Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent sanctions has Ukraine imposed against foreign manufacturers?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he's imposing sanctions on some foreign manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles that are used against Ukraine. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.
Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions, Zelensky wrote on X. He said Ukraine is introducing new sanctions against companies that continue to supply such components, wittingly or unwittingly, as well as against the missile and drone manufacturers.
Targets include China, Panama, and UAE-based companies. Russia strikes Ukraine nearly every night, though the frequency and intensity has dropped recently, say experts, as its supplies are running low. Experts also say recent missiles shot at Ukraine were produced this year, proof that Russia has gone through much of its original stockpile. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Poltava, Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has quit under pressure over his role in the appointment of Peter Mendelsohn, a friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as ambassador to the U.S. McSweeney, a longtime protege of Mendelsohn, says he was wrong to help him get the ambassadorship.
Mendelsohn resigned from the House of Lords after the latest release of emails from the Epstein files, and Starmer fired him from his diplomatic post last fall over his connection to Epstein. Today's show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings put out a cryptic video message on social media yesterday addressing potential abductors of their mother Nancy, saying that they will pay.
Katya Mendoza of Arizona Public Media has more.
The family posted the video to Instagram seven days after Nancy Guthrie's suspected abduction from her Tucson-area home.
We beg you now. to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
Savannah Guthrie says the family has received a message and that they understand.
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