First, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Inside Ukraine’s scramble for ‘game-changer’ drone fleet, by Max Hunder | Reuters  AeroDrone, which made crop-dusting drones prior to the war and now supplies Ukraine’s armed forces, makes unmanned aircraft that can carry up to 300 kilograms or fly up to several thousand kilometres in certain . . . READ MORE . . .

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Elderly Ukrainian helicopters pummel Russians from afar. From AP. DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — Each day, three Ukrainian Soviet-era attack helicopters might deploy three or four sorties to the front lines in the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says a commander. “We are carrying out . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia aware West putting pressure on countries who opted not to join sanctions – Kremlin. From Tass. MOSCOW — “It’s not news that the countries of the collective West headed by the U.S. are putting blatant, undue pressure on a slew of nations that choose not to join the illegal restrictions imposed against Russia,” Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today. “Those countries themselves . . . READ MORE . . .

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