First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Tass, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance, a link to commentary from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. — MCM
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Russia launches the first drone strike on Kyiv in 12 days and all are shot down. From AP. KYIV — After a relative lull, Russia launched a drone attack early Sunday on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, officials said. It was the first such attack of the war in 12 days. All of the Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones were detected and shot down, according to . . . READ MORE . . .
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NATO readies military plans to defend against bruised but unbowed Russia, by Lorne Cook | AP Russia’s armed forces are bruised but by no means beaten in the war in Ukraine, a top NATO military officer said today, as he laid out the biggest revamp to the organization’s military plans since the Cold War should . . . READ MORE . . .
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Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia. From Reuters. MOSCOW – Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Mr Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said Sunday. “In recent years . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia’s Medvedev says standoff with West to last decades, Ukraine conflict ‘permanent’, by Andrew Osborn | Reuters * Ex-president pessimistic West and Russia can agree * Says tensions higher than 1962 Cuban missile crisis * Warns of risks of nuclear war, but says talks better * Says Moscow cannot accept Ukraine as a NATO member LONDON — Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, has warned that Moscow’s confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could be . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine says recaptured 37 sq. km from Russia last week. From AFP. “Over the past week … the area liberated [in the east] was increased by nine square kilometres,” Deputy Defence Minister Ganna Malyar said, adding that Ukrainian forces had wrested another 28 sqaure kilometres in the south. Ukrainian forces are coming up against . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian forces destroy all Leopard tanks supplied to Kiev by Poland, Portugal — Shoigu. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian forces wiped out 16 German-made Leopard tanks or actually 100% of this armor supplied to the Kiev regime by Poland and Portugal, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said today in a briefing. “In the south Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions alone . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin projects calm; CIA director calls mutiny ‘vivid example’ of leader’s damage. Reported by Scott Detrow and Greg Myre | NPR Ukraine presses on with its offensive in the east while it watches the aftermath of the Russian mutiny last weekend. Click HERE to listen and read.
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How military industrial complex sets media narrative on Ukraine, by Bryce Greene | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting / Educate! Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. The Quincy Institute . . . READ MORE . . .