Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: The Centre claims 17,000 Indians have been evacuated, and the Supreme Court applauds the efforts.

Firefighters wash down a burning structure in Kyiv, Ukraine, following a blast on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Russian military have taken control of a vital Ukrainian seaport and have surrounded another. On Friday, Russian forces assaulted Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. The plant is located in Enerhodar, a city on the Dnieper River that generates one-quarter of the country’s electricity. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who attended Thursday’s discussions in Belarus near the Polish border, said Russia and Ukraine achieved a preliminary agreement that cease-fires would be followed in places where safe corridors are built. As more countries join the conflict, the West is forced to escalate sanctions against Russia in order to put pressure on President Vladimir Putin to cease the war.