Tuesday Briefing: Russia Launches a Large-Scale Attack

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Tuesday Briefing: Russia Launches a Large-Scale *******

Russia targeted Ukrainian energy in a sweeping *******

Russia launched more than 200 missiles and drones across a broad swath of Ukraine yesterday. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the ******** as “one of the largest strikes” of the 30-month-old war.

The barrage damaged energy infrastructure across the country. Local authorities in Kyiv and Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, reported blackouts related to the strikes. Officials said four people were ******* and more than 30 others were injured.

“Like most previous Russian strikes, this one is just as vile, targeting critical civilian infrastructure,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post.

Ukrainian forces continued to try to advance their offensive in the Kursk region of Russia, which they launched three weeks ago. Zelensky said that Kyiv’s forces had taken control of two more settlements, but the claim could not be independently verified.

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The presidential election is 71 days away. This is what we’re watching.

Trump suggested he might withdraw from the debate

The squabble began Sunday when Donald Trump suggested that the anchors and executives at ABC News, the host of the presidential debate scheduled for next month, were biased against him. And not for the first time, he threatened to pull out.

Then on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign went public with its push to change the agreed-upon rules to allow both candidates mics to be live throughout the broadcast. “Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own,” a spokesman told Politico.

A Trump spokesman suggested that the Harris campaign was pivoting because “they’re clearly concerned” by her debate prep so far. Trump later told reporters that it didn’t matter to him whether the microphones were muted.

Wave of ********* rattles southwestern Pakistan

At least 38 people have been ******* in several assaults across Baluchistan Province in what appears to be part of a campaign by the Baluch Liberation Army, or B.L.A. The group is one of several that have demanded the region’s independence from the central government.

The attacks began with blasts that ripped through a military camp on Sunday, ******** at least one soldier. Armed men stormed at least four police stations, spraying bullets at officers, local officials said. Militants also destroyed a bridge, halting traffic on a major railway. Gunmen then held up a highway, ********* and ******** nearly two dozen people, officials said.

Context: Terrorism across Pakistan has surged since U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban seized power. A Taliban-led crackdown on the regional Islamic State affiliate has pushed its fighters into Pakistan.

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ARTS AND IDEAS Ukraine’s battle-hardened poets

“Every time you want to be wrong / About the brightness of those eyes / The eyes of those who decided one day / To **** in battle / Are always brighter than others.”

Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian medic, wrote a book of battlefield verse — like the one above — in spare moments between combat by typing into her phone. This year, her book won a Shevchenko National Prize, the country’s highest arts and culture award.

Two years into the war with Russia, poets have risen in popularity in Ukraine, capturing the raw emotions of the conflict and resonating with a weary population. Sales of poetry books have soared. Some major Ukrainian publishing houses are publishing poetry for the first time, and hardly a week passes in Kyiv without a public reading. Read more about Ukraine’s war poetry.

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