The pro-Russian military administration ruling the area around the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson said it was preparing to hold a referendum on joining Russia. The Deputy Head of Kherson’s military and civil administration, Kirill Stremoussov, said in a video published on Telegram. “Yes, we are preparing for a...
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NATO leaders are expected to sign off on a major reinforcement of the alliance’s Eastern European members on Wednesday when they meet in Madrid to project a united stance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The decision is a fundamental shift of deterrence and defence in the alliance, NATO...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin’s “cruelty and barbarism” after a missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine left scores feared dead. The prime minister said the attack, on the day Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the G7 summit, would strengthen the resolve of allies to resist...
The war in Ukraine could last “for years”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned in an interview published Sunday by German daily newspaper Bild, while reiterating calls for Western countries to provide long-term support to Kyiv. “We must be prepared for this to last for years,” the secretary general of...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Ukraine must win the war against Russia, as he visited the town of Irpin outside the capital Kyiv. “France has been alongside Ukraine since day one. We stand with the Ukrainians without ambiguity”. “Ukraine must resist and win,” Macron told journalists in...
While the situation in eastern Ukraine remained largely unchanged, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday morning that it had carried out several airstrikes against Russian positions in southern Ukraine overnight. “Ukrainian helicopters struck at clusters of enemy forces in the Kherson region, and planes at ammunition depots in the...
A U.S. judge has authorised the seizure of two aircraft owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, for violating export restrictions as well as U.S. sanctions on Russia. The Department of Justice (DoJ) said a federal judge in New York authorised the seizure requested by federal agents of a Boeing...
A Nigerian final year medical student at Irkutsk State Medical University (ISMU), Usman Yahaya, will be deported from Russia to Nigeria any moment from now, PRNigeria has learnt. Yahaya, a Sokoto State-born medical student has been in detention in Russia, for over a month. PRNigeria, had last week reported...
Brazilian football icon Pele has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine. “Stop the invasion,” the 81-year-old Pele said in a letter to Putin he posted on Instagram shortly before Ukraine’s 3-1 World Cup semi-final play-off win in Scotland on Wednesday night. “There is...
The head of the African Union, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, is travelling to Russia to discuss the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. President Sall’s office said the visit was aimed at freeing up stocks of cereals and fertilisers that are currently blocked in Ukrainian ports. Recalled...
Russia on Saturday stopped providing natural gas to neighbouring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for NATO membership after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in rubles. Following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has asked clients from “unfriendly countries” — including EU member states...
Russia has suspended senior commanders who are considered to have performed poorly during the early stages of the Ukraine invasion, according to British intelligence. Vladimir Putin is said to have suspended two of his military leaders in relation to the failure to capture second city Kharkiv as well as...
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says “unprecedented sanctions” against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine were a necessity. Ceferin told Wednesday’s UEFA Congress in Vienna that this was because “the tradition of sporting neutrality is no longer tenable in 2022 in the situation of war.” He said however that football...
Kremlin forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said,. The bombing occurred as Russia prepared to mark the Monday anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The governor of the Luhansk region said about 90...
The Federal Government says Nigeria’s relationships with Russia and with Ukraine remain intact, the war between the two EU countries notwithstanding. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Zubairu Dada, stated this in Abuja on Thursday while fielding questions from newsmen at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the...
Bulgaria and Poland said Russia was halting delivery of natural gas supplies, marking a major escalation in the face-off between Moscow and Europe over the war in Ukraine. The Bulgarian Energy Ministry said late Tuesday that the Bulgarian natural gas supply company Bulgargaz had received a notification of the...
U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed sharp criticism, on Tuesday, of a warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding a pending World War III and the possible use of nuclear weapons. “You’ve heard us say a number of times that that kind of rhetoric is very dangerous and...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Russia will not succeed in its war against Ukraine. In two months, Russian armed forces had used more than 1,100 rockets, countless aerial bombs and artillery against Ukraine, Zelensky said. Zelensky said this in his nightly video speech published on Telegram late...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to welcome U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to Kiev on Sunday as a delegation from Washington makes a visit to the embattled country. The announcement came as Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities on Saturday. Amid...
After weeks of high-level diplomacy, looming thunder clouds and intense global hysteria, Russian troops have since entered deep into Ukraine, an independent, sovereign state. A dismal fait accompli and rather ominous recline for global peace and the progressive consolidation of international law. Day after day, Russia, a world power...