Moscow’s emergency situations ministry on Thursday, said Russia sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip to be transported from Egypt. The Deputy Minister, Ilya Denisov said this in a statement. Denisov said, “A special plane has taken off from the airport at ...
READ MORE +By Ifreke Inyang US President, Joe Biden has said “little happens in Russia without the knowledge of Vladimir Putin”. Biden made these remarks while reacting to the reported death of the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Russia’s agency for air transport claimed that Prigozhin ...
READ MORE +Agency Report Russia has executed 77 civilians being held in arbitrary detention in Ukraine, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. “We documented the summary execution of 77 civilians while they were arbitrarily detained by the Russian Federation,” Matilda Bogner, head of the ...
READ MORE +The commander of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, last night agreed to live in exile in the Republic of Belarus after ending the gravest threat to the 23-year rule of President Vladimir Putin in Russia. The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, according to reports, negotiated the ...
READ MORE +Agency Report Britain unveiled new sanctions against Russia on Friday, targeting imports of diamonds and other minerals in a bid to choke Moscow’s ability to fund the war in Ukraine. Before a G7 summit in Japan began, London said it would introduce “a ban on Russian diamonds”, copper, ...
READ MORE +Russia’s armed forces said on Tuesday they were evacuating more than 200 people from Sudan on four military transport planes. The defence ministry said in a statement the evacuees included diplomats, military personnel and other Russian nationals as well as citizens of “countries of the former ...
READ MORE +By Biodun Busari A Russian fighter jet accidentally discharged a weapon that exploded in the Russian city of Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian border, on Thursday night. BBC reported that Belgorod’s regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast had left a huge crater about 20 metres (60 ...
READ MORE +Russian strikes on Ukraine killed six on Thursday and knocked out power, including to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. Russia unleashed a new wave of air strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least six people and knocking out power, including to the ...
READ MORE +The US and its European allies sparred with Russia on Thursday over the war in Ukraine and urged the Group of 20 (G20) nations to keep up pressure on Moscow to end a conflict that they said had destabilized the world. Russia hit back, accusing the West of turning work on the G20 agenda into a ...
READ MORE +The United States authorities have advised their citizens still residing in Russia to leave immediately. Those who planned to travel to the eastern Europe nation were also advised to postpone such itinerary. The advice is coming amid growing concerns over irrational and arbitrary detentions ...
READ MORE +Russia's commissioner for human rights says negotiations were held between ombudsmen of Russia and Ukraine in Turkish capital The Russian and Ukrainian human rights commissioners on Wednesday agreed to exchange more than 40 prisoners after meeting in the Turkish capital. ...
READ MORE +By Paula Tsoni Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers had refused to engage in talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Rossiya 1 state television in an interview aired on Sunday. “We are ready to negotiate with ...
READ MORE +By Phelan Chatterjee BBC News Russia has strongly criticised the visit to Washington by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing the US of fighting an indirect war against it. President Joe Biden has pledged $1.85bn (£1.45bn) of military aid for Ukraine - including an ...
READ MORE +By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times The U.S. is sending its famed Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, Biden administration officials confirmed Wednesday, marking a major step forward in American military aid to Kyiv as its war with Russia nears the 10-month mark. The State Department ...
READ MORE +Joe Sommerlad Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has issued a fresh warning that Moscow’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), nicknamed “Satan II”, could soon be ready for deployment as its war in Ukraine rumbles on after 10 gruelling months. In an end-of-year speech to ...
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