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Zelensky: 31,000 Ukraine soldiers killed in war with Russia
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Je said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military planning.
It comes after the defence minister said half of all Western aid for Ukraine has been delayed, costing lives and territory.
Mr Zelensky said he was providing an updated death toll in response to the inflated figures that Russia has quoted.
“31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in this war. Not 300,000 or 150,000, or whatever Putin and his lying circle are saying. But each of these losses is a great loss for us.”
Speaking about the wider losses in the war, Mr Zelensky said tens of thousands of civilians had died in the areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia but the true number was unknown.
“I don’t know how many of them died, how many were killed, how many were murdered, tortured, how many were deported.”
According to the BBC, Iit is rare for Ukraine to provide a military death toll, and other estimates suggest a much higher number.
US officials in August put the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed at 70,000 and as many as 120,000 injured.
In terms of Russian losses, Mr Zelensky said 180,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and tens of thousands more injured.
BBC Russian, in a joint project with the Mediazona website, has established the names of more than 45,000 Russian service people who had died. But it estimates the total number to be greater than that.
In February, the UK’s defence ministry estimated that 350,000 Russian troops had been killed or injured.
President Zelensky’s address came after his defence minister, Rustam Umerov, called out the country’s Western allies for delays in military aid.
“At the moment, commitment does not constitute delivery,” he said.
Ukraine is currently experiencing a variety of setbacks in its mission to drive Russia from its territory.
Mr Umerov said that the lack of supplies put Ukraine at a further disadvantage “in the mathematics of war”.
“We do everything possible and impossible but without timely supply it harms us,” he said.
Germany warned in November that a European Union (EU) plan to deliver a million artillery shells by March would not be met.
In January, the EU said just over half of these would reach Ukraine by the deadline and that the promised amount would not be there until the end of 2024.
President Zelensky said one of the reasons Ukraine’s highly anticipated counter-offensive last year did not start earlier was the lack of weapons.
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Breaking: Court of Appeal rules in favour of Turaki -led PDP candidate for Osun governorship election
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday, ruled that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in Osun State was validly nominated by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee.
The court also ordered INEC to list the PDP logo on the ballot ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election.
The Court held that access code is neither a creation of the Constitution nor the Electoral Act; rather, a creation of INEC’s guidelines and cannot, in any way, override the provisions of the Constitution.
Section 288 of the Constitution does not specify the method for nominating candidates; it only states that the names of candidates should be forwarded to the Commission.
The court further held that the defendant (INEC) should take steps to include the name of the appellant on the ballot paper.
Additionally, the court ruled that the primary election conducted by the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP was a valid primary election in law.
The three-man panel of justices—Justice Mahmud, Justice Jaro, and Justice Ankawere, was unanimous in its judgment.
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Breaking: NHRC sets up situation room to monitor and document hate speech, intimidation, threat to life ahead 2027
The national Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has set up a situation room to monitor and document all incidences of hate speech, intimidation and threat to life by politicians and other actors ahead of the 2027 general election.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, revealed this on Thursday in Abuja at a press conference.
He said the situation room would enable the Commission harvest data, analysis and document persons, agencies and others involved in the negative statements in order to ensure they are properly tracked and brought to book by relevant agencies.
Ojukwu also took journalists on a tour of the newly set up situation room.
Details later…..
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Breaking: NHRC expresses concern over rising incidences of hate speech, threat to life ahead 2027 elections
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed concerns over rising incidences of hate speech, intimidation and outright threat to life by highly placed individuals, especially politicians and religious leaders.
At a press conference in Abuja Thursday, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chef Tony Ojukwu, SAN, recalled statements credited to Senator Francis Fadahunsi and Sheikh Yahya Jingir and described the das dangerous with capacity to set the nation ablaze.
He called on politicians, religious and traditional rulers, among other stakeholders to call their supporters and faithful to orders.
He urged government to act before rhetorics turn to violence, saying the forthcoming election in Osun State should serve as example of Nigeria’s capacity to conduct political contest in compliance with international best practices.
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