For today, links to eight reports: from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, and Reuters, and to commentary from Consortium News and ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA and MEDIA entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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FROM SEPT. 21 Russia says will not attend Ukraine peace summit. From AFP. Russia said Saturday it would not attend a possible second Ukraine peace summit in November, despite Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signaling that this time he would invite Moscow’s representatives. Moscow rejected the idea . . . READ MORE . . .
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21 wounded after Russia strikes apartment buildings in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, by Samya Kullab | AP KYIV — Russian launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack. local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said the bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AFP.
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Ukraine’s air defence units destroy 71 Russian drones, Ukraine’s air force says. From Reuters. Ukraine’s air defence units destroyed 71 out of 80 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, and s ix more were lost after getting neutralised by electronic warfare, Ukraine’s air force said today. READ MORE . . .
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Russia says battlegroup West struck 4 Ukrainian brigades. From Tass. MOSCOW — The Russian battlegroup West struck four Ukrainian brigades and caused the enemy to lose up to 420 troops, the Russian Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 21 Kyiv says struck ammo depots in southern and western Russia. From AFP. Kyiv said Saturday it struck two weapons depots in southern and western Russia — including a key site for Moscow’s forces — with Russian authorities announcing some evacuations and declaring a local emergency situation. Kyiv also said a Russian nighttime strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home city of Kryvyi Rih killed . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 21 Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12. From Reuters. Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring at least 12 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. He said the Russians had deployed a guided bomb, and that . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 21 Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank workers, by Tara Copp | AP WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces. His U.S. visit will also . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 20 The madness of Antony Blinken, by Joe Lauria | Special to Consortium News On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the civil war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News from Moldova that the U.S. would give NATO-member Poland a “green light” to send Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to enforce a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. Within days . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 18 The ‘war party’ makes its plans, by Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost / Consortium News On Sept. 4, Liz Cheney surprised Washington and, I suppose, most of the rest of us when she announced she would support Harris’s run for the presidency. The onetime Wyoming congresswoman, a coup-cultivating warmonger who remains among the hawkiest of right-wing foreign-policy hawks . . . READ MORE . . .