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Europe | Russia Steps Up Pace of Missile Attacks on Residential Targets
Russia Steps Up Pace of Missile Attacks on Residential Targets
Better Understand the Russia-Ukraine War History and Background : Here’s what to know about Russia and Ukraine’s relationship and the causes of the conflict . H ow the Battle Is Unfolding: Russian and Ukrainian forces are using a bevy of weapons as a deadly war of attrition grinds on in eastern Ukraine . Russia’s Brutal Strategy : An analysis of more than 1,000 photos found that Russia has used hundreds of weapons in Ukraine that are widely banned by international treaties . Outside Pressures: Governments, sports organizations and businesses are taking steps to punish Russia. Here are some of the sanctions adopted so far and a list of companies that have pulled out of the country . Stay Updated: To receive the latest updates on the war in your inbox, sign up here . The Times has also launched a Telegram channel to make its journalism more accessible around the world.
The Russians’ growing use of imprecise Soviet-era missiles to terrorize civilians reflects the daunting outlook of its offensive despite incremental gains, analysts say.
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KYIV, Ukraine — An attack on a shopping mall on Monday, killing 19 civilians. A missile strike on a sleepy resort town on Friday, claiming the lives of at least 21 residents. Cluster bombs on Saturday hit a residential block in an industrial hub, leaving four dead.
The pace of Russia’s strikes on civilian targets, often with outdated and imprecise missiles, is picking up, Ukrainian and Western officials as well as Russian analysts say, as its forces run low on more sophisticated weapons in their struggle to make progress in the fifth month of the conflict.
Over 200 missiles were fired on Ukrainian government-controlled territory in the second half of June, more than double the number in the first half of the month, Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Oleksii Hromov said at a news conference on Thursday.
Some of the deadliest strikes of the war have occurred in the past week. In the shopping mall attack on Monday in the central city of Kremenchuk, Russia fired two Kh-class missiles . The same type of missile ripped into an apartment building in the Black Sea resort of Serhiivka on Friday.
Soviet Kh-class missiles, designed to target ships, entered the country’s arsenal in the 1960s, prompting analysts to speculate about Russia’s decreasing ability to attack with modern weapons as its forces prepare for the next stage of the conflict.
The use of such weapons “to terrorize the Ukrainian cities from the air serves as yet more evidence of Russia’s falling stocks of long-range precision munitions,” said Pavel Luzin, a Russian military analyst.
That assessment was echoed by the United Kingdom’s defense attaché, Mick Smeath, who on Saturday said the use of old anti-ship rockets pointed to Russia’s dwindling modern weapons.
On Saturday, Russian forces pushed into Lysychansk, the last city in the eastern Luhansk province that remained outside Russian control, according to Moscow’s state news agency , social media posts by pro-Russian forces and a Ukrainian soldier stationed in the city. Both sides said fighting is ongoing in parts of the city.
Military analysts warn Russia now faces the difficult task of maintaining its slowing offensive into the neighboring Donetsk province to achieve its stated war aim of capturing Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region as its losses mount.
Russia’s growing use of Kh-class missiles has coincided with rising estimates of Russian military casualties by Western intelligence agencies. The British defense chief, Ben Wallace, said this past week that 25,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war. That number, the highest estimate yet provided by a senior Western official, could not be independently confirmed. The most recent estimate by the Pentagon put Russian losses at 15,000.
“Moscow doesn’t want to end the war, but it needs to catch its breath to heal wounds and partly replenish its weapons stock,” Mr. Luzin said.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Friday night that the Russian forces had lobbed more than 3,000 missiles at Ukraine in four months of the war.
More broadly, Ukrainian officials are warning that the sharp rise in civilian attacks could signal a new phase of the war, as Russia tries to make up for its shrinking military capacity with attempts to degrade Ukrainian morale.
“The Russians have moved to the concept of war where they want to create large-scale panic in Ukraine,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Mr. Zelensky, told the Ukrainian television station Channel 24 on Saturday. He said Russia was doing it to pressure the Ukrainian government to cede territory in exchange for peace, allowing the Kremlin to claim victory.
Since the start of the war, Russia has maintained an increasingly untenable position that it fires only at military targets, and that any civilian facilities that have been hit had been co-opted by Ukraine for military use.
These claims have found resonance among the Russian people, many of whom are influenced by state-controlled television networks and conservative pro-war online commentators who bolster the party line.
In recent days the Kremlin’s propaganda machine has stepped up efforts to escape blame — particularly among the Russian public, many of whom have deep cultural and family ties to Ukraine — by portraying the bombardment of civilian targets as false flag operations by the Ukrainian government.
On Friday, for example, the Russian military claimed without evidence that the attack on Odesa, until recently a majority Russian-speaking city, was staged by paid actors. Rising attacks on civilian targets come as both sides claimed some military gains in recent days.
Ukraine withdrew at least some of its soldiers from Lysychansk on Saturday, to escape a possible encirclement by Russian forces that broke through defenses to the south of the city, according to the Ukrainian soldier, Sergiy, who recently withdrew from the city. He asked that his last name be withheld for security reasons.
The withdrawal was confirmed on Russian state television by Apti Alaudinov, a commander from Russia’s Chechnya region stationed in Donbas.
On the southern tip of the eastern front, Ukrainian forces continued a hit-and-miss counteroffensive that has brought them to within 20 miles of the city of Kherson, a provincial capital captured by Russia in the early days of the war.
A senior U.S. Defense Department official said this past week that the Ukrainians were not only taking back southern villages, but also showing an ability to hold retaken ground.
Ukraine’s military also claimed to have struck Russian military targets near Kherson on Friday. “Operating in pairs, our pilots struck ammunition depots, and a cluster of enemy troops and equipment” in Russian-held villages north of the city, the Southern Command said in a Facebook post.
Military analysts have attributed some of Ukraine’s incremental gains in the south to the steady flow of advanced Western weaponry to its military .
Recently, the first batch of U.S.-made multiple-rocket launchers, called High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, entered the battlefield. Armed with satellite-guided rockets, they have a range of more than 40 miles — greater than anything Ukraine had previously.
Still, only four of the launchers and their U.S.-trained crews have joined the fight, though four more are expected this month. Ukrainian officials say they need as many as 300 multiple-rocket launchers to combat Russia, which is firing several times as many rounds as Ukraine’s forces in the artillery-driven war of attrition.
Military analysts have cautioned that despite Ukrainian gains in the south, they are currently unable to mount a broad counteroffensive to seize the city of Kherson, where Russian defenders are well dug in — a sign of a protracted conflict ahead.
Valerie Hopkins reported from Kyiv, Thomas Gibbons-Neff from Warsaw and Anatoly Kurmanaev from Berlin. Reporting was contributed by Marc Santora in Warsaw, Ivan Nechepurenko in Tbilisi, Georgia, Daniel Victor in London, and Eric Schmitt and John Ismay in Washington.

