Russia’s offensive in western Ukraine escalated Sunday as media outlets reported Russia sought military aid from China to support its stalled invasion.
Summary
Russia’s offensive in western Ukraine escalated Sunday as media outlets reported Russia sought military aid from China to support its stalled invasion.
- A barrage of Russian missiles targeted a military training facility in Western Ukraine, ten miles from the Polish border. At least 35 people were killed and 130 were injured in the attack on a facility that had hosted US troops for training drills earlier this year.
- The airstrikes near the Polish border have raised fears of the conflict broadening into other NATO countries that border Ukraine. Russia’s attacks in the west aim to shut down the flow of weapons and equipment from NATO into Ukraine.
- A US official reported Russia asked China for military equipment to support its invasion of Ukraine. National security advisor Jake Sullivan warned China against the move saying, “We will not allow that to go forward.”
- Diplomatic efforts to end the war began a fourth round of talks on Monday.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Ukraine seeks direct talks between himself and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the conflict.
- The New York Times profiled Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker shot to death in Irpin, Ukraine by Russian forces. Renaud appears to be the first foreign journalist killed during the conflict.
- The Guardian interviewed Ukrainians who described how the Russian military is massacring civilians and wiping entire villages off the map in the Kyiv region.
- The Atlantic published an essay warning, besides of course the millions of human lives lost, how we should worry about the climate consequences of a potential nuclear war. A nuclear war “would be worse for the climate than any energy policy that Donald Trump ever proposed.” Not a parody.
- The Wall Street Journal reported that the war in Ukraine – a “world leader in surrogacy” – has stranded hundreds of surrogate mothers and their babies in a war zone.
- Fox News interviewed a journalist for Novaya Gazeta, one of the last opposition publications in Russia, about life inside Moscow during the economic crisis caused by Western sanctions imposed after the invasion and amid swirling rumors of martial law.
- Commentary assessed Russian nostalgia for the former Soviet Union and how, with Russia being cut off from the global economy and facing debt default and isolation, they’ve gotten what they wanted.
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