First, links to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press, followed by articles from Popular Resistance and Scheer Post; others from these sources are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Finally for today, a link from Consortium News to what CN calls an “expansive overview” of the war in Ukraine in a talk given in Rhode Island on Sept. 26. — MCM
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Russia hits Odesa grain facility in overnight missile strike. From Reuters. KYIV — Russian forces carried out an overnight missile strike on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, damaging port infrastructure, Ukrainian authorities said early on Saturday. Governor Oleh Kiper said four people were wounded in the strike, which hit a boarding house and a portside grain facility. Ukraine’s military said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia says it shoots down two missiles over Crimea. From Reuters. Russia’s defence ministry said the country’s air defence systems had “detected and destroyed” two Ukrainian S-200 anti-aircraft missiles, thwarting attacks it said Kyiv attempted four hours apart on the Crimean Peninsula on Saturday. Reuters could not verify . . . READ MORE . . .
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Days after deadly missile strike on Ukrainian cafe, grief and a search for answers, by Hanna Arhirova and Joanna Kozlowska | AP HROZA, Ukraine — U.N. and local investigators searched for answers on Saturday at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village that days earlier turned its sole cafe to rubble and killed nearly 52 people gathered for a dead soldier’s wake, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv. The United Nations Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine expects ‘record’ number of drone attacks this winter, air force says. From Reuters. ZAPORIZHZHIA — Ukraine’s air force expects a record number of Russian drone attacks on its soil this winter, its spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said today, as Kyiv girds for a second winter of . . . READ MORE . . .
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Activists arrested at sit-in for peace at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office. From Codepink – Women for Peace / Popular Resistance WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the senator to call for peace and diplomacy in Ukraine instead of more weapons and war. Eleven were arrested, including . . . READ MORE . . .
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In occupation, they cared for the vulnerable, now they’re in jail for it, by Oleksiy Arunyan | Scheer Post / Popular Resistance When the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman was occupied for five months last year, Valentyna Tkach and Tetiana Potapenko stayed behind. They volunteered to help their vulnerable neighbours — they cared for elderly residents, contacted the Russian occupation administration to ask for food and coal for them, and buried dead bodies. Now, both women are in detention, having been accused by Ukraine’s Secret Service of . . . READ MORE . . .
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The many lessons of the Ukraine war, by Chas W. Freeman, Jr | ChasFreeman.net / Consortium News I want to speak to you tonight about Ukraine – what has happened to it and why, how it is likely to emerge from the ordeal to which great power rivalry has subjected it; and what we can learn from this. I do so with some trepidation and a warning to this audience. My talk, like the conflict in Ukraine, is a long and complicated one. It contradicts propaganda that has been very convincing. My talk will . . . READ MORE . . .