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CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that interpretative declaration is the achievement of struggle. 

Speaking at the party’s Parliamentary Party meeting held at the Parliament building on Sunday, he said that the interpretative declaration is the achievement of struggle. 

During the meeting, interpretative declaration on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) were distributed to the lawmakers in the meeting.

Street fighting broke out early Sunday in Kharkiv as Russian troops pushed into Ukraine’s second-largest city, according to a regional official, following a wave of attacks elsewhere targeting airfields and fuel facilities that appeared to mark a new phase of an invasion that has been slowed by fierce resistance, Associated Press reported.

The U.S. and EU responded with weapons and ammunition for the outnumbered Ukrainians and powerful sanctions intended to further isolate Moscow.

Russian troops approached Kharkiv, about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) south of the border with Russia, shortly after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. But until Sunday, they remained on the outskirts of the city of 1.4 million without trying to enter while other forces rolled past, pressing their offensive deeper into Ukraine.

Early Sunday, Russian troops moved in and were engaged by Ukrainian forces, said Oleh Sinehubov, the head of the Kharkiv regional administration, who told civilians not to leave their homes. He gave no further details.

Elsewhere, huge explosions lit up the sky early Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale assault by Russian forces.

Flames billowed into the sky before dawn from an oil depot near an air base in Vasylkiv, where there has been intense fighting, according to the town’s mayor. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said another explosion was at the civilian Zhuliany airport.

Zelenskyy’s office also said Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, prompting the government to warn people to protect themselves from the smoke by covering their windows with damp cloth or gauze.

“We will fight for as long as needed to liberate our country,” Zelenskyy vowed.

Terrified men, women and children sought safety inside and underground, and the government maintained a 39-hour curfew to keep people off the streets. More than 150,000 Ukrainians fled for Poland, Moldova and other neighboring countries, and the United Nations warned the number could grow to 4 million if fighting escalates.

The meeting of the Bagmati Province Assembly scheduled for February 28 has been postponed for an indefinite period.

Issuing a notice on Sunday, the Provincial Assembly Secretariat said that the meeting had to be postponed due to a special reason.

Similarly, the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly scheduled for 1pm today has been postponed, Secretariat's secretary Krishna Hari Khadka said.

Assembly Speaker Sanu Kumar Shrestha had called the meeting for February 28, Monday, following an all-party meeting on February 16. RSS

The ruling coalition has decided to endorse the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

A meeting of the ruling coalition held at Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence in Baluwatar on Sunday decided to ratify the MCC with interpretative declaration.

Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel said that the meeting decided to pass the $500 million grant compact by including the interpretative declaration today itself.

“The government will endorse the compact by giving answers with interpretative declaration to the questions raised in the Parliament today itself,” leader Paudel said.

A meeting of the Legislature-Parliament has been scheduled for 1 pm today.