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...
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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...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says monkeypox infections continue to rise globally, with more than 35,000 cases across 92 countries and territories, and 12 deaths. WHO Director General, Dr Adhanom Ghebreyesus, disclosed this while speaking at a news conference from WHO headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday. “Almost 7,500 cases...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the people of neighbouring Belarus not to allow themselves to be drawn into Russia’s war on Ukraine. “The Kremlin has already decided everything for you,” he said on Sunday in his evening video address. “But you are not slaves and cannon fodder....
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...
Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Russia’s Vladimir Putin told him on Friday that he was ready to enable the export of Ukrainian grain to ease a global food crisis that is hitting Africa especially hard. “President #Putin has expressed to us his willingness to facilitate the export of Ukrainian...
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...
There were emotional scenes on Wednesday night, June 1 after Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1 in a Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifier despite it being their first match played since Russia began its invasion on February 24. Fans of both countries held up Ukraine flags throughout their national anthem in...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of Russia of trying to destroy Ukraine’s identity. According to Biden, this is as witnessed by Russian bombardments of civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, daycare centres and museums. “I believe what Putin is attempting to do is to...
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...
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...