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CPN (Unified Socialist) party Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal accused KP Oli and company of spreading rumours about the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) among the people.

Speaking at a press conference organised by the CPN (Unified Socialist) in the Capital on Tuesday, Chairman Nepal said that Oli has no concern for the nation and people.

“Oli and the company neither supported nor rejected the MCC. Oli and his party had taken head amany things about the MCC. He remained a mute spectator while endorsing the compact from the Parliament,” Nepal said, adding, “Our party was established in a legal way. That is why, no one can take action against us.”

“The ministers of KP Oli talked about the IPS. But, none of them protested against the MCC,” he said.

The main opposition CPN-UML accused the CPN (Maoist Centre) of endorsing the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to remain in power.

The party said so by organizing a press conference after the endorsement of the MCC on Tuesday.

“Some parties in the ruling coalition had been claiming that they would stand against the MCC, saying that it was not in the interest of the nation. But, at the end they stood in favour of the compact. The parties made the MCC a geopolitical issue,” UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said.

He said that a sensational decision was taken by keeping the largest party of the Parliament outside.

Leader Gyawali said that in the meantime rumours were also spread against the party.

Saying that the ruling coalition leaders have shown irresponsibility, he said, “The parties ratified the MCC just to fulfill their vested interest.”

The main opposition CPN-UML said that controversy started in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) just to remove the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

During a press conference organised to make public its opinion after the endorsement of the $500 million US grant compact from the Parliament, the party said that the controversy in the MCC was started with an objective to remove Oli from the then Nepali Communist Party.

UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said that the interpretative declaration was issued just to lie to the people.

Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighborhood, and closed in on the capital, Kyiv, in a 40-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles, as talks aimed at stopping the fighting yielded only an agreement to keep talking, Associated Press reported.

The country’s embattled president said the stepped-up shelling was aimed at forcing him into concessions.

“I believe Russia is trying to put pressure (on Ukraine) with this simple method,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday in a video address. He did not offer details of the hourslong talks that took place earlier, but said that Kyiv was not prepared to make concessions “when one side is hitting each other with rocket artillery.”

Amid ever-growing international condemnation, Russia found itself increasingly isolated five days into its invasion, while also facing unexpectedly fierce resistance on the ground in Ukraine and economic havoc at home.

For the second day in a row, the Kremlin raised the specter of nuclear war, announcing that its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and long-range bombers had all been put on high alert, following President Vladimir Putin’s orders over the weekend.

Stepping up his rhetoric, Putin denounced the U.S. and its allies as an “empire of lies.”

Meanwhile, an embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its ties to the West by applying to join the European Union — a largely symbolic move for now, but one that is unlikely to sit well with Putin, who has long accused the U.S. of trying to pull Ukraine out of Moscow’s orbit.

A top Putin aide and head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said that the first talks held between the two sides since the invasion lasted nearly five hours and that the envoys “found certain points on which common positions could be foreseen.” He said they agreed to continue the discussions in the coming days.