Current Affairs Today Headline- 28 February 2022
Find here today’s current affairs news headlines for 28 February 2022 by Miliposts.
National News
- The 5th #OperationGanga flight carrying 249 Indian nationals that had left from Bucharest, Romania, landed in Delhi this morning.
- India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on the Ukraine crisis on February 27, which lasted for over 2 hours.
- India is in touch with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva for the needs of citizens stranded in Ukraine.
- Polling begins for the first phase of Manipur elections 2022, with 173 candidates in the fray in 38 constituencies.
- PM Narendra Modi paid tributes to former PM Morarji Desai on his birth anniversary.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the DPIIT stakeholders meeting on PM Gatishakti on February 28, 2022.
- India refrained from voting on a resolution calling for a special emergency session on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
International news
- The UNSC voted to call for an urgent special session of the 193-member UN General Assembly on Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, G7 Foreign Ministers expressed united support for Ukraine in a meeting with Ukrainian Finance Minister Dimitro Kuleba.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks with UK PM Boris Johnson, Polish President Andrzej Duda about the current security situation.
- Saudi Arabia reaffirms its commitment to the ‘OPEC Plus’ agreement with Russia.
- A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft from the 34th Fighter Squadron lands at the 86th Air Base in Romania to reinforce regional security with allies and partners.
- Russian carrier Aeroflot has suspended all its flights to Europe.
- Ukraine proceeds against Russia before the International Court of Justice and requests the Court to indicate provisional measures.
- UNGA President Abdullah Shahid will chair the 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters.
- The Russian delegation has reached Gomel, Belarus to hold talks with the representatives of Kyiv on the Belarus border.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a telephone conversation with Israel’s PM Naftali Bennett on February 27.
- Nepal’s Parliament approved the US-funded grant agreement with an explanatory declaration.
- The European Union has formally agreed to ban Russian Central Bank transactions and support the delivery of 450 million euros worth of weapons to Ukraine.
- More than 7 million people could be displaced if Ukraine war continues: EU
Sports News
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- England to boycott all international football matches against Russia: Football Association
- The member union representing Russia will participate under the name “Football Federation of Russia (RFU)”, not “Russia”: FIFA.
- The Russian flag, anthem are banned from matches where the Football Federation of Russia will participate.