First, links to reports from Reuters, National Public Radio, Agence France-Presse, and the Moscow Times; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM
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U.S. asks citizens to leave Ukraine as fears grow of Russian attacks on capital, by Max Hunder | Reuters * U.S. urges citizens to leave Ukraine ‘now’ * Heightened fears of attack on Kyiv around Independence Day * Wednesday marks six months since Russian invasion * Concern over dangers to nuclear plant | KYIV — The United States today urged its citizens to leave Ukraine, saying it believed Russia was preparing to target civilian and government infrastructure in the next few days as the war reaches the . . . READ MORE . . .
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From warehouses to the frontlines: How Ukraine’s forces are getting drones. Reported by Tim Mak | NPR Pound for pound, perhaps no piece of equipment is more valuable on the Ukrainian battlefield than lightweight, remote-controlled drones, which volunteers are bringing to the frontlines in the east. . . . Click HERE to listen and read.
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A Kremlin-linked mercenary group is now openly recruiting for the war in Ukraine. Reported by Mary Louise Kelly, Michael Levitt and Patrick Jarenwattananon | NPR Mercenary expert Sean McFate talks about recent recruiting strategies by the Wagner Group due to Russian losses in Ukraine. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Work goes on inside a Ukrainian nuclear power plant amid threats of Russian bombs. Reported by Ashley Westerman | NPR Andriy Tuz was at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant when it came under Russian control in March. Now in Switzerland, Tuz talks about work and life at the complex under Russian occupation. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Six months into the Russia-Ukraine war, how can we measure the loss of life? Steve Inskeep of NPR talks to Matilda Bogner, head of the United Nations Human Rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, about whether death tolls in Russia’s war on Ukraine have been underestimated. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Putin says daughter of ultranationalist Dugin killed in ‘vile crime’: Kremlin. From Agence France-Presse. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday expressed his “sincere condolences” following the death in a car bombing of the daughter of hard-line Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin. “A vile, cruel crime ended the life of Daria Dugina, a bright, talented person with a real Russian heart — kind, loving, sympathetic and open,” Putin said in a message to Dugina’s family released by the Kremlin.
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‘She died for Russia’: hundreds mourn pro-Kremlin ideologue’s slain daughter, by Anastasia Tenisheva | The Moscow Times Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the Moscow funeral of Daria Dugina, the adult daughter of a prominent nationalist philosopher, after she was killed in a car bombing that Moscow blames on Kyiv. Her father Alexander Dugin — a vocal supporter of the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine — is thought to have been the likely target of the Saturday attack that killed his 29-year-old daughter. Speakers at Dugina’s funeral . . . READ MORE . . .
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