First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse; others are accessible by clicking on their names and initials below. Finally, two pieces of commentary, the first from the New York Post and the second, via Consortium News, from ScheerPost; they are presented chronologically as published last month. — MCM

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Russian drone strikes on the Odesa region cause fires at port near Romania, by Hanna Arhirova | AP  KYIV — Russian troops hit port infrastructure in southern Ukraine with Shahed drones near the border with NATO member Romania overnight, the Ukrainian military and prosecutor-general’s office said today, damaging a grain elevator and causing a fire at facilities that transport the country’s crucial grain exports. The prosecutor-general’s office said . . . READ MORE . . .

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Torture, sexual violence commonly used by Russian forces in Ukraine, say experts, by Anthony Deutsch | Reuters  AMSTERDAM — A large number of prisoners held in makeshift detention centres in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine were tortured and sexually violated, a team of international experts said today in a summary of their latest findings. The Mobile Justice Team, established by the international humanitarian law firm Global Rights Compliance, has . . . READ MORE . . .

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Romania says Russian attacks on Ukraine Danube infrastructure ‘unacceptable.’ From AFP. Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis today called Russia’s repeated attacks on Ukraine’s Danube infrastructure near Romania “unacceptable”, after Moscow struck the southern region of Odesa including vital ports used to export grain. “Russia’s continued . . . READ MORE . . .

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The Joe Biden bribe allegations need a special counsel, now, by Miranda Devine | The New York Post  Did the FBI even try to retrieve the 17 covert recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden and two “documents” that allegedly show that Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, was “paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired.? Despite Washington Post reports to the contrary, Shokin . . . READ MORE . . .

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The Bidens’ Burisma bribery, by Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost / Consortium News  I wasn’t even finished reading the Post piece before I began to wonder, how will The New York Times play this one? The Times prefers to pretend revelations of this kind involving the president, his administration, law enforcement or any major Democratic Party figure never occurred. So . . . READ MORE . . .