For today, just one link: to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (UKRAINE 9-22-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA and WEST BANK entries for today are HERE, and HERE or scroll up.) — MCM

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Ukraine faces a new test as Russia steps up its drive to seize Donetsk’s fortress belt, by Hanna Arhirova | AP  SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — Fall is expected to bring another grueling test for Ukraine’s armed forcesas Russia intensifies its campaign to seize an eastern region, once Ukraine’s industrial heartland and a territory it has long sought to conquer. READ MORE . . .

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