Ukraine on Saturday urged the West to amp up military assistance to the besieged country, including warplanes, as Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated warnings against NATO. “The highest demand that we have is in fighter jets, attack aircraft, and air-defense systems,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told a small group of journalists on the […]

  Ukraine and Russia will engage in talks aimed at negotiating a cease-fire and safe passage for civilian evacuations on Monday, a Ukraine official said, after the evacuation of the southeastern city of Mariupol was halted. The Ukrainian president’s office said Saturday that Russia continued shelling the area in violation of a cease-fire. The decision […]

  Vladimir Putin says the sanctions imposed on Russia by western countries over the invasion of Ukraine are like a declaration of war. Speaking to flight attendants on Saturday at an Aeroflot training centre near Moscow, Putin insisted he only wanted to “demilitarise” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine. “These sanctions are methods of fighting against Russia,” he […]

  Nearly 1.37 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, according to the latest UN data Saturday. 1,368,864 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) counted 1,368,864 refugees on its dedicated website at 1215 GMT, almost 160,000 more than the previous count on Friday. Authorities and the UN expect […]

  The third batch of Nigerian evacuees following the Ukraine-Russia war arrived in Abuja late last night. They were evacuated from Hungary and landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 11:25 pm on Friday. According to the official figure from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the number of evacuees from Hungary was 174 […]

  Russia has declared a partial ceasefire to allow civilians leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in Ukraine. According to the Russian defence ministry, the ceasefire on Saturday will give room for humanitarian corridors out of the strategic port of Mariupol in the southeast and the eastern town of Volnovakha. The truce, which will […]

  Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor “restricted access” to social media network Twitter after blocking Facebook in the country, Russian news agencies reported Friday. According to Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies, access to Twitter was restricted on the basis of a request of the Prosecutor General from February 24 — the day of Russia’s invasion […]

  The BBC said Friday it was suspending the work of its journalists in Russia after Moscow backed imposing jail terms on media publishing “false information” about the military. The corporation’s director-general, Tim Davie, said the new legislation was “unwelcome” and “appears to criminalise the process of independent journalism”. “It leaves us no other option […]

  Senegal has condemned a call by Ukraine’s embassy for Senegalese volunteers to join its fight against Russia. The West African country said it learned of a Facebook post by the embassy of Ukraine in Dakar, appealing to foreign citizens for help. Senegal’s foreign ministry said Yurii Pyvovarov, ambassador of Ukraine to Senegal, was subsequently […]

  The Kremlin has claimed it is waiting for a response from Ukraine following yesterday’s second round of peace talks. Moscow said it had told Ukraine “how we see the solution to the problem”, adding what happens next will depend on Ukraine. The Kremlin added that no documents were agreed yet with Kyiv. Talks took […]