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Zelensky warns Russia of 'high price' of conflict with Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia will pay a "high price" for its conflict with Ukraine, the presidential press service said

Ukraine war: CAS upholds FIFA ban on Russian football teams

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday rejected the request filed by the Football Union of Russia (FUR) to stay on the suspension of all Russian teams and clubs

Putin, Macron discuss situation in war-torn Ukraine over phone

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Ukraine during a telephone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

Ukraine says it'll take years to defuse mines after Russian invasion

Ukraine's interior minister said Friday that it will take years to defuse unexploded ordnances after the Russian invasion. Speaking to The Associated Press in the besieged Ukrainian capital, Denys Monastyrsky said that the country will need Western assistance to cope with the massive task once the war is over. A huge number of shells and mines have been fired at Ukraine and a large part haven't exploded, they remain under the rubble and pose a real threat, Monastyrsky said. It will take years, not months, to defuse them. In addition to the unexploded Russian ordnances, the Ukrainian troops also have planted land mines at bridges, airports and other key infrastructure to prevent Russians from using them. We won't be able to remove the mines from all that territory, so I asked our international partners and colleagues from the European Union and the United States to prepare groups of experts to demine the areas of combat and facilities that came under shelling, Monastyrsky told the .

Russia central bank flags 'inevitable' surge in inflation: Report

The central bank board met on rates after raising the key rate from 9.5 per cent on Feb 28 to 20 per cent

Russian gas flows to Europe through Nord Stream 1 pipeline decline

Flows to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline across the Baltic Sea were at 58,954,743 kWh/h on Thursday morning, data from the pipeline operator company showed.

Biden urges China to prod Russia as Xi cautions against conflict

Russia will prevail in Ukraine: Putin

Global equities rise, gold prices fall after Russia avoids default

The Russian finance ministry announced on Thursday that it had sent funds to cover $117 million in coupon payments on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds that came due this week

Multiple dimensions: Three ways to see the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Is Putin the bad guy in the Ukraine conflict, or has the West ignored the need for a legitimate buffer zone, or is it all about ideological underpinnings of civilisational ideas, wonders T N Ninan

Xi tells Biden Ukraine war should end, lays no blame on Russia

Xi told Biden that conflicts and confrontations were in no-one's interests, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement

Embassy continues to function 24X7 with help line for Indians in Ukraine

The Indian Embassy said that it has been functioning round the clock for Indian nationals in Ukraine who are trying to seek assistance and they can contact it through email and help line numbers.

6.5 million people displaced inside Ukraine due to war: UN

The estimates from the IOM suggests Ukraine is fast on a course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria's devastating war which has driven about 13 mn people from their homes

Ukraine crisis: Russia says it made progress in negotiations

Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian negotiators in several rounds of talks with Ukraine, said that the sides have narrowed their differences on the issue of Ukraine dropping its bid to join NATO

Zelensky says war against Ukraine will set Russia back by decades

Earlier, Ukraine's armed forces said Russian troops have used almost their entire stockpile of missiles and some types of ammunition

Pope Francis asserts Ukraine right to defence in blasting Russia war

It came just days after Francis told the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, that the concept of a just war was obsolete since wars are never justifiable

Russian oil sale to India complicates President Biden's efforts

President Biden's campaign to unite the globe against the Russian invasion of Ukraine is being challenged not only by adversaries such as China but also by the world's most populous democracy, India.

US and China should 'shoulder responsibility for world peace': Xi to Biden

Conflict and confrontation are not in anyone's interest, and peace and security are what the international community should treasure the most, Xi was quoted as saying by the Chinese Foreign Ministry

Gold set for worst week since November as safe-haven demand eases

'If there is a ceasefire or some sort of a deal, gold could drop fairly quickly,' said Edward Meir, analyst with ED&F Man Capital Markets

Putin tells mass rally that Russia will prevail in Ukraine

'We know what we need to do, how to do it and at what cost. And we will absolutely accomplish all of our plans,' Putin told a rally at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium

Oil prices headed for weekly loss, but stay well above $100/barrel

Russia said an agreement had yet to be reached after a fourth day of talks with Ukraine during which some signs of progress had emerged earlier in the week