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Above: A police officer fires at a flying drone following attacks today in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv was hit by multiple explosions that Ukrainian officials said were caused by Iranian drones fired by Russian forces.
- The attacks came exactly a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a missile bombardment of cities across Ukraine in retaliation for the explosion of a bridge linking Russia with Crimea.
Air raid sirens rang out in Ukraine today as Russia attacked Kyiv with "kamikaze" drones, according to Ukrainian officials, who repeated their calls for Western allies to supply Ukraine with more advanced air defense systems. Kamikaze drones, or suicide drones, are small, portable aerial weapon systems that are hard to detect and can be fired at a distance. They can be easily launched and are designed to hit behind enemy lines and be destroyed in the attack. The Ukrainian military and US intelligence say Russia is using Iranian-made drones, but Iran denies supplying Russia with such weapons. The attacks come after Moscow fired hundreds of missiles at civilian targets in deadly strikes across Ukraine last week.
Above: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko posts an image of what he describes as the wreckage of one of the drones that attacked his city.
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Out tomorrow ... From Chapter 11 of "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump," by Rachael Bade of Politico and Karoun Demirjian of The Washington Post:
Privately, Trump and his top White House aides were extremely concerned about losing GOP lawmakers' support once they learned the full extent of what Trump had done in Ukraine.
So they had devised a plan: His aides would sell their top Hill surrogates on the transcript — but deliberately hold back the more damaging allegations in the whistleblower report, which documented how Trump systematically targeted Ukraine over several months to exact political favors, including possibly leveraging U.S. military assistance.
"If they could corner lawmakers into publicly defending Trump’s call with Zelensky, they believed," the authors write, "then GOP lawmakers would be less likely to break with the White House when the full story came out."
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