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Russia: NATO war involvement ‘growing’ with arms to Ukraine
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Russia says the supply of NATO battle tanks to Ukraine is proof of “direct and rising” US and European involvement within the conflict, with one analyst suggesting supplying nations might grow to be potential targets.
The feedback come after the USA and Germany on Wednesday stated they might arm Ukraine with dozens of heavy tanks in its combat towards Russian forces.
“There are fixed statements from European capitals and Washington that the sending of varied weapons methods to Ukraine, together with tanks, on no account signifies the involvement of those nations or the alliance in hostilities in Ukraine,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on Thursday.
“We categorically disagree with this and, in Moscow, all the pieces the alliance and the capitals I discussed are doing is seen as direct involvement within the battle. We see that that is rising.”
Kyiv has been looking for lots of of contemporary tanks to provide its troops the firepower to interrupt Russian defensive traces and reclaim occupied territory in Ukraine’s south and east. Ukraine and Russia have been relying totally on Soviet-era T-72 tanks.
Russia, which launched the conflict by invading Ukraine on February 24 final yr, has more and more portrayed the battle as a confrontation with NATO.
Sergey Karaganov, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated NATO’s weapons deliveries might end in attainable army retaliation towards the nations supplying them.
“By sending tanks, the NATO nations have gotten extra overtly concerned within the conflict and that makes them potential targets,” he informed Al Jazeera.
’25 years of NATO growth’
Karaganov additionally blamed NATO for beginning the battle in Ukraine.
“It isn’t precisely a Russian-Ukraine conflict, it’s a Russian-Western conflict. Ukrainians are used as cannon fodder and the management is mainly marionettes. The West has been advancing and making ready to assault Russia, and Russia determined to strike overtly first. Nevertheless it has been 25 years of NATO growth.”
Regardless of the huge arms provides by the West, Karaganov predicted a Russian victory.
“Ultimately, Russia will destroy Ukraine’s army and the nation can be totally de-militarised. The neo-Nazi regime there can be completed,” he stated.
Recreation-changer?
Consultants are divided on how efficient Germany’s Leopard 2 and the US Abrams tanks can be towards Russian forces.
“The deliveries of Leopard 2 will take our floor forces to a qualitatively new degree,” stated Ukrainian army analyst Oleh Zhdanov.
Though Leopard 2s are heavier than Soviet-designed tanks, they’ve a powerful edge in firepower and survivability.
“One Leopard 2 could possibly be equal to 3 or 5 Russian tanks,” Zhdanov stated.
However he famous the promised variety of Western tanks represents solely the minimal Ukraine must repel a probable offensive by Moscow, including that Russia has 1000’s of heavy armoured automobiles.
“Kyiv is making ready for a defensive operation and its end result will decide the long run course of the battle,” Zhdanov stated.
Russian army analysts have been extra sceptical in regards to the NATO tanks, arguing that whereas Abrams proved clearly superior to older fashions of Soviet-built ones in the course of the conflict in Iraq, newer Russian fashions are extra intently matched. Additionally they famous Leopard 2 tanks utilized by the Turkish military towards the Kurds in Syria proved susceptible to Soviet-era anti-tank weapons.
Andrei Kartapolov, a retired common who heads the defence affairs committee within the decrease home of the Russian parliament, argued each Leopard 2 and Abrams are inferior to Russia’s T-90, a modified model of the T-72.
The newest Russian tank, the T-14 Armata, has been manufactured solely in small numbers and to this point has not been used within the conflict.
The UK’s defence ministry stated in its newest intelligence replace that Russia has labored to arrange a small batch of T-14s for deployment in Ukraine, however added it had engine and different issues.
‘Main coverage change’
Russian observers, in the meantime, famous it might take a big time for the Western tanks to achieve Ukraine, including that coaching Ukrainians to make use of and correctly preserve them would add to the problem.
“It seemingly signifies that the Ukrainian army will most likely obtain a couple of small batches of tanks that could possibly be incompatible with one another,” Moscow-based defence analyst Ilya Kramnik stated in a commentary.
Putin, his diplomats and army leaders have repeatedly warned the West that supplying long-range weapons able to placing deep inside Russia would mark a pink line and set off huge retaliation.
Zhdanov argued that by agreeing to arm Ukraine with tanks, the West crossed an vital psychological barrier and will ultimately present Kyiv with much more lethal weapons.
“Handing over Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine marks a serious change within the coverage of Western allies who stopped fearing escalation and at the moment are able to problem Russia within the conflict of sources,” Zhdanov stated.
“The West is pressured to extra broadly open the doorways to its army arsenals to Ukraine.”
‘Harsh retaliatory motion’
Ukrainian officers have lengthy expressed hope of getting US F-16 fighter jets and long-range rockets for the Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket Techniques, referred to as HIMARS, to hit targets far behind the entrance traces.
Such wishes drew ominous remarks from Russian diplomat Konstantin Gavrilov, just like these voiced earlier by Putin and others.
“If Washington and NATO give Kyiv weapons to strike peaceable cities deep inside Russia and attempt to seize the territories that constitutionally belong to Russia, it’s going to power Moscow to take harsh retaliatory motion,” Gavrilov informed a gathering of the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe.
“Don’t inform us then that we haven’t warned you.”
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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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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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