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quentin06:
He had his shot.

But a Second shot is allowed...

If you think I am lying ask Coronavirus

People have taken their 4th shot just to live well....

These guys should chill

Jonathan's second coming is inevitable...

A time is coming, when the North would buy Presidential form for Jonathan and vote for him massively...

Just because they know that

1- he would not spend more than 4 years in office ....

2- Life was better during is time and Nigerians have been duped by a party that promised change

This may not be the right time.... But his second coming is Inevitable....

abir:
Apc has fail us, how can he fail in proper training of children before 2023?���

It's true, the party is a disappointment.

ElijahIme1992:
Oga that does not excuse the fact that buhari has failed us

I agree with you...

Bubu is a colossal mistake that Nigerians made in 2015..

Bodies exhumed from mass graves to probe alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine

Hundreds of bodies have been exhumed from a makeshift cemetery behind a church in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, 50 km from Kyiv, to probe the alleged Russian war crimes.

Ukraine, with the help of international investigators, has started a probe on the allegations of mass graves dug up to bury the dead, which many believe were executions of civilians by Russian forces.

Close to 900 bodies of civilians were found around Kyiv alone. It's alleged at least 300 were buried at this location alone in Bucha. However, there are no official figures to support this.

A team of investigators from France visited the site in Bucha to pick up evidence as bodies were exhumed. They will be studying the evidence to probe the allegations. India Today was at the spot when the exercise to take forward the investigation took place at a mass grave in Bucha.

Russian forces had occupied Bucha but retreated after facing heavy casualties. Russian tanks were blown away as the Ukrainian forces hit back with guided anti-tank missiles that left hundreds of Russian soldiers dead here.

The stiff resistance by Ukrainian forces halted the Russian advance from the north towards Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Oleg, a lawyer and human rights activist, who is now a volunteer soldier with the Ukrainian forces, was a part of the investigation team at the spot. He said, "A team of international investigators is looking into it.

Police are also collecting evidence. We know the commanders responsible for this. It was organised and planned. When they came to Bucha they had a list of people to be arrested. The perpetrators of the crimes must be punished."

"What we see here is a typical example of genocide by Putin. This is a violation of the Geneva Convention. They went into Bucha and arrested people without any facts on suspicion of being spies.

There are 280 bodies just at this location," Oleg said. There are several such makeshift cemeteries that have come up in several parts of Ukraine to bury the civilians who died.

As of April 18, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 4,890 civilian casualties in the country: 2,072 killed and 2,818 injured since the Russian invasion started on February 24.

Russia has constantly denied any war crime on its part in what it calls special military operations that started on February 24 to “de-militarise Ukraine”.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet had in a statement on April 4 said, "I am horrified by the images of civilians lying dead on the streets and in improvised graves in the town of Bucha in Ukraine."

The statement added, "Reports emerging from this and other areas raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes as well as grave breaches of international humanitarian law and serious violations of international human rights law."

The UN also called for an investigation into the alleged war crimes by exhuming the bodies.

"It is essential that all bodies are exhumed and identified so that victims’ families can be informed, and the exact cause of death established.

All measures should be taken to preserve evidence. It is vital that all efforts are made to ensure there are independent and effective investigations into what happened in Bucha to ensure truth, justice and accountability, as well as reparations and remedy for victims and their families," the statement read.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-bucha-mass-graves-bodies-exhumed-1939283-2022-04-19

That means a growing number of Kremlin insiders want to loose their life...

Putin would kill them without thinking twice....

A Brutal dictator is always brutal.

Juan Orlando Hernández: Honduran ex-leader extradited to US

A former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.

Mr Hernández, who governed the Central American nation until January, was put on board a US Drug Enforcement Administration plane for New York.

He was arrested at his home just weeks after his second term in office ended.

The ex-leader has denied wrongdoing, arguing that disgruntled drug traffickers are trying to frame him.

Mr Hernández is facing charges of:

1- conspiracy to import a controlled substance into the US
2- using or carrying firearms including machine guns
3- conspiracy to use or carry firearms

In a video posted on his wife's Twitter account, he denied the allegations, saying: "I am innocent. I have been subjected to an unfair trial."

