Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Saturday to bolster his tank supply over the next three years, boasting that Moscow’s fleet would eventually exceed Ukraine’s by three times.
Moscow plans to produce or upgrade more than 1,600 tanks in three years
, Putin said in an interview that aired Saturday on Russian state TV. He said that while Western governments — which he dubbed “arsonists” — planned to deliver more than 400 tanks to Kyiv, Russia would upgrade and produce more than 1,600 new tanks. The Pentagon announced this week that it willPutin’s comments follow reports of mounting Russian losses, as well as shortages of weapons and armor— some more than 70 years old — according to researchers.
The U.N. monitoring mission in Ukraine had found proof of summary killings, sexual violence and torture against prisoners of war and civilians, it said, and Russia had carried out the great majority of violations. “The cruelty and large-scale impact on civilians that we have seen over the last year will continue, unless both parties to the conflict ensure full compliance with international humanitarian law,” Matilda Bogner, the head of the mission,U.N. human rights monitors said most of the human rights violations they documented were committed by Russian forces.
Russia committed 621 cases of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of civilians, while Ukraine committed 91, they said. They also alleged that Russia was responsible for 109 cases of sexual violence, and Ukraine for 24. Brutal treatment of prisoners of war is common on both sides, the mission said.Canada and the United States pledge to keep the “torch of liberty burning brightly” for Ukraine,in an address to the Canadian parliament in Ottawa on Friday.
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