Volodymyr Zelensky, the former sitcom comedian who played the role as President of Ukraine, who got elected as the actual president of Ukraine by promising peace with Russia, called on more weapons from Western countries just days after Germany and the U.S. announced that they would provide Ukraine with tanks.
Israel’s Mossad was behind the Saturday drone attack on an Iranian military facility in Isfahan, The New York Times reported, citing senior officials “familiar with the dialogue between Israel and the United States” about the attack.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who has been one of the West’s top critics of the Kremlin, said Wednesday what The Trends Journal publisher had forecast last April: The West is at war with Russia.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor who has been criticized for moving too slowly in providing weapons of death for Ukraine, said in an interview that he continues to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone and NATO should not be dragged into a conflict with Moscow.
Who needs tanks when you can have fighter jets?
Just hours after the U.S. announced that it will provide Ukraine with its M1 Abrams tanks, a top White House official admitted that there is an ongoing debate in Washington about providing Kyiv with fourth-generation F-16 fighters.
Ukrainian forces suffered defeat in Soledar, a town in eastern Donbas last week, so the propaganda media in the West sent in their reinforcements by intentionally softening the significance of the loss in their report.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in an interview that it is only a matter of time before major Russian cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg are targeted in strikes.
In December, inflation in Japan ran at 4 percent, its highest since December 1981, surpassing the Bank of Japan’s 2-percent target for the ninth month running.
The prices that German businesses pay for materials and services inflated at an annual rate of 21.6 percent in December, sharply lower than November’s 28.2-percent gallop, the Financial Times reported.
Food and drinks in Great Britain cost 16.8 percent more in December than a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics reported, setting a 45-year record.