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There's no place like your country and we have not been able to make our own country work, sadly.

Toktee:
After months of being on the backfoot, this was the moment Ukraine tried to strike back and its tactics appear to have taken Russian forces by surprise.

Drones, rockets and missiles being fired into Russian territory are nothing new. But hundreds of fighters surging across the border, backed by tanks, is rare.

Russia says it repelled the attack, but it involved sending in reserves and moving troops from elsewhere. That appears to have been part of the aim for Kyiv - to relieve the pressure on other parts of the front.

So why now?

According to Moscow, Russia has gained more than 400 square kilometres in the last two months alone.

It controls nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory.

But Kyiv fears it doesn't have long to turn that around, seeing the US presidential election in November as a rapidly looming deadline.

Should Donald Trump win, the concern is that American aid will expire and the White House will demand a settlement.

If Ukraine is to be in a stronger negotiating position, it needs to start making advances soon

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Today's summary

Our live coverage of the war remains paused today, but if you're checking in, here are the key developments since yesterday afternoon.

Russia 'repels armoured Ukrainian incursion'

Moscow said it repelled up to 300 Ukrainian fighters backed by tanks that launched an incursion into the Kursk area of Russia.

Five people were killed and at least 20 wounded, among them six children, in the fighting, Russian officials said.

It would be one of the largest ground incursions into Russian territory of the more than two-year-old war.

Vladimir Putin called it a "major provocation" - despite Moscow invading Ukraine and waging a war on its territory for more than two years.

Kyiv kept up its air attacks on the border region overnight, the Russian defence ministry said.

The situation was "controllable", said Alexei Smirnov, the acting
governor of the southwestern Russian region.

There were no reports of fresh ground fighting this morning.

Ukraine's general staff has made no mention of any Ukrainian offensive operation inside Russia.


Ambulance attack

Mr Smirnow claimed a Ukrainian drone hit an ambulance outside the border town of Sudzha, killing the driver and a paramedic and wounding a doctor.

A senior Orthodox clergyman said Ukrainian shelling had set ablaze a cathedral and other buildings within a large monastery outside Sudzha, but no one was hurt.

Kursk region is also the site of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, but Mr Smirnov said the facility was operating without incident.

Kharkiv missile attack


Reuters

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv yesterday killed at least one person and injured 12, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russian drone wave

Ukraine's air force shot down 30 drones launched by Russia overnight over seven regions, it said. Two fires caused by the attack have since been put out with no casualties reported.

Fine update.

nedu666:
F16 will never approach the Russian territory for fear of being shot down. Meanwhile who will supply these 300 ukraine spartans with what they need to hold on

I think Ukraine is doing this to halt supply of gas to Europe and it'd backfire. Those buying Russian gas and still supporting Ukraine will have problems with Ukraine over this move.

"They tell us we're the leaders of tomorrow, now It's our grandfather that's the leader of tomorrow"

😂

Physics has an explanation for this.

Now they're about to escalate this protest or finding a way to get labor to join so they can hijack it through their(NLC) leadership.


Don't be fooled. Nigerian leaders are all the same. What they condemn, they assume power and begin to do it again.

People really don't see this one as food, it's to them just an add-on or an "appetizer".


The question still remain, "what happened to Loi Loi?"

Philipponzaghi:
This is just a sign of progress and strategic partnerships. The Tinubu administration is likely streamlining operations for efficiency. It's not about hijacking; it's about making NNPC more competitive. We should focus on how this benefits the economy instead of creating unnecessary drama. Let's support initiatives that drive growth!

Haba!

siofra:
Where are all the redpillers clowns on this forum? Come and explain this to me.

You say a man's reproductive value doesn't decrease in age, a man at 70 is still as active as a man at 24

Yet

In the picture below, the sperm of a man in his early twenties is more valuable than that of a man in his thirties and the sperm of men above 36 is not needed.

The sperm's primary purpose is not to be donated for monetary gains, it's to be dumped in your system to fertilize. At 70, a man can still get a baby out with his 70 yr old system. Can you at that age?

