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...
War
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Russia will not succeed in its war against Ukraine. In two months, Russian armed forces had used more than 1,100 rockets, countless aerial bombs and artillery against Ukraine, Zelensky said. Zelensky said this in his nightly video speech published on Telegram late...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to welcome U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to Kiev on Sunday as a delegation from Washington makes a visit to the embattled country. The announcement came as Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities on Saturday. Amid...
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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday said Russia was using phosphorous bombs in Ukraine and he accused Moscow of deploying terror tactics against civilians. Addressing the Estonian parliament, Zelenskiy said: “The Russian army is using all types of artillery, all types of missile, air bombs in particular phosphorous bombs...
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...
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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday condemned hesitancy in Europe over barring Russian energy imports, arguing some leaders were more worried about business losses than about war crimes. New “rhetoric” about sanctions had emerged, he told the Irish parliament, “but I cannot tolerate any indecisiveness after everything we have...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that alleged war criminals in Ukraine will be brought to justice. Ukraine is working with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to ensure that war crimes in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities are fully investigated, the Ukrainian president said in a...