First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Tass, and the Kyiv Post; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, two articles of opinion and a monologue of opinion. — MCM
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Russia says a Ukrainian drone was shot down outside Moscow. From AP. A Ukrainian drone was shot down early today outside Moscow, Russia’s defense ministry said. It was the third drone strike or attempt on the capital region this month. The Ministry said the incident took place in the Moscow Oblast, a region that surrounds but doesn’t include the city . . . READ MORE . . .
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In Ukraine, land mines left by Russian forces pose a deadly threat, by Gerry Doyle, Han Huang and Jackie Gu | Reuters As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, potentially hundreds of thousands of them. There are new, advanced types that can . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia ‘carefully’ examining African proposals to end Ukraine conflict: Putin. From AFP. “We respect your initiatives and we are examining them carefully,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said today, the second day of a Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg. “Previous mediation initiatives . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine loses 3,000 servicemen in attacks on Staromayorskoye village in Zaporozhye area. From Tass. MELITOPOL— The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 3,000 people in attempts to seize the village of Staromayorskoye in the Zaporozhye area since the beginning of the June offensive, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the ‘We Are Together with Russia’ movement, said. According to him . . . READ MORE . . .
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‘Our south. Our guys,’ by Pete Shmigel | The Kyiv Post Ukraine has taken back the village of Staromaiorske in the western Donetsk region and may have made territorial gains south of Orikhiv in western Zaporizhzhia. President Volodymyr Zelensky posted footage on Thursday showing that Ukrainian forces were inside Staromaiorske in the western Donetsk region following heavy fighting in . . . READ MORE . . .
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Who can give security guarantees to Ukraine? by Moon of Alabama | Popular Resistance / Educate! A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security. In the first years after 1991 the Ukrainian government thought that it could secure itself. It had inherited some Soviet nuclear weapons and . . . READ MORE . . .
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Opera buffa in Ukraine, by Seymour Hersh | Substack The noisy public split in late June between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the paramilitary Wagner Group, and Russian President Vladimir Putin captured the hearts and minds of . . . READ MORE . . .
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No choice but to end the war. Scott Ritter speaks on the Ms. Phoepe podcast. Former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations weapons inspector and current Ukraine war pundit likens Russian President Vladimir Putin to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for peacetime and wartime greatness. Click HERE for 15-minute video.