Consider impact on other nations before imposing sanctions: FM Sitharaman

 

Wednesday said the 'security' effect of these actions on a wide range of countries ought to be considered in while taking such a choice.

She additionally accused the rising product costs because of the Russia-Ukraine battle for the high expansion in numerous nations as provisions of fundamental things, for example, food grains have been disturbed.

In any case, India has gigantic supplies of wheat and needs to trade, she said.

Sanctions have consistently had an effect not simply on the economy of the country on which they have been forced yet additionally on numerous different nations, she said at Stanford University.

"I guess this is what is happening since we are internationally more interconnected. Thus, when assents are chosen to be forced, these potentially negative results might need to be figured in when the independent direction occurs," she said.,...Know More

Putin says Russia to welcome volunteers from Middle East to fight Ukraine

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light on Friday to bring in thousands of fighters from the Middle East to fight against Ukraine. At a meeting of Russia's Security Council, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight with Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. "If you see that there are these people who want of their own accord, not for money, to come to help the people living in Donbass, then we need to give them what they want and help them get to the conflict zone," Putin said. Shoigu also proposed that Western-made Javelin and Stinger missiles that were captured by the Russian army in Ukraine should be handed over to Donbass forces.

"As to the delivery of arms, especially Western-made ones which have fallen into the hands of the Russian army - of course I support the possibility of giving these to the military units of the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics," Putin said. "Please do this," he told Shoigu. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 soon after Putin recognised the breakaway territories as independent states, in an action condemned internationally as illegal. Russia says its "special military operation" in Ukraine was a forced response to what it calls genocide by Ukraine against Russian-speakers in the east of the country - a pretext rejected by Kyiv and the West as baseless war propaganda. Shoigu said the Russian military planned to strengthen its Western border after what he said was an increase in Western military units on Russia's border

Leave Kharkiv immediately: Indian embassy in Ukraine to Indians

 

In an urgent advisory, the India embassy in Ukraine on Wednesday asked all Indians stranded in Kharkiv to leave the conflict zone immediately. The embassy asked Indians to proceed to settlements in Pesochin, Babaye and Bezlyudovka as soon as possible. "For their safety and security, they must leave Kharkiv immediately repeat immediately in the light of the detriorating situation. They should proceed to Pesochin, Babaye and Bezlyudovka as soon as possible for their safety," the embassy said. "Under all circumstances, they must reach these settlements by 1800 hours (Ukrainian time) today," it said. The advisory did not specify where these places are but according to Google Maps, they appear to be on the outskirts of Kharkiv. The advisory came amid raging fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv. Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was killed in intense shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday. The Ukrainian government's center for strategic communications released images Wednesday of strikes hitting Kharkiv, with balls of fire lighting up the city skyline over populated areas. Kharkiv resident Marina Boreiko described strikes hitting a neighbouring building Tuesday, and her shock at seeing bodies lying in the rubble.