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Here are links to five reports: from the Moscow Times, Reuters, National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and Modern Diplomacy; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, UKRAINE and IRAN, and down for UKRAINE 7-13-26.) — MCM
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At least 3 killed in Ukrainian attacks across Russia. From the Moscow Times. Regional authorities this morning reported the overnight attacks in the central Yaroslavl region and the western Bryansk region. Meanwhile two people were reported to have been killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv. READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian drone attack killed chief engineer at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Russia says. From Reuters. The chief engineer at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station, the head of Russia‘s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Wednesday. READ MORE . . .
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Zelensky fires Ukraine’s tech-savvy defense minister in government reshuffle. Reported by Joanna Kakissis | NPR KYIV — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the country’s popular defense minister, who pushed for innovation in the battlefield through the use of drones and turned the tables on Russia. Mykhailo Fedorov served as Ukraine’s defense minister for six months.