Links to TEN reports: from the Associated Press, Reuters, the Moscow Times, Tass, and National Public Radio; others or just headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for WEST BANK, GAZA, MEDIA and IRAN, and down for UKRAINE 6-11-26.) — MCM

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Ukraine hits fuel supplies to Crimea, sparking a fuel crisis on the Russian-held peninsula. From AP. In a new blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have targeted supplies to Crimea, triggering the worst fuel crisis on the Black Sea peninsula since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same report in Spanish.

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Ukraine and Russia trade overnight drone strikes. From Reuters.  Ukraine and Russia exchanged overnight drone strikes into early today, with Ukraine targeting a major oil processing and petrochemical region while Russia attacked railway stations and electrical substations. READ MORE . . .   Click HERE and HERE for reports from the Moscow Times. 

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Military operation in Ukraine. From Tass. Click HERE for links to four reports from Tass.

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FROM JUNE 11  Ukraine’s drone commander wants to cut Crimea off from Russia, by Olena Harmash and Sergiy Karazy | Reuters  CLOSE TO THE FRONTLINE, Ukraine — Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, says his drone forces have reduced the traffic using the Novorossiya highway — a critical Russian military supply route through occupied southern Ukraine to Crimea — by more than two thirds over the past month, and within another month . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JUNE 10  In Ukraine, a competition puts soldiers’ drone skills to the test. Reported by Hanna Palamarenko | NPR  As drones become the weapon of choice in the Russia-Ukraine war, a group of soldiers test their skills in an unusual competition. Click HERE to listen and read.

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