For today, links to seven reports: from the Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, and Tass, to commentary from Consortium News, and to an imaginary conversation from ScheerPost; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Ukraine strikes Russia with Storm Shadows for the first time, Bloomberg reports, | The Kyiv Independent Ukraine has struck targets inside Russia with British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles for the first time, Bloomberg reported today citing a Western official familiar with the matter. The source said . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Reuters.
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Zelensky presents Ukraine’s internal victory plan to parliament, by Sergii Kostezh | Kyiv Post President Volodymyr Zelensky presented Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, with his plans for the country’s future on Tuesday. The “Internal Sustainability Plan” lays out . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. will allow Ukraine to use American antipersonnel land mines against Russian forces, by Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov | AP KYIV — The Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield progress in the war, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today, as the U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv stayed closed after . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal, by Guy Faulconbridge | Reuters MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, according to five sources with knowledge of Kremlin thinking. READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 19 Ukraine carries out first attacks on Russian territory using U.S. ballistic missiles. Reported by Tom Bowman | NPR For the first time, Ukraine has fired U.S. ballistic missilEs into Russia as part of heavy ongoing fighting. Russia is expressing strong opposition and says this marks an escalation in the war. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Russian troops liberate Ilyinka community in Donbass region over past day. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian forces liberated the community of Ilyinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 19 The pro-Trump mood in Greece, by John Kiriakou | Special to Consortium News I spent the past two weeks on my ancestral island of Rhodes, Greece, helping my cousin settle his late father’s estate. It’s no surprise that everybody — and I mean literally everybody . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM NOV. 19 Mr. President, ATACMS won’t win the war! Robert Scheer of ScheerPost in the role of President Biden and Ray McGovern, who was the CIA’s daily briefer to a succession of U.S. presidents, as himself as if he had not retired. In another imaginary “briefing,” they discuss some of the latest events. Click HERE to listen and watch.