In a statement, the US Department of Justice said Mr Hernández would make his first appearance before a New York court on Friday.

US Attorney Damian Williams said the former president had "partnered with some of the world's most prolific narcotics traffickers to build a corrupt and brutally violent empire based on the illegal trafficking of tons of cocaine".

The head of the Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA), Anne Milgram, called Mr Hernández "a central figure in one of the largest and most violent cocaine trafficking conspiracies in the world".

The 53-year-old's legal troubles were triggered by the trial against his younger brother Tony, a former member of the Honduran Congress, who was sentenced to life in prison last year.

During Tony Hernández's trial in New York, prosecutors alleged that the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán had personally handed the younger Hernández $1m (£765,000).

According to the prosecutors, "El Chapo" told Tony Hernández to pass the money on to his older brother, Juan Orlando, to finance the latter's presidential campaign.

Juan Orlando Hernández is accused of having accepted millions of dollars in bribes during his eight years as president in exchange for protecting drug traffickers from investigation, arrest and extradition.

In its extradition request, the US outlined some of the allegations in more detail, accusing the former president of "participating in a violent drug trafficking conspiracy to receive shipments of multiple tonnes of cocaine sent to Honduras from Colombia and Venezuela and other locations by air or sea routes".

The request alleges that the drugs - amounting to a total of 500 tonnes since 2004 - were then transported to the Guatemala border and from there to the US.

Mr Hernández has denied the allegations, arguing that he fought drug traffickers with all the means at his disposal.

The former president - who was elected to the office in 2014 - says that the evidence against him was fabricated by drug traffickers out for revenge after his government extradited them to the US.

He has been in police custody since his arrest on 15 February.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61174692.amp

Some would blame Buhari and APC for this one too...

I hope Buhari didn't promise well trained children in 2015 oo

Christmas came early

UK sanctions Russian generals it says have 'blood on their hands'

Britain set out 26 new sanctions on Thursday targeting Russian military generals responsible for what it called atrocities in Ukraine, as well as individuals and businesses supporting the Russian armed forces.

"Today's new wave of sanctions hits the generals and defence companies that have blood on their hands," foreign minister Liz Truss said in a statement.

Britain, which has sought to play a central role in the West's response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has already set out hundreds of sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans on prominent Russian billionaires and politicians including President Vladimir Putin.

The latest sanctions included an asset freeze and travel ban on Azatbek Omurbekov, a commander in the Russian army who the British government said was involved in the "Bucha massacre".

Ukraine and most major western countries have accused Russia of war crimes in Bucha during the several weeks when the northern town was under Russian occupation. Pictures of dead civilians that emerged after Russian forces withdrew sparked an international uproar and led to further sanctions on Russia by the United States, Britain and the European Union.

Russia has denied allegations that it killed civilians in Bucha, calling footage and photographs of dead bodies a "staged performance" by Kyiv.

Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it has concluded that Russian attacks on Ukrainian government buildings, schools and hospitals since March 10 were intentional based on, among other things, the types of civilian targets struck, frequency of strikes and volume of munitions used.

Earlier in the week, Ukraine said the second phase of the war had begun with the "Battle of Donbas" in the country's east, after failing to capture the capital Kyiv and being forced to withdraw from the north.

Russia calls its incursion a "special military operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western allies reject that as a false pretext for an illegal war of aggression.

Britain said its new sanctions also targeted Kalashnikov Concern, a maker of army equipment whose weapons have been used by the Russian army in Ukraine; Military Industrial Company, a major supplier of arms and military equipment to Russia; and Russia's largest leasing company GTLK

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-sets-out-26-new-sanctions-against-russia-2022-04-21/

Denmark's prime minister on Thursday pledged to send more weapons to Ukraine during a trip to Kyiv, where she and her Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez were meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a gesture of support.

Mette Frederiksen also visited the badly damaged town of Borodyanka, which has been retaken after Russian troops pulled back from the region around Kyiv.

