For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Tass, followed by articles from a Substack account and, via Popular Resistance, from the Grayzone; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. — MCM
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UN atomic watchdog warns of threat to nuclear safety as fighting spikes near plant in Ukraine, by Samya Kullab | AP KYIV — The United Nations atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety due to a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, whose forces continued pressing their counteroffensive today. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its experts deployed at . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia ramps up artillery production but still falling short, Western official says, by Phil Stewart | Reuters WASHINGTON — Russia may be able to increase production of artillery in the next couple years to about 2 million shells annually, about double some previous Western expectations but still far short of Moscow’s Ukraine war needs, a Western official said on Friday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official estimated . . . READ MORE . . .
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G20 decries ‘use of force’ in Ukraine for ‘territorial’ gain. From AFP. G20 leaders decried the use of force in Ukraine for territorial gain in a summit statement today, without naming Russia. Referencing the “war in Ukraine”, the document said that “all states” should “refrain from the threat or use . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian artillerymen disrupt Ukrainian rotation in Krasny Liman with howitzer fire. From Tass. MOSCOW — The servicemen of the D-20 howitzer artillery units have destroyed the enemy’s reserves with accurate fire and disrupted the rotation of Ukrainian servicemen in the Krasny Liman area, the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS. “The servicemen of the . . . READ MORE . . .
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Why Putin killed Prigozhin, by Seymour Hersh | Stubstack Let’s start with the fallout from the death last month of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group. The mercenary made a fortune renting out his forces as guns for hire, largely in Central Africa, and the group took enormous losses in brutal and successful house-to-house combat this year in the city of Bakhmut against an equally courageous Ukraine army. Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged in June that . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine’s ‘biggest arms supplier’ orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, by Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone Years before emerging as Kiev’s top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 U.S.-backed coup that toppled Ukraine’s democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war. Though condemned by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “criminal” as recently as 2019, a lengthy exposé published by the New York Times on Aug. 12 identified Pashinsky as the Ukrainian government’s “biggest private . . . READ MORE . . .
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