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A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, August 14, 2024
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
MINISTERS were urged to divert arms spending to help working people today after it emerged British Challenger 2 tanks were being used in Ukraine’s incursion into Russia.
Anti-war campaigners warned the latest escalation put millions at risk by threatening to turn the proxy war between Nato and Russia into a “hot” and, potentially, nuclear war.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