Frederiksen and her Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez both arrived in Kyiv early on Thursday, according to footage posted on Sanchez' Twitter account

Frederiksen's office said talks with Zelenskiy would focus on further support for the Ukrainians and the prosecution of "war crimes and human rights violations".

Russia calls its action a "special military operation" to demilitarise Ukraine and eradicate what it calls dangerous nationalists. The West and Kyiv accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of an unprovoked war of aggression.

Numerous European leaders have travelled to Ukraine since Russia's invasion to show support for its president and people, more especially since Russia pulled back its forces from northern Ukraine.

"We intend to deliver more weapons to Ukraine because that is what is most needed," Frederiksen told the Danish channel TV2 as she walked around the town surrounded by armed soldiers.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spains-pm-sanchez-denmarks-pm-frederiksen-visit-kyiv-2022-04-21/

Queen makes emotional trip to Sandringham to celebrate her 96th birthday and will stay at her late husband’s former home, Wood Farm, where he lived following his retirement in 2017.

She will celebrate her 96th birthday today while staying close to her beloved late husband Prince Philip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rDU65_gYo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RK9T5TWJQ


Her Majesty has since left her Windsor Castle home to the royal family’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

The monarch flew from Windsor Castle to her Sandringham estate where she is likely to spend several days at Wood Farm, the home Prince Philip moved to after his retirement in August 2017. She visited him frequently until the Covid pandemic necessitated his moving to shield with her at Windsor Castle.

Buckingham Palace is not planning any kind of public engagement to mark her birthday on Thursday, though there will be tributes from family members and organisations she is involved with.

A new photograph was issued to mark the occasion. The portrait, released by the Royal Windsor Horse Show, shows her holding the reins of two white ponies, against a magnolia tree backdrop and was taken last month by Henry Dallal in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

The Queen’s ponies, Bybeck Nightingale and Bybeck Katie, will feature in A Gallop through History, the horse show’s Platinum Jubilee equestrian display showcasing horses from across the globe. The show will run from 12 -15 May.

It is expected the Queen will be visited by family and friends over the next few days during her short holiday. She has no major confirmed engagements in her diary. Recent mobility issues have led her to cancel a string of engagements and it is not yet known which events planned for her platinum jubilee in June she will attend.

Didier Drogba my Man

greymiles:
That’s the purpose before
I’m sure Putin’s goal was to disrupt Ukraine... As an Ex KGB agent and someone who knows about war, he knows there can’t be absolute victory in taking over the government of Ukraine, if he does, US will fund rebel groups to disrupt it.
Ukrainians should opt for peace instead of pleading for weapons, cuz Russia and NATO are ready to drag this war for years and create a Korea or Vietnam type of country... except that the Ukraine Russia and NATO will be sharing will be badly destroyed by that time

Bros are you sure Russia is ready to drag this War for years with NATO ?

If this War continues like this, Putin's Russia would be badly hit.....

His Financial War chest would be depleted given the sanctions from the west....

Las las na nuclear weapons the guy go resort to ..... Just to try and end the matter because he would not accept defeat...

His defence minister is already accusing the West of prolonging the war by supplying arms to Ukraine.....

Why is he complaining ?..... He should have expected that to happen..

Could it be that he was not planning and not ready for a prolonged war ?

The West is ready to make sure that Putin spends 20 years in Ukraine with a depleted war chest and a very weak economy.

I believe the Russians have seen the game plan of the Western nations and Putin should not fall for it this time around....

Nevertheless....

These guys on both sides should swallow their pride and get back to the negotiation table in Turkey.

Exactly...

A prolonged war would make Russia feel the full effect of Western Sanctions...

Putin would then be fighting the Ukrainian military and Economic downturn at home...

Ukraine repels Russian attack in the east , killing 20 soldiers and destroying many enemy military equipment


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnpTj6GP4EM


War update for eastern regions:

Ukraine repels Russian attack, kills Russian servicemen, destroys equipment.

The Shid Tactical Group (East) repelled an enemy attack, destroyed more than 20 invaders, one main battle tank, one artillery system, two aircraft. riders and other military equipment.