Looking at the skills you have acquired, I think there's a place remote jobs are readily available, have you tried such platforms?

Nobody even remember he's part of the demand. In SE, since everyone is a billionaire and there's no hunger there, they should have made his release their sole demand from the protest, but they let him down again. They prefer to be locked inside every Monday.

Chinkoalhaji34:
It's about time the polls reflect the true sentiment of the people!

Kamala is bringing a fresh perspective that the country desperately needs.

While Trump’s era is fading, it's clear that many are ready for progress and change. The energy is shifting, and it’s exciting to see!

Hillary Clinton was leading Trump like this leading up to the election in 2016. Remember, it's not a popular vote that determines who emerges.

Polls don't do it.

Kingsmeal:
Lol

His mind don touch ground…🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂

Mandate1:
if anyone is the clown, it's you. Before you criticise the gov, take a deep breathe and assimilate what he said. If For example Benue state gets FAAC allocation of #2bn last Yr and the exchange rate is #400-$1 2bn/400=5m dollars. Today the same Benue receives #6bn, and the exchange rate is #1500-$1. If we go by the same arithmetic, #6bn/1500=4m dollars.

Benue state got more revenue in naira form under Buhari, but the real value has decreased. This is why someone who earns 50,000 under Buhari is way better than someone who earns 100,000 under Tinubu. A bag of rice under Buhari is 30,000, same bag of rice under Tinubu is 80,000.

@Favor914, this educative and illustrative.

It makes no sense to take it from subsidy and give it to the states. You know it won't cascade down. He doesn't have to devalue our currency.

How does Tinubu think sometimes? You exposed us to hardship and in turn take the money back to the governor. Where it was reaching everyone, you halt that system, then took it to those who won't let it get to everyone. Strange!

I don't know why he likes to worship the world bank and IMF. His preoccupation is to worship the white man even if it'd cost him the entire Nigeria.

God1000:
Israel should stop looking for trouble everywhere, they violated Iran's air space last week and nobody said anything about it, no condemnation from the US and Europe

If Iran retaliate now, all the hypocrites will label them evil

Iran would retaliate. It was irresponsible for Israel to attack an important figure like Hanniyeh on Iran's soil.

Why won't those in charge of this monies do everything possible to keep insecurity industry running? It's a big enterprise.

He's not the one who docked Tinubu back then, right?

Emir that imposed curfew that led to the killing of his people, let's see how he rules from now onward.

God1000:
Why digging it out now, these people will go to any length to discredit, ridicule and embarrass this girl, and force her to quit

This year's miss south Africa pageant show has exposed the dark underbelly of the south African society, it has brought out all the beast in south Africans simply because a girl with nigerian roots is contesting, reading their hateful and disgusting comments on social media shows their level of hatred towards nigerians

She should just withdraw from the show, I'm never going to forgive them for this

The hate the girl is facing is too much. Did the mom actually commit the identity theft? This will be so bad on her.

IamHonourable1:
nawa for you,who are you asking the questions?Read you said no, now you're asking irrelevant question.

a box of matches costing N26 in '90?

This is important.

Nigeria has deteriorated so much.


26 naira for matches? Is it for the carton or just one box? I want to know.

Quite an achievement.

May Allah grant him the wisdom to provide the needed leadership to the oppressed people of Gaza.

From the land to the sea...there shall be freedom.

Australia again...

Greatzeus:
Intelligent indeed. You cannot even present your thoughts in writing in an explicit plain and comprehensive manner.
Your post is incoherent and sounds like the brawling of a man under influence of drugs and alcohol.

The most important thing is, he said he's having a problem and needs help. You can decide to be more English than the queen when It's your time to explain your problems.

Schizophrenia is his problem, not English language. And English language is not a measure of intelligence.

Johnson225:
its a woman behind that moniker. forget the name.
i've been noticing her for quit sometime now.the undertone screams female in all her posts

Really? I see

How did she leave home with the gun?