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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned Sunday his crisis-hit country was on the “brink of disaster,” accusing Russia of declaring war in a bleak appeal to the international community.
“This is the red alert, this is not a threat, this is actually a declaration of war to my country,” he told reporters in English.
At least 35 people were killed following two explosions in a crowded neighbourhood of Nigeria’s restless northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of Boko Haram Islamists, police said Sunday.
“We are still counting. So far we have counted 35 bodies. Our men are still working with rescue workers at the scene,” Borno state police commissioner Lawal Tanko told AFP.
Russia’s Federation Council on Saturday unanimously authorized President Vladimir Putin to send armed forces into Ukraine.
The resolution of the upper house of parliament took effect immediately, according to Federation Council chair Valentina Matviyenko.
Radical jihadists have begun withdrawing from parts of northern Syria after a threat from rivals, to try to protect their stronghold in the east of the war-ravaged country.
The main bloc in Syria’s opposition in exile, meanwhile, announced it would rejoin the umbrella coalition it split from in a bid to close ranks against the regime.
Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military air base near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official said Friday, accusing Moscow of an “armed invasion”.