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...
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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...
The Federal Government on Monday said it will not tolerate the recruitment of Nigerians as foreign fighters in Ukraine. According to a statement signed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Francisca Omayuli, the government is in talks with Ukrainian counterparts to forestall such an occurrence. The government’s statement comes...
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has defended Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. In a statement released by his foundation on Sunday, Mr Zuma described the US and its western allies as “bullies” using Ukraine as a front to bring Russia to its knees through unjustifiable sanctions. According...
Police authority in Mwiyala in the outskirts of Kakamega town, Kenya have arrested a 32-year-old woman who served her two children with food laced with poison leading to their death. Pherine Maero, a nurse by profession, poisoned her two children, aged 7 and 9, on Saturday night, March 5...
Four adults and two children were killed when a tornado hit Madison County in the US state of Iowa on Saturday, officials said. At least four other adults were injured in the tornado that caused “widespread damage to both homes and properties,” the county’s emergency management director told a...
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and opposition leader Freeman Mbowe pledged to heal rifts and buttress democracy as they met hours after Mbowe was freed from jail in a surprise move. Mbowe, chairman of the Chadema party, was arrested last July to face terrorism charges in a case his...
U.S House of Representatives member, Jason Crow has revealed the fate of Ukrainains as fight with Russia intensifies. Crow predicted that the current war with Russia will get worse for the Republic of Ukraine because Russia’s President Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about his soldiers . Crow, who is a...
The Ukrainian embassy in Berlin has asked the German government for further weapons deliveries to help fend off the Russian invasion. Since the conflict began, the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz reversed years of highly restrictive arms export policies and allowed direct weapons deliveries to Ukraine to help fight...
Pope Francis in July will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, two African nations plagued by violence in which the pontiff has taken particular interest, the Vatican announced on Thursday. The 85-year-old pope will be in the DRC from July 2 to 5, visiting the capital...
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning Russian aggression, with 141 countries voting in favour, 34 abstaining, and only five voting against. Known informally as the world’s “town hall”, the assembly is where all 193 UN member states had a voice. A total of 141 countries...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that shortage of oxygen in Ukraine could put lives in danger and undermine the support of UN efforts in the country. On day seven of the Ukraine crisis, UN-led efforts to ramp up support to the country’s embattled health workers have continued, with...