Russia-Ukraine crisis Highlights: Four dead in Russian strike on Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr

Russia Ukraine Conflict Highlights, Russia Ukraine War Crisis News: Earlier on Tuesday, an Indian student lost his life in the shelling in Kharkiv.

Russia Ukraine Crisis Highlights: Four people were killed when homes in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr were hit on Tuesday by a Russian cruise missile apparently aimed at a nearby air base, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said

Russian defence ministry said that it was planning to launch “high precision strikes” in Kyiv and asked its residents to leave. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the defence ministry said that Russia was preparing to launch “high-precision strikes” against the “Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Center for Information and

Psychological Operations (PSO)” in Kyiv. “We urge Ukrainian citizens involved by Ukrainian nationalists in provocations against Russia, as well as Kyiv residents living ne stations, to leave their homes,” the statement said spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated, “With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling] in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family.We convey our deepest condolences to the family,” he tweeted. The student has been identified as Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, 20, from Karnataka. He was a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University.

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More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen were killed by a Russian rocket attack and dozens of civilians have died in “barbaric” shelling, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as a huge Russian military convoy approached the capital Kyiv. The Indian embassy in Kyiv, in an advisory issued Tuesday, asked Indians asked to leave Kyiv urgently through ‘any means available’. The UN has said that at least 102 civilians, including seven children, have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. Meanwhile, an embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its ties to the West by applying to join the European Union, a largely symbolic move for now.