Author: Manan Khurana

Russia-Ukraine war: Russia attacked Ukraine one month ago today Hundreds attempted to evacuate the train station in Mariupol’s southern metropolis, while those who remained had no idea that weeks of terrible siege lay ahead. Long lines formed at cash machines and gas stations in the subzero weather. Families prayed and sobbed in a church on the first night, their children sleeping on a rollout mattress underground for the first of many nights to come. February 24: Russia launches a full-scale assault on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy orders a general mobilization. Moscow’s stock exchange plummets by 45 percent after the…

After Russian troops withdrew from Kyiv, Ukraine reclaimed control of dozens of towns. Russian forces have fled from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, and Chernihiv, Ukraine’s northern metropolis, marking a huge military loss for Russia and a turning point in the war. Ukraine’s army announced that it had retaken control of dozens of cities west and east of Kyiv, including some of the war’s most fierce battlegrounds. The pullout, which has been confirmed by witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite imagery, and military analysts, marks the end of Russia’s chaotic campaign to seize the capital and depose Ukraine’s government, at least for the time being.…

According to the United Nations, more than one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, making it the fastest refugee flight in history. “We have seen an outflow of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighboring countries in just seven days,” UN refugee director Filippo Grandi tweeted. “Unless the crisis is resolved quickly, millions more people will be compelled to escape Ukraine.” After a day of conflicting claims over whether Moscow had conquered a major metropolitan Centre for the first time in its eight-day assault, Russian troops were in the Centre of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson…