For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, National Public Radio, and Tass, followed by commentary from ScheerPost, the Kyiv Post, and Newsweek; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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Moscow accuses Kyiv of shelling Russian border city following its own aerial assault against Ukraine. From AP. Russian officials today accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the Russian border city of Belgorod, a day after an 18-hour aerial Russian barrage across Ukraine killed at least 39 civilians. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said two children were killed in Belgorad and . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine death toll after massive Russian air attack rises to 39. From Reuters. KYIV — The death toll from Russia’s largest air attack on Ukraine rose to 39 today as rescuers continued to clear debris and rubble from the bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Russia launched 158 missiles and drones on cities and towns across Ukraine on Friday in what . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER* Russian strikes on Ukraine ‘appalling assaults’: senior UN official. From AFP. UNITED NATIONS — A senior UN official condemned Russia on Friday for its “appalling assaults” on Ukraine involving some 158 missiles and drones, which Kyiv blamed for the deaths of at least 30 people. Schools, a maternity hospital, shopping arcades and blocks of flats were among the buildings hit in the nationwide barrage that also wounded . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainians fear being forgotten as Russian missiles strike. Reported by Alina Selyukh and Elissa Nadworny | NPR An update on the Russian missile and drone attack that struck cities across Ukraine Friday. There are worries that the world is “growing tired” of the news from the war there. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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NEWER* Ukrainian losses in Donetsk area amount up to 350 troops in 24 hours — Defense Ministry. From Tass. MOSCOW — Ukraine’s armed forces have lost up to 350 personnel killed and wounded in the Donetsk area over 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said. According to . . . READ MORE . . .
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To retrieve history, by Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost I am still reading, at this late date, that Russian soldiers kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children early in Washington’s proxy war in that perversely cursed country and brought them to Russia to teach them to hate Ukraine. You would think . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER* New York Times editorial board very wrong, by Anders Aslund | Kyiv Post Little has enraged the pro-Ukrainian community more than The New York Times with its Dec. 27 article “Ukraine Doesn’t Need All Its Territory to Defeat Putin.” It was written by the hereditary Russian nobleman Serge Schmemann, a member of its editorial board. Let me take it apart. The issue is not . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER* Putin has never lost a war. Here is how he’ll win in Ukraine, by Bill Powell and Naveed Jamali | Newsweek During past conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Crimea over his two decades in power, Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeded by giving his armed forces clear, achievable military objectives that would allow him to declare victory, credibly, in the eyes of the Russian people and a wary, watching world. His latest initiative in Ukraine . . . READ MORE. . .
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