Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv and other cities on Wednesday morning, causing at least three deaths and 11 injuries, Ukrainian authorities reported. President Volodymyr Zelensky said two persons were killed in Kyiv and 10 others were wounded. A man was also killed in the southern city of Continue Reading
The general in charge of Ukraine’s stuttering counter-offensive in the south has said Russian defenses are making it difficult for military equipment, including Western tanks and armored vehicles, to move forward. Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskyi says his forces are struggling to overcome multi-layered minefields and fortified defensive lines. “That is why most of the Continue Reading
A 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk has studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, as he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately. The teenager sitting at a school desk has the Z-mark of Russia’s war emblazoned on his right sleeve, coloured in the red, white and blue of the Russian flag. But […]Continue Reading
Russia has carried out a new massive drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a man died when drone wreckage fell near a petrol station. A woman was injured. Overall, Russia launched a record 54 so-called kamikaze drones on Ukrainian targets, 52 of which were shot down, Ukraine’s Air Force reported. […]Continue Reading
A wave of Russian air strikes on cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, has left at least 19 people dead. Seventeen people including a child were killed in an attack that hit a block of flats in the central city of Uman, officials said. Also, a woman and her three-year-old daughter were killed in the city […]Continue Reading
China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang has called for peace talks on the war in Ukraine to be promptly resumed, as he blamed an “invisible hand” for the protraction and escalation of the year-old conflict. Qin said the process of peace talks should begin as soon as possible and the legitimate security concerns of all parties […]Continue Reading
The situation in the city of Bakhmut, on the eastern frontline, is becoming “more and more difficult”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Russian forces have been trying to take the city for over six months. “The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions”, Mr Zelensky stated. The Continue Reading
Explosions were heard in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday. Vitali Klitschko said blasts rocked the central Shevchenkivskyi district and emergency services had been dispatched. According to Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba, Air defense systems are at work, as BBC reporters heard loud explosions shortly after the air raid siren sounded. Russia […]Continue Reading
Russia says it is withdrawing its military from Kherson – the only regional capital it has captured since the invasion began The decision is a significant blow for Russia and means its forces will pull out entirely from the western bank of the Dnipro river Moscow’s commander in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, said it wasn’t […]Continue Reading
Russian forces have launched fresh attacks in the Kyiv region with Iranian-made “kamikaze drones”, Ukrainian officials say. Critical infrastructure facilities in Makariv, a small town west of Kyiv, were destroyed after the area was struck by three drones on Thursday. “There was an overnight drones bombardment by invaders on the Makariv community,” Continue Reading
President Joe Biden has warned Russia that the United States will not be intimidated by reckless threats after Vladimir Putin declared the annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine. On Friday, President Putin appeared to make a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons to defend those regions. He said they would “forever” be Russian – […]Continue Reading
Tuesday is the final day of a ballot for Russian-held regions of Ukraine which the government in Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss as a sham. According to the report, nearly four million people from the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, are being asked to attend […]Continue Reading
Russian men are attempting to leave the country to avoid a military call-up for the Ukraine war. Queues have formed at border crossings since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilisation on Wednesday, which could see 300,000 people summoned to fight. The Kremlin says reports of fighting-age men fleeing are exaggerated. But on the […]Continue Reading
Ukraine says it has evidence of a mass grave in Izyum, the northeastern city recently freed from Russian occupation. Regional police head Volodymyr Tymoshko told newsmen that more than 400 bodies were thought to have been buried there. “Russia leaves death everywhere,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said, mentioning other reported mass graves found after Russian Continue Reading
Four more ships carrying grain and sunflower oil have left Ukraine ports via a safe maritime corridor. According to report, millions of tonnes of grain have been stuck in Ukraine due to Russian blockades, leading to shortages and higher food prices in other countries. But last week the first ship left Ukraine’s ports since February. […]Continue Reading
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says, Russia’s military focus in Ukraine is no longer “only” the east of the country. In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow’s strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with longer-range weapons. He explained that, Russia would now have to push Ukrainian forces further from the front Continue Reading
The US will increase its military presence across Europe as Nato agreed a “fundamental shift” in its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A permanent Army Headquarters will be created in Poland, while new US warships will go to Spain, fighter jets to the UK and ground troops to Romania. Mr Biden said Nato was […]Continue Reading
A Russian diplomat has quit his job in protest at the “bloody, witless” war “unleashed by Putin against Ukraine”. Boris Bondarev, whose LinkedIn says he worked at the Russian mission to the UN in Geneva, told the BBC he knew his decision to speak out may mean the Kremlin now considers him a traitor. But […]Continue Reading
The US President, Joe Biden, says, Sweden and Finland have the full total backing of the country in their decision to apply for Nato membership. Report says, both countries submitted their applications to be part of the Western defence alliance this week, marking a major shift in European geopolitics. To join the alliance, the two […]Continue Reading
Dozens of people are feared dead after a bomb hit a school in east Ukraine, where government forces are battling Russian troops and separatists. Luhansk region’s governor, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed two deaths, saying 60 people were feared dead under the rubble of the school in Bilohorivka. About 90 people had been sheltering in the building […]Continue Reading
Dozens of civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol to both Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled territory after weeks under siege. According to report, some have left the Azovstal steelworks, the last holdout of Ukrainian troops in the strategically significant city. Russia said dozens of civilians have arrived in a village it controls. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Continue Reading
Russia has banned Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and 10 other senior politicians – mostly members of the Cabinet – have also been barred. Moscow said the decision had been made […]Continue Reading
Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa says some Nigerian students who fled War torn Ukraine to neighboring countries of Poland and Hungary are now in detention. A development she said was unacceptable by the Federal Government. She made this known in Abuja at the commencement of a two day Psychosocial Trauma Clinic […]Continue Reading
A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin suspected of spying for Russia has been extradited to appear in court charged with nine offences under the Official Secrets Act. David Ballantyne Smith, 57, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The UK national was arrested by German police on 10 August. […]Continue Reading
Air Peace and Max Air may begin the evacuation of Nigerians from Ukraine on Wednesday, the Federal Government has announced. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this on Monday during a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Onyeama said the evacuation will be done following the approval of […]Continue Reading