Ukraine, 5-21-26

For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, the Moscow Times, and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s IRAN so far, and down for UKRAINE 5-20-26.) — MCM

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Ukraine says its drones hit another refinery deep inside Russia as long-range strikes escalate, by  Susie Blann and Barry Hatton | AP  KYIV — Ukrainian drones smashed into another Russian refinery overnight, starting a fire that produced huge clouds of black smoke, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today, in what appeared to be the latest long-range attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE for report from the Moscow Times.

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Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump, by Andrew R.C. Marshall, Humeyra Pamuk, John Shiffman, Gram Slattery, John Irish, Tim Kelly and Andrea Shalal | Reuters  When Donald Trump warned Iran on April 7 that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” a European diplomat in Washington said his government wanted an urgent answer to a chilling question. READ MORE . . .

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