For today, links to seven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, France-Presse, and Kyiv Post, and to commentary from the Kyiv Independent; other articles or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE 8-29-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA and YEMEN entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia kills one, injures 24, governor says. From Reuters. KYIV— Russia launched a sweeping attack on Ukraine which killed one person, injured at least 24 others, and damaged infrastructure and residential buildings, authorities said today. Three children . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from AP.
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Ukraine opens murder probe after former speaker killed. From AFP. Ukraine launched a murder investigation today after former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, a key figure in the 2014 Maidan revolution, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv. READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Parubiy shot dead in Lviv. From Reuters. KYIV — Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv today and a search was under way for the killer. READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 29 Zelenskyy seeks talks with Trump and European leaders on slow progress of peace efforts with Russia, by Hanna Aarhirova | AP KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that Ukrainian officials want to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders next week to discuss recent developments in efforts to end . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 29 European defense leaders pledge pressure to end the war after Russian strike on Kyiv, by Sam McNeil | AP BRUSSELS — European defense ministers pledged Friday to ramp up support for Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia, a day after a Russian air assault on Kyiv killed 23 people and badly damaged a European diplomatic compound. Outrage over . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM AUG. 29 ‘Trump is a Russian asset,’ says Portuguese president, by Craig Luczkiw | Kyiv Post Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Wednesday that U.S.President Donald Trump, “the supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower, objectively, is a Soviet or Russian asset.” READ MORE . . .
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FROM FEB. 27 Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This U.S. author is ‘completely certain’ he is, by Chris York | The Kyiv Independent Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s, says he is . . . READ MORE . . .
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