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

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Russian missile hits educational institution, kills five in Ukraine’s Odesa, by Iryna Nazarchuk | Reuters  ODESA, Ukraine  A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed four people and injured 28, local officials said. READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine presses military-age Ukrainian men living abroad to register for service. Reported by A Martínez and Joanna Kakissis | NPR  As Ukraine awaits for badly needed military aid approved by Congress earlier this month, it’s not just weapons and ammunition in short supply. Ukraine also desperately needs more soldiers. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM APRIL 29  This congresswoman was born and raised in Ukraine. She just voted against aid for her homeland, by Isabella Volmert | AP  SHERIDAN, Ind. — U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when $61 billion in additional support for the war effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it. Instead, she. . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia’s Battlegroup East improves positions in DPR, hits roughly 100 Ukrainian troops. From Tass. MOSCOW — The Ukrainian armed forces sustained roughly 100 casualties as Russia’s Battlegroup East took up more advantageous positions near Staromayorskoye and Vodyanoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Also . . . READ MORE . . .