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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicRussia-Ukraine conflict

Topic: Russia-Ukraine conflict

Joe Biden calls Ukrainian citizens ‘Iranian people’, caught out by Twitter

'Putin will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,' the 79-year-old on Wednesday added to his long list of gaffes.

India expects West sanctions on Russia to impact key sectors, defence, engg could take big hit

India's bilateral trade with Russia during 2020-21 amounted to $8.1 billion. Indian exports totalled $2.6 billion, while imports from Russia came to $5.5 billion

US won’t deploy troops against Russian forces in Ukraine, Joe Biden says

In his first State of the Union address, Biden clarified that the US troops were deployed to Europe not to fight in Ukraine but to "defend NATO allies".

West helped fuel Ukraine crisis by letting the nuclear genie out of its Cold War cage

Even though the crisis in Ukraine is underpinned by Moscow’s worries over the eastward expansion of the NATO, it has an important nuclear-weapons subtext.

Russian ruble’s history of catastrophic crashes — from 1998 collapse to current sanctions

The value of the ruble fell to 108 against the US dollar Monday from 83 last Friday, making it the currency’s worst single-business-day decline since 3 September 1998.

‘We’ll find our way’: Indian students leaving Kharkiv on their own, say embassy gave up on them

Some students are moving from Kharkiv — which they say has suffered the most damage after Kyiv — to western Ukraine in the hope of making their way across the border into Hungary.

What past nuclear crises say about risks of current Russian rhetoric in Ukraine conflict

For Ukraine and the world, the hope must be that nuclear weapons deter war, and Putin has only 'escalated to de-escalate'.

India shuts down embassy in Kyiv, diplomats now in Lviv in west Ukraine to smoothen evacuation

The embassy was shut down after MEA asked all remaining Indian nationals to leave Kyiv ‘urgently’ in an advisory issued Tuesday.

64-km-long Russian convoy nearing Kyiv made up of ‘armoured vehicles, tanks, towed artillery’

The length of the convoy was so large that it could not be entirely captured by the satellites. In some areas, the convoy was nearly two to three rows deep.

Indian students stuck between racism and a hard place, and Putin will do his own cooking

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.