First, links to reports from the New York Times, Agence France-Presse, teleSUR, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance, a link to a commentator’s critique of some Western coverage. — MCM
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Ukraine wants the U.S. to send powerful new weapons. Biden is not so sure, by David E. Sanger, Anton Troianovsky, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt | The New York Times WASHINGTON – Flush with success in northeast Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pressing U.S. President Joe Biden for a new and more powerful weapon: a missile system with a range of 190 miles (305 kilometers), which could reach far into Russian territory. Zelenskyy insists . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine nuclear plant reconnected to national grid: IAEA. From AFP. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is receiving power from the national grid once again, the UN’s atomic agency (IAEA) said Saturday, after it was cut off from external power, raising the risk of an accident. The Russian-occupied plant had been cut from the national grid . . . due to shelling. “The restored 750 kilovolt (kV) line is now . . . READ MORE . . .
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Putin: Donbass liberatation is goal of Russia’s operation. From teleSUR. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia’s goal in Ukraine with its special military operation remains the same: to liberate the entire territory of the two Donbass republics. His statements came amid a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Russia will do everything possible to prevent a “negative turn of events,” he said, but will respond more seriously if . . . READ MORE . . .
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U.S. military intel chief says Putin can’t achieve Ukraine goal, by Ellen Knickmeyer | AP WASHINGTON — “We’re coming to a point right now where I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is going to have to revise what his objectives are for this operation,” Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Friday. “Because “it’s pretty clear right now that he’s … not going to be able to do what he initially intended to do.” Putin sent troops into neighboring Ukraine in February with what U.S. officials say was the objective of unseating Ukraine’s Western-friendly government. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine alleges torture at village near Russian border, by Elena Becatoros and Leo Correa | AP KOZACHA LOPAN, Ukraine — In a dank basement behind the local supermarket, metal bars cordon off a corner of the room to form a large cell. . . . Ukrainian authorities say this was a makeshift prison where Russian forces abused detainees before Ukrainian troops swept through the village . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia has likely extended locations it is prepared to strike, UK says. From Reuters. Russia has likely extended the locations it is prepared to strike in a move to undermine the morale of the Ukrainian government and people, the British military said today. Russia has increased its targeting of civilian infrastructure even . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian troops shelling Kherson Region’s Novaya Kakhovka. From Tass. KHERSON, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops are shelling Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson Region, air defense was activated, the military-civil administration of Novaya Kakhovka wrote on its Telegram channel today. . . . Earlier, an air alert was declared in the city. Ukrainian troops have . . . READ MORE . . .
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Dissecting some war propaganda news items, by Moon of Alabama | Educate! On Friday night a Reuters headline claimed: Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine -police. Many media, who republish the Reuters feed, repeated that headline and the news story beginning, “KYIV Ukrainian authorities have found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the eastern city of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces, a regional police official said on Thursday . . . READ MORE . . .
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