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.
Russian troops were said to be closing in on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on Friday morning, Ukrainian and American officials said, a day after President Vladimir Putin ordered what he described as “a special military operation” in Ukraine to counter threats.
