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For today, links to eight reports: from the Associated Press, Tass, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, the Moscow Times, the Kyiv Independent, and Kyiv Post; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE 10-9-25 is HERE, or scroll down. WEST BANK and GAZA entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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Ukraine’s power grid attacked as Moscow worries over U.S. Tomahawks. From AP. Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Sunday, part of an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter. This came as Moscow expressed “extreme concern” over the United States potentially providing Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukriane. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Tass.
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Kremlin warns the West over ‘dramatic’ escalation moment in Ukraine war, by Guy Faulkenbridge | Reuters MOSCOW — The Kremlin said today Russia was deeply concerned about the possibility of the U.S. supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning that the war had reached a dramatic moment with escalation from all sides. READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 11 Zelensky urges Trump to broker Ukraine peace. From AFP. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in the Middle East during a phone call Saturday. The call came a day after . . . READ MORE . . .
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Kremlin aide points to Anchorage agreements as ‘guiding star’ for Ukraine settlement. From Tass. MOSCOW — The “guiding star” on the issue of a Ukrainian settlement is the agreements reached by the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in Anchorage, Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov said in an interview. READ MORE . . .
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Russia has pounded Ukraine’s rail infrastructure 300 times since the beginning of August, official says, by Kateryna Denisova | The Kyiv Independent Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksii Kuleba said today that Russian forces have carried out nearly 300 attacks on Ukrainian Railways infrastructuresince the beginning of August and has intensified the attacks as autumn . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. intel helped power Kyiv’s strikes that crippled Russian oil – officials, by Leo Chiu | Kyiv Post The U.S., under President Donald Trump, reportedly provided the necessary intelligence to help Kyiv strike Russian oil facilities across the country in a secret bid to push Moscow towards negotiations. As of early October . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 10 Russian low-cost drones are changing the face of its war in Ukraine, by Stanislav Storozhenko | The Moscow Times The widespread use of first-person-view drones, cheap devices assembled from off-the-shelf components, has transformed modern warfare since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Both sides have . . . READ MORE . . .
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