For today, links to reports from Tass, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and the Kyiv Independent; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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Putin to ask Investigative Committee to publicize details of Il-76 crash. From Tass.  ST. PETERSBURG — Russian President Vladimir Putin will instruct the Investigative Committee to make details of the crash of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ Ilyushin-76 (IL-76) military transport plane as much public as possible, he said, “so that people in Ukraine can also find out what really happened.” Investigative bodies are . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine says it has no evidence for Russia’s claim that dozens of POWs died in a shot down plane. From AP. KYIV — Officials in Ukraine said Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs. The Ukrainian agency that deals with prisoner exchanges said late Friday that. . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia and Ukraine exchange blame for a plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners being shot. By Charles Maynes | NPR  Ukraine and Russia are blaming each other for the downing of a Russian military transport plane this week, which Russia says had 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war aboard. All aboard were killed. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Ukrainian officials meet relatives of POWs who Russia claims were in crashed Il-76, say no evidence to confirm that, by Kateryna Denisova | The Kyiv Independent  Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Friday that during the planned exchange of POWs two days earlier Moscow was to return to Ukraine 65 people from one of the lists Russian propagandists shared after the crash of Il-76 transport plane . . . READ MORE . . .