Ukrainian forces have released a new update on the losses incurred by the Russian military as of March 13, 2022. The Russian military has allegedly lost 12,000 troops, 74 planes, 86 helicopters, 374 tanks, 140 artillery weapons, 1226 Armored Personnel Carriers, 2 boats, 600 vehicles, 60 fuel tanks, 7...
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A former Russian Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, has disclosed what may likely happen to President Vladimir Putin for ordering an invasion of Ukraine. Kozyrev disclosed that Putin could be ousted by an internal Kremlin coup. He stressed that some key figures in the Kremlin may be plotting Putin’s downfall due...
President of The United States, Joe Biden, has stated why NATO would not engage in a war against Russia in Ukraine
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on March 7, 2022, shows rescuers dismantling the rubble of a destroyed school after Russian troops shelled the city of Chernihiv. PHOTO: STR / Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP The mayor of southern Ukraine’s Melitopol has...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has developed a holistic, integrated coordination mechanism to enhance Nigeria’s efforts in the protection and security of its citizens. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ECOWAS mechanism for protection and human security for the Nigerian Government was...
Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long battle with colon cancer, his son Andrew told AFP. “He is gone”, Andrew Banda told an AFP correspondent in Lusaka. The southern African country’s fourth leader since independence from Britain served for three...
Facebook and Instagram users will have the freedom to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. The option will be made available in some countries, BBC has reported. Meta says it has temporarily made allowances for some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders,” that would...
Three-quarters of Russians trusted President Vladimir Putin and 76 per cent assess his professional performance positively, a poll conducted by Russia’s Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) showed on Friday. Asking about their assessment of Putin’s professional performance, 76 per cent of respondents said he was doing rather well, 13 per...
Many Russian tanks have been destroyed by the Ukrainian army after they ambushed a convoy of Russian tanks heading toward the capital. The convoy was ambushed with precision artillery just as it passed through a small residential stretch of a paved four-lane road 25 kilometres from downtown Kyiv. Tanks...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that Western penalties against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would destabilise the global energy and food markets and vowed the country would emerge stronger from the crisis. Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine that began on February 24 has triggered unprecedented...
No fewer than 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war on February 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday. “From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been...
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is serving time in a Tbilisi prison after an illegal border crossing, on Thursday announced the end of his hunger strike. He said this was upon a request from Georgian fighters in Ukraine. The ex-leader went on hunger strike for the first time...
Civilians in Ukraine are allowed to open fire on troops identifiable as hostile forces under a new law that went into effect this week, Ukrainian media reports. According to the law, which went into effect on Monday, foreigners and the stateless living legally in the country can also obtain...
The Ukrainian army on Thursday said it was slowing down and holding back the Russian offensive two weeks into the conflict. The Ukrainian general staff said in a bulletin that in some operational areas, Russian units had lost their fighting strength and were bringing in reserves. Russian forces were...
Russia on Wednesday warned the West that it was working on a broad response to sanctions that would be swift and felt in the West’s most sensitive areas. Russia’s economy is facing the gravest crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union after the West imposed crippling sanctions...
U.S President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that the United States would no longer allow for the importation of Russian oil, the latest sanction to punish Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. Biden who announced the sanction from the White House said Russian oil would no longer be accepted...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he’s not afraid and will not hide from anyone. He made the statement while revealing that he’s in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in spite of the ongoing fighting there. Zelensky, in a video message, said he would not hide and wasn’t afraid of...
A former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych has told Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender to Russia. The message by Yanukovych, considered to be extremely corrupt and currently living in exile in Russia after being sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption was circulated by Russian state agency Ria Novosti on...
Russia will immediately stop its military operations if the Ukrainian authorities amend their country’s constitution to abandon their ambition to enter “any bloc,” and recognise the Crimean referendum and the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). The Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Reuters...
Ukraine has called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to do everything in its power to stop the violence against the backdrop of Russian attacks, “Russia is perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity,’’ the representative for Ukraine, Anton Korynevych, said in The Hague on Monday. “Russia has...