Australia agreed to send 70 more armoured vehicles to Ukraine on the same day the High Court backed the decision to kick Russia off diplomatic land in Canberra.
Australia will send another 70 armoured vehicles to Ukraine as part of a $110 million package of fresh aid, amid growing uncertainty over the war after Russian PresidentPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said the announcement of aid was not tied to events in Russia over the weekend, which saw Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin accept a deal to go into exile in return for abandoning a march to Moscow demanding a shake-up of Russia’s military high command.
However, it does not include the Hawkei armoured vehicles Kyiv had campaigned for, nor the retired F/A-18 fighter jets that Australian, US and Ukrainian officials are in talks over supplying to the battlefield.Australia has now pledged $610 million in military aid and $790 million in total assistance for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in February last year.
“It does call into question the decision which we have all criticised and which we are standing here to oppose today, which is the decision to illegally, immorally invade Ukraine,” she said. The Albanese government cancelled the lease, citing advice from intelligence agencies that allowing Russia to build a diplomatic compound posed a national security risk because the land is next to Parliament House.and did not want Australian officials to take control of the land and a completed building because of unspecified concerns over maintaining the “integrity” of the building if it was not in Russia’s possession – an apparent allusion to the possibility it could be bugged.
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