Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
Ukraine is under siege and Russian troops are said to be closing in on Kyiv, the capital, to decapitate the government there, and send a clear message to NATO and the United States that Russia will not tolerate having Ukraine as a member of NATO, or western troops in Ukraine right along the Russian border, and that Russia would rather go to war over it than surrender.