ukraine
8 May 2024
Russia said Wednesday it had captured two more frontline villages in Ukraine, including in the north-east Kharkiv region where its troops had been pushed back two years ago. Moscow has made a string of gains on the front in recent months, pressing its manpower and weapons advantage on the battlefield as Kyiv waits for critical…
6 May 2024
Ukraine on Monday said it had restored power to hundreds of thousands of people who lost electicity in overnight Russian strikes but warned of "urgent challenges" in maintaining the grid.
6 May 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered new nuclear weapons drills in the face of Western "threats," as a Ukrainian drone attack killed six people and wounded over 30 in Russia's Belgorod border region.
5 May 2024
A Russian rocket strike on Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region killed two people and a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv injured at least six, officials said Sunday.
3 May 2024
The United States has accused Russia of deploying chemical weapons as a “method of warfare” in Ukraine, in violation of international laws banning their use.
30 Apr 2024
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Aviation Authority (NCAA) has debunked allegations that the Acting Director General of the agency Captain Chris Najomo approved N250 million to purchase an SUV vehicle for himself. The Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection of the Agency Mr Michael Achimugu while reacting to a media publication accusing the DGCA of…
30 Apr 2024
The Ukraine-Nigeria Business Council has offered to help Nigeria fix its troubled electric power sector, through a partnership with the Republic of Ukraine. President, Ukraine-Nigeria Business Council, Mr. Ben Gbade Ojo who made this revelation on Monday in Abuja while presenting to the government, the EDS Ukraine power and engineering, disclosed how Nigeria’s decades-old electric…
29 Apr 2024
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday it was "not too late" for Ukraine to win the war, agreeing with President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv needs more weapons, while Russian forces advance.
26 Apr 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Friday that Russia's capture of a major nuclear power plant threatened a radiation catastrophe, as the country marked the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
21 Apr 2024
The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become "a second Afghanistan," President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday.
18 Apr 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that Ukraine had an "urgent, critical need for more air defence", at a G7 foreign ministers' meeting on the Italian island of Capri.
11 Apr 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia fired more than 40 missiles and 40 drones at Ukraine overnight, again hitting the city of Kharkiv and targeting "critical infrastructure" throughout the country.
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