Mahindra Group Chairperson and Padma Awardee Anand Mahindra has backed Ukrainian entrepreneurs for showing the insurmountable optimism in the midst of the state of siege. Hard to believe that optimism is thriving in the state of siege, he wrote in a tweet by The Kyiv Independent. This shows that entrepreneurship is not just about wanting to make money, it is about being life-positive. According to the online data monitor of Ukrainian companies Opendatabot, 10,455 individual entrepreneurs and 1,200 new companies have been registered in Ukraine since February 24, the day Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
Since February 24th, 10,455 individual entrepreneurs, 1,200 new companies have been registered in Ukraine. According to Opendatabot, new businesses were not registered during the first week of the war but as soon as the service was available, the number of new companies began to grow. Russian forces pounded their targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday and unleashed rockets on a steel plant in Mariupol. As per the news agency Reuters, these attacks claimed the lives of 27 people and also injured 21 civilians.
Russia has also hit a military airfield. Russia has deployed 22 battalion tactical groups near Odesa, located in southwestern Ukraine. The airfield had drones, missiles and ammunition supplied by the US and its European allies.
According to the UK, Ukraine's eastern city of Izium is in a bid to advance along the northern axis of the Donbass region.