For today, link to seven reports: from Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the Kyiv Post, the Kyiv Independent, and Tass, and to an article from Substack via Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Russia pounds Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia city with guided bombs, injures 16. From Reuters. KYIV — Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple guided bombs today, wounding at least 16 people, and damaging railways, infrastructure, and residential and commercial buildings, Ukrainian officials said. READ MORE . . .
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Russia downs over 100 Ukrainian drones in one of the largest barrages of the war. From AP. KYIV — More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia today, officials said, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. READ MORE . . . Click HERE and HERE for reports from AFP and Kyiv Post.
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Ukraine General Staff says its forces strike Russian military arsenal in Volgograd Oblast. From the Kyiv Independent. Ukrainian forces struck the Kotluban military arsenal in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast used to store and modernize missiles and artillery, the General Staff said today. READ MORE . . .
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Russia says its forces liberate Makeyevka in LPR. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russia’s Battlegroup West has liberated the city of Makeyevka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 28 Ukraine shrinks each time talks with Russia are disrupted — Lavrov. From Tass. UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine shrinks every time proposed talks with Russia are upset, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday at the United Nations. “Each time . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM SEPT. 27 Life, preempted, by Scott Ritter| Substack/ Consortium News Most scenarios being bandied about in the Western mainstream media that involve a nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States have Russia initiating the exchange by using nuclear weapons against Ukraine in response to deteriorating military, economic, and/or political conditions brought on by the U.S. and NATO successfully . . . READ MORE . . .