Defence secretary Ben Wallace said on Friday
said the Russian forces had failed to “deliver their main objectives” after invading on Thursday morning.
The global leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has urged world leaders to discontinue the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin began invading Ukraine, threatening any country trying to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”
Mr Biden also applied sanctions on four Russian banks and “corrupt billionaires” and their families who are close to the Kremlin.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, said that the Ukrainian National Guard was still working to defend the nuclear plant from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry had earlier tweeted that an attack on Ukraine by Russia could “cause another ecological disaster.”
The new developments come as Ukraine closed its airspace to all civil flights.
The Buhari regime had earlier told Nigerians in Ukraine they are on their own. The president has yet to issue any statement about the unfolding crisis.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Russians with a conscience to “go out and protest against the war with Ukraine.”
Thousands of Nigerians live in Ukraine, many of whom are students in various higher institutions in the country.
