Shakhtar Donetsk have confirmed a youth coach has died defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. “One of our employees was killed, he was a children’s coach, He was hit by a fragment of a Russian bullet” confirmed Shakhtar CEO Serhyi Palkin on Thursday evening. This coming few days after FIFPRO announced that two Ukrainian footballers were killed […]

  A top Russian general has reportedly been killed in the war with Ukraine. Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, died yesterday, Ukrainian news outlets report. They referred to a post on Russian social media platform VKontakte written by Sergei Chipilev, a deputy of the Russian […]

  The Embassy of Ukraine in Nigeria says Nigerians who are willing to travel to Ukraine to fight Russian forces must be willing to provide $1,000 for ticket and visa. The embassy stated this when scores of Nigerian men converged on its premises in Abuja on Thursday to express their readiness to join the Ukrainian […]

  A member of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia says the parties have reached a tentative agreement to organize safe corridors for civilians to evacuate and for humanitarian supplies to be delivered, AP reported. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who took part in Thursday’s talks in Belarus near the Polish […]

  An Air Peace charter flight scheduled to evacuate Nigerians fleeing Ukraine from Poland on Thursday has been postponed. According to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official, Bolaji Akinremi, the flight was postponed due to a delay in preparing passengers for the check-in process. The flight has now been scheduled for Friday morning. About 2,000 […]

  Sanctioned Russian billionaire, Alisher Usmanov’s megayacht has been seized amid a crackdown on oligarchs who are friends with Vladimir Putin. The 512-foot Dilbar, described as Usmanov’s prized possession, was frozen by German authorities on Monday February 28. The vessel, with an estimated value of £600million, remains at shipyards in the northern city of Hamburg […]

  Nigeria and 140 other nations voted against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanded the immediate withdrawal of troops from the Eastern European country. The decision was reached on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in a powerful rebuke of Moscow’s invasion. After more than two days of extraordinary debate, which saw the Ukrainian […]

  The sport’s commercial arm, which controls the calendar, has decided racing in Russia is impossible in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. The race in Sochi scheduled for September this year has already been cancelled. There will now no longer be a race in St Petersburg, where it was due to move in […]

  The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Friday said the organisation was “deeply saddened by the continued suffering and loss of life” as a result of the war in Ukraine. She said this in a statement on Wednesday, as the war which has shocked the world and threatened global stability […]

  The federal government says the first batch of Ukraine-based Nigerians who will be evacuated will arrive Nigeria on today.. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, many residents, including Nigerians, have been forced to flee to neighbouring countries. The federal government had earlier said its diplomatic mission received Nigerians in Hungary, Poland and Romania. […]