Inside Ukraine’s drone assaults on Russia

A Times investigation discovered proof that at least three different Ukrainian-made drone models had been utilized in assaults inside Russia, together with Moscow, indicating a Ukrainian position in strikes that Kyiv has denied finishing up or declined to say accountability for. Ukraine is racing to scale up its drone fleet, and to assault extra continuously in Russia.

“Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centers and military bases,” Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, mentioned on Sunday night time. “And this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.”

As Ukraine steps up its strikes, it’s also making plain the nature of its targets: military-aligned websites that support Moscow’s full-scale invasion, now in its 18th month. Kyiv’s principally small-scale strikes into Russia, nevertheless, pale compared to the devastation Moscow has rained on Ukraine.

The newest: Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown, was attacked hours after he spoke of bringing the struggle to Russia. At least six people were killed.

Trump’s effort to short-circuit Georgia election case fails

A Georgia choose forcefully rejected an effort by Donald Trump to derail an investigation into makes an attempt by him and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss within the state, saying that the previous president didn’t have the authorized standing to make such challenges earlier than indictments have been handed up.

The Georgia investigation is a part of a swirl of authorized troubles surrounding Trump, who has already been indicted on state prices in New York linked with hush-money funds in 2016, and on federal prices over his dealing with of categorized paperwork after leaving workplace. A federal investigation into wider efforts to reverse his defeat within the 2020 election is ongoing.

Related: Trump is dominating the Republican primary field, the primary Times/Siena College ballot of the 2024 race reveals.

Brutality will increase in Myanmar

The Myanmar army’s marketing campaign of terror, which started after a coup sparked widespread resistance, is getting worse, a Times investigation found. There have been practically twice as many army airstrikes reported in April, May and June as within the first three months of the 12 months.

The opposition and its allied forces at present management massive swaths of the nation. As they’ve gained floor, the army has resorted to growing air assaults — a lot of which have hit civilians.

Context: The army is attempting to punish civilians for any perceived help of the opposition, one professional mentioned. Since the coup in February 2021, the army and its allies have killed a minimum of 3,452 folks, based on the U.N.

With mountains to the east and an ocean to the west, and air that hums with lavender and eucalyptus, Montecito is that uncommon place that appears even higher in actual life than it does on-line.

No surprise, then, that this not-even-10 square miles of a not-even-town in California is house to Oprah Winfrey, the self-exiled Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a star juicer, Katy Perry’s dad — and the New American Dream.

Lives Lived

Paul Reubens, the comedian actor who created Pee-wee Herman, has died at 70.

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2.Bundesliga returns: The whimsical chaos is again — time to enjoy the ride.

Women’s World Cup: Australia beat Canada, 4-0, Japan beat Spain and Colombia beat Germany. The U.S. performs Portugal at 3 a.m. Eastern in the present day (8 a.m. in London). It must win or tie to advance.

QUIZ BOWL

Lit trivia

The 5 phrases under are ultimate traces from standard novels revealed within the second half of the twentieth century. Can you guess the place they arrive from? Check your answers here.

1. “Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”

2. “Are there any questions?”

3. “I don’t know why mine never turn out like hers, or why my tears flow so freely when I prepare them — perhaps I am as sensitive to onions as Tita, my great-aunt, who will go on living as long as there is someone who cooks her recipes.”

4. “Afterwards the sisters returned to their respective homes and Shama and the children went back in the Prefect to the empty house.”

5. “When he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”