Ukraine, 7-8-24

For today, links to reports from the Anadolu Agency, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, the Kyiv Post, the Kyiv Independent, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) —  MCM

   

NEWER  UN Security Council to meet over Ukraine’s accusations of Russian strike on Kyiv children’s hospital, by Merve Gül Aydoğan Ağlarcı | Anadolu Agency  HAMILTON, Canada — The UN Security Council will convene Tuesday morning in New York to discuss Ukraine’s claims of a strike on a children’s hospital in the capital KyiV, Britain’s UN ambassador said today. “We will call out the cowardly . . . READ MORE . . .

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A major Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 20 people and hits a children’s hospital, by Hanna Arhirova and Illia Novikov | AP  KYIV — A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine killed at least 28 people and injured almost 100 today, officials said, with one missile striking a large children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, where emergency crews searched the rubble for casualties. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from Reuters and AFP, and HERE and HERE for reports from the Kyiv Post and the Kyiv Independent.

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Russian forces wipe out three U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers in Ukraine operation. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian forces destroyed three U.S.-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and up to 10 foreign specialists responsible for their use over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .