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Russia says 63 troops killed in attack on Donetsk barracks
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Russia has mentioned that 63 of its troops had been killed throughout a Ukrainian New Yr’s Eve assault on a makeshift barracks within the partly-occupied Donetsk area.
The ministry mentioned in a press release on Monday that Ukraine’s army had launched six projectiles on the “provisional base” within the japanese metropolis of Makiivka utilizing the HIMARS guided rocket system equipped by the US.
Two of the missiles had been shot down by Russian air defences, it added, however 4 struck the constructing.
The ministry’s assertion got here after the Strategic Communications Division of Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned late on Sunday that 400 Russian troops had been killed within the assault and one other 300 had been wounded.
Footage posted on-line appeared to point out a constructing presupposed to be a vocational school in Russian-controlled Makiivka diminished to smouldering rubble.
Al Jazeera couldn’t independently confirm the footage or the numbers offered by both facet. If Ukraine’s tally had been confirmed, the toll would signify one of many single deadliest assaults on Russian forces since Moscow launched its invasion in late February.
Moscow-backed authorities in Donetsk additionally acknowledged casualties from the assault.
Daniil Bezsonov, a senior Russia-backed official within the area, mentioned the vocational school had been hit by HIMARS rockets a minute after midnight on Saturday.
“There have been lifeless and wounded,” Bezsonov mentioned late on Sunday in a put up on the Telegram messaging app. “The precise quantity continues to be unknown. The constructing itself was badly broken.”
Igor Girkin, a former Federal Safety Service officer who helped Russia annex the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 after which organise pro-Russian separatist forces in japanese Ukraine, mentioned on Monday that “the variety of lifeless and wounded runs into many lots of.”
Girkin, who has bitterly criticised Russia’s army failures in Ukraine, mentioned ammunition had been saved in the identical constructing the place the recruits had been accommodated.
“This isn’t the one such [extremely dense] deployment of personnel and tools within the destruction zone of HIMARS missiles,” he mentioned on Telegram.
Russian bombardments
The developments had been reported towards the backdrop of a current wave of Russian bombardments of Ukrainian cities. Moscow has seen within the new 12 months with nightly assaults on city areas lots of of kilometres from the battle’s entrance traces, together with Kyiv.
After firing a barrage of missiles on Saturday, Russia launched dozens of Iranian-made Shahed assault drones on Sunday and Monday. Ukraine mentioned on Monday that it had shot down all 39 drones within the newest wave of assaults, together with 22 over the capital.
Ukrainian officers mentioned the intensified bombardment was an indication of Russia’s desperation as Ukraine’s means to defend its air area had improved with continued army assist from its Western allies.
“Now they’re searching for routes and makes an attempt to hit us by some means, however their terror techniques won’t work,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of employees Andriy Yermak mentioned on Telegram. “Our sky will flip right into a protect.”
Zelenskyy on Sunday praised Ukrainians for exhibiting gratitude to their troops and each other and mentioned Russia’s efforts would show ineffective.
“Drones, missiles, every little thing else won’t assist them as a result of we stand united,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “They’re united solely by concern.”
Russia says its assaults, which have knocked out warmth and energy to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in winter, purpose to cut back Ukraine’s means to struggle. The Ukrainian authorities says the assaults haven’t any army objective and are battle crimes supposed to hurt civilians.
Russia’s battle in Ukraine, the biggest in Europe since World Warfare II, has killed tens of hundreds of individuals, pushed hundreds of thousands from their houses and diminished huge swathes of the nation to rubble.
Regardless of the mounting bloodshed, Russian President Vladimir Putin has mentioned there will likely be no let-up in his nation’s offensive, and Moscow has not too long ago rejected a peace plan put ahead by Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy’s 10-point proposal requires Russia to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and withdraw all of its troops from his nation.
However the Kremlin insists that Kyiv should settle for Russia’s annexation of 4 partly occupied Ukrainian areas – Luhansk and Donetsk within the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhia within the south – which Moscow unilaterally claimed as its personal in September.
Russia additionally says Ukraine should settle for the lack of Crimea.
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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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