President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, has closed American airspace to Russian aircraft. Biden, in a broadcast on Tuesday, said Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a “high price over the long run”. Russia continues bombardment of Ukraine as the onesided war enters its seventh day, with Moscow’s miles-long military convoy […]

  The Russian army claimed on Wednesday it had taken control of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson as Moscow’s invasion of the pro-Western country entered its seventh day. “The Russian divisions of the armed forces have taken the regional centre of Kherson under full control,” defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in televised remarks. […]

  The Russian military advance on Kyiv has momentarily stalled, hampered by Ukrainian resistance as well as fuel and food shortages, a senior US defense official said Tuesday. “We generally sense that the Russian military movement… the overarching movement on Kyiv, is stalled at this point,” the official told reporters. “We do think that some […]

  A first group of Ghanaian students evacuated from Ukraine arrived home on Tuesday as African governments stepped up efforts to extract stranded citizens following the Russian invasion. Nigeria plans to start evacuating hundreds of its citizens on Wednesday from neighbouring Poland, Romania and Hungary, where they have fled the conflict. Nigeria’s government and the […]

  Russia will strike at the information warfare and psychological operations centre of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and technological facilities of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in Kyiv. However, it called on citizens living nearby to leave their homes, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman, Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Tuesday. “In order to suppress information […]

  70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian missile attack in the region of Sumy in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament confirmed on Tuesday. It said on Twitter that an army unit was fired upon in the town of Okhtyrka, located between the capital Kiev and Kharkiv. Russian forces were currently fighting to […]

  European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said the union’s defence ministers would meet virtually to coordinate their assistance for Ukraine amid global rage over Russia’s invasion. Borrell, via his Twitter account on Monday, said this came after the bloc decided for the first time to jointly fund weapons and send them […]

  The Ukrainian army said on Tuesday that it had shot down several Russian fighter planes as Russia’s invasion of its neighbour country entered its sixth day. Five Russian fighter planes and a helicopter were shot down during aerial attacks on Monday, the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper and the Ukrainian air force reported. The planes were […]

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama on Monday defended the Federal Government’s response to the evacuation of Nigerians in Ukraine. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the Minister said it was difficult to plan ahead because the Nigerian government didn’t know how the situation would evolve. “The majority of people did not know […]