“Not one of the Hawkei light-armoured vehicles that the Ukrainians need to use as cell missile launchers despite the fact that we’ve 1000 of them in inventory too.
“I do know that the Australian authorities desires us to stay Ukraine’s greatest pal in Asia and I’m assured that the Prime Minister Albanese received’t go to the approaching NATO summit with out a large new arms bundle to assist preserve Ukrainian troopers alive as they search to reclaim their houses.”
Former PM Tony Abbott addresses the Kyiv Safety Discussion board.Credit score: Indychii Oleksandr
Abbott savaged the choice to maintain Australian ambassador Bruce Edwards in Warsaw, Poland, regardless of all Western allies reinstating their diplomatic embassies in Kyiv in a present of help and solidarity.
On the one-year anniversary of the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately pleaded with Australia’s diplomats for them to return to the capital.
“I do count on that our ambassador will swiftly return to Kyiv, from Warsaw, because it’s so out of character for Australians to huddle in security when there’s work to be finished,” he mentioned.
He mentioned Ukraine was preventing for all smaller nations threatened by dictators, and cited Taiwan for instance.
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“There’s not the slightest doubt that Beijing is watching what occurs right here, weighing what it’d do throughout the Taiwan Strait,” he mentioned.
“In that sense, Ukrainians are preventing not only for their very own freedom however for the liberty of each smaller nation threatened by a bigger neighbour.”
Abbott was prime minister when flight MH17 was shot down over japanese Ukraine by three pro-Russian separatists killing all 298 individuals on board together with 38 Australians. He famously threatened to shirtfront Putin over it.
“For me, Putin’s conflict on Ukraine has lengthy been private,” he mentioned. “And I’ve by no means ceased to thirst for justice for these Australians solid into eternity as a result of the Russian dictator couldn’t bear to see an impartial Ukraine.
“I’ve by no means ceased to need freedom and democracy for Ukraine, a rustic craving to be rid of the bondage of Moscow.”
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