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Renewed Russian attacks mark Ukraine’s grim start to 2023
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Individuals in Ukraine confronted a grim begin to 2023 as renewed Russian missile and drone assaults adopted a blistering New 12 months’s Eve assault throughout the nation, in line with authorities.
Air raid sirens sounded within the capital Kyiv shortly after midnight on Sunday, adopted by a barrage of missiles that interrupted the small celebrations residents held at residence as a result of wartime curfews. Because the sirens blared, some folks shouted from their balconies, “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!”
One other strike at midday Sunday within the southern Zaporizhzhia area killed one particular person, in line with the top of the regional navy administration, Alexander Starukh.
In a video tackle on Sunday evening, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his residents’ “sense of unity, of authenticity, of life itself”. Russia, he mentioned, “won’t take away a single 12 months from Ukraine. They won’t take away our independence. We won’t give them something.”
“Drones, missiles, every little thing else won’t assist them,” he mentioned of the Russians. “As a result of we stand united. They’re united solely by worry.”
Ukrainian forces within the air and on the bottom shot down 45 Iranian-made explosive drones fired by Russia on Saturday evening and earlier than daybreak on Sunday, Zelenskyy mentioned. Iran denies offering Russia with the weapons.
“After all it was onerous to have a good time absolutely as a result of we perceive that our troopers can’t be with their household,” Evheniya Shulzhenko mentioned whereas sitting together with her husband on a park bench overlooking Kyiv.
However a “actually highly effective” New 12 months’s Eve speech by Zelenskyy lifted her spirits and made her proud to be Ukrainian, Shulzhenko mentioned. She just lately moved to Kyiv after dwelling in Bakhmut and Kharkiv, two cities which have skilled a number of the heaviest preventing since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
A number of blasts rocked the capital and different areas of Ukraine on Saturday and thru the evening, wounding dozens. An Related Press information company photographer on the scene of an explosion in Kyiv noticed a lady’s physique as her husband and son stood close by.
Ukraine’s largest college, the Taras Shevchenko Nationwide College in Kyiv, reported important harm to its buildings and campus. Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned two faculties have been broken, together with a kindergarten.
As an alternative of New 12 months’s fireworks, Oleksander Dugyn mentioned he and his family and friends in Kyiv watched the sparks attributable to Ukrainian air defence forces countering Russian assaults.
“We already know the sound of rockets, we all know the second they fly, we all know the sound of drones. The sound is just like the roar of a moped,” mentioned Dugin, who was strolling along with his household within the park. “We maintain on the most effective we are able to.”
Russia mentioned on Sunday that its New 12 months assaults focused “the amenities of the military-industrial complicated of Ukraine” which can be concerned within the manufacturing of drones.
“Storage amenities and launch websites” for the drones have additionally been destroyed, the Russian defence ministry mentioned. “The plans of the Kyiv regime to hold out terror assaults in opposition to Russia within the close to future have been thwarted.”
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, mentioned Russia’s New 12 months assaults focused central areas of enormous cities and pointed to a change in Moscow’s ways.
“Russia not has any navy targets and is making an attempt to kill as many civilians as attainable and destroy extra civilian amenities,” he tweeted. “A warfare to kill.”
The strikes got here 36 hours after Russia launched widespread missile assaults on Thursday to wreck vitality infrastructure amenities. Saturday’s unusually fast follow-up alarmed Ukrainian officers. Russia has carried out air assaults on Ukrainian energy and water provides nearly weekly since October, whereas its floor forces wrestle to carry floor and advance.
Nighttime shelling in elements of the southern metropolis of Kherson killed one particular person and blew out a whole bunch of home windows in a kids’s hospital, in line with deputy presidential chief of employees Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Ukrainian forces reclaimed town in November after Russia’s forces withdrew throughout the Dnieper River, which bisects the Kherson area.
When shells hit the youngsters’s hospital on Saturday evening, surgeons have been working on a 13-year-old boy who was critically wounded in a close-by village that night, Kherson Governor Yaroslav Yanushevych mentioned. The boy was transferred in critical situation to a hospital about 99km (62 miles) away in Mykolaiv.
Elsewhere, a 22-year-old lady died of wounds from a Saturday rocket assault within the japanese city of Khmelnytskyi, town’s mayor mentioned.
Whereas Russia’s bombardments have left many Ukrainians with out heating and electrical energy as a result of harm or managed blackouts meant to protect the remaining energy provide, Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator mentioned Sunday there could be no restrictions on electrical energy use for in the future.
“The ability trade is doing every little thing attainable to make sure that the New 12 months’s vacation is with mild, with out restrictions,” utility firm Ukrenergo mentioned. It mentioned companies and trade had reduce to permit the extra electrical energy for households.
In Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the southern area of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, mentioned in a single day shelling of the outskirts of Shebekino city had broken homes, however there have been no casualties.
Russian media additionally reported a number of Ukrainian assaults on the Moscow-controlled elements of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas, with native officers saying no less than 9 folks have been wounded.
Russia’s RIA state information company cited an area physician as saying six folks have been killed when a hospital in Donetsk was attacked on Saturday. Proxy authorities in Donetsk additionally mentioned one particular person had been killed by Ukrainian shelling.
It was not attainable to independently confirm the studies.
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Trudeau called out by steelworker who refuses to shake his hand during blunt exchange: 'Don't believe you'
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, center, is shown during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not pictured, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment.
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Taiwan court orders release of ex-Taipei mayor arrested in corruption probe
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Taiwan People’s Party leader Ko Wen-je freed after court finds insufficient evidence to justify his detention.
A court in Taiwan has ordered the release of a former mayor and presidential candidate who was arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal, citing insufficient evidence for his detention.
Taipei District Court on Monday ruled that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor of Taipei and the leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), should go free after finding that prosecutors had failed to make the case for his detention.
The court said prosecutors had not met the standard of there being a “high possibility” Ko had committed a crime.
“It cannot be concluded that the defendant… knowingly violated the law,” the court said in its ruling.
Ko was arrested on Saturday as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the redevelopment of the Core Pacific City shopping centre in the Taiwanese capital.
Ko, who came third in January’s presidential election, told reporters outside court that there was “no evidence” of his involvement in the real estate scandal.
A surgeon by training, Ko entered politics in 2014 when he successfully ran for the mayorship of Taipei as an independent candidate.
Re-elected as mayor of Taipei in 2018, he founded the TPP the following year as a third force to challenge the dominance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and China-leaning Kuomintang (KMT).
Under the TPP banner, Ko received about one-quarter of the vote in the last presidential election, which was won by the DPP’s William Lai Ching-te.
While the TPP has only eight legislators in Taiwan’s 113-seat parliament, the party has gained outsized influence as both the DPP and KMT lack a ruling majority.
Ko, who draws much of his support from young people, is widely seen as a contender for the next election in 2028, although his popularity has been dented by a separate campaign funds scandal.
On Thursday, Ko said he would take a three-month leave of absence from the TPP leadership to take responsibility for the misreporting of campaign money and the use of election subsidies to set up a personal office space.
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