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Zelenskyy former aide says lack of no-fly zone signals US, NATO are ‘afraid’ of Putin
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Iuliia Mendel, the previous spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned america’ and NATO’s agency stance in opposition to a no-fly zone over Ukraine alerts that the West is “afraid” of assaults from Russian President Vladimir Putin and creates a “decay of worldwide confidence in American management and superpowers.”
Mendel, in an interview with Fox Information Digital, burdened Ukraine’s appreciation for American army and monetary help and help, however urged the West to rethink initiating a no-fly zone as Putin continues his multi-front conflict within the nation for a fifteenth day.
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“Ukrainians are being killed from the sky, and naturally, Ukrainian authorities are supporting no-fly zones … That is one thing that would cease the killing of Ukrainians instantly,” Mendel instructed Fox Information. “This is essential from the standpoint of Putin, when he mentioned to NATO, ‘Should you don’t enable us killing Ukrainians from the sky, then we are going to assault you.’”
Mendel mentioned the U.S. and NATO repeatedly rejecting requires a no-fly zone over Ukraine tells Putin, “Sure, I’m really afraid of you attacking me, please kill them above, and we are going to see, if you happen to do your finest, then most likely you received’t come for us.’”
An area retiree, Nataliya Mykolaivna, 64, gestures as she talks to an AFP journalist subsequent to a minibus that had been delivering provides and items to frontline troopers, volunteers and hard-pressed residents. The minibus was destroyed by Russian shelling at a brief distance from the frontline in Horenka, northern Kyiv, March 10, 2022.
(Sergei Supinsky/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“That is ridiculous,” Mendel mentioned. “This actually reveals that there’s this decay of worldwide confidence in American management and superpowers. NATO international locations are afraid to annoy Putin.
“He’s the monkey with the grenade. Do you assume you may management him throwing or dropping the grenade?” she requested. “Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States perceive that Putin’s disrespect for the Western world order is so deep that he is not going to be stopped by the EU or NATO membership when, or if, he will get Ukraine.”
However Mendel mentioned that “international locations farther away appear to really feel extra snug, realizing that the evil is much away and the Ukrainians can defeat it — at the price of their very own lives.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine solely eight months after TIME journal billed President Biden as able to tackle the Russian chief.
(Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Picture by way of AP)
She instructed Fox Information that “time flows in another way in conflict,” noting that Zelenskyy receives information “each minute of recent lifeless, wounded and new bombings.”
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“Our ladies give delivery in bomb shelters, Ukraine has turn into a rustic of refugees, and NATO remains to be wavering in its army help,” she mentioned.
Mendel, although, burdened that “america is just not responsible in what’s going on,” including that Ukraine appreciates “the assistance of Individuals and every little thing they’ve executed.”
Mendel mentioned the U.S. has “shared some intelligence” with Ukraine and continues to “stand for us and help us on this scenario.”
“We might ask for america and NATO to face for us concerning the sky, to save lots of our lives, that is a very powerful for us,” she mentioned. “If NATO is one thing price coming into, then NATO wants to assist us now — now, when we’ve so many casualties that most likely could possibly be questioning concerning the necessity of coming into NATO.”
Biden and NATO have dominated out a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying implementing it will put the U.S. and NATO in direct confrontation with Russia and would broaden the battle.
Kids have sheltered underground in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion
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Ukraine is just not a member of NATO, so it isn’t topic to the Article V provision of the NATO alliance that claims when one member nation is attacked, all member international locations will take motion to help.
Mendel burdened that “Putin is the one particular person to be accused on this invasion.”
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“America has supplied lots of help, as has the entire civilized world, and positively, Ukraine wouldn’t have the ability to stand in opposition to Russia alone,” she mentioned. “An enormous a part of our capacities to defeat Putin is definitely the help we get from the U.S. and our partnering international locations.”
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, and in a joint information convention with Poland President Andrzej Duda highlighted the U.S. Home of Representatives’ vote to ship $13 billion in support to Ukraine and European allies. She additionally introduced that the U.S. would supply $53 million extra to the U.N. World Meals Program.
