The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul comments on the toll of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict — Kyiv claims that more than 100 people have been killed thus far — in the light of the efforts the world has made to save lives from Covid-19.
Sandeep Adhwaryu highlights how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been in the eye of the Russia-Ukraine storm. Russia is anxious about the prospect of Kyiv joining the alliance, and has demanded that the West deny it membership. Ukraine has not been inducted, despite earlier promises, and NATO has ruled out direct military intervention in the conflict for now, with the body only dispatching troops to neighbouring countries.
Sajith Kumar takes a swipe at Russia’s ‘special military operation’ against Kyiv after the UN Security Council met to discuss the Ukraine crisis. With Moscow’s attacks intensifying, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to “give peace a chance” seemed to fall on deaf ears.
Satish Acharya also comments on the war in Ukraine, while referring to the Covid-19 pandemic.
R. Prasad refers to the Kremlin’s efforts to keep the West away from Russia’s neighbourhood. Russia claims that NATO in 1990 had promised then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that the alliance would not expand eastwards — a claim whose accuracy is under question.