Ukraine’s Counter-offensive Forces Russian Troops To Withdraw From Key Eastern Towns

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Ukraine’s Counter-offensive Forces Russian Troops To Withdraw From Key Eastern Towns   EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russian forces have withdrawn from key eastern towns, as a rapid Ukrainian counter-attack makes further gains.   Ukrainian officials said troops entered Kupiansk, a vital eastern supply hub for Russian forces, on Saturday.   EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine Crisis: … Read more

Turkey Asks To Mediate In Ukraine Nuclear Plant Standoff

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Turkey Asks To Mediate In Ukraine Nuclear Plant Standoff EKO HOT BLOG reports that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate in the standoff over a Russian-occupied nuclear power station in Ukraine stoking fears of an atomic disaster.   Saturday’s offer came hours before the global atomic energy watchdog said Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear … Read more

War: Fresh Shelling Hits Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Fresh shelling has been reported in Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.   EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant came under renewed shelling on Saturday as fraught negotiations to allow for a team of scientists from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the facility took on added urgency.   The United Nation’s … Read more

Radiation Risk As Fresh Shelling Rocks Ukraine Nuclear Plant

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Radiation Risk As Fresh Shelling Rocks Ukraine Nuclear Plant   EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine and Russia traded fresh accusations of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Saturday, as its operator warned of a radioactive leak risk at the atomic facility.   The Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine has been occupied by … Read more

Ukraine: Damage To Nuclear Plant Would Be Suicidal – UN Chief

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Ukraine: Damage To Nuclear Plant Would Be Suicidal – UN Chief   EKO HOT BLOGreports that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is “gravely concerned” about fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.   He made the comments during a summit with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip … Read more

Ukraine War: UN Chief Issues Warning As Ukraine Nuclear Plant Shelled Again

UN Chief has issued a serious warning as Ukraine’s Nuclear plant is shelled again.   EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United Nations chief has called for an immediate end to all military activity around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for renewed shelling.   Ukraine’s … Read more

Ukraine Labels Russia “Terrorist State” Following Death Tweet

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Ukraine Labels Russia “Terrorist State” Following Death Tweet   EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine has labelled Russia a “terrorist state” after Moscow’s UK embassy tweeted that Ukrainian Azov battalion soldiers deserved a “humiliating death” by hanging.   EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine War: West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says Ex-Nato Chief As Putin Unleashes Cruise Missiles … Read more

Russia Hits Kyiv Area As Ukraine Seeks To Regain Control In South

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A key bridge into the city of Kherson is out of action after Ukraine’s forces struck it with long-range rockets supplied by the US The Ukrainian military has warned that Moscow is now redeploying its forces from eastern Ukraine to defend the Kherson region EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine War: West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says Ex-Nato … Read more

Russia Charges Ukrainian Soldiers With War Crimes

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As well as the 92 who have already been charged by Russia, some 96 people, including 51 armed forces commanders, are wanted… The International Criminal Court (ICC), which has described Ukraine as a “crime scene”, has also sent a team of investigators and forensics experts there EDITOR’S PICK Presidency Responds To Video Of Terrorists Flogging … Read more

Our Rockets ‘Significantly’ Keeping Russian Troops At Bay – Ukraine

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Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, has captured a chunk of territory in southern Ukraine and used its artillery supremacy in the east to make gradual territorial gains But, a top Ukrainian general said on Thursday that Russia had not taken a “single metre” of land in the last week and that Ukrainian rocket attacks were … Read more

Missile Strikes Hit Targets In Ukraine As G7 Meets Over Russia

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Ukraine says 14 missiles were fired at the Kyiv region on Sunday, but the strikes extended far beyond the city4 Other areas included the central city of Cherkasy, where one person died, and the north-eastern Kharkiv region EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine War: West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says Ex-Nato Chief As Putin Unleashes Cruise Missiles In … Read more

Lagos Ranked World’s Second Worst City To Live

Lagos ranked second-worst liveable city on earth … in accordance to the report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). EDITOR’S PICK: Lagos Hajj Pilgrims To Get Travel Allowance Senate Raises Alarm Over Terrorists Invasion In Kwara, Others JUST IN: NPC Launches 2023 Population And Housing Census Call Centre EKO HOT BLOG reports that Lagos is … Read more

Ukraine: Russia Strikes Chemical Plant As Battle To Secure East Intensifies

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Severodonetsk has become the focal point of Russia’s efforts to advance in eastern Ukraine Seizing Severodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk would move Russia closer to its goal as it would give them control over Luhansk EDITOR’S PICK Roots TV Founder, Kachikwu, Ends Moghalu’s Presidential Dream, Emerges ADC 2023 Flagbearer Tinubu Defeats Osinbajo, Amaechi, … Read more

Ukraine: Explosion Rocks Kyiv As Fight Continues In East

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The city has been largely spared in recent months as Russian forces concentrate attacks in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine Some of the fiercest fighting is currently in the city of Severodonetsk EDITOR’S PICK Ukraine War: Western Nations Promise To Send More, Better Arms To Ukraine Ukraine War: West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says … Read more

France, Germany Urge Putin To Hold ‘Direct, Serious Negotiations’ With Zelensky

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Putin said Moscow was open to resuming dialogue with Kyiv, according to the Kremlin  The Ukrainian president earlier said he was not “eager” for talks, but added they would likely be necessary to end the conflict EDITOR’S PICK Popular Nigerian Journalist Arrested By FIB [PHOTO] Terrorists Invade Bishop Kukah’s Church Kidnap Priests, Others Again, EFCC … Read more

Ukraine War Hasn’t Gone As Planned – Putin’s Ally

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Belarus shares a border with Ukraine and Russia sent troops from there when it launched its invasion Russia’s Vladimir Putin helped Lukashenko cling to power in 2020 after his widely disputed presidential re-election sparked mass protests EDITOR’S PICK West Must ‘Prepare For War’, Says Ex-Nato Chief As Putin Unleashes Cruise Missiles In Ukraine Elon Musk … Read more

2023: Buhari Warns Desperate Politicians Against Rigging

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Buhari also cautioned against foreign interference in the forthcoming elections He advised those planning to rig the 2023 general elections to perish the thought EDITOR’S PICK 2023: Full Details Of Buhari’s Meeting With Tinubu, Adamu, Others At Iftar Dinner 2023: APC Commences Sale Of Nomination Forms House Of Assembly Member Dumps APC For PDP [PHOTO] … Read more

Russia Accuses UK Of Provoking Ukrainian Attacks On Its Territory

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Russia’s defence ministry said it was ready to hit “decision-making centres” in Kyiv should such attacks occur It comes after a UK defence minister said it was “not necessarily a problem” for Ukraine to use UK-supplied arms against military targets in Russia EDITOR’S PICK Powerful Explosions Rock Kyiv After Russian Warship Sinks Elon Musk Stages … Read more

US Sends Artillery To Ukraine To Contain Russian Firepower

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The United States, France, Czech Republic and other allies are sending scores of the long-range howitzers to help Ukraine blunt Russia’s mounting offensive Backed by better air defense, attack drones and Western intelligence, the allies hope that Kyiv will be able to destroy a large amount of Russia’s firepower EDITOR’S PICK Powerful Explosions Rock Kyiv … Read more

Ukraine Won’t Give Up Territories In East To End War – Zelensky

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Zelensky spoke in both Ukrainian and English about the horrors his country has witnessed and the urgent help his military still needs to be equipped He said that his country has no guarantee that Russia wouldn’t try again to seize Kyiv if it is able to capture Donbas EDITOR’S PICK APC Holds Emergency NEC Meeting … Read more