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China denies asking Russia to delay invasion until after Olympics

The New York Times reported Chinese officials had told senior Russian officials not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics.

The invasion of Ukraine has forced many of the world’s best known brands to pull out of a country that’s become a global outcast.

Russia had claimed that Ukrainian forces were keeping a large group of Indian students as “hostages” in the city of Kharkiv.

In a joint press statement, the bloc’s foreign ministers expressed their concerns about the intensifying gravity of the situation.

The Sino-Russian partnership will hold despite the complications for Beijing. But China is tainted by association.

South Korea has joined the international community in piling pressure on Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

India is working out "a humanitarian corridor" with Russia to get students stuck in eastern Ukraine out of the Russian border.

Ordinary citizens all over Kyiv are taking up arms in the fight against Russian forces.

As of Thursday (March 3), most Vietnamese citizens had travelled out of Kyiv and Odessa, with hundreds in Kharkiv evacuated.

After the fall of a first major Ukrainian city to Russian forces, Putin appeared in no mood to heed a global clamour for hostilities to end.