First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Tass, and to commentary from the Epoch Times; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM
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Russia unleashes missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, retaliating for an attack on a tanker. From AP. KYIV — Russia unleashed a missile and drone barrage Sunday across parts of Ukraine that killed six people, Kyiv officials said, as Moscow followed through on its promise to retaliate for an attack on a Russian tanker. Separately, Moscow’s second-largest airport briefly suspended flights early Sunday following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine says U.S and German air defence systems ‘highly effective’, by Pavel Polityuk | Reuters * Zelenskiy says air defences helping Ukraine’s war effort * Russia launches more air strikes * Ukraine calls Jeddah talks productive; Russia says doomed | KYIV — Ukraine is seeing “significant results” from U.S. and German air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, despite waves of Russian air strikes that Kyiv says targeted civilians and residential buildings. Russia said it had shot down a drone heading for Moscow in the third such attack in a week, while officials on both sides . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia says it has advanced 3 km in northeast Ukraine. From AFP. Russia said today its troops had advanced three kilometres (two miles) along the Kupiansk front in northeast Ukraine over the last three days, as it seeks to regain territories it lost earlier in its offensive. “Over the past three days, the advance of Russian troops… amounted to 11 kilometres along the front and more than three kilometres deep into the enemy’s defence,” Moscow’s defence ministry said. READ MORE . . .
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Russian army hits Ukraine’s drone command center east of Makarovka — Defense Ministry. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russia’s battle group East has wiped out a temporary deployment site of Ukrainian militants in the Ugledar district, manpower in the Uglesborochnaya district and a drone command center, the group’s spokesman Oleg Chekhov has said. “Howitzer . . . READ MORE . . .
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The terrifying timeliness of Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ by Roger L. Simon | The Epoch Times I went to see “Oppenheimer” on July 24 and, despite a few longeurs, I was riveted by it. The bomb “Oppy” was building, and nuclear weapons in general, as we well know, are as close or closer to being used today than ever since World War II because of the endless war in Ukraine. READ MORE . . .
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