Charles Means
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561 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 6d ago
Charles Means’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sabyanin said city air defenses destroyed some 180 Ukrainian drones on approach to the capital, but acknowledged several managed to strike a key oil refinery.
Videos circulating online showed drones repeatedly striking the facility, causing large explosions, and another drone slamming into an apartment building.
Plumes of smoke massed along the Moscow skyline and all four of the city's airports suspended operations.
In recent months, Ukraine is up to tax on Russian energy infrastructure in a bid to dent the Kremlin's war chest.
In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky justified the latest attacks as a response to Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities, adding it was time for the Kremlin to end the war.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Russia's energy ministry said an uptick in enemy aerial attacks was to blame for gas shortages in several regions of southern Russia.
That includes the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally seized from Ukraine in 2014, where long lines outside gas stations amid strict fuel rationing have become the new normal.
Ukraine says its strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are aimed at limiting the Kremlin's windfall from surging global energy prices amid conflicts in the Middle East.
Their impact has seen a reduction of Russia's oil export capacity by up to 40 percent, according to some estimates, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted the attacks have had minimal negative impact on Russia's larger economy.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia had refrained from large-scale missile strikes but continued attacks along the front lines, prompting Ukraine to return fire.
Similarly, Russia's defense ministry accused Ukraine of launching thousands of drones into Russian airspace, to which it said Russia responded in kind.
Yet there were no disruptions during Russia's military parade on Red Square Saturday, an event scaled back amid fears of Ukrainian drone strikes.
During that ceremony, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted his forces would prove victorious against an aggressive Ukraine backed by NATO, only to later suggest he remained open to diplomatic efforts to bring the war to a close.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia had refrained from large-scale missile strikes, but continued attacks along the front lines, prompting Ukraine to return fire.
Similarly, Russia's defense ministry accused Ukraine of launching thousands of drones into Russian airspace, to which it said Russia responded in kind.
Yet there were no disruptions during Russia's military parade on Red Square Saturday,
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