Russian and Ukrainian governments on Friday signalled an openness to negotiations even as authorities in Kyiv urged citizens to help defend the capital from advancing Russian forces in the worst European security crisis in decades. Russia has claimed its troops have captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol.An Air India evacuation flight which left for the Romanian capital of Bucharest is expected to bring back stranded Indians and land in Mumbai at 8 pm.Ukraine and Russia are discussing a place and time for talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's spokesman Sergii Nykyforov said on social media.However, early Saturday the Ukrainian military said in a Facebook post said, Russian troops attacked an army base in Kyiv but the assault was repelled.Meanwhile, India abstained on a UN Security Council resolution by the US that deplores in the strongest terms Russia's aggression" against Ukraine, as New Delhi called for the immediate cessation of hostilities and asserted that dialogue is the only answer to settling disputes.The 15-nation Security Council voted on the draft resolution Friday afternoon by the US and Albania and co-sponsored by a "cross-regional" group of 67 UN member states, including Australia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania and the United Kingdom.

To the enter the office of Google, the tech giant has lifted the requirement for all employees to get vaccinated. Masks and social distancing too, are no longer mandatory for vaccinated employees.

Russia-Ukraine war: Google has temporarily disabled for Ukraine some Google Maps tools which provide live information about traffic conditions and how busy different places are.

In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Vishnu Prakash, former diplomat; Frank Wisner, former US envoy to India, Shyam Saran, former foreign secretary and Sergei Strokan, senior Russian journalist spoke at length about the Russia-Ukraine crisis.