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

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Russian missiles kill at least 19 in Ukraine’s Odesa region. From the Associated Press. KYIV — Russian missile attacks on residential areas in a coastal town near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early today killed at least 19 people, authorities reported, a day after Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island. . . .  The Ukrainian president’s office said three X-22 missiles fired by Russian bombers struck an apartment building and two campsites. READ MORE . . .

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Russia seizes control of Sakhalin gas project, raises stakes with West, by Yuka Obayashi, Emily Chow and Ron Bousso | Reuters * Putin signed decree to secure all rights on Thursday * Five-page decree follows tightening Western sanctions * Move raises risks for Western firms still in Russia * Shell was already in talks to sell up Sakhalin stake | TOKYO/LONDON — President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes in an economic war with the West and its allies with a decree that seizes full control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project in Russia’s far east, a move that could force out Shell and Japanese investors. The decree, signed on Thursday, creates. . . READ MORE . . .

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