First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, a link to commentary from the Kyiv Post. — MCM
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Overnight airstrikes kill three in Ukraine as Moscow airport halts flights after foiled drone attack. From AP. KYIV — Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said today, while Moscow’s second-largest airport briefly suspended flights following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital. READ MORE . . .
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Russia says hit airbases in western Ukraine. From AFP. Russia said today that its forces struck military airbases in the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions in western Ukraine and that “all targets were hit.” Ukraine said it faced several waves of attacks . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia officials say Ukraine hit Donetsk university with cluster shells. From Reuters. * This content was produced in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations | DONETSK — Flames engulfed a university building’s wooden roof in Donetsk following Ukrainian shelling on Saturday, said an emergency official in the Russia-controlled city in eastern Ukraine. “As a result . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia strikes Ukraine blood center, aeronautics group – Zelensky. From AFP. Moscow escalated its attacks in Ukraine on Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing a deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a “war crime.” A separate strike struck a key aeronautics factory, both attacks coming just hours after Kyiv hit a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait. “Rescue . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian troops repel eight Ukraine’s attacks in Kupyansk area in past day — top brass. From Tass. MOSCOW — The Russian military have continued to improve the tactical situation in their areas of responsibility in the Kupyansk area in the past 24 hours, repelling eight attacks by Ukrainian troops, Defense Ministry spokesman Lt .Gen. Igor Konashenkov said. “In the Kupyansk area, assault units of the battlegroup West continued . . . READ MORE . . .
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How Washington misunderstood Putin, by Anders Aslund | The Kyiv Post In 2021, current CIA head and Biden administration Cabinet member William J. Burns published his highly acclaimed memoir, The Back Channel: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World. Given his current prominence, I have just finished reading it to try to figure out where he actually stands on Russia and Ukraine. The book is substantial. Burns spells out his views in uncommon clarity. But the more I read, the more disappointed I became by his . . . READ MORE . . .
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