For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Heading for UN, Ukraine’s president questions why Russia still has a place there, by Jennifer Peltz | AP  NEW YORK — Days before potentially crossing paths with Russia’s top diplomat at the United Nations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested today that the world body needs to answer for allowing his country’s invader a seat at the tables of power. “For us, it’s very important . . . READ MORE . . .

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Graft accusations dog top Zelenskiy aides, by Stephen Grey and Dan Peleschuk | Reuters  VIENNA / KYIV — In his years as the chief executive of one of Ukraine’s biggest construction firms, Oleh Maiboroda kept rolls of dollar bills in a safe behind his desk. The task of handing over the cash to bribe public officials, he said, was entrusted to a lawyer named Oleh Tatarov, now a senior adviser to Ukraine’s president . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia destroys Ukrainian equipment while repulsing attacks near Rabotino — politician. From Tass. MELITOPOL — The Russian armed forces have destroyed ten Ukrainian armored vehicles while repulsing two enemy attacks near Rabotino in the Zaporozhye area, according to Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the ‘We Are Together with Russia’ movement. “The fighting has sharply . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russian drone attack on a city in western Ukraine sparks an inferno at a warehouse and kills 1, by Illia Novikov | AP  KYIV — Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv early today, burning down a warehouse said to house humanitarian supplies and killing one man, Ukrainian authorities said. The Air Force said Ukraine intercepted most of the 30 Shahed drones overnight . . . READ MORE . . .

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