For today, links to eleven reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, the Kyiv Independent, the Kyiv Post, Tass, and Agence-Press, and to video of a webinar from the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation; other information is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date and a MEDIA entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
– – –
Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, killing 3, including 2 teens, by Illia Novikov | AP KYIV — Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv today, killing three, including two teenage boys, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country’s east. READ MORE . . .
– – –
Ukraine’s military says Russian forces attacked bridge in Odesa region overnight. From Reuters. KYIV — Russian forces attacked a strategic bridge across the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Estuary in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight, launching two ballistic Iskander missiles and eight guided missiles, Kyiv’s military said today. READ MORE . . .
– – –
Radiation and Russian bombs threaten this Ukrainian city, so it’s building schools underground, by Lori Hinnant | AP ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance. Most rain death in an instant, but . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for related AP report.
– – –
Russian-held town in eastern Ukraine equips buses with drone jammers. From Reuters. HORLIVKA, Ukraine — Authorities in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka have installed jamming devices on some of the local buses to protect them from drone strikes, officials told Reuters. READ MORE . . .
– – –
FROM OCT. 29 Ukraine facing ‘grim’ situation in Donetsk Oblast, as Russia claims capture of Selydove, by Chris York | The Kyiv Independent Ukraine faces a “pretty grim” situation in Donetsk Oblast in the east of the country as Russian forces make some of their swiftest advances since the summer of 2022, according to experts and OSINT analysts. READ MORE . . .
– – –
FROM OCT. 30 Ex-U.S. Marine reportedly killed in Russia’s Bryansk region, by Julia Struck | Kyiv Post Russian media has reported the death of Corey John Nawrocki, a 41-year-old former U.S. Marine infiltrating Russia’s Bryansk region with a group of Ukrainian operatives. READ MORE . . .
– – –
FROM OCT. 30 Russian forces liberate two communities in Donbass region, Kharkov area over past day. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian forces liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Kharkov Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
– – –
FROM OCT. 30 North Korean foreign minister arrives in Moscow for talks with Lavrov. From AFP. North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui arrived in Moscow Wednesday to hold “strategic” talks with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, amid Western warnings that thousands of North Korean troops are training in Russia and . . . READ MORE . . .
– – –
Ukraine has received just 10% of US aid approved by Congress earlier this year, Zelensky says, by Kateryna Hodunova and news desk | The Kyiv Independent The U.S. has transferred nearly 10% of the aid approved by Congress in April 2024 to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Kyiv Post.
– – –
FROM OCT. 24 ‘Ukraine and Russia: The causes of the conflict, diplomacy, and the possibilities for peace.’ From the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation. A webinar last week “explored the historical and more recent causes of the conflict to identify critical junctures where peace was not chosen, and consider[ed] ways forward toward peace.” Co-sponsored by the Group of 78, the G20 Interfaith Forum, and the IAMC. Click HERE for video.