Russia said yesterday it was considering banning popular messaging service WhatsApp, accusing it of failing to prevent crime, and urged its tens of millions of users to switch to domestic alternatives. US technology giant Meta, which owns WhatsApp, said Russia was trying to ban the application because it “defies government attempts to violate ...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia added Human Rights Watch to its list of “undesirable” organisations today, effectively banning the New York-based pressure group from operating on its territory. Russia did not give a reason for the decision, and Human Rights Watch, which was forced to shut its offices in Russia in 2022, did not immedia...
•Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine), Donald Trump (US) and Vladimir Putin (Russia) Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that he would end his Ukraine offensive if Kyiv withdrew from territory Moscow claims as its own — otherwise his army would take it by force. The Russian army has been slowly but steadily grinding through eastern Ukraine in ...
•Adeboye, Tinubu and Trump Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to take the threat by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump lightly, urging him to plead with Trump to give Nigeria 100 days to end insurgency in […]
•Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia accused Ukraine today of rupturing a now defunct pipeline used to transport Russian ammonia into Ukraine for export, releasing toxic gas into the air. The incident took place near the frontline village of Rusin Yar in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia said. “During Ukraine’s retreat from the area...
•Ukrainian rescuers work among the rubble following drone attack today Ukraine and Russia launched attacks on each other’s territory early today, leaving at least five people dead, authorities on the two sides said. In Russia’s Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, a missile strike killed three people in the village of Maslova Pristan, about 15 ...
•Russian prisoners of war (POWs) today after the exchange Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each today, Moscow and Kyiv said, the latest in a series of swaps that have continued despite the lack of progress towards ending the conflict. Russia’s defence ministry said on Telegram that “185 Russian servicemen have been returned” [...
•A Ukrainian tank Ukrainian drones today hit a major Russian oil refinery some 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) from the front line, triggering a fire, officials from both countries said. The strike is the latest in a wave of drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure as Kyiv seeks to knock out Russia’s vital energy revenues that […]...
•Trump and Putin US President Donald Trump said today he was ready to sanction Russia, but on the condition that all NATO allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and implement their own sanctions. “I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do […]
•Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early yesterday, killing four people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv ablaze in an attack President Volodymyr Zelensky warned would prolong the war. The attack was the first to hit Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers,...
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