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Russia-Ukraine Highlights: India's stance on conflict similar to 'walking on tightrope', says Shashi Tharoor

Even as Russia and Ukraine prepare for another round of talks in Turkey's Istanbul, reports of Ukrainian negotiators being poisoned rocked the world. Russia continued its aggression in Ukraine, with the death toll from the war mounting to over 5,000. Meanwhile, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is set to visit China and India to discuss the war situation with the former and the rupee-rouble payment system for trade with the latter. Stay tuned to DH for live updates.
Last Updated : 29 March 2022, 17:47 IST

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22:2229 Mar 2022

Bit of dancing on tightrope: Tharoor on India's stand on Ukraine-Russia conflict

India has gone through a very "complicated and challenging time" in negotiating its diplomatic stand on theUkraine-Russia conflict, and because of its multiple interests with other countries, it's been a "bit of dancing on a tightrope," Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday.

He was responding to a question during an interaction held here after inaugurating a three-day photo exhibition, 'UkraineUntold (Glimpse)', on how the country looked barely a month before the war began.

22:2029 Mar 2022

Blinken says no sign Russia serious on Ukraine peace efforts

Washington has not seen "signs of real seriousness" from Russia in pursuing peace after its invasion ofUkraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, even as talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey sparked hopes of progress toward ending the war.

Ukrainehas proposed adopting neutral status in the most detailed formula yet for a potential settlement to the five-week conflict and Russia said it would reduce military activity on a northern front nearUkraine's capital Kyiv to create conditions for a possible agreement.

21:1529 Mar 2022

Russia has repeatedly fired hypersonic missiles at Ukraine targets: US general

Russia has repeatedly fired hypersonic missiles at Ukrainian military targets, the top USmilitary commander in Europe, Air Force General Tod Wolters, told a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

"Most of those strikes have been designated at specific military targets," Wolters said.

20:1529 Mar 2022

War in Ukraine impacting all countries like pandemic did: Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that Russia-Ukrainewar has impacted all countries.

Replying to the debate in the Rajya Sabha on the Finance Bill, she said that the impact of a full-blown war inUkraineis being felt by "all of us" as the war's impact has disrupted supplies and broken value chains.

"Now we are also facing the situation of a full-blown war inUkrainewhich is not some war in some corner of the world but it seems to be having an impact on all countries like the way the pandemic has," she said.

20:1329 Mar 2022

Ireland kicks out four Russian diplomats: Foreign minister

Ireland on Tuesday said it had expelled four Russian diplomatic officials amid reports that Moscow's embassy in Dublin had become a hotbed of espionage and surveillance.

Foreign minister Simon Coveney said "four senior officials have been asked to leave the state" for engaging in activities "not... in accordance with international standards of diplomatic behaviour".

Published 28 March 2022, 23:40 IST

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