For today, links to six reports: from Reuters, the Moscow Times, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, National Public Radio, and Tass, and to commentary from the Kyiv Independent; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.)— MCM
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Ukraine pounds Russia with drones and says it is advancing deeper, by Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly | Reuters MOSCOW — Ukraine pounded Russia with missiles and drones today and said it was advancing deeper in the biggest foreign incursion into Russia since World War Two that U.S. President Joe Biden said posed a dilemma for President Vladimir Putin. READ MORE . . .
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Russia says downed 117 Ukrainian drones, air bases reportedly targeted. From the Moscow Times. Russia’s Defense Ministry said early today that its air defense systems intercepted 117 Ukrainian drones and four missiles across eight regions overnight. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine claims more advances, prisoners taken as it presses an incursion into Russia, by Illia Novikov and Emma Burrows | AP KYIV — Ukrainian forces pushed on with their major cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week today, claiming to have. . . READ MORE . . .
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Oleksandr Syrsky, the Ukrainian general overseeing Kursk incursion. From AFP. Ukraine’s top military commander Oleksandr Syrsky, who was born in Russia and studied in Moscow, is leading an unprecedented assault on Russian territory. READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 13 What Russians are saying about Ukraine’s latest incursion. Reported by Vincent Acovino, Jeanette Woods, and Mary Louise Kelly | NPR Mika Golubovsky, English-language editor of Mediazona, talks about about what Russians are saying about the chaos of Ukraine’s major incursion. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Russian forces wipe out Ukrainian army’s fuel base over past day — top brass. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian army fuel base and struck enemy manpower and equipment in nearly 150 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
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Kursk incursion deals blow to Putin’s prestige marking first ground invasion of Russia since World War II, by Oleg Sukhov | The Kyiv Independent The 1,000 square kilometers Ukraine says it controls in Russia’s Kursk Oblast amounts to a tiny share of Russia’s massive terrain. Yet . . . READ MORE . . .