Russian President Vladimir Putin formalised the annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Wednesday amid major battlefield reversals in recent days. The reversal led to shrinking the amount of seized territory Moscow controls. Russia has escalated its seven-month war with the annexation drive, a military mobilisation and warnings of a...
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Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Russia and threatening its troops’ supply lines. Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces...
The Russian lower house of parliament ratified the incorporation of four occupied Ukrainian regions on Monday and fast-tracked the relevant legislation as the West rallied further to Kiev’s aid. More than 400 deputies in the Russian Duma, in a move unrecognised by most of the international community, voted unanimously...
Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons. The capture came just a day after Putin proclaimed the annexation...
Russian officials on Monday reported that a gunman killed nine people, including five children at a school in Russia before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, was unclear. The Udmurtia branch of the...
United States National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. would respond decisively to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Sullivan said the United States has spelled out to Moscow the “catastrophic consequences” it would face. His remarks represented the latest American warning following the thinly veiled...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Russians to protest the partial military mobilisation announced in the country. “Protest! Fight! Run away! Or become Ukrainian prisoners of war! Those are the options for your survival,” Zelensky said in his daily video address. He said 55,000 Russian soldiers had already...
Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday announced that 55 of its servicemen had been returned to Russia. The ministry said this was the largest prisoner exchange deal with Ukraine since the start of the war. In its daily briefing, the ministry said the fighters from Russia’s armed forces and its...
U.S. President Joe Biden has accused Russia of trying to destroy Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent country. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state – plain and simple – and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people,’’ Biden said at the United...
Ukraine will receive another 500 million euros (496.3 million dollars) in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees. The European Commission announced on Monday that the financial aid, some of which would also support Ukraine’s agricultural sector,...
The U.S. has urged its citizens in Ukraine to leave the country immediately, amid fears of increasing Russian attacks. The U.S. embassy in Kiev issued a security alert on Tuesday. It said that the Department of State had information that Russia was stepping up efforts to launch strikes against...
UNICEF says no fewer than 1,000 boys and girls have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine, underscoring the urgent need for peace. “Once again, as in all wars, the reckless decisions of adults are putting children at extreme risk,’’ UNICEF’s Executive Director Catherine Russell stated on...
he Biden administration has imposed fresh economic sanctions on pro-Kremlin oligarchs and on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s purported girlfriend. “As innocent people suffer from Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Putin’s allies have enriched themselves and funded opulent lifestyles,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday. “The Treasury Department will...
Preliminary data early on Wednesday indicated that the volume of gas delivered from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was sinking, as Russian gas provider Gazprom had earlier said. While 27 million kilowatt-hours of gas arrived at the German terminal in Lubmin between 6 a.m. (0400...
The African Union on Saturday hailed a landmark deal between Ukraine and Russia that will allow Kyiv to resume exports of grain through the Black Sea and relieve a global food crisis. Ukraine’s farms are a major source of grain for the world market, in particular in the Middle...
The European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS said on Friday that, it would replace the gas from Russia with Nigeria Gas due to the invasion in Ukraine. The Deputy Director-General Department for (Energy), European Commission in Brussels, Mr Matthew Baldwin, said this at a news conference on...
No fewer than 12 people were killed in a Russian missile attack in the centre of the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, according to the authorities. Another 90 people were injured police chief, Ihor Klymenko, announced on Facebook on Thursday. According to the report, three rockets hit an office...
Prof. Linus Asuquo, the Director-General, National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC), says scraping or abandoning Ajaokuta Steel Company will be a great waste. Asuquo made the observation while addressing newsmen on Monday in Abuja. He said that reviving the steel company would be the best option for the country rather...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Fernando Medina, Mayor of Lisbon and City Council Members, expressing gratitude and appreciation to them for accommodating Nigerians and those fleeing the war in Ukraine. Buhari also used the occasion to congratulate him and his party on their electoral victory and his...
Ukrainian authorities have said that a large quantity of grain was destroyed in a Russian attack in eastern Ukraine. A fire broke out in the affected warehouse in the city of Zelenodolsk, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, wrote on Telegram on Thursday. Forty tonnes of grain...