First, links to Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and Tass reports; for links to others, click on their initials or names below. (Another entry, just below this one, concerns China.) Finally, a link to the Wall Street Journal reporter’s interview with Henry Kissinger that Tass calls attention to, and Caitlin Johnstone commentary on that. — MCM
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Shelling kills 1 in Ukraine; Russia wants nuke plant pledges. From AP. KYIV — Russian forces today fired rockets on the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, killing at least one person, and a Russian diplomat called on Ukraine to offer security assurances so that international inspectors could visit a nuclear power station that has come under fire. The Mykolaiv region is just to the north of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson, which Ukrainian forces have vowed to retake. . . . As fighting steps up in southern Ukraine . . . READ MORE . . .
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Zaporizhzhia plant risks are increasing every day. From AFP. The risk of disaster at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian troops is “increasing every day”, the mayor of the city where the facility is located said today. The power plant — Europe’s largest — was seized by Russian soldiers in the opening days of the invasion and has remained on the front line ever since. This week the facility . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine targets Russian soldiers accused of threatening nuclear plant, by Natalia Zinets and Andrea Shalal | Reuters * Russians threatening Zaporizhzhia are ‘targets’ -Zelenskiy * Humanitarian cargo due to set sail for Ethiopia | KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Russian soldiers who shoot at Europe’s largest nuclear power station or use it as a base to shoot from that they will become a “special target” for Ukrainian forces. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the establishment of a demilitarised zone at the Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine amid fears of a nuclear catastrophe over renewed shelling . . . . Zelenskiy, who did not give any details . . . READ MORE . . .
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Kissinger believes U.S. at the edge of war with Russia and China. From Tass. NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes Washington is currently on the brink of war with Moscow and Beijing, he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to lead to,” he said. “You can’t just now say . . . READ MORE . . .
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Henry Kissinger is worried about ‘disequilibrium,’ by Laura Secor | The Wall Street Journal At 99 years old, Henry Kissinger has just published his 19th book, “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy.” It is an analysis of the vision and historical achievements of an idiosyncratic pantheon of post-World War II leaders: Konrad Adenauer, Charles DeGaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan-Yew and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1950s, “before I was involved in politics,” Mr. Kissinger tells me . . . READ MORE . . .
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Modern U.S. warmongering is scaring Henry Kissinger, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the US is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China. . . . I don’t know about you, but to me this warning is much, much more ominous coming from . . . READ MORE . . .