The Embassy also said that 31 humanitarian actions are being held in Kiev and Chernigov regions, during which 240 tonnes of basic necessities, including food, are being transferred to the population.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a CCS meeting to review India's security preparedness, and the prevailing global scenario in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The intelligence community is sharing a growing number of reports about 69-year-old Putin's "increasingly erratic behaviour", combined with a bloated appearance in recent footage, and the absurd distance he insists on keeping from visitors to the Kremlin, the report added.
PM Modi had in the past chaired several high level meetings with senior Ministers of the cabinet and officials since Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine on February 24 and India began a massive evacuation mission named Operation Ganga to airlift stranded Indian nationals including students.
The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People's Republic, continuing its offensive operations, took control of Surovtsevka, Schedrischevo and Zhitlovka, besides blocking Rubezhnoe.
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Russia also announced that military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk were put out of action by high-precision weapons.
Following talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba in Antalya on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had said Moscow wants to have a "serious conversation" on the Belarusian negotiation platform.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 2020, 40 lakh on September 5, 2020 and 50 lakh on September 16, 2020.
Duggal, a mother of two, is an experienced political activist, women's rights advocate and human rights campaigner, the White House said.
Russia said that more than 7,000 from 21 foreign countries remain hostage to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, whom the nationalists continue to hold as "human shield".
Russia's Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzia alleged that Russia had discovered a network of laboratories backed by the US Defence Department conducting "very dangerous biological experiments" involving "plague, Anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other lethal diseases using synthetic biology".
Condemning the abduction, the country's Foreign Ministry called on the "international community to respond immediately to the abduction of Ivan Federov and other civilians, and to increase pressure on Russia to end its barbaric war against the Ukrainian people".
The control room set up in the Ministry of External Affairs to oversee the evacuation of Indian nationals stranded in war-torn Ukraine received more than 13,000 calls and over 9,000 e-mails since February 16, sources in the ministry said.
Satellite images taken by a US firm of a large Russian military convoy near Ukraine's capital Kiev show that it has been "largely dispersed and redeployed", BBC reported.
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