Putin Tells UN Chief Still Has "Hope" In Ukraine Talks: Russian President Vladimir Putin told the visiting UN chief Tuesday that he still had hope for negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine. "Despite the fact that the military operation is ongoing, we still hope that we will be able to reach agreements on the diplomatic track. We are negotiating, we do not reject (talks)," Putin told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who was visiting Moscow, in televised remarks. Sitting across from Guterres at a long table at the Kremlin, Putin said efforts at talks with Ukraine had been derailed by claims of atrocities committed by Russian forces in the town of Bucha outside Kyiv. "There was a provocation in the village of Bucha, which the Russian army had nothing to do with," Putin said. "We know who prepared this provocation, by what means, and what kind of people worked on it."

Russian threat looms, war sirens ring: Months earlier than Russia declared war on Ukraine, a Jain monk had predicted the Russian invasion in a collection of Twitter posts. A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv. (AP photograph) Nearly two months after Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine, Russia’s neighbouring nation has been witness to relentless assaults that has left hundreds lifeless and hundreds of thousands displaced. The war, which has shaken the worldwide world order, was allegedly predicted by a Jain monk in June final year. Jainacharya Yugbhushan Suri had known as it “an acid test of the US”. In a collection of posts on Twitter in June 2021, Yugbhushan Suri had known as on the United States to meet its “promise of security” to Ukraine, warning that the Russian threat loomed over the nation.

UN General Assembly to vote on Russia’s removal from Human Rights Council today: The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on a draft resolution seeking to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, a move initiated by the US after harrowing images emerged of corpses strewn across streets of the Ukrainian city Bucha, with Washington terming Moscow’s participation in the top human rights body as a “farce". The UNGA will resume its Emergency Special Session on Thursday after a request from Antigua and Barbuda, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Georgia, Japan, Liberia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, the UK, the US and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union, on behalf of 27 members of the EU bloc. The Assembly will vote on a draft resolution that will decide to “suspend the rights of membership in the Human Rights Council of the Russian Federation".

Bucha city, Kyiv region. Destroyed Russian equipment 03/01/2022 03/01/2022 #warinukraine #kyiv #bucha #russiainvadedukraine

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