of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who consulted with the envoy behind closed doors on Friday, February 25, quoted Shebarshin as stating that Nigeria is a friendly nation to Russia and efforts will be made to ensure no Nigerian is harmed in latest thing war.The Minister discussed that he informed the Russian envoy that Nigeria as a country would not excuse the violation of the territorial integrity of a United Nations member state, a country with which Nigeria has diplomatic relations.

“This is actually the position of the government and also, that we have 5,600 Nigerians in Ukraine and we are extremely concerned about what we are hearing and what we are seeing relating to missiles and bombs about the safety of Nigerian people there and likewise that we would like to have the ability to leave them.He stated that this would be interacted to his head office which clearly, they think about Nigeria a friendly country.The Russian envoy also stated that they would do nothing to harm Nigerians and guaranteed me that their action is targeted at military installations and that they are not ready to start attacking civilian areas and so forth” Onyeama stated ToriNG