Ukraine says it killed prime Russian commander
The Ukrainian navy 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 can be among the many most damaging blows suffered by the Russian Navy because the sinking of the fleet’s flagship final yr.
Ukraine’s particular operations forces didn’t identify the naval chief, however the commander of the Black Sea Fleet is Adm. Viktor Sokolov, probably the most senior officers in Russia’s Navy.
The assault got here throughout a gathering of Russian commanders, Ukraine’s navy 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 massive assault there since Ukraine began testing a brand new path to ship grain out of the Black Sea.
Context: In current weeks, Ukraine has sharply elevated the tempo of strikes in Crimea, a strategically very important peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow almost a decade in the past. “Any goal inside Crimea is basically truthful sport to exhibit to the Russians they don’t have safety,” a navy analyst stated.
U.S. shutdown: Senators throughout the political aisle are debating whether or not to incorporate new navy help for the combat in opposition to Russia in any stopgap spending invoice to maintain the federal government funded previous the top 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 because the weekend to cross the border into Armenia, after a navy offensive introduced the enclave again below Azerbaijan’s management. The ethnic Armenian management has stated it might stay in place till all those that needed to depart the area had been capable of 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 number of the wounded had been handled by its medics and that a number 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 huge impediment stands in the way in which of the movie and TV business roaring again to life: the strike of tens of hundreds 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 hundreds of digital camera operators, make-up artists, prop makers, set dressers and others return to work.
The most recent: 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 at this time.
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In “What About Males?”, the newest guide from the British feminist author Caitlin Moran, she turns her eye to trendy masculinity. Moran spoke to The Occasions Journal in a wide-ranging interview that touched on the longer term for males, trans points in Britain and Jordan B. Peterson’s tears.
“I wrote this guide 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 will have to repair your self.’”
For extra: Learn our assessment of Moran’s guide.
