For today, links to only two reports: from the Associated Press and National Public Rado; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. NOTE: the UKRAINE entry for Nov. 17 should be longer. (GAZA entry for this date, so far, and a COVID, ETC. entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM 

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Investigation reveals a Russian factory’s plans to mix decoys with a new deadly weapon in Ukraine, by Ema Burrows, Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant | AP  KYIV — A high-tech factory in central Russia has created a new, deadly force to attack Ukraine: a small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by huge swarms of cheap foam decoys. Dubbed Operation False Target, the plan . . . READ MORE . . .

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‘Even the Forest Hums’ is a new compilation of music from Ukraine.  Scott Simon of NPR talks with Vitalii Bardetskyi, a Ukrainian DJ and music journalist, about a new compilation of music from that country called “Even the Forest Hums.” Click HERE to listen and, later, read.