 As May South spawned the Ukrainian capital and Russian forces pressed the advance, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded with the international community to do more. Saint Sanctus announced so far we're not enough. Air reassirings wailed over the city of three million people, where some were shuttering in underground metro stations. A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion that has shocked the world. A senior Ukrainian official said Russian forces would enter areas just outside the capital, Kiev, later on Friday, and that Ukrainian troops were defending the position on four fronts despite being off-numbered. I'm absolutely resolved and to continue fighting on those diplomatic and military fronts to defend the country. We have the capacity, we have the will. This is our land, our people, and we stand for the right cause. How concerned are you for your safety and how you're transporting? I'm a human being, of course I'm concerned for my life, for the life of my family, but it's true that I'm on the list and I'm one of the targets for the Russians. But if a Ukrainian soldier is fighting these days in the trench, these hours in the trench, and sacrifice his life, how can I not be with them, be with the people of Ukraine, doing my best on diplomatic fronts to help them succeed. And to succeed again, we need sanctions, toughest sanctions possible, and we need more weapons to continue fighting. Now joining us on the news to discuss this is Agogo Obu. He is a foreign affairs expert. Glad to have you, sir. Glad to have you. Glad to join the discussion, too. Thank you. So the Ukrainian President Zelensky has said his allies are not doing enough. What are your thoughts on this? All right, so the big question is what can they do beyond the sanctions, because if you think about it, this will be like the fifth or sixth time the sanctions have been thrown at the Russian government. You remember in 2014 when they invaded Crimea, there were a raft of sanctions which were imposed on Russia, but apparently looks like the sanctions haven't done much, because the sanction was deterred for the aggression from Russia. It hasn't worked because eight years down the line, you have Russia now in the Donbass region. And it's a big question. It's a million-dollar question people are asking. What more can they do? I mean, you've had President Zelensky say that they should do more tougher sanctions. We need to ban Russia from the international monetary system, which is sweet. That's an option, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm sure if you did listen to Joe Biden, the U.S. President yesterday, when he ruled out those so-called very tough sanctions, he would ask questions about what he thought about why President Putin himself hadn't been sanctioned, and he had no answer to that question. So there's a lot of, you know, pessimism about whether these sanctions will solve the problem. So China, a strong Russian ally, has not expressly condemned the attacks in Ukraine. What message do you think this sends? That's the way the Chinese Foreign Ministry was asked a question yesterday about this, and the Chinese spokesperson said that the Western media was more interested in coining words that don't exist. And she refused to call this an invasion, and that speaks volume. I mean, no country has come out. You've had more countries come out to say that they are against what the Russians have done. So you have more people on the side of Ukraine in terms of condemning the action, and no one has. But it's a good thing to look at what China is not saying yet. China, right from China, has always been a strong ally, and they have to represent the strongest opportunity to say whether or not Russia will get any support. And in previous times, even at the Security Council, China has often stood side by side with Russia. This is not going to be any different. They're going to most likely insist that they make their point clear that they are in support of Russia. They probably won't come out to say, but you go to China a couple of times. If you go around China, you see that the official language is mandatory, but every major shop or business has got the Russian language at the bottom. So you're not going to expect China to fall outside Russia at this point. They're going to be working with them arm in arm. So back to Nigeria now. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Bajame Biamila, has said that there is a plan in place to evacuate Nigerians in Ukraine. Many say that this is medicine after death. The country had been aware of the back and forth debate over Russia's plan attacks on Ukraine. What is your position on this? Well, interestingly, you have Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yesterday I was just speaking, shortly after the House of Rebs had mandated. The House of Rebs did come out stronger than the Minister of Foreign Affairs was saying, this is what we have to do with the Russian situation. You have Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeffery Uyama, going back and fought and rambling better or not. They understood what Russia was about. They said they had discussions with Russia and that they were not going to invade Ukraine and you come to them as a shock. So if you did come as a shock to the Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, what sort of safety measures, what sort of guarantees did we get from the Russian government saying this is what we're going to do? So they've asked Nigerians in Ukraine to find where they can stay safely. They're going to come for you afterwards. And it does speak boldly. Nigeria's a leader in Africa. You probably would have expected them to say, for example, like every nation is there. I've been watching the screens and seeing South American countries, Asian countries all around me condemn that. It creates a sovereign country. The Nigerian government should at least have said, we condemn the invasion of a sovereign country. Even if they're thinking we don't want to hurt a relationship with Russia in this one. But everyone seems to be in agreement. I mean, it's the easiest thing to do. You're not going to impose sanctions on Nigeria and Russia and expect nothing to happen. So I guess the least they can do now is try and get an endurance in Ukraine who are who are still there out of Hamsway. The minister says, those who want to come back, it does give us the impression that a second endurance in Ukraine who don't want to come back because they still feel that things won't go totally bad. Okay. Thank you so much for telling us on the news brief. Get notified about fresh news updates.