For today, links to reports from the Kyiv Post, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Tass, and the Associated Press, and to commentary from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, via Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names and initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.)— MCM
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Zelensky shuffles security leadership. From Kyiv Post. President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov and replaced him with the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleksandr Lytvynenko. The decree was posted today on . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian missile attack hits Russian warship and reconnaissance vessel, navy says, by Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth | Reuters KYIV — A Ukrainian missile attack struck a Russian naval reconnaissance vessel and a large landing warship that Moscow captured from Kyiv during the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, Ukraine’s navy said today. The fact of the weekend strikes was already known, but . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine says weekend missile attack damaged 4 Russian ships, From AFP. Ukraine said today that it had damaged four Russian naval ships in a weekend missile attack against annexed Crimea. The Ukrainian navy had previously said that the overnight attack between Saturday and Sunday damaged only . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia delivers strike at Ukrainian intelligence decision-making centers. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry said today its forces delivered a combined strike by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian intelligence decision-making centers and sites and foreign mercenaries’ deployment areas over the past day in . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia, by Hanna Arhirova | AP KYIV — Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MARCH 24 The French road to nuclear war. From Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, via Consortium News. An “Alert Memorandum” to President Biden. the fifth VIPS open message to the president since May 2022 concerning the war in Ukraine. Stated subject: “On the Brink of Nuclear War.” It is signed by 23 members of the VIPS steering group. Click HERE for statement and links to previous four. NOTE: VIPS does not have a website.