RUSSIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE DRONE AND MISSILE BARRAGE ON UKRAINE, KILLING AT LEAST 18 CIVILIANS AND STRIKING KYIV AND MULTIPLE CITIES. (PHOTO).
Russia launches massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine, killing at least 18 civilians and striking Kyiv and multiple cities Russia carried out a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine, launching hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded more than 100 others across multiple cities, officials said Tuesday. The strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro and other regions, with emergency crews working through destroyed residential buildings where some victims were trapped under rubble. In Dnipro, rescuers recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old child and a mother and her 8-year-old son, while officials reported 12 deaths in the city and six in Kyiv. The bombardment stretched from night into daylight, with explosions reported across wide areas of the country. Kyiv residents had been on alert for days after warnings of a major aerial attack, including advisories for foreign diplomats to leave the capital. Despite those warnings, most remained in pl...
According to a memo from Ghana Immigration Service,Ghana and Togo are the next targets for Islamist militants following high profile attacks this year in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.The memo calls for better boder protection in the latest sign of a heightened government response to the threat to West Africa by militants based in northern Mali who have stepped up a campaign of violence in the last year.It says the National Security Council Secretariat {NSCS} has evidence from neighbouring Ivory Coast from the interrogation of a man suspected of orchestrating an attack on March 13 in which 18 people were killed.The memo,dated April 9 and published by Ghanaian media says ''Intelligence gathered by the ..NSCS indicates a possible terrorist attack on the country is real...The choice of Ghana according to the report is to take away the perception that only Francophone countries are the target''.It ordered immigration agents on the northern border with Burkina Faso to be extra vigilant and said patrols should be stepped up along informal routes between the two countries.President John Mahama spoke about the memo in an interview on state radio ''Sunrise FM on thursday.He asked for public vigilance and said Ghana was also at risk from home grown militants,while noting that countries in the region share intelligence on militant threats.He said ''We must deal with this without creating panic amongst our people''.Adding that the memo should not have detailed the intelligence on which its calls for greater vigilance were based.More photos below. 
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