For today, links to reports from Tass, the Kyiv Post, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, the Kyiv Independent, and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date and a TAIBBI entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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NATO to ‘institutionalize’ arms support for Kiev at U.S. summit — Secretary General. From Tass. SOFIA — NATO will establish a permanent entity at July’s summit in Washington to organize mandatory arms supplies to Ukraine and their financing, with the amount to be determined later, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. “Support must start to flow in again, but . . . READ MORE . . .
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Zelensky reports new Russian troop build-up near Kharkiv. From Kyiv Post. Russian troops are preparing an offensive 90 kilometers northwest of Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address. He published a video shot at the Vivat printing house in Kharkiv — one of the largest printing enterprises in Europe, which was recently destroyed by a Russian attack that killed seven people. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine drone targets second Russian long-range military radar, Kyiv source says. From Reuters. KYIV — A Ukrainian drone targeted a long-range radar deep inside Russia today, the second such strike in a week on infrastructure used by Moscow to monitor Ukraine’s military activities, a Kyiv intelligence source said. READ MORE . . .
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1 killed, 3 injured in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian gas station. From AFP. One person was killed and three others were injured today in a Ukrainian drone attack on a gas station in the town of Livy in Russia’s Oryol region, local officials said. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine, Spain sign bilateral security agreement, by Martin Fornusek | The Kyiv Independent Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez signed a bilateral security agreement between the two countries today. READ MORE . . .
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Russian troops liberate two communities in Ukraine operation over past day — top brass. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian troops liberated the settlement of Ivanovka in the Kharkov Region and the settlement of Netailovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today. READ MORE . . .
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Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don’t. A growing movement wants that to change, by Lori Hinnant and Vasilisa Stepenenko | AP FAR WESTERN UKRAINE — “To be able to talk to your loved ones is worth a lot,” a Russian prisoner of war, Alexander, told The Associated Press. “I’ve already been in prison for almost a year. I’m . . . READ MORE . . .