For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, the Kyiv Post, and Tass, followed by commentary from ScheerPost and Substack; other articles are accessible by clicking on the sources’ names or initials below. (GAZA entry for today, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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Biden set to sign executive order aimed at financial facilitators of Russian defense industry, by Fatima Hussein and Aamer Madhani | AP WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order giving the U.S. Treasury Department the authority to target financial institutions that facilitate Russia’s efforts to bolster its defense industry. The new sanctions authority is meant to . . . READ MORE . . .
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Complicated situation unfolds in Avdiivka as Russian troops shift strategy, by Julia Struck | Kyiv Post The situation around Avdiivka in the Donetsk region is complicated, and the Russian occupying forces have changed their tactics, said Vitaliy Barabash, head of the Avdiivka city military administration (MVA), on the air during a telethon. “The enemy . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian air defense systems eliminate Ukrainian drone in Moscow Region — top brass. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian air defense systems today wiped out a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Earlier today, the Russian military agency reported downed drones over the Bryansk and Kaluga . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER What? Ukraine is not winning the war? by Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost / Popular Resistance It is not official, not yet, that Ukraine’s grand counteroffensive, the great Russophobic hope of the Zelensky and Biden regimes earlier this year, has proven a bust and that defeat is in the offing. The closest . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Nord Stream and Germany’s shrinking economy, by Seymour M. Hersh | seymourhersh.substack.com The German economy has been deprived for more than a year of cheap Russian gas, thanks in part to Joe Biden and his decision early last year to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines. Meanwhile, German politics is continuing its tumble to the right. It may bring much of Western Europe with it. Last week . . . READ MORE . . .