Ukraine, 1-2-24

For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Tass, and National Public Radio, followed by a link, via Popular Resistance, to commentary published in late December by Canadian Dimension; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM

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Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities, killing 5 and injuring more than 100, Kyiv officials say, by Illia Novikov and Hanna Arhirova | AP  KYIV — Ukraine’s two largest cities came under attack today from Russian missiles that killed at least five people and injured more than 100, officials said. Four civilians were killed and 92 injured in the capital of Kyiv, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi claimed air defenses . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia pounds Ukraine with missiles and drones, five dead, by Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth | Reuters  KYIV — Russia fired scores of missiles and drones at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv today, killing at least five civilians, wounding dozens and causing widespread damage, officials said. The third successive day of air strikes on Ukraine followed a warning by President Vladimir Putin on Monday that . . . READ MORE . . .

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Kyiv is in mourning after Russia’s large-scale aerial attack across Ukraine on Friday. Reported by Elissa Nadworny | NPR  Residents of Kyiv try and pick up the pieces of their lives once again following a weekend of missile attacks. Friday was the deadliest day for civilians in the city since the war began, killing 28. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Russian air defenses down 17 Olkha rockets over Belgorod Region — Defense Ministry. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian air defenses today destroyed 17 Olkha rockets over the Belgorod Region, the Defense Ministry said. Later Russian air defense destroyed five more Ukrainian Olkha rockets over the region. According to . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine’s stalled counteroffensive and U.S. failure to pass more aid, concern Europe. Leila Fadel of NPR speaks with Dan Baer, director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about European security threats as the war in Ukraine drags on. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM DEC. 30, 2023. Next year in Ukraine, expect the unexpected, by Paul Robinson | Canadian Dimension / Popular Resistance  “No other activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance,” wrote the great Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz in his book On War. To Clausewitz, war resembled a “game of cards,” full of uncertainty. Endless little things (“friction” in Clausewitz’s terminology) interfered in the best laid plans, rendering them null and void. There’s one . . . READ MORE . . .