For now, links to reports from Reuters and the Moscow Times; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. — MCM

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Russia launches big wave of drone strikes on Ukraine. From Reuters.  KYIV — Russia carried out a big wave of air strikes on three Ukrainian regions early today in which Ukrainian officials said some attack drones had hit their targets but did not say what was damaged. Ukrainian air defences shot down 34 of 44 incoming “Shahed” drones, the air force said. The strikes targeted the regions of Mykolaiv and Odesa in the south and Kirovohrad in central Ukraine, the military . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia says repelled incursion in border region. From the Moscow Times. Russian authorities sad today that an attempted incursion on the country’s southwestern border with Ukraine had been thwarted. “Border guards, together with other security forces, engaged in a battle on the border,” the Belgorod region’s emergency response center said. It . . . READ MORE . . .

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