An Indian student who joined the army in Ukraine says he wants to return to India. Sai Nikesh, a native of Coimbatore’s Goundampalayam, contacted the family and informed them to return home. Sai Nikesh was a student at the Kharkiv Aeronautical University. It was reported that he had joined the International Legion for Territorial Defense, which includes foreign nationals. He also shared pictures of himself in military uniform on social media.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Selensky has called on Israel to take the initiative to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“Israel must mediate to end this war. There should be an opportunity to meet and talk with Russia. He will first meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Jerusalem, “said Ukraine’s President.
So far, 1,300 Ukrainian troops have been killed in the Russian offensive. I have only one thing to say to mothers in Russia. Call back your children who took part in the war and spend good moments with them. Do not leave them to their own devices, “said Selensky.
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The Russian army records further losses in the Ukraine war. A third top Russian general has been killed, according to the Ukrainian military.
The Ukrainian armed forces have scored another victory: the high-ranking Major General Andrei Kolesnikov is dead, the military announced on Friday. However, this information cannot currently be checked independently, and the Russian side has not yet commented on it.
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In a tweet, the Ukrainian military announced that they had killed Russian Major General Andrei Kolesnikov. The general is said to be the commander of a tank unit of the 29th Army.
Already third general of 20 killed
Kolesnikov is the third general Russia has lost in the Ukraine war. were previously Andrej Suchowetzki welcomed the Gerassim killed in the fighting. “Russian invaders continue to lose their officers in the war once morest Ukraine,” tweeted the Ukrainian armed forces when announcing the general’s presumed death. According to the “Daily Mail”, 20 Russian generals are said to be involved in the invasion.
Putin rages – Eight generals fired
Russian President Vladimir Putin is more than dissatisfied with the course of the Russian invasion. Before the start of the war he believed there would be a rather short campaign in which he would quickly take Kyiv and overwhelm the Ukrainian forces. But meanwhile he was “angry and frustrated” regarding the course of the war, reported US secret services. So much so that he is said to have placed at least two high-ranking intelligence officers under house arrest, writes investigative journalist and military expert Andrei soldado on Twitter.
According to Ukrainian sources, the head of the Kremlin is also said to have fired around eight generals. He was “angry” at the Russian secret service FSB, which had not properly informed him regarding the situation in the neighboring country.
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Ivan Zaplin (left) and Ivan Kodlozerow trained on the Paralympic trails in Zhangjiakou on Wednesday morning. Shortly therefollowing, their Russian team was expelled.
Photo: imago images / Gavriil Grigorov
It must have been a short night for many sports officials in the Paralympic Villages. Video calls, writing protest letters, threatening boycotts. On Thursday, the International Paralympic Committee gave in to pressure and banned athletes from Russia and Belarus from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing. The day before, the IPC wanted to let those athletes start under a neutral flag outside of the medal classification. The games start this Friday but without them.
IPC President Andrew Parsons suggested that several teams and athletes had threatened a boycott, putting the Paralympics in jeopardy. The situation in the athletes’ villages had escalated and “ensuring the safety of the athletes had become untenable,” it said. In addition, some governments have put pressure on their athletes. Media in numerous countries criticized the IPC’s initial decision, which fell short of a recommendation from the International Olympic Committee. The IOC had advised all associations to exclude athletes from Russia and Belarus. The reversal that followed on Thursday was once more described by Russia’s Sports Minister Oleg Matyzin as illegal and announced a lawsuit before the International Court of Arbitration for Sports.
Friedhelm Julius Beucher, President of the German Disabled Sports Association DBS, described the past few days as a roller coaster of emotions. Beucher and Karl Quade, Chef de Mission of the German team in Beijing, had also tried to influence the IPC’s executive committee with talks and “position papers”. A boycott of the German athletes was not discussed, said Quade in a press conference. It has never happened so often that an association reverses such a decision so quickly. But: “The IPC has found its way back into the international sports world.” Last week, German team members swapped accommodations with the Ukrainian delegation. Otherwise, the Ukrainians would have lived next door to the Russian team.
The German Disabled Sports Association has long expressed its solidarity with the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, especially with its President Valeri Suskevich. This partnership intensified in 2014 when the Olympics were followed by the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. At that time Vladimir Putin had Crimea annexed. Suskevich, a longtime member of Ukraine’s parliament, was one of the few politicians to take an anti-Putin stance on Russian soil. The Ukrainian athletes started in Sochi and were internationally celebrated as heroes.
It should look similar in the coming days. At a press conference in Beijing, Suskevich described his team’s participation as a miracle: »The easiest way for us would have been not to go to the Paralympics. But for us it is a matter of principle to be here. It is a symbol that shows that Ukraine is alive.« Many of the 20 Ukrainian athletes narrowly escaped the bombs during the Russian invasion, Suskevich said. Others might only get to the nearest airport following long car journeys. He himself slept on the floor of a bus for days. “Our presence in Beijing is a sign that Ukraine was, is and will remain a country.”
Valeri Suskewitsch has led the Ukrainian parasportsmen to the top international level. At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018 and last summer in Tokyo, they each took sixth place in the medal table. Suskevich, who has been confined to a wheelchair since childhood, has often encountered resistance. As a teenager he had started swimming. His father drove him to the sea and pushed him into the water. Later Suskevich was not allowed in the swimming pool, the lifeguards wanted to send him to the hospital. A symbol of the exclusion of disabled people in the Soviet Union. But Suskewitsch remained stubborn, became Soviet champion in paraswimming.
Later, as a politician and official, he promoted sports for disabled people in Ukrainian schools and hospitals. He collected money for barrier-free sports facilities, but the war set him back years. The Ukrainian parasportsmen had to give up their sports center in Yevpatoria in Crimea following the Russian invasion. These are experiences that have shaped Valeri Suskevich. At the press conference in Beijing he said: »There are two fronts at the moment. One is in Ukraine for our soldiers. And the other is here in Beijing.«