First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Tass, the Moscow Times, and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance, an essay from the Scheer Post by a former war correspondent. — MCM
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U.S. says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December, by Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller | AP WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including more than 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. The fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia’s attack on Pavlograd deprives Ukrainian brigades of resources for advance. From Tass. MELITOPOL — Three brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces, whose redeployment to the Zaporozhye area completed on April 30, will not be able to shift to active combat actions due to loss of ammunition and fuel stores in Pavlograd as a result of Russia’s attack, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement Vladimir Rogov said Monday. READ MORE . . .
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7 known ‘Wagner cemeteries’ in Russia and occupied Ukraine, by Mack Tubridy | The Moscow Times The discovery of mass burial sites for slain Wagner fighters has shed light on the mounting death toll suffered by Russian forces in Ukraine as the conflict enters its 15th month. While there are no official figures available for Wagner’s war losses, . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian farmer comes up with novel way to demine his fields, by Vitalii Hnidyi | Reuters HRAKOVE, Ukraine — To remove mines left in his fields after Russia’s invasion, a Ukrainian farmer has kitted out his tractor with protective panels stripped from Russian tanks and operates it by remote control. After Russian forces were driven back from parts of eastern Ukraine by a Ukrainian counteroffensive last year, mines remained in many fields, making . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine war looms over Switzerland U.N. presidency, by Edith M. Lederer | AP UNITED NATIONS — The Ukraine war will still loom as Switzerland takes over the monthlong U.N. Security Council presidency for the first time since becoming a full member of the United Nations in 2002. Switzerland’s U.N. Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl said Monday her country’s approach has been to work for unity of the council’s 15 members and to be “a bridge . . . READ MORE . . .
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The enemy from within, by Chris Hedges | ScheerPost / Popular Resistance America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are . . . READ MORE . . .
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