Ukraine

Just in: Vladimir Putin sworn in for record fifth term as Russian president

Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian leader on Tuesday at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out for another six years in...

Russia conducts precision missile strikes in Ukraine’s port facility destroys 60,000 tonnes of grain

Russia unleashed intense drone and missile attacks on the two Ukrainian port cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv overnight on Wednesday, destroying 60,000 tonnes of...

Over 25m “hungry Nigerians” to get reprieve as Ukraine builds grain terminal in Lekki, Lagos

Less than 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu declared state of emergency on the nation’s food sector, Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and...

Putin orders temporary ceasefire in war with Ukraine starting January 6

After 11 months, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine on the eve of Orthodox Christmas following a...

Ukraine To Citizens: Leave The Country To Avert Energy Crisis

Persecondnews.com reports that parts of Ukraine are sending residents away to ensure that energy supplies do not collapse over the winter and that people...

‘Putin’ the cart before the horse in Ukraine

By Olukayode Oyeleye Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is clearly now at his wit’s end. His gestures in the past one day or two...

Revealed! How Russia’s mercenary group plunder resources in Africa to fund war against Ukraine

  The United State’s Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield has accused Russia’s notorious mercenary army, the Wagner Group, of plundering Africa’s natural resources...

43 European leaders strive for unity against Russia in historic summit in Prague

A new pan-European community will be born on Thursday when leaders from all corners of the continent assemble in Prague in a show...

Food security: Nigeria, Poland sign bilateral agreement, renews 60-year-old ties

As part of efforts to address food security occasioned by Russia-Ukraine war and to further strengthen ties, Nigeria and Poland have signed a...

15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine, CIA chief says

"The latest estimates from the US intelligence community would be something in the vicinity of 15,000 [Russian troops] killed and maybe three times...

African Union chairman fears ‘catastrophic’ food crisis from Ukraine war

  Macky Sall, chairman of the African Union and president of Senegal, has revealed a worrying food crisis  saying “the worst may be...

Air Lease Corp set to lose $802.4 million for leased planes trapped in Russia

Air Lease Corp is about to write off a whooping $802.4 million for leased aircraft trapped in Russia, Persecondnews.com gathered from the American aircraft...

Angry Russian troops ran over their own commander

A Russian commander was run over by mutinous forces during the fighting in Ukraine, in a sign of what they described as the...

Ukraine-Russia war: 193 Nigerians of the 2,357 evacuees test positive for COVID-19 – SGF Mustapha

No fewer than 193 Nigerians out of the 2,357 evacuated from the war-torn Ukraine tested positive for COVID-19, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC)...

Two weeks after evacuation from Ukraine, Nigerian final year medical student dies

Two weeks after returning to Nigeria from war-torn Ukraine, one of the 40 students evacuated to Sokoto, has died. The late Uzaifa Halilu...