For today, links to five reports: from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Kyiv Independent, Reuters, and Tass, and to commentary from Kyiv Post; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE 7-18-25 is HERE, or scroll down. WEST BANK, SYRIA and GAZA entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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Russian strikes kill three across Ukraine. From AFP. Russian strikes killed three people across Ukraine today, authorities said, while Moscow had to briefly suspend trains in its southern Rostov region after an overnight drone attack by Kyiv. Russia has escalated long-range . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia pounds Ukraine with over 300 drones, killing 1 in Odesa. From AP. Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine overnight into today with hundreds of drones, killing at least one person, part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that has dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the more than 3-year-old war. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JULY 18 Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian draft offices to disrupt mobilization, by Kateryna Hodunova | The Kyiv Independent From June 30 to July 7 Russian forces struck five enlistment offices in the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Poltava, Kremenchuk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, killing five and injuring 118 others, civilian and military, and damaging infrastructure. READ MORE . . .
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How Ukraine’s capital copes with Russia’s nighttime attacks, by Yurii Kovalenko, Anastasiia Malenko and Vladyslav Smilinets | Reuters For the past two months, Russia has unleashed nighttime drone and missile assaults on Kyiv in a summer offensive that is straining the city’s air defences, and has its 3.7 million residents exhausted and on edge. Other towns and villages have . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for May 29 report from AP.
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Russia says Ukraine lost more than 1,195 soldiers in special operation area over past day. From Tass. MOSCOW — Ukrainian military units lost more than 1,195 servicemen in the special operation area over the past day, according to data from the Russian Defense Ministry. READ MORE . . .
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The blitz revisited, drone and missile data, military intelligence in the Pentagon, by Stefan Korshak | Kyiv Post The only real perspective being outside Ukraine has given me is that, yes, really, major nations and millions of people really can have a giant conventional war in progress next door or close to next door, and for them it’s . . . READ MORE . . .
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