Columbus, OH

TheDailyBeast

Ukrainian forces captured over 100 Russian troops in the largest single surrender since the start of the war two and a half years ago, according to multiple reports.The latest victory is part of a surprise incursion launched by Ukraine into Russian territory earlier this month. The surrender will not please Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was already visibly rattled during a testy televised meeting with officials earlier this week.The Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda posted a video on X Thursday, which it said came from a source at the country’s Security Service, showing dozens of Russian soldiers lying with their...

Humiliation for Putin as Over 100 Troops Raise White Flag on Russian Soil

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North Korea deploys 500 technical and medical troops to Russian-occupied Ukraine

Business Insider

A Russian special forces unit commander told the parents of conscripts that their children would go to heaven if they died serving their country.

An elite Russian commander told Moscow's troops that they would 'go to heaven' if they died in Kursk

The Kremlin is using propaganda to downplay Ukraine's Kursk incursion and instead emphasize Russian battlefield victories, sources told outlet Meduza.

The Kremlin is trying to convince Russians to accept Ukraine's Kursk incursion as a 'new normal': report

Business Times

Russian forces have launched a fierce counteroffensive against Ukrainian troops that crossed into Russian territory last week, marking the most significant breach of Russia's borders since the war began. The Ukrainian advance, which saw President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces seize nearly 386 square miles of territory in the Kursk region, has prompted a robust military response from Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed a "worthy response" to what he has termed a major provocation by Kyiv.

Russia Strikes Back: Putin Orders Counteroffensive as Ukraine Seizes 386 Square Miles of Russian Territory

Maine State

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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Moscow is reportedly pulling some military forces out of Ukraine amid Kyiv’s surprise incursion into Russia, the biggest foreign military offensive on Russian soil since World War II.U.S. officials confirmed the withdrawal to The Wall Street Journal, though it’s not clear how many Russian troops were involved. Ukraine has also sent tanks and armored vehicles to support its own troops who stormed across the border last week into Russia’s Kursk region.Putin ordered his military to quickly expel the Ukrainian forces who crossed into Russian territory on August 6, but Kyiv claims its troops are continuing to make advances. Ukraine’s fighters...

Putin Forced to Pull Troops From Ukraine After Getting Caught Out

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Alamogordo Conservative Daily

Four Star General Charles Hamilton, who as head of Army Materiel Command oversaw much of the service's logistics operations, wrote a letter to Army Secretary Wormuth on Friday asking to be reinstated. Hamilton, claimed in the letter that he had to intervene in the Army's Command Assessment Program, or CAP, selection last fall because he felt the process is racist and would unfairly handle the selection of a Black subordinate officer.

Suspended Army 4-Star General Charles Hamilton Appeals for Return of Command

Russian forces started a fire at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post Sunday.

Zelensky says Russian forces started fire at Russian-controlled nuclear plant in southern Ukraine

CBS News

Stunning new details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West belonged to its security services — and the children of a Russian couple posing as spies only learned their true nationality on the flight to Moscow.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a detained couple released in Slovenia —Artem and Anna Dultsev— were undercover intelligence officers commonly known as "illegals." Posing as Argentine expats, they used Ljubljana as their base since 2017 to relay Moscow's orders to other sleeper agents...

Spies' children found out they were Russian on flight to Moscow

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said his forces had captured about 1,000 square kilometers of territory in Russia's Kursk region.

Top general says Ukrainian forces have captured almost as much territory in Russia in the past week as Russia has captured in Ukraine this year

The Hill

Ukraine hit Moscow on Wednesday in what Russia described as one of its largest drone attacks in the war, though Russia claimed all of the explosive unmanned vehicles were shot down. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that overnight into Wednesday, its forces destroyed a total of 45 drones launched into Russia. Eleven of those…

Ukraine hits Moscow in major drone attack, Russia says

President Vladimir Putin ordered his army on Monday to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops who have entered Russian territory as authorities said more than 120,000 people had been evacuated away from the fighting.Kyiv launched a surprise offensive into Russia's western Kursk region last Tuesday, capturing more than two dozen settlements in the most significant cross-border attack on Russian soil since World War II."One of the obvious goals of the enemy is to sow discord, strife, intimidate people, destroy the unity and cohesion of Russian society," Putin told a televised meeting with government officials."The main task is, of course, for the defense ministry...

Putin orders army to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops from Russian territory

J. Souza

A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

The US and some other allies don't let Ukraine hit Russia with long-range weapons, which gives Russia a safe place to launch attacks on Ukraine from.

Ukraine pleads with the US and UK to lift weapons restrictions as Russia hits it with hundreds of missiles and drones

It is not the first time that the Rostov-on-Don sub, which Ukraine says cost Russia $300 million, has been targeted in the conflict.

Ukraine says it sank a $300 million Russian submarine in what could be another big blow to Putin's Black Sea Fleet

Georgia State

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Wyoming State

Cheyenne, WY

WyoFile

WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.

BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse herds

A day after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law banning the Russian-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Pope Francis on Sunday warned that the move could infringe on the freedom of worship. Ukraine's parliament approved the ban last week following tensions with the Russian Orthodox Church, which has backed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Pope Francis condemns Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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🔴 Live: Russia foils Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in country’s west, says Moscow

Moscow said Thursday that it had foiled several Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in the west of the country, including in the Volgograd region, where local...

🔴 Live: Russia foils Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in country’s west, says Moscow

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