Harris was ridiculed, although, for her response to a query about how america might help within the plight of Ukrainian refugees. Greater than 1 million refugees have fled from Ukraine to Poland since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
Harris didn’t seem desperate to reply the inquiry, turning towards Duda and saying, “A pal in want is a pal certainly,” earlier than laughing for a number of seconds. Duda ultimately capitulated and answered his query first, saying he had requested Harris to assist pace the method of Ukrainian refugees acquiring U.S. visas with a view to stick with household within the States.
Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant lady from a maternity hospital broken by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
(AP Picture/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Harris later mentioned she understood the “unprecedented” scenario introduced to the Polish authorities however didn’t say what number of refugees the U.S. could be keen to take.
Mendel, reacting, instructed Fox Information that “Harris’ communication, that is likely to be handled as not acceptable.”
“However she stands for Ukraine together with her actions, not phrases,” Mendel mentioned. “She is a president of the Senate, and the U.S. goes to approve billions of {dollars} to help Ukraine, partially for the Military, partially for the humanitarian support.”
“So, regardless of of communication peculiarities, the U.S. reveals its robust help in each motion,” Mendel mentioned.
In the course of the information convention, Harris and Duda insisted that america and Poland are “unified” after the U.S. rejected the nation’s proposal to ship MiG-29 planes to the Ukrainian army.
Members of Ukraine’s Territorial Protection Forces, volunteer army models of the Armed Forces, prepare in a metropolis park in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Simply hours after the Pentagon made clear that the U.S. doesn’t help Poland’s proposal for the U.S. and NATO to ship MiG-29s to the Ukrainian army, Harris and Duda maintained that the connection between america and Poland has “turn into even stronger” amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
However Mendel urged the West to ship army jets, saying Ukraine does “not have this time as a result of time means lives,” and burdened that “each hesitance” from the U.S. and NATO is “paid by the blood of Ukrainians.”
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As for Zelenskyy, Mendel mentioned Ukrainians “perceive that he’s standing for our independence, for democratic values, and that is one thing that’s shared all through Ukraine.”
“He really has been fairly a courageous particular person in character, way back, earlier than there was the curiosity in him on this matter,” she mentioned. “This conflict simply revealed a part of the character that was not recognized to nearly all of individuals.”
Mendel mentioned the president plans to remain in Kyiv, and “stick with the individuals.”
Zelenskyy this week vowed to not go away Kyiv, going as far as to disclose that he was in his workplace as Russian forces continued their assault on Ukraine’s capital metropolis.
On this March 8, 2022, picture from video supplied by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace and posted on Instagram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
“Positively, to this point, he’s making his location recognized to point out Putin that he’s on his land, persons are behind him, and he’s staying for his individuals,” Mendel mentioned.
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“He hasn’t left Kiev, he hasn’t fled,” Mendel mentioned. “In Afghanistan, the management of Afghanistan left the nation when it turned sizzling there, and there was the Taliban invasion.”
She added that Zelenskyy’s location “is a really symbolic place to point out that Ukraine remains to be impartial, and we’re preventing, and he’s standing for us as our president.”
“We’re happy with this,” she mentioned, noting that she doesn’t know if Zelenskyy will share his location sooner or later. “We don’t know what will occur.”
Mendel mentioned Ukrainians are “very a lot united” and “stand for our nation, for us.”
“Ukraine is the territory of freedom,” she added. “Ukraine is the nation the place we’ve our desires and plans and we see the way forward for this nation.
“It’s our residence, and we need to construct it.”
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Mike Kennedy advances past crowded GOP primary to secure nomination for open Utah House seat
Mike Kennedy on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to replace outgoing Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, becoming the immediate favorite to win the seat in November.
Kennedy beat fellow Republicans JR Bird, John Dougall, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay in a packed primary pool for the district. Curtis is vacating his seat to run for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney.
Kennedy, a state senator, had won the party’s nomination for the seat in April but faced challenges from other candidates who gathered signatures to be on the ballot. Peay had won the endorsement of Romney, who is also Peay’s wife’s uncle. Kennedy had won the endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee, who said he was needed to “fight against the Uniparty and help get this country back on track.”
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From left, JR Bird, John Dougall, Mike Kennedy, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay, candidates in the Republican primary for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, take part in a debate at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City on June 12, 2024. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News via AP/Pool)
Bird, a mayor, emphasized his experience of running a small town as well as the importance of the energy sector and agriculture, according to the Deseret News.
