For today, a link to a report from the Kyiv Post, Reuters, and Tass, and to commentary from Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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Zelensky narrowly escapes death in Odesa missile attack, Moscow says drones were target. From Kyiv Post. On Wednesday Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Odesa. While on a tour of the city, a Russian missile struck near their motorcade. The Russian media dismissed the possibility of an assassination attempt, TASS categorizing it as . . . READ MORE . . .

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Can’t rule out that Russia targeted Zelenskiy, Greek PM, Ukrainian aide says. From Reuters. It could not be ruled out that a Russian missile strike on Odessa port a day earlier had targeted the delegations of Volodymyr Zelenskiy or Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a top Ukrainian presidential adviser said. The leaders were . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia fighting for sovereignty in Ukraine, North Korea knows it — delegates. From Tass. SIRIUS, Krasnodar Kari, Russia —  “We believe that the events in Ukraine are not just any conflict or war,” Mun Chol, Chairman of the Central Committee of the North Korean Socialist Patriotic Youth League, said this week. “It is . . . READ MORE . . . 

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The Russians in Ukraine, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News  The Ukraine crisis is merely the latest phase of the West’s long campaign to surround the Russian Federation up to its borders, destabilize it and finally subvert it. Regime change in Moscow was and remains the final objective. This is not a war in defense of “Ukrainian democracy.” It is . . . READ MORE . . .