The eastern Ukrainian military forces reported: "Our artillery inflicted lethal fire on the location where personnel and equipment were assembled. During the attack, our soldiers destroyed 22 military personnel, a tank, an artillery system, a military truck, two UAVs and a special equipment unit."

As previously reported by Ukrinform, a Ukrainian unit operating the Korsar anti-tank missile system, commanded by Junior Sergeant "Mykhailo" together with the 28th Separate Motorized Brigade of the Winter Operation, destroyed a column of enemy heavy equipment in the Kherson area, including the two main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and armored personnel carriers.

Ukrainian forces repelled 10 enemy attacks in the JFO area yesterday.

The Ukrainian army repelled ten attacks, destroying three tanks, several artillery systems and an armored personnel carrier in the area of ​​​​the Joint Operation in eastern Ukraine in the past day.

“Due to the skillful actions of the Coalition troops, 10 enemy attacks were successfully repelled today. Our soldiers inflicted losses on the occupiers from Russia.

It is noted that the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed three tanks, three artillery systems, a special equipment unit, two motor vehicles and an armored personnel carrier. Another armored personnel carrier was captured.

In addition, air defense units shot down six Orlan-10 drones.

240 km of roads cleared in the liberated regions of Ukraine's Ukravtodor.

A total of 240 km of roads have been cleared in the areas of Ukraine liberated from Russian invaders.

First Deputy Director of the State Service for Motor Vehicles of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) Andriy Ivko said this during a talk on Ukrainian TV channels.

“As of today, 240 km of roads have been cleared of leftover equipment. Seven temporary intersections have been built," he said.

Ivko added that two more temporary flyovers will be built in the Chernihiv region by the end of the week.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/ukraine-repelling-intense-russian-offensive-in-east-uk-says-as-mariupol-troops-face-last-hours

A Ukrainian commander from the 36th separate marine brigade in the besieged city of Mariupol has made an urgent plea in a video shared on his Facebook page, saying that his forces were probably facing their last days, if not hours'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wV8rqURGx0

Serhiy Volyna said his troops were outnumbered 10 to one and appealed to world leaders to help 500 wounded soldiers and hundreds of civilians trapped in the city.

We ask them to use the procedure of extraction and take us to the territory of a third-party state,' he said

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Drenimarcus:
Thought I was the only one noticing this? Artillery strikes, air strikes, missile strikes, cruiser ship strikes and soldiers mop up the remains.

The Russian Air Force is now jamming NATO involvement due to their intel in the sinking of the Moskva ship.

The mayor of Nikolaev already said they haven’t been paid for 2 months and are out of food and water.

My guy still dey expect salary for this kind weather ?

E nor dey see 3rd world war for his backyard ?

Abeg, If he see food and water, make he do Thanksgiving....

yyba:
little boy keep wasting your mum data

I don't blame you...

I blame the witless nigga that brought you into this world...

If he had used condom during the illegitimate sexual intercourse that produced you,

By now you would be swimming in the septic tank or gutter where you actually belong...

Smelly thing.

yyba:
shaartappp

It is obvious you lack proper home training...

So, You might as well tell that to your father...

KWASIAA...

yyba:
all this online kids ipob terrorists miscreants self

So now I am Igbo....

You are now displaying tribal bigotry like a confused fellow..

Appleyard:
Lmao. If Putin wanted everyone below there dead, they would have done it already with bunker bursting bombs. Just flatten the who place. But I guess they want to catch whomever that is there alive suspecting they would have valuable intel.

The guy don start oo....

Like you said...

He has used bunker bursting bombs on the soldiers for their failure to surrender...

Appleyard:
Ukraine is not really in Rubbles yet. You need to see real Rubbles in Baghdad and Aleppo. For instance, many of the cities the Russians pulled out of to mark the end of Phase 1 have running water system, internet and cellphone network working properly. The only city that looks a bit like rubbles is Mariupol, and that is caused by both sides used of artilleries in city centers.

But in this new phase, with the way the Russians are conducting their operation, there would be hardly anything left in the east by the time they're finished. This is bad for the people of Ukraine.

Ok...


But if they actually destroy the entire eastern side of Ukraine, what would be Putin's prize in this War.

