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The Biden administration is expected to announce a package involving M1 Abrams tanks to Kyiv through Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a move that is aimed at expediting Germany's decision to approve the export of Leopard tanks, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
More than a dozen countries have already agreed to supply Ukraine with around 100 Leopard 2 tanks if Berlin gives its consent. On Tuesday, shortly after news broke of the possible U.S. intention of sending around 30 Abrams tanks., Germany announced that its Leopards were heading to Ukraine.
The transfer of U.S. and German tanks might mark a major development in the West’s effort to help Ukraine defend itself against a new Russian offensive.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Tuesday with representatives of the G-7 and partner countries to discuss Russian destruction of Ukraine’s electrical grid, heating, water and other energy sources.
They did not publicly mention tanks, and State Department spokesman Ned Price declined to preview any possible announcement on Abrams. "We’re always discussing these issues with allies and partners," he told TURAN's Washington correspondent.
The White House, in its turn, made it clear that the administration "never took tanks off the table", as press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre put it.
Price agreed: "We have not taken capabilities off the table. Again, this is a conversation based on what our Ukrainian partners need, when they need it, where they need it."
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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