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Russia Threatens To Expel US Journalists Over YouTube Block

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

No Ceasefire Deal Without Russian Withdrawal, Zelenskyy Says

No Ceasefire Deal Without Russian Withdrawal, Zelenskyy Says

May 5, 2022 12:56 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday vowed that his country would not accept a deal with Moscow that would allow Russian troops to remain in occupied territory under any circumstances.

Zelenskyy disclosed that Ukrainian forces had already halted the Russian offensive in what he described as the first stage of the conflict. In the second stage, he revealed, Ukraine so everything possible to expel Russian troops from its territory and in the third, he said, the country would move to fully restore its full territorial integrity.

Zelenskyy asserted that he would not accept a ceasefire deal that would allow Russian …

Russia Accuses Israel Mercenaries Of Fighting For Ukraine

Russia Accuses Israel Mercenaries Of Fighting For Ukraine

May 5, 2022 12:51 am

A key spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday alleged that Israeli mercenaries were fighting alongside the far-right Azov Regiment in Ukraine, a statement which has now further fuelled tensions with Israel after Russia had last week suggested Adolf Hitler had ‘Jewish blood’.

‘Israeli mercenaries are practically shoulder to shoulder with Azov militants in Ukraine,’ Maria Zakharova told pro-Kremlin Sputnik radio in an interview which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

It would be recalled that Azov rose to prominence in 2014, when its far-right activists took up arms against pro-Russian separatists who live in Ukraine’s eastern …

US Working Hard To Ensure Russia Strategic ‘Failure’ - Biden

US Working Hard To Ensure Russia Strategic ‘Failure’ – Biden

May 4, 2022 1:59 am

US President, Joe Biden has called the US military aid to Ukraine a ‘direct investment’ to protect democracy stressing that the country was doing everything possible to ensure the strategic failure of Russia. 

Speaking to pressmen on Tuesday Biden said; ‘Since Russia invaded Ukraine just over two months ago, we have sent more than $3bn in security assistance to Ukraine – alone us, not counting our allies’.

‘That money is a direct investment in defending freedom and democracy itself, because if you don’t stand up to dictators, history has shown us they keep coming… their appetite for power continues to …

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