Tag: Ukraine
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Italian president welcomes Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been welcomed by President Sergio Mattarella to his official residence in Rome during Zelensky’s visit to Italy. Zelensky was driven up to the Quirinal Palace shortly after 12.00 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Saturday, where Mattarella welcomed him in the courtyard.
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EU condemns Russian escalation of war against Ukraine
The European Union (EU) has accused Russia of further escalating war against Ukraine. The EU made the accusation in a statement on Friday. “This week marks another escalation in Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine with increasingly indiscriminate and bloody shelling of civilian areas,’’ the spokesman for EU Foreign Affairs Chief Josep Borrell said…
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Ukraine to resume electricity exports to Europe after 6 month halt
Ukraine will resume exporting electricity to Europe after a six-month pause due to crippling Russian missile attacks on the country’s infrastructure, Energy Minister German Galushchenko, said on Friday. “The Ukrainian power grid had been functioning for almos
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Epitaph for the living – By Owei Lakemfa
A NUMBER of European leaders harbour the quixotic thought that as the first year of the War in Ukraine rolls by today, February 24, 2023, the Ukrainians will militarily defeat Russia. They prefer a continuation of the war, and, their writing the epitaph of Russian and
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Zelensky says Macron wasting his time with Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected remarks by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on keeping the door open for dialogue with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Zelensky told Monday’s edition of the Corriere della Sera newspaper and two other Italian
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RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR: Former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson seeks support for Ukraine
Amidst the Russian attack faced by Ukraine, the former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on Sunday, travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and was received by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Conservative MP said it was a “privilege” to visit the country at the invitation of Mr Zelensky. The unannounced visit came as fresh questions…
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Ukraine’s top govt officials killed in helicopter crash
The three main figures in Ukraine’s interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary.
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War: Russia, Belarus form military alliance
Following concerns that Minsk the Capital of Belarus is being dragged into the Ukraine conflict to fight alongside Moscow, the two neighbouring countries started a joint air force According to Minsk’s defence ministry “joint tactical flight drills of aviation units” from Belarus and Russia had started.
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US to support Ukraine with $2.8 billion in military assistance
As the conflict between Russian and Ukraine continue, the United States has announced a new military aid to Ukraine. According to Blinken Antony, the US Secretary of State, on Friday, said the $2.85 billion drawdown in military assistance will include; “Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, artillery systems, armored personnel carriers, surface-to-air missiles, ammunition, and other items…
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As Peace Eludes the Weak in a World of the Strong, Welcome to 2023 – By Dennis Onakinor
By midnight of December 31st, 2022, joyous sound of fireworks will reverberate through the skies of most towns and cities across the world in celebration of the dawn of 2023. But for the people of Ukraine, it will be the now-familiar sound of fire from machine guns, tanks, artillery, missiles, jet fighter