I'm sorry, but Lokoja is just....zero. a clear indication of continuous poor leadership that has plagued Kogi for a long time. A sensible leader would've taken taken advantage of Lokoja's strategic location as major transit hub, just like Benin, to generate much needed Revenue that's then invested in the city's.....sorry, village's infrastructure. And being a confluence town, I don't see why they haven't taken advantage of that e.g. marine services transporting people btw the farmlands of the North down commercial south via the Niger river.

Is the Guardian actually observing what's happening in eastern Ukraine? The Russians are already, capturing territory, while inflicting major blows on the Ukrainians, with the Ukrainians on the Back foot.....yet they think the Russians are losing? Really??

It's settled then. Poland and Bulgaria can go power/warm their homes and industries with same weapons they're sending to Ukraine.

Mubby4luv:
Sure it's not a black mamba?

If it was a black mamba, he would've been dead in 29 mins or less.

This smells like a setup or a cyber form of false flag operation to drive a wedge between Russia and India.

Some of you folks are funny. You expect the Russians to make major gains in TWENTY FOUR HOURS?? Haba! Even the Americans with the combined might of other nations never made such gains during the Gulf wars.

Keep in mind that the Russians have learnt the mistakes from the operations up north. That means no more mad armoured dashes with very thin logistics lines, and no more daring forward air assault ops by the VDV. Now the Russians are being very cautious. That means probing attacks, A LOT OF FIREPOWER down range to soften the enemy, then the Battalion Tactical Groups move in for the kill.

Ukraine is winning......on social media.

Seriously, the Russians have taken the lessons from the ops up north and have gone back to their tried and tested combat doctrine. No more daring airborne raids with the VDV or mad armoured dashes. Now it's scorched earth policy with massive fire power followed by an armoured/mechanized push by their Battalion Tactical Groups with dismounted infantry plus air cover with attack helicopters and Su-25 Frogfoots.

Oh wait, some old S300s the Russians blew up. My bad.

Igbofam:


Definitely not true

Oh absolutely true. DC will be turned to radioactive glassland.

Wow, another S300 system. Looks like the RuAF Su-35SM pilots have another forthcoming SEAD/Strike mission.

Igbofam:
USA are the master strategists and negotiators.

Russia is about to experience hell and the death of their air superiority

So US gave Slovakia her Patriot Missile batteries in exchange for their S-300 given to Ukraine.

I love the United States.

I've been hearing that for how long now?

This is not true. Ukraine destroyed 40,000,000 Russian troops, 60,000,000 tanks, 250 Air craft carriers on land, 100 Death Stars, 1 gazillion Russian aircraft, 20 gazillion Russian space crafts.

SlavaUkraine:








OP STOP MAKING NOISE. THE SHIP IS already GONE.. HUNDREDS OF CREW DIED.. RUSSIA ARE KNOWN AS LIARS.. IF NOT WHY ARE MOM'S CALLING MOSCOW TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR SON'S ON BOARD, SUDDENLY THEIR WERE ALL BLOCKED LOL.. KILL 20K RUSSIANS, RUSSIA WILL UPDATE THEY LOST ONLY 300. THEIR LIES IS OBVIOUS. EVEN AN ANIMAL KNOWS THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED FOR 1%

1st of all I'm not the OP.

2nd, USE YOUR BRAIN. Yes the ship may have been hit and is already lost. Whether fire or missile strikes, there's absolutely no way there wouldn't have been casualties. But FIVE HUNDRED Abegi! Tell me another story.

3rd, the Ukrainians are the ones telling the truth, abi? As in, 20,000 Russians killed plus 1,000000000000000 tanks destroyed and 50000000000000000 aircrafts destroyed, yet they only lost 3,000? See miracle!

owagbeba:
����⚡An air alert has been declared on the territory of all regions of Ukraine.

Imagine being in a military Command & Control centre in Kyiv, the air raid klaxons go off with distant rumbles and explosions going off, and then you watch the situation map on the central screen in the centre goes all red.....mehn, that's scary.

Ehen! Nairaland, we're talking now. Goat meat peppersoup is THE BEST.

Kriss216:
Coc.k and Bull story!


She never tell the real story.

Please do tell, what is the "real" story?

Ezewuzie01:
The Chechen fighters laying siege on mariupol are the most ruthless soldiers Russia has in its military. If they finish with Mariupol and they are deployed to the separatist east of Ukraine, this war could be over within a month.

The Chechens (separate units) are already in Donbas

I'm sorry, but this story about drowned Russian sailors is crap for one (1) reason:

(1)When the incident on the MOSKCA went off (missile strike/ammo fire) it didn't sink immediately and was actually being towed back to Sevastopol. This was confirmed by the Americans. That gives the crew ample time to have abandoned the ship. So how did they automatically lose 500+ sailors? It makes ZERO sense.

As for whether nukes were present onboard, I can't say. But I'm certain the Russians will take the necessary measures to salvage them if the story is true.

omis1:
he should remain president even though it’s against ukraine people wish? U pootin fanboys and ur ridiculous takes

How was it against the people's wish if he was voted into office in the first place? Oh so US-sponsored coups are good now?

omis1:
the ukraine people with d support of usa overthrew a pootin puppet,zelensky approval rating has increased for a reason in ukraine since d war started.
Pootin fan boys think they know better than Ukrainians who were against d former puppet president

Putin puppet or not, he was still a democratically elected President of Ukraine before his forceful overthrow.

bakar007:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/04/13/the-ukrainians-claim-they-damaged-a-russian-cruiser-be-skeptical/amp/
You mean one of their biggest or their biggest ? Lol

The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan (sea eagle), is a class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships (i.e. not an aircraft carrier or amphibious assault ship) in operation in the world.

