LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian forces have intensified attacks on several key Ukrainian cities as Ukraine’s president accused Moscow of wanting to “erase our country”. Ukrainian authorities denied Russia’s claim it had captured the Black Sea port of Kherson on Wednesday, the seventh day of its invasion of Ukraine, while Russian artillery massed outside the capital…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that 497 Russian troops had been killed and 1,597 injured to date since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday. A military adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a sharply different estimate hours later, saying that over 7,000 Russian soldiers had been…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. for the first time has approved the direct delivery of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine as part of a package approved by the White House last week. During the Cold War, the CIA covertly supplied Stingers to Afghan guerrillas fighting Russian forces. Now Ukrainian forces locked in an intensifying fight…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A father shot dead three of his own children Monday before turning the gun on himself in a US church, police said. A fifth person also died in the shooting in Sacramento, California, though it was not clear if that person was related to what police said was a domestic incident. “The…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS0-China, a close ally of Russia, said on Monday that it was opposed to illegal unilateral sanctions and will continue to carry out normal trade cooperation with Moscow, as the US, EU and their allies stepped up punitive measures against Russia, including the interbank messaging system SWIFT. Asked about what some have…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian airstrike bombed the central square of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, right outside of the region’s administration building, terrifying video shows. In the video, cars can be seen driving on the street in Kharkiv’s Freedom Square before a rocket suddenly flies through the screen, striking just outside of the large administration…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-European countries from north to south are banning Russian planes from transiting through their airspace in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here’s a roundup: – Early birds – On Friday, Britain announces an immediate ban on Russian private jets from UK airspace, in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the opening days of the war in Ukraine, the fractious American public is remarkably united in opposition to Russia’s invasion, with 74 percent saying the breach is not justified and 76 percent expressing an unfavorable opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Yet in a…