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Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

Tension As Drone Attack On Russian Fleet Leaves Over 5 Dead

August 1, 2022 5:39 am

Tension is brewing currently after a drone attack on the Russian fleet in the Crimean port of Sebastopol on Sunday left no fewer than five people, the Russian-annexed city’s mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev disclosed.

‘This morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil the Day of the Russian Fleet’ being celebrated on Sunday, he said on Telegram, adding that five people, including employees of the army staff, had been wounded.

All festivities had been ‘cancelled for security reasons’, he said, asking residents of the city to remain indoors ‘if possible’.

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Huge celebrations …

Russia Details Plans To Quit International Space Station After 2024

Russia Details Plans To Quit International Space Station After 2024

July 26, 2022 5:22 pm

In lieu of the ongoing conflict between the Russians and the Ukrainians, Russia has made an announcement that it has decided to fully quit the International Space Station “after 2024”.

This announcement was made by the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency who had made the report to President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

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The announcement is also coming on the heels of the tensions which have been raging between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. Russia and the …

War Ukraine Sends Strong Warning To Russia

War: Ukraine Sends Strong Warning To Russia

July 23, 2022 5:45 am

The Ukrainian government has sent out strong warnings to Russia against provocations even as the ongoing war rages on. 

This is as the two countries signed a deal with the United Nations and Turkey on Friday to facilitate the export of grain.

The deal signed in Istanbul and mediated by Turkey and the UN would allow 5 million tonnes of grain exports per month from three Ukrainian ports, a senior UN official told CNN.

Ships carrying grains will now be able to navigate through a safe corridor in the Black Sea and then pass through the Bosphorus to reach global …

Food Crisis Russia, Ukraine Seal Grain Agreement In Istanbul

Food Crisis: Russia, Ukraine Seal Grain Agreement In Istanbul

July 23, 2022 5:28 am

Kyiv and Moscow yesterday signed a historic agreement with Turkey and the UN to open Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports after a Russian embargo stoked concerns of a food crisis on a global scale.

Following numerous rounds of painstaking discussions, Russian and Ukrainian teams signed individual agreements with Ankara and the UN as their first significant accord following nearly five months of combat.

Ukraine declined to sign the same documents as Moscow because it had warned before the signing that any Russian “provocations” around its ringed Black Sea ports would be greeted with a fast military reaction.

‘Today, there is …

High Treason Zelenskyy Moves To Arrest ‘Spies

High Treason: Zelenskyy Moves To Arrest ‘Spies’

July 21, 2022 5:19 am

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s shocking removal of two top law enforcement officials has revealed another front in the conflict closer to home — against spies and Kremlin sympathisers even as the Ukrainian army is putting up intense frontal resistance against Russian forces.

It is unprecedented since the invasion began that he fired prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova and SBU security chief Ivan Bakanov, both of whom were friends of President Zelenskyy from their youth.

Zelenskyy chastised the pair for failing to stop Russian spies’ and collaborators’ operations in Ukraine when the judgement was announced on Sunday and ratified by parliament on Tuesday.…

Russia Slams $360M Fine On Google Over Ukraine Content

Russia Slams $360M Fine On Google Over Ukraine Content

July 19, 2022 3:43 am

A court in Moscow on Monday fined Google 21 billion rubles ($360 million) for not removing a number of contents concerning Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine from its space, the nation’s telecommunications regulator has disclosed. 

Roskomnadzor asserted that the Google-owned video platform YouTube had failed to block ‘false information’ on the offensive in Ukraine, ‘extremist and terrorist propaganda’ and content ‘calling on minors to participate in what was tagged unauthorised demonstrations’.

The regulator said that as this was a repeat conviction for Google the fine was based on its annual revenue in Russia.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that …

War Putin Takes No Breaks, Zelenskyy Cries Out

War: Putin Takes No Breaks, Zelenskyy Cries Out

July 6, 2022 6:47 am

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that air alerts rang out across almost all of Ukraine Tuesday night, indicating that the Russian army has continued to remain very consistent in pounding the country. 

He made this known even as he called again for a modern, effective air-defence system.

Attacks, according to him, occurred in the western Ukrainian Khmelnytskyi region, the central Dnipropetrovsk region, the border region of Sumy, and the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv and its surroundings.

According to the governor of Luhansk, a lot of equipment is being delivered into the Donetsk region of Ukraine …

Missile Rain Zelenskyy Accuses Russia Terrorism

Missile Rain: Zelenskyy Accuses Russia Terrorism

July 3, 2022 7:25 am

Missiles rained down on Ukraine early Sunday morning killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built-up areas, a development which has prompted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accuse Russia of state ‘terror’.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that strikes on a southern resort town had left no fewer than 21 dead and dozens wounded after missiles slammed into flats and a recreation centre in Sergiyvka, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Black Sea port Odessa.

Rockets hit residential properties in Solviansk in the heart of the embattled Donbas region, killing a woman in her garden and wounding her husband, a …

Odesa 'There Was No One Alive' - Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

‘There Was No One Alive’ – Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

July 1, 2022 1:46 pm

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the death toll from Russia’s overnight strikes in the Odesa region of Ukraine has risen to up to 20 dead individuals as gotten from Ukraine’s emergency services.

Reports revealed that at least 16 people had been killed in a residential building, and four more, including one child, were killed in another strike at a recreation centre. A third strike had landed in a field, authorities said.

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A rescue operation is ongoing and 38 people were …

Occupied Ukrainian City Annnounces Referendum To Join Russia

Occupied Ukrainian City Annnounces Referendum To Join Russia

June 29, 2022 2:47 pm

As the war between Ukraine and Russia rages on, the pro-Russian military administration who is ruling the area around the recently occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson has announced that it is making some preparations to hold a referendum on joining Russia.

Kirill Stremoussov who is the Deputy Head of Kherson’s military and civil administration made this announcement in a video published on Telegram.

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“Yes, we are preparing for a referendum, and we will hold it,’’ Stremoussov said.

He added that Kherson should become a fully-fledged member of Russia.…

Zelenskyy Slams Russia Over ‘Terrorist’ Shopping Mall Strike

Zelenskyy Slams Russia Over ‘Terrorist’ Shopping Mall Strike

June 28, 2022 7:05 am

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, denounced the missile strike on a shopping centre in the central city of Kremenchuk describing it as a ‘brazen terrorist act’, as the death toll rose to 16.

Zelensky made this assertion while speaking after reports of two other strikes in the east of the country Monday that left no fewer than 12 civilians in all, as officials there accused Moscow of deliberately targetting civilians.

‘The Russian strike today on the shopping centre in Kremenchuk is one of the most brazen terrorist acts in European history,’ Zelensky said in his evening broadcast …

Outrage As Russian Missiles Hit Residential Buildings In Kyiv

Outrage As Russian Missiles Hit Residential Buildings In Kyiv

June 27, 2022 4:46 am

There is serious outrage as Russian missile attacks struck Kyiv’s residential structures, killing some persons and injuring at least four others, according to the mayor of the city on Sunday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that around 6:30 am (0330 GMT), about four explosions were heard meanwhile, the city had not experienced Russian shelling in nearly three weeks. This was 30 minutes after air raid sirens had sounded.

Ukraine demanded a stronger response to the Russian invasion after the missiles struck only hours before the start of a G7 summit in Germany.

The top three floors of an around …

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