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Lead story

RUSSIAN MISSILES ROCK UKRAINE

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

The howl of air raid sirens sounds every night as Russian drones and missiles pound strategic targets right throughout Ukraine. Kiev has been rocked by blasts that continued for several hours in an attack on the capital that the local military administration called “exceptional in its density”. And now Ukrainians are rushing to buy iodine pills following a devastating Russian raid on an ammunition depot containing depleted uranium shells that may have released deadly radiation into the atmosphere.

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Trains and boats and planes

by New Worker correspondent

This week we focus on transport matters. Before turning to our customary present-day industrial disputes we take a slight detour to Little Missenden in Buckingham where a 3–4 metre deep hole was reported on Monday. This suddenly appeared above one of the tunnels presently being dug for the new High Speed 2 (HS2) high-speed railway.

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Editorial

No DU shells to Ukraine!

The Kremlin warned Britain of the grave consequences of supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) shells. Some said this simply meant escalation. Others, the gurus of the bourgeois media who pose as ‘military experts’, told us that they posed no danger to Ukrainian civilians and that, in any case, this was just another empty threat from the Russians who would soon be on their knees following a Ukrainian spring offensive. What none of them foresaw was that the “grave consequences” that would follow would be the taking out of the DU ammo dumps and the possible release of deadly radiation into the air.

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