The Russian government has reacted with relative calm to calls for Moscow to be shut out of the G20 group of major industrialized states. “The G20 format is important,’’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, according to the TASS news agency. However, he said, an exclusion would not be fatal at present, most G20 […]

The elderly, children and other Ukraine residents unable to join millions fleeing the country over Russia’s invasion and airstrike face food shortages. Ukrainian authorities said Friday that about 300 people died when a Russian airstrike last week blew up a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of civilians were sheltering — a catastrophic loss of civilian life that, […]

By Victoria Ojeme Ukraine has ex-pressed appreciation to Nigeria and other nations that have stood by her in the ongoing war against Russia who invaded her territory on February 24. Speaking, the Defense Attache to the Embassy of Ukraine in Nigeria, Colonel Andrii Vasyliev, asked for more sanctions against Russia, insisting that Russia is planning […]

President Joe Biden promised allies would respond if Russia uses chemical weapons against Ukraine. “It would trigger a response in-kind,” Biden told reporters. “Whether or not you’re asking whether NATO would cross, we’d make that decision at the time.” Biden was in Brussels meeting with NATO allies for emergency talks as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters […]

By Musa Na Annabi, Sokoto One of the 40 students evacuated to Sokoto from war-torn Ukraine has died, two weeks after returning to the country. The student, late Uzaifa Halilu Modachi, was a student in Ukraine when Russian troops invaded the country. According to the father of the deceased former Ukrainian student, Honourable Habibu Haliru […]