Tag: Vladimir Putin

‘Three Years On,’ £2.5bn Chelsea Sale Money Still Frozen In UK Bank

Ganiyu Amodu

Money raised from the sale of Chelsea, which was supposed to benefit victims of the war in Ukraine, has still not been released. The Foreign Office has confirmed that the proceeds from the £2.5bn sale almost three years ago remain frozen in a UK bank account. Former owner Roman Abramovich was forced to sell Chelsea in May 2022. He had been sanctioned by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s UK government after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine because of his close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin. When asked what has…

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Russia-Ukraine war: Something Going Through the Mind of Xi Jinping

Nurudeen Oyewole

Russia and China may not agree on everything, yet they agree on most things. You may, in this well scripted view about the third force in Russian-Ukrainian tension, want to read about what Xi Jinping is peeping at in Vladimir Putin’s playbook   On February 24, 2022, just about the time Russia was shelling Ukraine with bombs and artilleries, nine Chinese military aircrafts were in a show of force, flying through Taiwanese airspace unrestrained. Either planned or by coincidence, a message was being passed across and it was one that…

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Transcript of the Speech by Ukrainean President Volodymyr Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky

From his call to Putin few hours ago, through threat on how the “step (by Putin) can be the beginning of a big war on the #European continent,” to an appeal to Russians, here is a read-for-yourself transcript of the speech by President of Ukraine, a country facong a full blown war with Russia. “Today I initiated a phone call with the president of the Russian Federation. The result was silence. Though the silence should be in #Donbas. That’s why I want to address today the people of #Russia. I…

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Russian-Ukrainian War: Prices Africa Is About To Pay, By Nurudeen Oyewole

Nurudeen Oyewole

Nurudeen Oyewole digs out some beneath-the-sufface information from the other end about what Africa will face in the raging Russian-Ukrainian war   As the booms of guns shots, the bangs of bomb blasts and the smothering of missile shelling swell the air across the length and breadth of Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, the doubts, guesses and projections of potential war between Russia and Ukraine have been laid to rest while the reality of an impending Armageddon inches closer. But while the world powers scramble from west to east, north…

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