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Russia Launches Massive Air Attack on Kyiv

A local views the destruction following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv, 18 August 2024 amid the Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 60404
A local views the destruction following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv, 18 August 2024 amid the Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 60404
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Russia Launches Massive Air Attack on Kyiv

A local views the destruction following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv, 18 August 2024 amid the Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 60404
A local views the destruction following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv, 18 August 2024 amid the Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 60404

All of Ukraine was under fresh air raid alerts during Monday's morning rush hour amid a threat of a massive Russian missile and drone attack, Ukraine's military said, following several waves of overnight drone attacks.
Ukraine's air force said it recorded the launch of several missiles targeting the country and tens of drones that threatened all of Ukraine. By 0500 GMT there were no reports of explosions, however.
Russia launched two waves of drone attacks earlier on Monday, Ukraine's military said, with initial information showing no damage or casualties, reported Reuters.
Up to 10 drones were destroyed on their approach to the city in the region around Kyiv at about 0230 GMT, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Reuters' witnesses heard several blasts earlier in what sounded like air defense systems engaged in repelling an air attack.
There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians. Each says its attacks are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to the other's war effort.

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Trump is Expected to Tie Harris to Chaotic Afghanistan War Withdrawal in Speech to National Guard

23 August 2024, US, Glendale: Former President of the United States Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
23 August 2024, US, Glendale: Former President of the United States Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Trump is Expected to Tie Harris to Chaotic Afghanistan War Withdrawal in Speech to National Guard

23 August 2024, US, Glendale: Former President of the United States Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
23 August 2024, US, Glendale: Former President of the United States Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

In a speech Monday to National Guard soldiers in Michigan, former President Donald Trump is expected to promote his foreign policy record and tie Vice President Kamala Harris to one of the Biden administration's lowest points: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
The speech coincides with the third anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 US service members and more than 100 Afghans. The ISIS group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is set to appear at 2 p.m. Eastern time at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition in Detroit.
Since Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has been zeroing in on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her roles in foreign policy decisions. He specifically highlights the vice president’s statements that she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision on Afghanistan.
“She bragged that she would be the last person in the room, and she was. She was the last person in the room with Biden when the two of them decided to pull the troops out of Afghanistan,” he said last week in a North Carolina rally. “She had the final vote. She had the final say, and she was all for it.”
The relatives of some of the 13 American service members who were killed appeared on stage at the Republican National Convention last month, saying Biden had never publicly named their loved ones. The display was an implicit response to allegations that Trump doesn’t respect veterans and had previously referred to slain World War II soldiers as suckers and losers — accusations denied by Trump.
Under Trump, the United States signed a peace agreement with the Taliban that was aimed at ending America’s longest war and bringing US troops home. Biden later pointed to that agreement as he sought to deflect blame for the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan, saying it bound him to withdraw troops and set the stage for the chaos that engulfed the country.
A Biden administration review of the withdrawal acknowledged that the evacuation of Americans and allies from Afghanistan should have started sooner, but attributed the delays to the Afghan government and military, and to US military and intelligence community assessments.
The top two US generals who oversaw the evacuation said the administration inadequately planned for the withdrawal. The nation’s top-ranking military officer at the time, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, told lawmakers earlier this year he had urged Biden to keep a residual force of 2,500 forces to give backup. Instead, Biden decided to keep a much smaller force of 650 that would be limited to securing the US embassy.