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...
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Ukraine will receive another loan of 150 million euros (158 million U.S. dollars) from Germany’s state development bank KfW, the government in Kiev announced. The money would be used to support citizens and rebuild infrastructure, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said in a statement on the government’s official website...
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...
Ukrainian drone attacks are preventing Russian troops from making further gains in the western region of the Black Sea, according to an assessment by British intelligence. “Fighting continues on Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, with Russia repeatedly trying to reinforce its exposed garrison located there,’’ the assessment...
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...
A Russian woman, Nadezhda Sayfutdinova has protested against President Vladimir Putin. It was gathered that the woman sewed her mouth to express her anger over the decision of Putin to censor protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nadezhda Sayfutdinova, an activist in her 30s, had sewn her own mouth...
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...
Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund have raised 400,000 euros (about 426,000 dollars or N215 million) for Ukraine from a match played on Tuesday against the country’s top club Dynamo Kiev. Some 35,000 fans attended the game which Dynamo Kiev won 3-2. All match proceeds were going to victims 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...
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...
Ukraine’s military has received additional aircraft as well parts for repairs to get damaged aircraft flying again, the Pentagon has said. Ukraine has defied expectations of allies and military experts by not only keeping its air force operational nearly two months after the start of Russia’s invasion but actually...
Canadian Government announced on Tuesday that it would place sanctions on 14 associates of the Russian government, including President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters. Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that they would answer for their crimes. “We will continue to impose severe costs on...
World Bank Group President, David Malpass has expressed concern over higher poverty rates in developing countries due to war in Ukraine and COVID-19 related shutdown. A statement issued on Monday by the Bank quoted Malpass as making this known in his opening remark at the World Bank Spring Meetings...
Pope Francis on Sunday called for peace in Ukraine during this “Easter of war” as he delivered the traditional Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi address on St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. “May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the...
The United States has promised to supply Ukraine with more weapons, to the tune of around 800 million U.S. dollars including artillery, armoured vehicles and helicopters. “The Ukrainian military has used the weapons we are providing to devastating effect,” said U.S. President Joe Biden after talks with his Ukrainian...
Russian military claimed that it launched strikes on 32 military targets in Ukraine during the night. The spokesman for the Russian DefenCe Ministry, Igor Konashenkov made the announcement on Tuesday. He said a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system as well as an ammunition depot and an aircraft hangar with Ukrainian...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has faced a storm of criticisms and this has been entirely one-sided. The mainstream media and several foreign policy experts have described it as imperialistic and a danger to the sovereignty of states. There are, no doubt, factors that are Symptomatic of hegemonic designs. A...
U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has described the adoption of the resolution to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council as an “important and historic moment”. Thomas-Greenfield spoke on Thursday at UN General Assembly (UNGA) following the vote in response to Russian forces’ alleged killings of civilians...
The Federal Government has condemned the Polish Authority for detaining Nigerians and other African students who fled war-torn Ukraine due to their black skin. The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who said this in Abuja, expressed displeasure over the development, saying it was wrong...