Russia-Ukraine war HIGHLIGHTS: Russian troops attacked an army base in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv but the assault was repelled, the Ukrainian military said in a Facebook posting early on Saturday. Separately, the Interfax Ukraine agency said Russian soldiers were trying to capture one of the city's electricity generating stations. Russia has further claimed it has captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol.Meanwhile, Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a defeat the United States and its supporters knew was inevitable but said would highlight Russia's global isolation.India abstained on a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that "deplores in the strongest terms" Russia's "aggression" against Ukraine, with New Delhi saying dialogue is the only answer to settling differences and disputes and voicing "regret" that the path of diplomacy was given up.An Air India plane departed from the Mumbai airport on Saturday morning for Romanian capital Bucharest to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive

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The decline of the ruble would likely send inflation soaring, hurting all Russians and not just the Russian elites who were the targets of earlier sanctions. The resulting economic disruption, if Saturday's measures are as harsh as described, could leave Putin facing political unrest at home.

Energy prices is the number one worry. India is a huge importer. It is the big risk for the market and it has real implications. It pinches the consumer wallet, companies, margins, input cost, everything.