YouTube Blocks Russian State-Funded Media
YouTube is blocking access around the world to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, the company said on Friday, 11 March.
"Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivialising well-documented violent events, and we remove content about Russia's invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy," spokesman Farshad Shadloo said, in a statement.
"In line with that, effective immediately, we are also blocking YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media, globally," he added.
American Journalist Shot Dead in Ukraine: Report
An American journalist has been shot dead in Irpin in Kyiv, while another has been wounded, medics and witnesses told AFP.
A surgeon volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defence, Danylo Shapovalov, said Brett Renaud died instantly, and he had treated the other. AFP reporters in Irpin also saw the body of the victim.
Renaud was wearing a New York Times press badge. However, NYTs deputy managing editor Cliff Levy said that Renaud was not on an assignment with the newspaper.
“The Times“ is deeply saddened to learn of the death of an American journalist in Ukraine, Brent Renaud,” Levy said. “Brent was a talented photographer and filmmaker, but he was not on assignment for nytimes in Ukraine.”
About 125,000 Evacuated Via Humanitarian Corridors
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Sunday that about 125,000 people have been safely evacuated through humanitarian corridors from multiple war zones in the country.
In a video address to the nation, he asserted that the situation in Mariupol was extremely worrying, where 400,000 people are still trapped without water and food.
Getting those people out safely, Zelenskiy said, was a priority for his government.
Death toll in Airstrike on Military Base up to 35
The Russian airstrikes that hit a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with Poland has killed 35 people as of now.
Indian Embassy in Ukraine to be Relocated in Poland
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Sunday, 13 March, that "in view of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Ukraine, including attacks in western parts of the country, it has been decided that the Indian Embassy in Ukraine will be temporarily relocated in Poland", according to the statement posted on the MEA website.
"The situation will be reassessed in the light of further developments", the statement further added.
MEA statement.
(Photo: Screenshot of statement published in mea.gov.in)