Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang will donate their one month salaries to help humanitarian relief efforts for Ukraine, a Reuters report reads.
In Ukraine, in the meantime, Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said that 21 people were killed and 112 wounded in shelling. Russian missile attacks hit residential areas and a regional administrative building in Ukraine's second-largest city.
Pakistan allowed its turn to pass as the UN General Assembly continued to debate a resolution demanding immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, according to a media report on Wednesday. As a UN member, Pakistan can participate in the UNGA debate, which entered its second day on Tuesday, but it has avoided doing so, the Dawn newspaper reported. Indications are that Pakistan wants to avoid getting involved in the dispute which places it in an uncomfortable position. Pakistan is a traditional US ally, which once provided Washington a corridor to reach out to China.
Pakistan, which is trying not to take sides on this, stayed away from debate on the issue of Ukraine, the report said. China is Pakistan's closest ally which supports Islamabad on key issues on various international fora, such as the United Nations and the FATF. The observers argue that Pakistan is gradually orbiting out of the American influence and getting closer to both China and Russia, a claim Islamabad rejects as incorrect. Pakistan says it wants to maintain close ties with both China and the United States and apparently that is why it does not want to get involved in the Ukrainian dispute, the report said.
Pakistan became conspicuous in the Ukraine crisis as Prime Minister Khan was visiting Moscow when the attack was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
--With PTI inputs
