First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Tass, the Moscow Times, and the Kyiv Post; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, a link to commentary from a U.S. presidential candidate’s website. — MCM
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Russian missiles kill 7 in Ukrainian city and Kyiv accuses Moscow of targeting rescue. From AP. KYIV — The death toll from two Russian missile strikes that hit apartment blocks and other buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city climbed to seven, with 81 people injured, authorities said today, as officials accused the Kremlin’s forces of targeting rescue workers. The dead . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian presidential office moves to clarify provisions of its ‘peace formula.’ From Tass. MOSCOW — The office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has released a document titled “Ukraine’s Peace Formula Philosophy,” which clarifies each of the ten points of Kiev’s initiative to resolve the conflict. In particular, the document . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia pulls thousands of Soviet-era military vehicles from major storage facility. From the Moscow Times. Russia’s largest known military equipment storage facility has been stripped of nearly half of the Soviet-era tanks and armored vehicles that were stored on its grounds before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Moscow Times’ Russian service reported, analyzing satellite imagery of the storage site. The Vagzhanovo military equipment depot — located . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia’s helicopter losses mount further. From the Kyiv Post. Despite being billed by the Kremlin as the world’s best helicopter gunship, Russia may have just lost its 40th Ka-52 Alligator. According to the latest release from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), the latest doomed chopper . . . READ MORE . . .
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This is the future the Biden administration risks, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Kennedy 2024 According to U.S. National Security Council official Fiona Hill and former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, Ukraine and Russia agreed on the terms of a negotiated peace in March 2022. Russia pledged to retreat to pre-invasion lines and Ukraine pledged not to join NATO in exchange for security guarantees from a number of Western countries. Leaders from Washington and London arrived to scuttle the deal and . . . READ MORE . . .
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