Nigerian News Leader
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By Jude Eze
World Blood Donor Day takes place on 14 June every year. The Day was set aside by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise global awareness on the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Sunday, ordered his defence chiefs to put the country’s nuclear “deterrence forces” on high alert and accused the West of taking “unfriendly” steps against his country.
By Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)
" Dear citizens of Russia! Dear friends!
"Today, I again consider it necessary to return to the tragic events taking place in the Donbass and the key issues of ensuring the security of Russia itself.
"Let me start with what I said in my address of February 21 this year. We are talking about what causes us particular concern and anxiety, about those fundamental threats that year after year, step by step, are rudely and unceremoniously created by irresponsible politicians in the West in relation to our country. I mean the expansion of the NATO bloc to the east, bringing its military infrastructure closer to Russian borders.
By Correspondent Reports
Russian forces have continued to pound Ukrainian cities with artillery and cruise missiles this Saturday for a third day running but a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the capital Kyiv remained in Ukrainian hands.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has said that contrary to what the United States of America, United Kingdom and some members states in the United Nations family want the world to believe that Russia is an aggressor in the on-going military offensive between Russia and Ukraine, two countries in the former United States of the Soviet Republic (USSR), his country actually want peace and is only trying to enforce peace.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11
The newly designated Nigerian High Commissioner to Zambia, Ambassador Nwanne Ominyi, has pledged to ensure an increased and more fruitful bilateral relationship between the two countries.
