For today , links to reports from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Reuters, the Kyiv Independent, Tass, and Agence France-Presse; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM
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How $6 billion in UkraIne aid collapsed in a government funding bill despite big support in Congress, by Lisa Mascaro | AP WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had warned that political support for Ukraine was in danger as a small but vocal contingent of fellow Republican lawmakers intensified their efforts against sending U.S. money overseas for the fight against Russia. In the end, neither he nor the White House nor Democrats in Congress could muscle a scaled-back $6 billion military and civilian aid package . . . READ MORE . . .
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Millions of acres of Ukraine’s farmland are going unplowed this year. Reported by Geoff Brumfiel | NPR The war in Ukraine has forced farmers to abandon millions of acres of the nation’s most fertile farmland. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Car bomb kills official in Russian-held Ukrainian town, governor says. From Reuters. — A party official in the Russian-held town of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine’s Kherson province was killed by a car bomb today, the provincial governor said. Vladimir Malov, executive secretary of the town branch of Russia’s governing United Russia party, died in hospital, Vladimir Saldo said. READ MORE . . .
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Governor: Russian cluster bomb attack kills 1, wounds 2 in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. From the Kyiv Independent. Russian forces launched a cluster bomb attack on southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killing a woman and wounding two people, regional governor Yurii Malashko said today. He said that at around 8, the Russians fired rockets containing cluster bombs using . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian forces destroy three Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles over Belgorod region. From Tass. MOSCOW — Three Ukrainian Tochka-U operational-tactical missiles were destroyed by Russian air defense systems over Russia’s Belgorod region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported today. “At around 10 a.m. today, an attempt by the Kiev . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats ‘banal revenge’ – ambassador. From AFP. Washington’s decision to expel two Russian diplomats in retaliation for a similar expulsion of U.S. diplomats is “banal revenge,” Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said today. On Friday, the United States said it was expelling two Russian diplomats in response to Moscow kicking out two Americans last month. Moscow said the two were expelled for liaising with a Russian citizen who had formerly worked at the U.S. consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok . . . READ MORE . . .