Russia-Ukraine War News Live Updates: Russian shelling traps residents of Mariupol; Ukraine bans all imports from Russia

Debris covers the yard of a maternity hospital broken in a shelling assault in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.  (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

This was India’s twelfth vote on the United Nations the place it abstained — eleventh since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 — however it was New Delhi’s sharpest message to Moscow up to now. For, an abstention — it doesn’t rely to calculate the tally — on the United Nations General Assembly on the decision to droop Russia from the UN Human Rights Council is, successfully, seen as siding with those that voted “Yes”, primarily the West-led by the US.

More so, when based on a word accessed by Reuters, Russia had warned nations {that a} Yes vote or abstention will likely be considered as an “unfriendly gesture” with penalties for bilateral ties. The Indian Express has learnt that Russian envoy Denis Alipov had reached out to prime Indian diplomats to vote in its favour. Yet, New Delhi selected to abstain.

The perpetrators of civilian killings within the Ukrainian city of Bucha had been responsible of warfare crimes and should be held accountable, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated on Saturday. “This is something we cannot forget,” Scholz stated, referring to the deaths of civilians within the city to the northwest of Kyiv. “We cannot overlook that this is a crime. These are war crimes we will not accept… those who did this must be held accountable.”

Since Russian troops pulled again from Bucha final week, Ukrainian officers say a whole bunch of civilians have been discovered useless. Bucha’s deputy mayor stated greater than 360 civilians had been killed and round 260-280 had been buried in a mass grave by different residents. Russia has referred to as the allegations that Russian forces executed civilians in Bucha whereas they occupied the city a “monstrous forgery” geared toward denigrating the Russian military.