Tuesday Briefing

Inside Ukraine’s drone assaults on Russia

A Times investigation discovered proof that a minimum of three totally different Ukrainian-made drone fashions had been utilized in assaults inside Russia, together with Moscow, indicating a Ukrainian function in strikes that Kyiv has denied finishing up or declined to say duty for. Ukraine is racing to scale up its drone fleet, and to assault extra steadily 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 character of its targets: military-aligned websites that assist Moscow’s full-scale invasion, now in its 18th month. Kyiv’s largely 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 folks have been killed.

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

A Georgia decide 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 costs in New York related with hush-money funds in 2016, and on federal costs over his dealing with of categorised 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 main area, the primary Times/Siena College ballot of the 2024 race exhibits.

Brutality will increase in Myanmar

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

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

Context: The navy is attempting to punish civilians for any perceived assist of the opposition, one knowledgeable mentioned. Since the coup in February 2021, the navy and its allies have killed a minimum of 3,452 folks, in keeping with 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 sq. miles of a not-even-town in California is dwelling 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.

SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC

Belgian Grand Prix takeaways: Ferrari questions, Alpine tumult and a welcome break.

Vivianne Miedema on World Cup accidents: Our visitor columnist writes about what wants to vary.

2.Bundesliga returns: The whimsical chaos is again — time to benefit from the journey.

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 right now (8 a.m. in London). It must win or tie to advance.

QUIZ BOWL

Lit trivia

The 5 phrases under are closing traces from standard novels printed within the second half of the twentieth century. Can you guess the place they arrive from? Check your solutions right 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.”