Make una talk wetin una know oh and again Russia has many where this comes from , you think Russia would bring it best ship to fight UKRAINE , funny enough this ship isn't equip with nuclear weapon grade hardware why western media dey deceive una as if Na Russia best Naval ship be this. Nawa oh

It was the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet Flag Ship. That is symbolic. It's like Cameron sinking the NNS Aradu of the Nigerian Navy Fleet.

grandstar:


The Russian economy is crumbling fast and i forsee a massive migration of its citizens abroad escaping poverty.

As for its war in Ukraine, it has achieved very little so far.

I have always urged that Zelensky end the war by accepting a lot of Putins terms.

Unfortunately, as this "Special Military Operation" lingers far longer than expected, it has exposed several failings of the Russian army and weaknesses.

They USA toppled the Iraq government within 30 days. The Iraqi army was a million strong with many highups being veterans of the Iraq-Iran war. The Iraqi army was many times more powerful than the Ukrainian army Russia is facing today.

Yet, Russia has barely captured 10% of Ukrainian territory. I doubt it's up to 5% and the Ukrainians are even recapturing towns from the Russians.

Zelensky is now talking about defeating Russia. He should have prevented this war altogether by dropping his NATO dreams. He is not politically savvy but his new goal shows the frailty of the Russian army and belief they can now be defeated. .

Russia is bound to change tactics and i foresee a replay of what happened in Chechnya and Syria. There, Russia used extremely bombardment to shatter the will of the people and crush its target. Basically, killing a fly with a sledgehammer. That isn't war but genocide

This seems to be what it used in Mariupol as all buildings seem to have been hit by bombs, the entire city resembling a desolate wasteland. .

On the highlighted paragraph, I think you're wrong. Russia never had any intention of taking over the whole Ukrainian territory from the very start. You only have to look at the number of troops involved (200,000 only) from the onset, and even the type of troops. Ukraine is MASSIVE. In my opinion, decapitating the leadership at Kyiv was indeed an objective, but that changed from week 2/3, hence the change in strategy. If the Russians are able to liberate the remaining Donbass territories from the administrative line of control to Russia's western borders, then they've achieved one of their objectives. If they're able to capture Dnipro, destroy the Ukrainian forces in the Cauldron and hold off any counter attack from western Ukraine, then it's another plus for them as they would've successfully divided Ukraine between East and West. Throw in the Naval blockade, and Ukraine will honestly be screwed economically.

Crafteck1:


I will try not to insult you, read about the cold war, read how ussr took over about 3 baltic states until war broke out, bullying is part of them, dont let your hatrrd for us make you support evil, readddddd for christs sake.

Which war broke out?

franchasofficia:
If not for Nukes and for global safety, just few US marines would have sneaked into Russia and kill Putin just like they killed Osama Bin Laden.



Russia is an overrated country. Take away their nukes they can't stand UK or France or Germany in a conventional war to talk of almighty USA.


China will destroy and overrun Russia within 14 days. Russia can't defeat India or Pakistan on a one on one conventional war.



Russia is living on past glory of USSR. Even the nukes they are bragging with belonged to USSR.

You watch too many action movies. Yes this is a major embarrassment for the Russians, but thinking that a few Marines will just storm Moscow and kill Putin is simply a wet dream.

Hmmm.....I must say that this is a major embarrassment for the Russian Military and the Russian Federation at large if the story of the Black Sea Fleet Flagship sunk. The fleet's FLAGSHIP??! So what happens when the donated Harpoons are fully activated? There are so many questions that need to be answered. What happened to the ship's defence systems or that of other ships within the fleet in combat?

This probably won't affect cruise missile strikes and the Naval blockade of Ukraine's coastline will still hold, but any amphibious operations against Odessa are now out of the question for now, unless Russian Navy takes out those Ukranian Coastal Defence systems of Neptune and Harpoon Anti-ship missiles. And I'm willing to bet that they're on mobile launchers.

When this war ends, the Russians will have to sit down, assess their military capabilities, and invest in upgrades, tactics, and strategy from the very bottom to the very top.

Anyway, the Ukrainians have clearly won this bout. This is a major blackeye for Russia.

omis1:
Pootin getting humiliated by the poorest country in Europe

The "poorest country" backed up with NATO arms, advisors, training, and funds. Remove those, and let's see of Ukraine will still be talking.

omis1:
even with all d resources they are not top 10 richest country on earth

But they're the 11th largest economy, and a global energy superpower. Again, DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE RUSSIA o.

omis1:
invaded ukraine in 2014 and took crimea

What preceded and caused the invasion? The Euromaidan and the right-wing led and US-sponsored coup that overthrew an elected President.

Cockroach-flavoured juice.

Enough of this rubbish talk. Don't unveil, just GO AFTER THEM and bring them to justice. SIMPLE.

omis1:
do you have any of that in ur home ? Cause that’s my question.
Elon musk would soon replace them fully in lace science

Well I use Kapersky anti-virus. And my electronics with the batteries in some are made from rare earth minerals that most likely came from Russia. Do not underestimate Russia.