UK Politician Slams Sunak Over Tanks for Kiev, Says It’s Wrong to Prop Up ‘Corrupt Zelensky Regime’

- UK Politician Slams Sunak Over Tanks for Kiev, Says It’s Wrong to Prop Up ‘Corrupt Zelensky Regime’
by Ilya Tsukanov, https://sputniknews.com/
Britain has announced plans to send 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks, 30 AS90 self-propelled guns, and possibly, four Apache helicopters to Ukraine. The Russian Embassy in London blasted Number 10 over the tank plans, accusing the government of trying to set a precedent for the deployment of heavy weaponry to escalate the crisis.
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Heritage Party leader David Kurten has lashed out at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over his decision to send main battle tanks to Ukraine, saying the United Kingdom should be working toward de-escalating the Ukraine crisis.
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“Sunak is wrong to send British tanks to Ukraine. The UK government should be trying to de-escalate the Ukraine conflict, not prolonging it by supporting the corrupt, Nazi-infested Zelensky regime,” Kurten tweeted late on Saturday.
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The social conservative politician and political commentator, previously affiliated with the UK Independence Party, ran for mayor of London in 2021, and in elections and by-elections for a seat in the House of Commons in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.
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Kurten emerged as an outspoken critic of the mainstream narrative on the Ukraine crisis last year. In September, he appeared on Piers Morgan’s chat program, telling Morgan that “the West has been poking the [Russian] bear for eight years essentially,” and that “the Ukrainian Army and forces, backed by the Azov Battalion, for eight years have been shelling, maiming, killing ethnic Russians in the Donbass.”
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