•Ukrainian servicemen of a drone hunting team The United States has agreed to sell $138m worth of urgently needed military equipment to Ukraine to repair and upgrade its HAWK missile systems while a larger $60bn aid package remains stalled in Congress. Ukraine’s air defences, which largely consisted of Soviet-era planes and missile systems whe...
•Russian drone strikes At least six people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials say. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Iranian-made Shahed drones had hit several buildings, including apartment blocks, early today. Attacks on Kharkiv, the closest big city to the Russian border, have been intensifyi...
•Oleksandr Zinchenko Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko says he would leave the Premier League to fight in Ukraine if his war-torn country called him up. This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law lowering the country’s army mobilisation age from 27 to 25, the country’s parliament said on its website. Mobilisation has bee...
•Peter Obi Amidst the food price hike and economic hardship besetting the nation, the government of Ukraine recently donated 25,000 tonnes of wheat as emergency food assistance to 1.3 million vulnerable, crisis-affected people in Nigeria’s northeastern region, a development which Mr Peter Obi has now described as disheartening. Obi who was the...
•President Zelensky Ukrainian Orthodox Christians are observing Christmas on December 25 for the first time to mark a significant departure from their traditional celebration date. In Ukraine, the Julian calendar has long been observed, aligning with Russia’s practice, resulting in Christmas being celebrated on January 7, reports. It is now ce...