For today, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Today’s Gaza entry is HERE.) — MCM

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Russian attacks on Ukraine kill five civilians, damage power grid – Kyiv, by Serhiy Chalyi | Reuters  ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Russian attacks overnight and today killed at least five civilians in Ukraine and damaged the power grid in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said. Two . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russian President Putin insists Ukraine’s new US-supplied weapon won’t change the war’s outcome, by Illia Novikov | AP  KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine today, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new U.S.-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of the war. Putin said Russia “will be able to repel” further attacks by the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS. Ukraine claimed . . . READ MORE . . .

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Putin, Xi have three hours of talks, discuss Ukraine, Middle East. From Tass. BEIJING — The talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping lasted about three hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin said today when answering journalists’ questions following his visit to China. “We talked with China’s president for three hours. I can’t tell you everything,” Putin said. The range of issues discussed . . . READ MORE . . .