The count could be 100,000 since January 1……
(Update….20,000 DOA…80,000 causalities)
US House Speaker in Israeli says he will support Ukraine….
We are getting more reports of attacks withIN Russia everyday…..
Russia launches a bomber missile attack against the Ukraine last night…..
Of the Russian soldiers no longer on the battlefield, 20,000 were killed, according to John Kirby, a White House spokesman. Half of them were Wagner mercenaries.
Here’s what we’re covering:
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The White House did not divulge any estimate of Ukraine’s losses.
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Both sides report attacks before an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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In Israel, Kevin McCarthy, the House’s top Republican, publicly pledges continued support for Ukraine.
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An explosion derails a freight train in a Russian border area, according to a local governor.
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In the midst of war, a half-marathon brightens Kyiv.
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Battlefield Update: Russia and Ukraine each claim gains in Bakhmut.
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Ukraine’s human rights chief tells civilians in occupied areas to get Russian passports ‘to survive.’
Russia targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with a “massive” wave of missiles overnight, Ukrainian officials said. The assault on the capital lasted several hours early Monday, but no casualties were reported, as local authorities said air defenses worked to intercept most of the missiles. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that it carried out strikes against facilities that produce ammunition and weapons for Ukrainian troops. Ukraine said residential areas were hit.
The attack followed a weekend drone strike by Ukrainian forces on an oil depot in Russian-occupied Crimea, as Ukraine prepares for an anticipated counteroffensive.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- Russian strategic bombers launched 18 Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles against Ukraine’s territory in an attack that began around 2:30 a.m. Monday, according to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny. Zaluzhny said the attacks were launched from the Caspian Sea and from the Murmansk region in northwestern Russia. He said that 15 of the missiles were destroyed.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed the strikes, saying in a statement Monday that its armed forces “carried out a group missile strike with long-range airborne and sea-based high-precision weapons against the facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.”
- The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine criticized the overnight attack. Bridget A. Brink tweeted, “Russia again launched missiles in the deep of night at Ukrainian cities where civilians, including children, should be able to sleep safely and peacefully.”
- An explosion Monday morning caused a freight train to derail in Bryansk in western Russia, the regional governor said. Alexander Bogomaz said that an “unidentified explosive device” went off around the train tracks near Russia’s border with Ukraine and Belarus. He did not specify who might be responsible. State-owned operator Russian Railways saidthat “unauthorized persons” illegally interfered with the railway’s operations. The Washington Post couldn’t independently verify the claims.
- A power line was blown up in Russia’s Leningrad region early Monday near the border with Estonia and Finland, regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said. According to Drozdenko, the power line in the Gatchinskiy district blew up shortly after midnight, and an unidentified object, “presumably an explosive device,” was found on a second power line. He said emergency crews and government investigators were at the scene.
- At least 34 people, including five children, were injured in overnight missile strikes against Pavlohrad in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, regional governor Serhii Lysak said. The strikes caused “significant damage” to the energy network infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk and the Kherson region, leaving thousands of households without power, Ukraine’s energy minister said.
- Ukrainian officials said the attack on an oil depot in Sevastopol was part of the buildup to Kyiv’s counteroffensive. Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for Ukraine’s southern command, told local television that undermining Russia’s logistics helps prepare for the “broad full-scale offensive that everyone expects.” Saturday’s strike in Sevastopol, which is home to the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet, destroyed more than 10 tanks holding some 40,000 tons of oil products intended for the fleet, according to Ukrainian officials.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a “meaningful conversation” with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, Zelensky’s office said. The leaders discussed French military aid to Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Lithuania, according to a Ukrainian readout of the call. Zelensky has expressed hope that NATO members will agree at the summit to formally invite Ukraine to become a member of the alliance. But leaders of the alliance have avoided giving Kyiv any guarantees on its membership prospects.
- Pope Francis said the Vatican is involved in a secret peace mission. “I think peace is always made by opening up channels; it can never be accomplished by closing [doors]. I’m always urging [everyone] to have new rapports, friendly connections,” the pope told reporters on a weekend flight back from a three-day trip to Hungary, according to Italian news agency ANSA.
- President Biden said he is “working like hell” to bring home Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, Biden promised Gershkovich’s family, present in the audience, to work to secure the journalist’s release from prison in Moscow, where the State Department says he is being wrongfully detained on espionage charges. “Evan went to report in Russia to shed light on the darkness that you all escaped from years ago. Absolute courage,” Biden said. “We all stand with you.”….