•A damaged residential building following a Russian drone strike late night in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, last night Ukrainian drone strikes killed four people and wounded seven in Russia today, most in the Moscow region, local officials said, as Kyiv upped its strikes in response to Kremlin’s barrages. Ukraine has been striking Russia, particula...
•Late Marian Adaobi Nnani and Russian bomber jets The Russian Federation has disputed reports linking its military to the death of Nigerian medical graduate, Miss Marian Adaobi Nnani, saying there is no confirmed evidence that she was killed by a Russian strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The position was contained in a statement issued yesterday by ...
•FIFA football More than four years after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, FIFA today indicated that it was opening the way for Russia to enter an international youth competition. In announcing its under-15 ‘World Cup and Festival’ in Azerbaijan from October 22 to 31, the governing body of world football said it would […]...
•Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple special event in Cupertino, California Apple has removed Russia’s state-backed Max messenger from its App Store, the app’s Russian developers said today. Moscow has for months been pushing Russians to install Max — a super-app that lacks encryption and that critics say could be used to track […]...
•A nozzle and an aircraft Russia today banned the export of aviation fuel until the end of November as Ukraine escalates its strikes on Russian refineries, depots, and pipelines. Kyiv has increased attacks on Russian energy facilities in recent weeks, hitting targets as far as the Urals, reports AFP. The attacks often cause major fires, [&hell...
•A woman walks outside the British embassy building in Moscow Russia today kicked out a British diplomat over allegations he was working as a spy — charges rejected by London as “complete nonsense”. Moscow and London have each expelled multiple embassy staff over the last decade, trading accusations of espionage, reports AFP. Expulsions from ...
Russia’s foreign ministry said today it had summoned the British and French ambassadors over a Ukrainian attack on the city of Bryansk using French-British Storm Shadow missiles. The ministry said it summoned the envoys “to lodge a strong protest” over the attack on Tuesday that it said “would not have been possible without the involvement [&h...
•Ukraine President Zelensky, EU Ambassador Gautier Mignot and Russian President Putin On the fourth anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the EU ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, voiced concern over what he described as a disturbing development — Russia’s recruitment of Nigerians and other Africans to fight in the war. Mignot, speaking ...
Four South African men lured into fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine returned home today, local media said. Their arrival comes days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the return of South Africans caught up in the Ukraine war, reports AFP. It was not immediately clear [...
•Presidents, Zelensky (Ukraine), Trump (US) and Putin (Russia) Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine will today resume in Geneva, with the United States acting as mediator to end nearly four years of war. The discussions will follow two earlier rounds of trilateral negotiations held in Abu Dhabi in January and early February, as diplomats sea...

