A link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (Scroll down for UKRAINE 2-17-26, and up or down for IRAN, MEDIA, GAZA and VENEZUELA.) — MCM

NOTE: Again, other perspectives are at the Moscow Times (based in Belgium); Kyiv Post and the Kyiv Independent (both operating under martial law); and Tass (a Russian state news service). Each is a click away. Time no longer permits regular inclusion of links to their content.

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Envoys signal no breakthrough on bridging Russia and Ukraine’s political and military differences, by Jamey Keaten and Illia Novikov | AP  GENEVA — The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine ended today with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were “difficult,” as the war’s fourth anniversary approaches next week. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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