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Ukraine will ‘not forgive’ Russia for latest attacks: Zelenskyy
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that his nation won’t forgive Russia and its aggression after Moscow fired 20 cruise missiles concentrating on Ukraine, together with the capital Kyiv, on New Yr’s Eve.
Russia on Saturday fired a barrage of missiles throughout Ukraine killing at the least one particular person within the capital metropolis within the second wave of assaults on the nation in three days. On Friday, Russia carried out one of many largest air strikes since its invasion of Ukraine in February.
“A number of waves of missile assaults on New Yr’s Eve. Missiles in opposition to individuals … Nobody on the planet will forgive you for this. Ukraine won’t forgive,” Zelenskyy stated on social media.
The explosions had been reported all through the nation on New Yr’s Eve on Saturday in assaults President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated confirmed Moscow was in league with the satan.
Zelenskyy, talking in a video tackle, famous that Russia had additionally launched assaults at Easter and Christmas.
“They name themselves Christians … however they’re for the satan. They’re for him and with him,” he stated.
The Ukrainian president in feedback addressed to Russian audio system stated President Vladimir Putin was destroying Russia’s future.
“Nobody will forgive you for terror. Nobody on the planet will forgive you for this. Ukraine won’t forgive,” he stated, reiterating requires allies to produce extra anti-aircraft and anti-missile techniques.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated at the least one particular person had been killed and 20 wounded after a collection of explosions within the capital.
The mayor stated a type of injured was a Japanese journalist who had been taken to hospital.
A lodge simply south of Kyiv’s metropolis centre was hit, and a residential constructing in one other district was broken, in accordance with town administration.
Russia has claimed it was concentrating on infrastructure however Ukrainian officers say the most recent assault focused civilians.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Kyiv, described a scene the place specialists gathered proof of shrapnel, a pool of blood could possibly be seen, and a two-metre crater was left by a direct hit on a neighbourhood within the capital.
“It’s a sign that this marketing campaign by Vladimir Putin, by the Russians, concentrating on vitality infrastructure goes on. [But] there is no such thing as a indication of the infrastructure of any significance on this neighbourhood. A really grim scene right here on New Yr’s Eve.”
After the assault, Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba referred to as for Russia to be disadvantaged of its everlasting seat on the United Nations Safety Council.
“This time, Russia’s mass missile assault is intentionally concentrating on residential areas, not even our vitality infrastructure,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter.
“Struggle legal Putin ‘celebrates’ New Yr by killing individuals,” he stated.
This time, Russia’s mass missile assault is intentionally concentrating on residential areas, not even our vitality infrastructure. Struggle legal Putin “celebrates” New Yr by killing individuals. Russia should be kicked out of its UN Safety Council seat which it has at all times occupied illegally.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) December 31, 2022
Nationwide assaults
Different cities throughout Ukraine additionally got here beneath hearth. Within the southern area of Mykolaiv, native governor Vitaliy Kim stated on tv that six individuals had been wounded.
In a separate publish on Telegram, Kim stated Russia had focused civilians with the assaults, one thing Moscow has beforehand denied.
“In accordance with right this moment’s tendencies, the occupiers are hanging, not simply important … in lots of cities [they are targeting] merely residential areas, lodges, garages, roads.”
Within the western metropolis of Khmelnytskyi, two individuals had been wounded in a drone assault, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko stated.
The official additionally reported an assault within the southern industrial powerhouse metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, which Tymoshenko stated had broken residential buildings.
Ukraine’s defence ministry responded with a defiant message posted on Telegram.
“With every new missile assault on civilian infrastructure, increasingly Ukrainians are satisfied of the necessity to combat till the whole collapse of Putin’s regime,” he wrote.
Russia combating to guard ‘motherland’
In the meantime, President Vladimir Putin stated Russia would by no means give in to the West’s makes an attempt to make use of Ukraine as a instrument to destroy his nation.
In a New Yr’s video message broadcast on state TV, Putin stated Russia was combating in Ukraine to guard its “motherland” and to safe “true independence” for its individuals.
Earlier, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu stated his nation’s victory in Ukraine was “inevitable” in a New Yr’s message to servicemen, as Moscow’s navy marketing campaign grinds by means of its eleventh month.
“Within the coming yr, I wish to want everybody good well being, fortitude, dependable and devoted comrades … Our victory, just like the New Yr, is inevitable,” Shoigu stated within the video tackle launched by the defence ministry.
Shoigu stated within the outgoing yr “all of us confronted severe trials” and that the New Yr comes throughout a “tough military-political state of affairs”. Russian troops have suffered a string of setbacks on the bottom through the previous months, with the Kremlin in September asserting the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to affix the combating.
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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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