Putin withdraws ratification of nuclear test ban treaty
伊 Melony, fooled by YouTuber’s prank call
“Western leaders are tired of the Ukraine war”, their true thoughts revealed
While the international community’s attention is focused on the Middle East due to the war between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas, Russia is strengthening its offensive against Ukraine. Russia carried out the largest airstrike this year on Ukraine from the 31st of last month to the 1st of this month, and is also strengthening its offensive in Audiyivka, eastern Ukraine, a major battleground.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said on the 1st, “Over the past 24 hours, the Red Army (Russia) shelled 118 villages in 10 regions. “This is the biggest damage this year.” It was also revealed that at least 4 people were killed and 14 were injured. On the same day, a large fire broke out at an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, an industrial city in central Ukraine, due to an attack by Russian troops. The intention is to use the cold as a weapon by targeting Ukraine’s energy facilities as they did last winter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill withdrawing ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) on the 2nd. This is interpreted as an attempt to put pressure on the West, which is divided over support for Ukraine, by increasing the level of nuclear threat after Russia secured the momentum to continue the war in Ukraine with North Korea’s weapons support.
Major Western countries, which have supported Ukraine ever since Russia’s invasion in February last year, are increasingly complaining of fatigue and burden caused by the prolongation of the war. On the 1st, Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica and others published a 15-minute phone call in which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed his war fatigue after being fooled by a prank call from a Russian YouTuber impersonating an African diplomat in September of this year.
In this call, Prime Minister Meloni said, “I see that many people (leaders of major Western countries) are tired. “We are getting closer to the moment where we all understand that we need a way out.” As controversy grew after the report, the Prime Minister’s Office acknowledged in a statement that the content of the phone call was true, saying, “We express regret that the Prime Minister was deceived.”
Source: Donga
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