Dougall, the state auditor, had run as an anti-MAGA candidate and had slammed some GOP legislation, including what he saw as an overly aggressive bill that tasks him with enforcing a ban on transgender-identifying individuals using restrooms that are inconsistent with their sex.
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He has also been deeply critical of former President Trump. On Tuesday on X, he also questioned the “cavalier manner” of any official who swears to uphold the Constitution “then endorses Trump following January 6th.” He has advertised himself as “mainstream, not MAGA.”
At a debate this month, candidates split on the question of military funding to Ukraine as well as whether the federal government should explicitly ban abortion. Peay, Dougall and Case Lawrence – a trampoline park entrepreneur – had called on Congress to keep sending weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off the ongoing Russian invasion.
Bird and Kennedy disagreed, arguing that it was not beneficial to the U.S. to keep funding the Ukrainians, with the two calling for stronger sanctions and the seizure of Russian assets.
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Kennedy will go on to face Democrat Glenn Wright in the November election, but the Republican is favored to win comfortably in a district that has voted Republican since 1997.
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Elsewhere in the state, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, a major GOP Trump critic, held off a primary challenge from Phil Lyman, another 2020 election denier who easily won the state party convention.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay news outlets for the articles they distribute.
After stalling last year, Assembly Bill 886 cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Several lawmakers described the legislation as a work in progress aimed at solving a critical problem: The news business is shrinking as technology changes the way people consume information.
“I do believe the marketplace is the best mechanism to regulate industry,” Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange), the committee chairman, said during a hearing on the bill.
However, he said, the demise of journalism harms democracy: “Thus, we have an obligation to find a way to support reasonable, credible journalism.”
The legislation, known as the “California Journalism Preservation Act,” would require digital platforms to pay news outlets a fee when they sell advertising alongside news content. It calls for creating a fund that the tech firms pay into, with the money being distributed to news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ. Publishers would have to use 70% of the money they receive to pay journalists in California.
Umberg noted that the bill does not specify an amount for the fund. He said it would be “a very elegant solution” for the parties involved to agree on what amount that should be.
Sen. Henry Stern (D-Calabasas) described talks as being “closer and closer to the place where we could actually land some kind of deal.”
In Canada, Google is paying $74 million annually into a fund for the news industry under a law similar to the one proposed in California.
Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, testified against the California proposal during a hearing in which news executives from across the state lined up to express support for the bill, while tech industry lobbyists lined up in opposition. The bill is sponsored by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member.
“The bill would … break the fundamental and foundational principles of the open internet, forcing platforms to pay publishers for sending valuable free traffic to them,” Zaidi said.
“It puts the full burden of support on one or two companies, while shielding many other large platforms who also link to news from California publishers.”
He said Google had shared a proposal for a different way to support journalism “through targeted programs” that would be funded by more companies than just the very largest platforms. The current version of the bill would apply only to Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.
“We hope this can serve as a basis for a workable path forward together,” Zaidi said. “We remain committed to being here and constructively working towards an outcome.”
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), said she is “aggressively trying to engage” with companies that oppose the bill in the hopes that the sparring sides can reach an agreement that will allow the news industry to thrive.
“At the end of the day, I want the best solution to the problem,” Wicks said.
She closed the hearing by talking about the role journalism has played in exposing problems that lawmakers wind up addressing in the Capitol, such as crafting new laws to extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits after The Times’ investigation revealed a pattern of allegations against former USC gynecologist George Tyndall.
The bill now advances to the Senate Appropriations Committee. It will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom if it clears both houses of the Legislature by Aug. 31.
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Judge Juan Merchan has partially lifted the gag order he imposed against former President Trump – weeks after the jury found him guilty on all counts.
Trump and his legal team have been fighting the gag order since it was imposed upon him at the start of the trial, but had ramped up their efforts when it concluded last month. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s legal team had argued the gag order should be lifted before the June 27 presidential debate.
Merchan’s gag order barred Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff.
Merchan on Tuesday partially lifted the gag order because the trial has concluded.
Trump is now able to speak about protected witnesses and jurors.
Trump is still blocked from commenting about individual prosecutors, court staff and their family members. That portion of the gag order will remain in effect until Trump’s sentencing on July 11.
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