Tuesday Briefing

Ukraine says it killed high Russian commander

The Ukrainian army stated {that a} missile strike in Crimea final week killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, together with greater than 30 officers, and wounded greater than 105 others. If confirmed, the assault could be among the many most damaging blows suffered by the Russian Navy for the reason that sinking of the fleet’s flagship final 12 months.

Ukraine’s particular operations forces didn’t identify the naval chief, however the commander of the Black Sea Fleet is Adm. Viktor Sokolov, one of the vital senior officers in Russia’s Navy.

The assault got here throughout a gathering of Russian commanders, Ukraine’s army stated, and badly broken a headquarters of the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea. There was no fast remark from Russia’s Protection Ministry. Individually, Russia struck the port of Odesa in Moscow’s first giant assault there since Ukraine began testing a brand new path to ship grain out of the Black Sea.

Context: In latest weeks, Ukraine has sharply elevated the tempo of strikes in Crimea, a strategically very important peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow practically a decade in the past. “Any goal inside Crimea is basically truthful recreation to exhibit to the Russians they don’t have safety,” a army analyst stated.

U.S. shutdown: Senators throughout the political aisle are debating whether or not to incorporate new army help for the struggle in opposition to Russia in any stopgap spending invoice to maintain the federal government funded previous the tip of the month.

Lots of injured in Nagorno-Karabakh blast

Greater than 200 individuals had been wounded in a gasoline warehouse explosion in Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh area, the human rights ombudsman for the area stated. The reason for the explosion couldn’t instantly be decided, and it was not clear if there have been any fatalities.

Hundreds of ethnic Armenians have been fleeing the breakaway area for the reason that weekend to cross the border into Armenia, after a army offensive introduced the enclave again below Azerbaijan’s management. The ethnic Armenian management has stated it could stay in place till all those that needed to depart the area had been in a position to go.

On the bottom: The human rights ombudsman, Gegham Stepanyan, stated that almost all of the victims had been in “extreme or extraordinarily extreme” situation. A Russian peacekeeping contingent stated that a few of the wounded had been handled by its medics and that a few of the most severely injured had been transferred to its hospital.

A hurdle for Hollywood

After screenwriters reached a tentative settlement with leisure studios on a brand new labor deal Sunday night time, one large impediment stands in the way in which of the movie and TV business roaring again to life: the strike of tens of 1000’s of actors. The 2 sides haven’t spoken in additional than two months, and no talks are scheduled.

Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, have indicated a willingness to barter, however the studios made a strategic choice in early August to concentrate on reaching a détente with the writers first. Solely a decision with the actors will decide when tens of 1000’s of digital camera operators, make-up artists, prop makers, set dressers and others return to work.

The newest: The Writers Guild of America, which represents greater than 11,000 screenwriters, may start finalizing a deal on a brand new contract as quickly as in the present day.

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“I wrote this e-book as a result of younger boys do maintain saying, ‘We’re anxious, we’re depressed, we’re lonely,’” she stated. “All you are able to do is be proper subsequent to them and go: ‘I’m going to be with you thru it. I truly can’t repair you. You’re going to have to repair your self.’”

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