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Dialuna 11 Juli 2022

Successors to Johnson seek to stand out in crowded UK field

(AP) — Potential suc- That triggered the internal with even some Conservative
cessors to British Prime Conservative Party contest to politicians worried that he
Minister Boris Johnson pick a new party leader. Un- could do mischief even as a
rushed to differentiate der Britain’s parliamentary caretaker prime minister.
themselves from an in- government, the next party
creasingly crowded field leader will automatically be- As politicians took to the air-
on Sunday as the govern- come prime minister without waves to endorse candidates
ing Conservative Party the need for a general elec- on Sunday, many sought to
was expected to set a tight tion. distance their favorites from
timetable for the election. the turmoil of the Johnson
International Trade Minis- years by stressing traits such
Candidates released slick ter Penny Mordaunt was the as “integrity’’ and “honesty.”
campaign videos on social latest to announce her bid
media and appeared on Sun- on Sunday, saying the U.K. Karan Bilimoria, the former
day morning political talk “needs to become a little less president of the Confedera-
shows to make their cases to about the leader and a lot tion of British Industry, said
the public. Several promised more about the ship.” For- the decision should be made
tax cuts, appealing to rank- mer health secretaries Sa- race. day, with news reports sug- as quickly as possible because
and-file Conservative party jid Javid and Jeremy Hunt gesting that Conservative businesses that are still strug-
members for whom low tax- joined one of the most open The race comes after John- lawmakers will narrow the gling to overcome the impact
es are a mantra. leadership races in recent his- son, 58, was brought down by field to two before Parlia- of the pandemic and are now
tory late Saturday. a series of scandals, the most ment breaks for its summer facing the growing possibility
Johnson announced his res- recent involving his decision recess on July 21. Party mem- of a recession need help now.
ignation on Thursday after Other contenders include to promote a lawmaker who bers around the country will “We have got to get through
more than 50 members of his frontrunner Rishi Sunak, the had been accused of sexual then vote on the final choice this period as quickly as pos-
Cabinet and lower level of- former Treasury chief, and misconduct to a senior posi- before the end of August, the sible and find a good leader
ficials resigned from his gov- Nadim Zahawi, who took tion in his government. Times of London reported. who can then rebuild trust,’’
ernment, many citing con- Sunak’s job as chancellor he told Times Radio. “It is
cerns that his ethical lapses of the exchequer last week. An influential Conservative Johnson has said he will re- rebuilding the trust with the
had undermined the govern- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss party committee is expected main prime minister until country as well. The country
ment’s credibility. hasn’t formally announced to lay out the rules for the his successor is chosen. But has lost that trust and busi-
but is expected to join the leadership contest on Mon- many want him to go now, ness is very worried.”

Ukrainian governor: Russia raising ‘true hell’ in the east

(AP) — Russian forces were pressing toward the racks used by the Russians. people were under the debris. a 12-year-old girl, authorities
are raising “true hell” in border with the Donetsk re- Ukraine’s deputy prime said.
Ukraine’s eastern indus- gion. minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, Russian missiles also killed
trial heartland, despite as- “We are trying to contain the appealed to residents of Rus- two people and wounded “An Iskander ballistic mis-
sessments they were tak- Russians’ armed formations sian-held territories in the three others Saturday in the sile was probably used,” the
ing an operational pause, along the entire front line,” south to evacuate quickly so southern city of Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s
a regional governor said Haidai wrote on Telegram. the occupying forces could according to regional author- office said. “One of the mis-
Saturday, while another not use them as human ities. siles hit a two-story building,
Ukrainian official urged Last week, Russia captured shields during a Ukrainian “They deliberately targeted which led to its destruction.
people in Russian-occu- the last major stronghold of counteroffensive. residential areas,” Valentyn Neighboring houses were
pied southern areas to Ukrainian resistance in Lu- Reznichenko, governor of damaged.”
evacuate quickly “by all hansk, the city of Lysychansk. “You need to search for a way the eastern Dnipropetrovsk
possible means” before a Analysts predicted Moscow’s to leave, because our armed region, said on Telegram. The city has been targeted
Ukrainian counteroffen- troops likely would take some forces are coming to de-oc- Kryvyi Rih’s mayor, Olek- throughout the war, includ-
sive. time to rearm and regroup. cupy,” she said. “There will sandr Vilkul, asserted on ing several times in the past
But “so far there has been no be a massive fight.” Facebook that cluster mu- week. As survivor Valentina
Deadly Russian shelling was operational pause announced nitions had been used and Mirgorodksaya dabbed at a
reported in Ukraine’s east by the enemy. He is still at- Speaking at a news confer- urged residents not to ap- cut on her cheek, first re-
and south. tacking and shelling our ence late Friday, Vereshchuk proach unfamiliar objects in sponders warily inspected
lands with the same intensity said a civilian evacuation ef- the streets. More explosions the building shattered in Sat-
The governor of the east- as before,” Haidai said. He fort was underway for parts were reported Saturday eve- urday’s strike.
ern Luhansk region, Serhyi later said the Russian bom- of the Kherson and Zapori- ning. Kryvyi Rih is the home-
Haidai, said Russia launched bardment of Luhansk was zhzhia regions. She declined town of Ukrainian President Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr
more than 20 artillery, mortar suspended because Ukrai- to give details, citing safety. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who Senkevych reported on Tele-
and rocket strikes on the re- nian forces had destroyed visited Friday to meet with gram that six Russian missiles
gion overnight and its forces ammunition depots and bar- It was not clear how civil- Vilkul and the brigadier gen- were fired at his city in south-
ians were expected to safely eral who commands troops ern Ukraine near the Black
leave Russian-controlled ar- in the region. Zelenskyy’s Sea, but caused no casualties.
eas while missile strikes and office said he was briefed on “On this day alone, Russia
artillery shelling continue in the “construction of defen- hit Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Krivyi
surrounding areas, whether sive structures,” the support Rih, villages in the Zaporizh-
they would be allowed to de- of the troops, the supply of zhia region,” Zelenskyy said
part or even hear the govern- food and medicine to the city in his nightly video address.
ment’s appeal. and the help given people “It hit residential areas, ab-
who had fled to Kryvyi Rih solutely consciously and on
In the city of Sloviansk, after being driven out of their purpose. ... For days on end,
named as a likely next target homes elsewhere in Ukraine. the brutal strikes of Rus-
of Russia’s offensive, rescu- In northeast Ukraine, a Rus- sian artillery … don’t stop.
ers pulled a 40-year-old man sian rocket strike on Saturday Such terrorist action can be
from the rubble of a building hit the center of Ukraine’s stopped only with weapons
destroyed Saturday by shell- second-largest city, Kharkiv, — modern and powerful
ing. Kyrylenko said multiple injuring six people, including ones.”