First, links to reports by the Associated Press, Reuters, Tass, and Agence France-Presse; for others, click on their names or initials below. ALSO TODAY, posted just after this entry, is an article on last September’s the Nord Stream pipeline’s explosions that disputes a report pinning them on the Biden administration. — MCM
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Russian missile barrage slams into cities across Ukraine, by Hanna Arhirova and Elena Becatoros | AP KYIV — Russia unleashed “a massive rocket attack” that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions of Ukraine, the country’s president said today, with officials reporting at least six deaths in the largest such nighttime attack in three weeks. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the barrage that came while many people slept and knocked out power in cities across the country . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia kills civilians in first huge missile wave for weeks, by Pavel Polityuk and Andriy Perun | Reuters * Missiles rain down across the country * At least five dead in strike that hits Lviv region * Nuclear power station cut off grid | KYIV/ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a huge wave of missile strikes across Ukraine while people slept on Thursday, killing at least six civilians, knocking out electricity and forcing a nuclear power plant off the grid. Kyiv said the first big volley of cruise missiles since mid-February included an unprecedented six of Russia’s small arsenal of kinzhal hypersonic . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia hits key Ukrainian military sites in retaliation to Bryansk terror attacks. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russia delivered a massive retaliatory strike on key Ukrainian military sites with precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, in response to Kiev’s terror attacks in the Bryansk Region, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said today. “In response to the terror attacks carried out by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk Region on March 2, the Russian Armed Forces delivered . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine nuclear plant outages nn ‘unacceptable risk’: France. From AFP. France today warned of the “unacceptable risk for nuclear safety and security” from power cuts at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, after a Russian missile strike left it running on diesel generators. Electricity is essential to operate pumps that circulate water to cool reactors and pools holding nuclear fuel at Europe’s largest nuclear . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia says extending Ukraine grain deal ‘complicated.’ From AFP. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that extending a deal that allowed grain exports from Ukraine to resume was becoming “complicated” as he claimed it was not being properly implemented. Russia’s military intervention in February 2022 saw Ukraine’s Black Sea ports blocked by warships until a deal last summer allowed . . . READ MORE . . .
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