{"id":291226,"date":"2022-02-26T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=291226"},"modified":"2022-02-27T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T03:40:49","slug":"russia-ukraine-crisis-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/russia-ukraine-crisis-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Ukraine Crisis Updates: France to illuminate Eiffel Tower with Ukrainian flag colours, sends weapon to war-hit country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Russia&#8217;s attacks on Ukraine are continuing&nbsp;to persist for the second day, with a series of explosions targeting Kyiv, the country&#8217;s capital. According to the Ukrainian president&nbsp;Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 137 people, including civilians, were killed on the first day of the Russian invasion. MEA is deploying teams&nbsp;to four locations along Ukraine&#8217;s borders with Romania, Poland, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic to assist in the evacuation of Indian citizens stuck in the war-hit region. <strong>Stay tuned for live updates!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Russia Ukraine Crisis Updates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eiffel Tower to be illuminated with Ukrainian flag colours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eiffel Tower in Paris will be illuminated with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag as a sign of unity after the Russian forces&#8217; invasion, according to the landmark&#8217;s operator. The Eiffel Tower will be lit for three days. Amid the Russian invasion, Ukraine has sought help from France to provide nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UkraineRussianCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UkraineRussianCrisis<\/a> Ukraine President spoke with <br>France President Emmanuel Macron, tweets, &quot;Weapons and equipment from our partners are on the way to Ukraine. The anti-war coalition is working.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dJE6FRWkvr\">pic.twitter.com\/dJE6FRWkvr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1497477015347560452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Russia captures full control over Ukraine&#8217;s Melitopol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian armed forces have taken full control over the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in the south of the country, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov. He also stated that Russian troops are taking all necessary precautions to safeguard the safety of people and to prevent acts of aggression by Ukrainian special forces and nationalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facebook bans Russian state media from running ads, monetizing content on its platform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of Facebook&#8217;s security policy, Russia&#8217;s state media has been barred from running advertising and monetizing the platform because of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. The security policy said, the company is keenly following the situation in Ukraine and will continue to share the efforts it is taking to protect users on its platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Air India to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine; flight to land in Mumbai today<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of Ukraine&#8217;s continuing crisis with Russia, an Air India evacuation flight from Romania carrying Indian passengers has been evacuated. The flight will arrive in Mumbai at 4 pm on Saturday.&nbsp; At the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Union Minister Piyush Goyal will welcome the evacuees. Around 1,200 Maharashtra students are stranded in war-torn Ukraine, said the state rehabilitation minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indian Embassy in Kyiv issues advisory, asks Indians not to proceed towards border without coordination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of India has been arranging flights for bringing Indian workers and students to the country stuck in Ukraine. And now, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine&#8217;s capital, Kyiv has advised the Indian citizens to not move to any other border posts without prior coordination with the Indian government officials. The Embassy has also provided emergency and helpline numbers for Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/russia-ukraine-crisis-priyanka-chopra\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/russia-ukraine-crisis-priyanka-chopra\/\">Russia Ukraine crisis: Priyanka Chopra shares video on Ukraine situation, Bipasha Basu says heartbreaking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiainUkraine\/status\/1497404359436554242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497404359436554242%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fworld-news%2Frussia-ukraine-crisis-live-updates-february-25-2022-101645833710474.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine Crisis: 1st Batch Of Indian Students Leave Chernivtsi For The Ukraine-Romania Border\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8pgVGp9yQHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Ukrainian president\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 137 people, including civilians, were killed on the first day of the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":291367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Russia Ukraine Crisis Updates: Indian Embassy in Kyiv issues advisory, asks Indians not to proceed towards border without coordination\n\n#\u092f\u0942\u0915\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0928 #UkraineRussiaWar #worldwar3 #WWIII  \n@PMOIndia\n@DrSJaishankar","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,1511],"tags":[123020,122961,123029,123057,123054,123053,122907,123002,123003,122962,123033,123032,123028,122838,123001,122636,123055,123034,123056],"yst_prominent_words":[6604,6461,52678,46381,3887,20477,5296,5071,4368,43921,85988,36536],"ppma_author":[140547],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/02\/26135008\/france-and-ukraine-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140547,"user_id":60,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kritika-bobal","display_name":"Kritika Bobal","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68ece5bdb711fc0978815e94598a84ec?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291226"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=291226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=291226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->