Ukraine says 136 children killed so far; Kremlin shift focus away from Kyiv

Saturday, 26 March 2022newsdesk

The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s office of the prosecutor general said Saturday in a message on the Telegram app. Meanwhile, Moscow signalled Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.

New Delhi, 26 March 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, In other news, about 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter, Ukrainian authorities said, in what would make it the war’s deadliest known attack on civilians yet. Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi said in Lok Sabha that India is in the process of analysing the impact of Western sanctions on Moscow for India-Russia bilateral trade and economic cooperation. Meanwhile, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari justified the hikes in fuel prices, thrice in the last four days, saying that the oil prices had gone up within the international market owing to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which was beyond the Indian government’s control.

Source - The Indian Express