First, links to reports from Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, a link to an op-ed article in this weekend’s Berkshire Eagle by its foreign affairs writer, who lived and worked as a journalist in Russia and then Ukraine for a combined 14 years, and links to two articles he mentions. (NOTE: Visitors are encouraged to scroll down for Klare, 8-19-23, Ukraine, 8-19-23, and other previous entries.) — MCM
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UN condemns ‘heinous’ Russian attack on Chernihiv city centre: statement. From AFP. A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people including a 6-year-old girl and wounded 148, the regional governor said today, in what the UN denounced as a “heinous” attack. The strike came during the Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Saturday, as . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia says Ukrainian drones attack three regions. From Reuters. MOSCOW — Russia said Ukrainian drones had struck three separate regions today, injuring five people and forcing two of Moscow’s airports to briefly divert flights. Russia’s Kursk and Rostov regions, both of which border Ukraine, reported drone strikes while Russia’s defence ministry said it had jammed a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow region, forcing . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia ‘thwarts’ Ukraine drone attack on Moscow region. From AFP. Russia said it had thwarted Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and its region today, the second such incident in two days as Kyiv presses ahead with a counteroffensive. Both sides have reported regular drone incursions during the conflict, with strikes on Russian territory becoming increasingly regular. READ MORE . . .
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Rostov Region comes under attack of kamikaze drones; they are all downed – governor. From Tass. MOSCOW — An attempted terrorist attack with the use of kamikaze drones was averted in Russia’s southern the Rostov Region, Vasily Golubev, the region’s governor, said today. According to . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia’s resistance works in the shadows, by James Brooke | The Berkshire Eagle In the week after Russia’s parliament voted to raise the military draft age from 27 years to 30, Molotov cocktails were thrown at 28 draft boards across Russia. As in wartime France, Russia today has its own resistance. Whether providing intelligence for Ukrainian drone attacks or . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin’s age of chaos: The dangers of Russian disorder, by Tatiana Stanovaya | Foreign Affairs After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian elites acted as if the war had not really changed anything on the home front. Even as . . . READ MORE . . .
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Wait and see: How ordinary Russians are adapting to the new reality, by Andrei Kolesnikov | Carnegie Endowment for Internatonal Peace During the Nazi occupation of Paris, most of the city’s residents neither supported nor opposed the Germans. They were attentistes: waiting it out. As the American historian and essayist Louis Menand wrote . . . READ MORE . . .