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President Zelenskyy calls for specific weaponry from US, NATO allies

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched a brand new video Wednesday morning outlining the precise weaponry he wants for his nation to proceed its protection towards Russian invaders.
“Ukraine wants weapons provides. We’d like heavy artillery, armored autos, air protection techniques and fight aircrafts,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “Something to repel Russian forces and cease their battle crimes.”
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Particularly, the chief requested 155-millimeter artillery; 152-milimeter artillery shells; a number of launch rocket techniques, together with “Grad,” “Smerch,” “Tornada” or M142 HIMARS; armored personnel carriers; infantry preventing autos; T-72 or comparable tanks from the U.S or Germany; S-300, BUK or western equal air protection techniques; and army aircrafts.
These weapons can be used to “impasse” Ukrainian cities and “tens of millions of Europeans.”
“Freedom have to be armed higher than tyranny,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “Western international locations have every little thing to make it occur.”
The chief mentioned victory over tyranny and the variety of these saved depends upon the West.
“Military Ukraine now to defend freedom,” he concludes, urging social media customers to share the hashtag #ArmUkraineNow on the finish of the video.
Zelenskyy warned that though Ukraine has “destroyed extra Russian weapons and army gear than some armies in Europe at the moment possess,” the Russian army nonetheless has the capability to assault in Ukraine and surrounding international locations like Poland, Moldova, Romania and the Baltic states.
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He mentioned these areas might turn into the following targets “if the liberty of Ukraine falls.”
The discharge of this name to motion comes because the presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia traveled to Kyiv Wednesday to satisfy with Zelenskyy.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda mentioned the international locations deliberate to ship “a robust message of political help and army help.”
A senior U.S. protection official advised The Related Press the Biden administration was getting ready a further package deal of army assist for Ukraine to be introduced, probably totaling $750 million.
On this picture from video supplied by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace and posted on Fb March 15, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
“We’re working across the clock to supply Ukraine with further capabilities they’ve requested and must defend their nation,” an administration official advised Fox Information Wednesday.
“We’ve supplied Ukraine with hundreds of American-made weapons and capabilities like drones, anti-tank and anti-air techniques, and deliveries are occurring day by day,” the official famous.
The Related Press contributed to this report.

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Vote counting is underway in high-stakes state election in the New Delhi region
NEW DELHI (AP) — Vote counting started early Saturday in the high-stakes state legislature election in India’s federal territory, including New Delhi, with TV exit polls predicting a win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party.
Over 60% of more than 15 million eligible people voted to elect the local government on Wednesday.
Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) check the results on mobile outside their party office as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was projected to win a majority in the 70-member assembly of India’s capital against the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs New Delhi and has built widespread support with its welfare policies and anti-corruption movement.
The early counting trends indicated that the BJP was ahead of the AAP in over 40 seats. Modi’s party hasn’t won the territory that includes India’s capital of 20 million people in over a quarter-century.
Exit polls, however, have a patchy record in India owing to diverse voting population.
The BJP failed to secure a majority on its own in last year’s national election but formed the government with coalition partners. It has gained some lost ground by winning two state elections in northern Haryana and western Maharashtra states.
Ahead of this election, both Modi and Kejriwal offered to revamp government schools and provide free health services and electricity, along with a monthly stipend of over 2,000 rupees ($25) to poor women.
Modi’s party has hoped to benefit after the recent federal budget slashed income taxes on the salaried middle class, one of its key voting blocs.
The AAP won 62 out of 70 seats in a landslide victory in the last state legislature election in 2020. leaving the BJP with eight and the Congress party with none.
The BJP was voted out of power in Delhi in 1998 by the Congress party, which ran the government for 15 years.
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President Trump says 'we will have relations with North Korea'; it's a 'big asset' that he gets along with Kim

President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House Friday and said the U.S. will have relations with the North Korean regime of dictator Kim Jong Un.
“We will have relations with North Korea, with Kim Jong Un. I get along with them very well,” Trump told reporters alongside Ishiba.
Trump, who first met Kim in 2018 in Singapore and became the first sitting president to meet with the leader of North Korea, is looking to build off his personal diplomacy he established with Kim during his first term.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, at the White House Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“We had a good relationship. And I think it’s a very big asset for everybody that I do get along with them,” the president said.
Trump met Kim again in 2019 and became the first president to step foot inside North Korean territory from the demilitarized zone.
Trump said Japan would welcome renewed dialogue with North Korea because relations between Japan and North Korea remain tense since diplomatic relations have never been established.
“And I can tell you that Japan likes the idea because their relationship is not very good with him,” Trump said.
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President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018 during his first term as president. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Ishiba said it’s a positive development Trump and Kim met during Trump’s first term. And now that he has returned to power, the U.S., Japan and its allies can move toward resolving issues with North Korea, including denuclearization.
“Japan and U.S. will work together toward the complete denuclearization of North Korea,” Ishiba added.
Prime Minister Ishiba also addressed a grievance involving the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. Although North Korea released some of the prisoners in the early 2000s, Pyongyang never provided Japan with any explanation for the abduction of its citizens, and there can be no normalization of relations between Japan and North Korea until the issue is resolved.
“And so our time is limited,” Ishiba warned.
“So, I don’t know if the president of the United States, if President Trump is able to resolve this issue. We do understand that it’s a Japan issue, first and foremost. Having said that, we would love to continue to cooperate with them,” the prime minister added.
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Cyprus jails Syrian man over death of young girl on migrant boat

The number of migrants arriving Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government.
A Syrian man has been jailed for three years by a Cyprus court for causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl who died of dehydration aboard an overloaded migrant boat.
The Famagusta criminal court ruled that the 48-year-old captain had failed to ensure the safety of the 60 Syrian migrants in January last year during a journey on the small wooden craft, which carried no navigational aids or appropriate communications equipment.
The captain had told the passengers at some point in the journey to throw any remaining bottles of water overboard in a bid to remove any indications that the boat had departed from Lebanon, the Attorney-General’s Office in Cyprus said on Friday.
The boat set sail on 18 January 2024, but an engine failure left the vessel adrift for nearly a week in the eastern Mediterranean, where many of the passengers began to drink sea water and their own urine to quench their thirst, according to the facts of the case.
After locating the boat, Cypriot authorities airlifted the 3-year-old girl, who was accompanied by her mother, to a hospital, but medical staff could not save her life.
The authorities did not name the perpetrator or the victim.
The number of migrants arriving in Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government. Authorities said the EU member nation’s ability to host many thousands of new asylum seekers was being overwhelmed.
Migrant arrivals to ethnically divided Cyprus — mostly through the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, where government authorities cannot exercise jurisdiction — dropped from 17,278 in 2022 to 6,102 in 2024, according to the latest available government data.
Meanwhile, asylum applications plummeted from a record 21,565 to 6,769 over the same period while repatriations increased to nearly 11,000 from 7,700.
Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December, Cyprus’ Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said about 40 Syrian nationals on average each day are requesting to either withdraw their asylum application or to revoke their international protection status.
Ioannides said this week that some 755 Syrians have already returned to their homeland.
Cyprus lies closer to the Middle East than any other EU state, and thousands of Syrians have fled to the island in recent years, which last year caused the government to halt the processing of asylum applications altogether.
Last October, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that Cyprus breached the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum after keeping them, and more than two dozen other people, aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon.
Additional sources • AP
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