A liberated Donbas is supposed to be his prize.... But not a Donbas in ruins...

Or the guy does not care if it ends in ruins.... As long as he can flush out anything Ukrainian from that place.

And gain a land bridge from Crimea to the Donbas region...


He would have succeeded in dividing the country into two...

Appleyard:
Maybe, although it doesn't sound this convincing in the article. This war should just end. A country the size of Ukraine destroyed is not good for anybody, particularly Europe and the global economy.

The war should end Asap....

Nevertheless, Russia is now feeling the pinch of Western Sanctions....

Putin came out to say that the sanctions have backfired but we know how the guy thinks..... He never admits the truth..

The same day the mayor of Moscow said that 200,000 jobs are at risk....

The governor of the central bank admitted that the economy cannot be sustained at the current pace....

Yesterday the defence minister was accusing the West of prolonging the War by sending arms to Ukraine....

What did he expect..

It seems that the guy does not want a prolonged war because the more the war continue, the more the Russian war chest would be depleted...

Drenimarcus:
I really pity those Ukrainian soldiers. They are heavily being plummeted.

pic.twitter.com/vgjuwNkeCq

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) April 19, 2022

This second phase will reduce Ukraine to rubbles.

But Ukraine is already in Rubbles na ...

They are just hanging on so that Russia would not occupy the nation without a serious fight...

Appleyard:
This news is not correct. What about Kherson?

Kherson was the first city to come under Russian control in the first phase of the Special War Crimes Operation...

I believe the article is focused on the first city captured by the Russians during this second phase...

yyba:
it is late kid you can go to bed now okay

Since you refuse to buy sense...

Go and sing lullaby to your father and send him to a perpetual sleep where he would never wake up from...

KWASIAA...

yyba:
re read the rubbish you just type, you are really under 13 years of age who happens to have mummy phone to post nonsense to public

Since you know how to talk down to people

You can as well call your father under age the next time you see him...

KWASIAA....

Kelvin3476:
What about the other former captured cities ? Abi those ones are audio capture ?

Audio capture......... Lol

No this is the first city / village they captured since the start of the phase 2 of the Special War Crimes Operation.

The others were in Phase 1 and they Committed crimes against humanity there..

I doubt if they would be merciful this time around because their ship that was sunk by the Ukrainian military is still paining them...

yyba:
is like you are suffering from reading comprehension, can you post where i abused you.

You can refer to yourself as a Kid...

But that try that nonsense with me ..

You must be suffering from low self esteem, hence you feel the need to talk down on people in a faceless forum...

yyba:
just be mature in your posting and stop typing like someone that is using bonus data

I would keep calling out War Criminals

No matter who they are...

Americans, Chinese or Russians...

If you abuse me for doing that, I would bite you maturely like a Crocodile on steroids.

Russian forces capture first city in battle for Donbas

Governor of Kreminna says Ukrainian troops have withdrawn after being attacked ‘from all sides’

Russian forces have seized the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city, the regional governor has said.

Kreminna, a city of more than 18,000 people about 350 miles (560km) south-east of the capital, Kyiv, appears to be the first city captured in a Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.

“Kreminna is under the control of the ‘Orcs’ [Russians]. They have entered the city,” Serhiy Gaidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, told a briefing on Tuesday. “Our defenders had to withdraw. They have entrenched themselves in new positions and continue to fight the Russian army.”

He said Russian forces had attacked “from all sides”.

It is impossible to calculate the number of dead among the civilian population. We have official statistics – about 200 dead – but in reality there are many more,” he said, without making it clear what period the estimated death toll covered.

Russia denies targeting civilians.

Evacuated residents from the city have said they are unable to reach relatives and friends there.

Olena Stetsenko, the head of the City Korupus volunteer organisation located in Kreminna, was evacuated from the city in mid-March. Stetsenko was one of the last to reach someone inside the city before her mobile signal was fully cut off at lunchtime on Monday, she said, hours after Russian forces reportedly took the city.

There has been a pattern of Ukrainian towns and villages losing mobile connection shortly after falling under Russian occupation.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/19/russian-forces-capture-first-city-battle-donbas-kreminna