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As Russia rumbles, Ukraine inches closer to NATO membership
While Russian is facing internal turmoil over disloyalty and treachery among key instruments used by Kremlin to galvanize global influence, Ukraine has been working to foster its relationship with the world’s most powerful military and economic alliance, NATO. Ukrainian president,…
Wagner fighter confesses war against Ukraine as crime
Sopuruchi Onwuka Many truths are beginning to spill from the failed coup in Russia where the private military company, Wagner Mercenary group, escalated its feud with the state military forces to the government of Russia and declared doubts about the…
Belarus offers Wagner chief asylum
The owner of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, would now be exiled to Belarus after disembarking his campaign to topple President Vladimir Putin’s government following fallout of clashes with Russian troops while offering his services. Yevgeny Prigozhin dropped…
U.S. urges Ukraine to accept talks with Russia
The United States is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war and did not seriously wish to engage in peace talks, according…
Hunger looms as Russia blocks 218 vessels with Ukraine’s grain exports
Some 218 merchant ships laden with cargoes of grain from Ukraine have been stock at loading quays after Russia pulled safety guarantee from the Black Sea Grain Initiative by withdrawing from the UN brokered agreement to allow food exports from…
Putin toughens military draft conditions with jail terms
Zelensky urges Russian conscripts to surrender to Ukrainian forces Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained a hard stance on mandatory military service as despite rising protests and opposition to continued military operations to annex neighboring Ukraine. President Putin weekend signed…
EU considers Ukraine’s membership as refugees surge
The rising refugee crisis in Europe arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might soon find resolution if the proposal by the European Commission gains the approval of the 27 nation economic bloc to admit the embattled country. The European Commission…
Russia unleashes deadlier weapons against Ukraine
Ukrainian and British officials warned Saturday that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing eastern Ukraine and fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both sides. Russian bombers have…
Russia sets up company to sell Ukraine’s grain
Russian-installed officials in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region have set up a company to buy up local grain and resell it on Moscow’s behalf, a local representative told the Interfax news agency on Saturday. Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of Zaporizhzhia’s pro-Russian…
Ukraine war: 22m Nigerians, Sahel Africans starving
WFP seeks $777m for 6 month intervention programme Sopuruchi Onwuka Millions of people facing starvation in Sahel Africa and Nigeria will need urgent supply to avert mass undernourishment as the prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached…
