First, links to reports from Associated Press and Reuters; click on their names below for others. Then, via Popular Resistance, links to an essay about war crimes and another on casualty numbers and the Territorial Defense Forces in Ukraine. — MCM
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Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on supplies, by John Leicester | The Associated Press KYIV — Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine with airstrikes in Kyiv today that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.” The cryptic threat of a military escalation from the Russian leader didn’t specify . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia puts more strength behind ‘creeping’ Ukraine advance, by John Leicester, Inna Varenytsia and AndreaRosa | AP KYIV — Reinforced Russian troops backed by airstrikes pummeled a portion of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, blowing up bridges and shelling apartment buildings as they fought to capture two cities that would put a contested province under Moscow’s control, Ukrainian officials said. Russian and Ukrainian forces battled street-by-street in Sievierodonetsk and neighboring Lysychansk, regional governor Serhiy Haidai said. Russian strikes killed four people, including a mother and child, in the nearby village of Hirske, Haidai said. The cities are the last major . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin warns United States against supplying Ukraine longer range missiles, by Guy Faulconbridge | Reuters * Putin warns United States over missile supplies * Russia will strike if longer range missiles supplied * Russia cracking West’s drones ‘like nuts’ – Putin | LONDON — President Vladimir Putin warned the United States in an interview broadcast today that Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine for use in high-precision mobile rocket systems. The United States has ruled out sending its own or NATO forces to Ukraine but Washington and its European allies have supplied weapons to Kyiv such as drones, Howitzer heavy artillery, anti-aircraft Stinger and anti-tank Javelin . . . READ MORE . . .
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Exclusive: U.S. will allow two companies to ship Venezuelan oil to Europe, by Marianna Parraga and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters HOUSTON/WASHINGTON — Italian oil company Eni SpA and Spain’s Repsol SA could begin shipping Venezuelan oil to Europe as soon as next month to make up for Russian crude, five people familiar with the matter said, resuming oil-for-debt swaps halted two years ago when Washington stepped up sanctions on Venezuela. The volume of oil Eni and Repsol are expected to receive is not large, one of the people said, and any impact on global oil prices will be modest. But Washington’s greenlight . . . READ MORE . . .
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War Crimes, from Nuremberg to Ukraine, by Ellen Taylor | Counter Punch / Popular Resistance / Educate! I was in Nuremberg during the war crimes trials which followed WWII. My father, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, was Chief Prosecutor during the second, American phase. The French, Russian and British staffs had gone home to continue trials at home, but the US stayed longer, and scheduled about 400 additional defendants. They were divided into twelve categories: judges, doctors, industrialists, etc. There were 142 convictions and ten death sentences. I remember . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine: Casualty Numbers, Territorial Defense Forces, by Moon of Alabama | Educate! / Popular Resistance Over the last month I had come to the conclusion that the Ukraine is losing about 500 men per day due to intense Russian artillery fire. That number may have been too low. I had mentioned high . . . READ MORE . . .
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