukraine, in a powerful rebuke of Moscow by a vast majority of the world’s nations. After more than two days of extraordinary debate, which saw the Ukrainian envoy accuse Russia of genocide, 141 out of 193 member states backed the non-binding resolution — with only Eritrea, North Korea, Syria and Belarus joining Russia against.

At least 350 civilians including 14 children have so far been killed, Ukrainian authorities say, and hundreds of thousands have fled the country since the invasion began, triggering punishing Western sanctions intended to cripple Russia’s economy. The UN rights office, OHCHR, said it had registered 752 civilian casualties including 227 deaths — but believes the reality is “considerably higher.”

“The humanitarian consequences will only grow in the days ahead,” Blinken warned. At the UN, the US ambassador echoed Blinken’s alarm about mounting civilian deaths — accusing Moscow of moving cluster munitions and other arms banned under international conventions into its neighbour. “It appears Russia is preparing to increase the brutality of its campaign against Ukraine,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the General Assembly.

Russia said Wednesday it had captured the Black Sea port of Kherson, population 290,000, though the claim was not confirmed by mayor Igor Nikolayev who appealed online for permission to transport the dead and wounded out of the city and for food and medicine to be allowed in. “Without all this, the city will die,” he wrote.

AFP witnessed the aftermath of apparent Russian bombing on a market and a residential area in Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, and in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city. “There is nowhere in Kharkiv where shells have not yet struck,” said Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, after Russian airborne troops landed in the city before dawn. Shelling in the northeastern city of 1.4 million a day earlier drew comparisons to the massacres of civilians in Sarajevo in the 1990s.

As Russian artillery massed outside Kyiv, the former champion boxer turned city mayor Vitali Klitschko vowed to stand strong. “The enemy is drawing up forces closer to the capital,” he said. “Kyiv is holding and will hold. We are going to fight.” Residents have been hunkered down in Kyiv for a week and dozens of families were sheltering Wednesday in the Dorohozhychi metro station. In a video address, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces wanted to “erase our country, erase us all”.

Five people were killed in an attack a day earlier on the Kyiv television tower at Babi Yar, the site of a Nazi massacre in which over 33,000 people were killed — most of them Jews. The 44-year-old Zelensky, who is himself Jewish, urged Jewish people around the world to speak up. “Nazism is born in silence. So, shout about killings of civilians. Shout about the murders of Ukrainians,” he said.

With the civilian toll mounting, opposition to the conflict is also growing within Russia. Dozens of anti-war demonstrators were detained in Moscow and Saint Petersburg after jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called Russians to the streets, dismissing Putin as “an insane little tsar”. Internationally, meanwhile, the United States announced a new set of sanctions, this time targeting Russian ally Belarus and Russia’s defense industry.

Authoritarian Belarus and Russia are closely linked and Belarus has been used as a key staging ground for the invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Western countries have already imposed heavy sanctions on Russia’s economy and there have been international bans and boycotts against Russia in everything from finance to tech, from sports to the arts. In France, President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation Europe had entered a “new era,” and would need to both invest in its defences and wean itself off reliance on Russian gas.

EU and NATO members have already sent arms and ammunition to Ukraine, although they have made clear that they will not send troops and the EU has dampened Zelensky’s hopes of membership of the bloc. In its latest move to isolate Russia, the European Union banned broadcasts of Russian state media RT and Sputnik and excluded seven Russian banks from the global SWIFT bank messaging system.

In London, meanwhile, Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich said he had made the “incredibly difficult” decision to sell the Premier League club, pledging proceeds would go to Ukraine war victims. Abramovich, alleged to have close links to Putin, has not been named on a British sanctions list targeting Russian banks, businesses and pro-Kremlin tycoons. But the Chelsea owner’s concern about potential seizing of assets is understood to have sparked his move.

Delhi to hold offline exams for classes X, XII

NEW DELHI: Students of classes X and XII will have to now physically attend school and appear for the exam. The Directorate of Education (DoE) has sent a circular to all schools, asking them to comply with the order of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

“Consent of parents for attending offline classes/ exams will not be mandatory for students of classes X and XII. Schools may also deploy transportation facilities for the convenience of students and parents with Covid-appropriate behavior as notified from time to time,” it said.

However, the hybrid model will continue for classes up to IX and also class XI till March 31, 2022.

Delhi to hold offline exams for classes X, XII

NEW DELHI: Students of classes X and XII will have to now physically attend school and appear for the exam. The Directorate of Education (DoE) has sent a circular to all schools, asking them to comply with the order of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

“Consent of parents for attending offline classes/ exams will not be mandatory for students of classes X and XII. Schools may also deploy transportation facilities for the convenience of students and parents with Covid-appropriate behavior as notified from time to time,” it said.

However, the hybrid model will continue for classes up to IX and also class XI till March 31, 2022.

Test GP – Feb 16

The order of the world has been restored after the severe first and second Covid waves. Most of the countries are not into the lockdown anymore and the curbs have mostly been lifted in most part of the globe, including India.

The scientists and researchers across the world have been working to find out the future possibilities.

As per a recent research conducted by some scientists of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India is yet to see its fourth wave of Covid-19 around June. They said that it may continue till October. However, the severity of the wave has not been determined.

The study was conducted by three scientists of IIT – Sabara Parshad Rajeshbhai, Subhra Sankar Dhar and Shalabh. The fourth wave is to hit India exactly after 936 days from the initial data availability date, that is January 30, 2020.

The study says that there might come a new variant with the fourth wave, however, the intensity will depend on factors like infectibility, fatality, among others. The degree of infection may also vary from person to person depending on their vaccine status.

The study also suggests that the Omicron would continue to evolve creating a new version itself like the Omicron-plus variant.

Meanwhile, India recorded 10,273 fresh Covid-19 cases, 20,439 recoveries, and 243 fatalities over the last 24 hours.

Indian Embassy In Kyiv Asks Stranded Indian Students, Citizens To Leave Capital City Urgently.

The Indian embassy in Kyiv on Tuesday asked Indian students and citizens to leave Kyiv immediately. It asked students and stranded citizens to take trains or other means of transportation.

“All Indian nationals including students are advised to leave Kyiv urgently today. Preferably by available trains or through any other means available,” the Indian embassy in Kiev said in a tweet.

The Indian embassy last week urged unnecessary panicked movements towards the border without intimating officials present in the borders of nations in west and southwest of Ukraine. However, people familiar with the developments have told CNNNews18 that the directions were given after the situation in Kyiv slightly improved and the curfew was lifted temporarily. It asked stranded Indian students and citizens to reach the nation’s western borders.

India arranged several evacuation flights to bring back stranded citizens caught in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine after the former declared a military operation to de-Nazify Ukraine.

A flight carrying more than 100 stranded Indian students and citizens landed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. Another flight, the ninth one, will land in New Delhi from Budapest. Prime minister Narendra Modi also sent Union Ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and Gen VK Singh who have stationed themselves in Hungary, Romania and Moldova, Slovenia and Poland respectively. These Union ministers will coordinate with officials present to bring back stranded Indians home.

Several news agencies highlighted that Russian forces may renew their efforts to lay siege to Kyiv after failing to wrest control of the Ukrainian capital city from its forces. Photos shared by news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters clicked by US satellite company Maxar showed a huge Russian military convoy in Ivankiv, miles outside Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Ukrainian news agencies reported that air raid alarms have been sounded in Kyiv and residents were advised to remain sheltered.