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TopicRussia-Ukraine conflict

Topic: Russia-Ukraine conflict

India to bring back 1st batch of Indians stranded in Ukraine, but many evacuation hurdles ahead

The process of evacuation has been made difficult because of Ukraine shutting down its airspace. Complete breakdown of public transport has further complicated matters.

Putin calls Kyiv leadership ‘gang of drug addicts’, urges Ukraine army to overthrow leadership

In a televised address, the Russian president reiterates claim that the Kyiv government engaged in 'genocide' in the Donbas region.

No vaccine yet against war, and NATO ‘think tanks’ roll into Ukraine after Russia invasion

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

Russia ready to hold ‘high-level negotiations’ with Ukraine, Putin tells Xi

The official Chinese media CGTN quoted Putin as telling Xi as he spoke with his Chinese counterpart who stressed that both Moscow and Kyiv should resolve the raging crisis through talks.

Germany ‘extremely limited’ on help to NATO against Ukraine, ‘reliant on gas, oil’

German Army Chief Alfons Mais said he was ‘more or less blank’ on NATO assistance, thought he would never experience another war.

Ukraine’s path: From ‘cradle of the Russian nation’ to Soviet Republic to current conflict

For the two countries with a conjoined history, things went downhill after 1991, on the issue of NATO, EU and the conflicting demands of nationalists & ethnic Russian separatists

Russia ready to speak with Ukraine to discuss neutrality, report says

Putin aide says Russian President will take up Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to discuss matters.

Ukrainian volunteers crowdfund $4 million in crypto to aid military against Russia

Blockchain analysis firm says these groups have helped Ukraine since Donbas conflict started 8 years ago with money, arms, medical help.

Don’t plan regime change in Ukraine, we are not the US, says Russian embassy in India

Russian spokesperson said the Donbas militia was on the ground in Ukraine, with firepower help from Russia.

How to support Russia? China in difficult position after invasion of Ukraine

For now, China has pledged to maintain normal trade with both Russia and Ukraine despite a ratcheting up of sanctions by the US, Europe and other Western allies.

On Camera

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Barring her first two Budgets, Nirmala Sitharaman has always ended the year with either a lower fiscal deficit figure than what she had projected or by adhering to the target.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.