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Russia Advances In East Ukraine As EU Brainstorms On Oil Ban

June 1, 2022 5:30 am

Russian forces edged toward the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk on Wednesday, while President Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared to appeal to EU leaders at an emergency summit where a ban on Russian oil imports is on the agenda.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Zelensky is expected to press EU officials at the summit ‘to kill Russian exports’ as he seeks to crank up international pressure on Moscow.

Member states are searching for a compromise on a sixth round of sanctions, which has been delayed by resistance from within the bloc, namely from Hungary.

Meanwhile, Russia …

Bodies Of Ukrainian Fighters Discovered At Azovstal – Russia

May 31, 2022 9:50 am

The conflicts between Ukraine and Russia seems not to be seeing an end anytime soon as the Russian military on Tuesday said it has found the bodies of 152 Ukrainian fighters in the underground bunkers of the Azovstal steelworks it captured in Mariupol earlier this month after a protracted siege.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov in Moscow said, “152 bodies of fallen fighters and soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces were stored in a container with no longer functioning refrigeration.’’

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He added that Russian authorities had yet to …

Lithuanians Raise Millions To Procure Ukraine A Combat Drone

May 30, 2022 4:22 am

Lithuanians have donated more than five million euros to a public fundraising campaign that was set up to buy a combat drone for Ukrainian forces fighting Russia’s invasion.

The money needed to buy a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone was raised in three-and-a-half days which came to an end yesterday evening in the country of 2.8 million people.

“Probably for the first time in history, citizens of one state can buy and donate such heavy weapons to another state,” said influencer Andrius Tapinas, founder of the online broadcaster Laisves TV which launched the initiative.

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Russia Threatens To Expel US Journalists Over YouTube Block

May 27, 2022 6:26 am

Russia’s foreign ministry has threatened to expel a US journalist or US media outlet if YouTube again blocks broadcasts of its weekly press briefings.

‘A few of my briefings were blocked. What we did is we went ahead and said: if you block a briefing one more time, one journalist or one US outlet will go home,’ foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova disclosed at a roundtable discussion.

She also took aim at Polish media, “taking into account that all this is overseen by a lady with Polish citizenship”, referring to the platform’s CEO Susan Wojcicki, a US citizen of Polish …

Russian Solider Imprisoned For Life For Murdering Ukrainian

May 23, 2022 9:03 am

As the effects of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia wear on, sanctions have begun to roll in as a 21-year-old Russian soldier was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting and killing a civilian in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial.

The soldier confessed to court in Kiev on Monday that he shot a 62-year-old civilian amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The development was the first case heard in court after the worldwide horror over Russian atrocities in Ukraine which have claimed the lives of several persons.

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U.S To Inaugurate Conflict Monitor For Russian War

May 18, 2022 10:32 am

In a move to further publicize the real state of things between the two war torn countries which are Ukraine and Russia, the United States (U.S.) has established a new conflict monitoring body which will be used to build legal cases against Russia for crimes committed during its war on Ukraine.

“The Conflict Observatory will ensure that crimes committed by Russia’s forces are documented and perpetrators are held accountable,” State Department spokesman, Ned Price, said on Tuesday as he announced the creation of the body.

He had all the programme would capture, analyse, and make publicly available open-source information and …

Ukrainian Invasion: McDonald’s Set To Exit Russia

May 17, 2022 5:48 am

American fast-food giant McDonald’s has concluded plans to exit the Russian market and sell its business in the increasingly isolated country, the company has disclosed.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the company would now become the next on the list of many Western businesses have pulled out of Russia since its February invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier on Monday, French automaker Renault announced it had handed over its Russian assets to the government in Moscow, marking the first major nationalisation of the economic disentanglement.

McDonald’s in March closed all of its 850 restaurants in the country, where it says …

NATO: Russia Suspends Electricity Supply To Finland

May 15, 2022 2:17 am

Russia has suspended electricity supplies to Finland overnight after its energy firm RAO Nordic threatened to cut off supplies over payment arrears, an official for Finland’s grid operator has confirmed.

‘It is at zero at the moment, and that started from midnight as planned,’ Timo Kaukonen, manager for operational planning at Fingrid, disclosed.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that RAO Nordic had on Friday said it would suspend supplies, citing problems with payments, as Helsinki prepares to announce its application for NATO membership in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia Deports Romanian Diplomats In Revenge Move

May 13, 2022 12:31 pm

In a move which analytics have termed as ‘expected’, Russia has openly expelled 10 Romanian diplomats, as well as a Bulgarian, in retaliation for a similar move by the two countries following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Romanian foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday that “the Russian Federation declared 10 employees of the Romanian embassy in Moscow persona non grata”.

The expulsion was also confirmed by Moscow and follows the April 5 expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats “whose activities breached the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”, according to the Romanian foreign ministry.

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US Temporarily Halts Tariffs On Ukraine Steel Imports

US Temporarily Halts Tariffs On Steel Imports From Ukraine

May 10, 2022 4:02 am

The United States has announced the suspension the tariffs imposed on Ukrainian steel imports for one year, a move designed to help the war-torn nation’s economy.

Africa Daily News, New York reports on the aftermath of the dramatic evacuation of civilians sheltering in a steel plant in Mariupol after Russian forces bombarded the port city, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo hailed the importance of the industry that continues to operate and employ one in every 13 Ukrainians, providing them with an ‘economic lifeline.’

‘We can’t just admire the fortitude and spirit of the Ukrainian people — we need to …

Italian Authorities Impounds Mega Yacht Linked To Putin

May 9, 2022 1:45 am

The Italian authorities yesterday announced that it has impounded a mega yacht at the centre of a mystery over its ownership as speculation continue to grow that it might even belong to the Russian President, Putin.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the yacht which is named ‘Scheherazade’ is worth an estimated $700 million. It has been the subject of a probe into its ownership by Italy’s financial police.

Over the last few weeks, the Italian probe has helped ‘establish significant economic and business links between the person who officially possesses the Scheherazade and eminent people in the Russian …

Five Confirmed Dead In Wind-Propelled Siberia Fires

May 8, 2022 2:57 am

Several fires have broken out in southern Siberia, Russia on Saturday, affecting about 200 buildings and causing at least five deaths, local authorities have confirmed declaring a state of emergency.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the fires in the Krasnoyarsk region spread to some sawmills and a children’s playground, the regional ministry for emergencies said on Telegram.

Regional governor Alexandre Uss submitted that high winds of up to 40 metres per second, had brought down trees and power lines across large swathes of the region, sparking the fires which authorities said 300 firemen backed by 90 vehicles were …