Russia’s economy will grow by 2.8 per cent this year and expand at a slightly slower 2.5 per cent in 2025, Vienna-based think tank has forecasted. The forecast defies predictions that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to economic ruin. Vasily Astrov, an economist with the Vienna Institute...
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U.S. President Joe Biden wants to start delivering of weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week. The president said this shortly after the U.S. Senate approved billions of dollars in new aid for the country under attack from Russia. “I will sign this bill into law and address...
The Group of Seven (G7) has strongly condemned Iran for its attacks on Israel but also called on both parties to de-escalate amid reports of Israeli retaliation. A meeting of foreign ministers from the group of industrialised democracies has been under way on the Italian island of Capri...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says Ukrainians remain under “constant attack” and 3.3 million people living on the frontline need emergency assistance urgently. IOM’s Director General, Ms Amy Pope, in a statement, warned that the situation had worsened in Ukraine after rocket fire killed dozens in the...
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Tuesday granted the investigator’s petition and arrested in absentia Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on terrorism charges, the court told Sputnik. “The court has granted the investigator’s application for the introduction of a preventive measure in the...
Washington sees no evidence that Kiev had a hand in a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said. Harris claimed in an interview with the ABC News broadcaster that a branch of the Islamic State terrorist group known as ISIS-Khorasan (banned...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to punish those behind a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine. Kyiv has strongly denied any connection, and...
President Joe Biden says U.S. will continue to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “My message to President Putin who I have known for a long time is simple: we will not walk away,” Biden said in his State of the Union...
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has said the fact that Nigeria accepted grains from Ukraine does not make Nigeria a weak or failed state. “Egypt gets about 60 per cent of its grains from Ukraine. The fact that Egypt gets about 60 per cent...
A Russian warship sank off the Crimea peninsula after Ukrainian underwater drones attacked it, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. The Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR announced the hit on Telegram. It said the ship had suffered hits to the stern, port and starboard sides. The sinking was at...
Ukrainian Government has donated 25,000 tonnes of wheat as emergency food assistance to 1.3 million vulnerable, crisis-affected people in northeast Nigeria amidst rising inflation and food price spikes in the country. This is contained in a statement issued by Atinuke Akande-Alegbe, Senior Communications and Public Diplomacy Officer, British High...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has warned of a potential nuclear war if NATO states were to militarily intervene in his conflict in Ukraine. The West should remember that Russia also has weapons that could hit targets on its territory, he told 1,000 representatives from politics, business, culture and...
Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday morning, striking facilities in several cities across the country, Ukrainian authorities said. At least one person was injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, where a missile hit an industrial site, said the head of the regional military...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law to confiscate the property of opponents of the war and enemies of the state. A decree with Putin’s approval was published in the Russian legal database on Wednesday. The law provided for confiscating property allegedly acquired through the...
A drone attack on the south of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, a part of Ukraine which was annexed by Russia in 2014. It might have hit and sunk a Russian landing ship, according to Ukrainian media. The Ukrainian media outlet, Ukrainska Pravda cited an anonymous source...
Russia once again hit Ukraine with drone strikes early on Friday, causing a major power outage in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, which is the birth place of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tens of thousands of households and numerous companies in the city in the south-east of the...
Russian military transport plane carrying over 70 people has crashed at the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday. There were nine Russian crew members and 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft, local media reported.Ukraine...
The United Nations is seeking to raise 4.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2024 for Ukraine’s conflict-torn communities and refugees. The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, said this in a statement. According to the statement, the UN plans to attract 3.1 billion dollars from...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has welcomed the exchange of 230 Ukrainian and 248 Russian prisoners of war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This is the largest such exchange since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Guterres, in a statement by his Associate Spokesperson, Ms Florencia Nino,...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said the sanction on the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic. Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, disclosed this in an interview on...