Current Affairs Today Headline- 28 February 2022

• 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

• • 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.