For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and National Public Radio; others articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. NOTE: A link to a month-old report, erroneously include earlier, has been deleted. — MCM
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A Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine kills a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother, by Hanna Arhirova | AP KHARKIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile attack killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother today in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said, a day after a strike in the same region killed at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said an 11-month-old child was injured in . . . READ MORE . . .
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Kremlin says only hits ‘military’ targets after Ukraine restaurant strike. From AFP. The Kremlin said today that Russian forces only hit military-linked targets in Ukraine, after a strike on a restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk killed at least 10 people. The comments come a day after the Ria Pizza restaurant — popular with soldiers, journalists and aid workers — was destroyed in the city, one of the largest still under Ukrainian control in the east. “Strikes are only carried out on . . . READ MORE . . .
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‘Half the village is gone’: Ukraine hamlet reels after missile strike, by Max Hunder | Reuters HROZA, Ukraine — Shock is giving way to grief a day after at least 52 people were killed when a Russian missile struck a local cafe where dozens of people had gathered for a meal to honour a soldier who died in the war. READ MORE . . .
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The bruising artillery battle in Ukraine has left a scar that is visible from space. Reported by Geoff Brumfiel and Daniel Wood | NPR The war in Ukraine has gouged a scar in the landscape so vast, that it’s easily visible from space. A new analysis by NASA’s Harvest program shows that between 5.2 and 6.9 million acres (2.1-2.8 million hectares) of prime farmland have been abandoned as a result of the war since 2021. The abandoned fields represent between 6.5 and 8.5% of Ukraine’s total cropland. The losses represent . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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