News as it breaks
A Russian teenager on Thursday shot dead a classmate and injured five others before killing herself in a school in Bryansk near the Ukrainian border. The Investigative Committee disclosed this on Thursday in a statement. “A 14-year-old girl brought a pump-action shotgun to school, which she used to shoot her…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Russia on Thursday, for talks with Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said, as the two countries strengthen economic and military ties in the face of Western sanctions. “I can confirm. There will be Russian-Iranian negotiations on December 7,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on…
The G7 as a whole is expected to work to tighten existing sanctions, close loopholes, squeeze Moscow’s access to the international financial system and commit to keeping Russian assets frozen until the end of the war in Ukraine.
The conflict is between the forces of army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who heads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Western officials have also raised concerns that China may be considering providing Russia with lethal military assistance, an accusation denied by Beijing.
The Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, suffered a “terrible night” as Russian missiles hit the city while residents were asleep, said Serhii Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region military administration. A 79-year-old woman died and seven people were injured, according to preliminary information, Lysak…
Kyiv’s top general said missiles also flew above Romania – a claim denied by Romania, but later repeated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A Former Director-General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Professor Bola Akinteriwa says the Russian government may take a sanctionary measure against Nigeria. Professor Akinteriwa stated this in Lagos, during a Seminar entitled: Russia-Ukraine War and the imperatives of a new global order, organized by the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.…
