Photos: Call for calm from across the globe as Ukraine-Russia due to hold talks

TEARS: A Ukrainian tourist cries in front of the Russian embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 28, 2022.

PEACE RALLY: Over 100,000 people joined a rally in Germany to end the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

TEARS FOR PEACE: Dressed in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to call for peace in Ukraine.

Ukrainian tourists shout slogans against the Russian military action in Ukraine in front of the Russian embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 28, 2022.

Call for peace: Around 300 Ukrainian nationals and supporters gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Seoul on Sunday to call for peace.

STRANDED: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a late-night meeting with his top officials on the plight of the country’s citizens stranded in Ukraine, as videos emerged of students stuck at jammed border crossings in cold weather and falling snow. About 4,000 Indian citizens left Ukraine before Russia’s military action began, but about 15,000 remain stranded in the country, India’s foreign secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, told reporters late Sunday.

UNEXPLODED: Ukrainian service members look for unexploded shells after fighting with a Russian raiding team in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of Feb. 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene.

GLOBAL PAYMENTS: In the strongest economic sanctions yet, the United States and Europe said on Saturday they would banish big Russian banks from the main global payments system SWIFT and announced other measures to limit Moscow’s use of a $630 billion war chest.

SANCTION: Russia’s move in Ukraine led to the expulsion of some Russian banks from SWIFT.