Anand Mahindra on Russia-Ukraine crisis: ‘Have lived through 2 wars, spine chilling’
As a report of Russian military operations in Ukraine spread, Industrialist Anand Mahindra on Thursday sharing a video of air raids that were heard in Lviv, Ukraine and recalled how the experience of other wars, “the world does not seem to learn ant studies.”
Mahindra Group Chairperson Tweeted: “I have lived through two wars during my childhood: ’65 and ’71. And I remember how the spine relaxed it when Raid’s water siren went in Mumbai.”
He referred to the Indian-Pakistani war in 1965 and 1971.
“This sound has returned memories of the nightmare. The world does not seem to learn lessons,” Anand Mahindra Tweeted.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine to defend separatists in the east of the country. Russian troops stormed Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday in the biggest attack by one state with others in Europe since World War Dua.
A Ukrainian military aircraft was shot down on Thursday and five people were killed, the Ukrainian police and the State Emergency Service said, when the armed forces tried to survive against massive Russian military operations.
Ukraine fights up the Russian troops practically throughout the border with Russia, and there is a fierce battle in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa area and at the military airport near Kyiv, a presidential advisor said.
Ukrainian officials said they were afraid that Russian forces could become air down to the country and then tried to penetrate the government district in Kyiv.