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.
President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Monday ordering Russian military forces into two separatist regions of Ukraine for “peacekeeping” purposes, just hours after Moscow recognized the breakaway regions as independent “republics.”