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Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 – February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic. She was best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston . She was an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia , where she taught narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism .

Boyd was born in Atlanta , Georgia , [1] on December 11, 1963. [2] [3] Her father operated a gas station and tire shop; her mother was a housewife. [2] Boyd studied at Northwestern University 's Medill School of Journalism , graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1985. She subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at Goucher College , obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction writing in 1999. [2] [4]

Boyd first worked as a copy editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution starting in 1985. She later became a reporter, book critic and line editor for the paper. Boyd founded EightRock , a cutting-edge journal of black arts and culture, in 1990. Two years later, she co-founded HealthQuest , the first nationally distributed magazine focusing on African-American health, and served as its editor in chief. [4] [5] Her articles, essays and reviews also appear in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education , Ms. , Paste , The Oxford American , Book , Essence , The Washington Post , The Los Angeles Times , Creative Nonfiction , African American Review and other publications. [4] [5] Boyd eventually became Arts Editor of the Journal-Constitution , a position she held until leaving the newspaper in 2004. [6]

Published in 2003, Boyd's Wrapped in Rainbows was the first biography of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston in 25 years. [7] Boyd said she felt a strong connection to the author since first reading Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God , during her freshman year at Northwestern University. [8] She describes her experience as feeling called to the challenge of writing Wrapped in Rainbows when she heard Hurston's first biographer, Robert Hemenway , a white male, speak at the 1994 Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida . Hemenway suggested it was time for a new biography and this time it needed to be written by a black woman. [7] [9]

The Washington Post declared Wrapped in Rainbows "the definitive Hurston biography for many years to come." [10] Pulitzer Prize -winning author Alice Walker has said of Boyd's work, "This daughter, Valerie Boyd, has written a biography of Zora Neale Hurston that will be the standard for years to come. Offering vivid splashes of Zora's colorful humor, daring individualism and refreshing insouciance, Boyd has done justice to a dauntless spirit and heroic life." [11]

After leaving the Journal-Constitution in 2004, Boyd went into academia. She was named Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication three years later. [6] [12] [13] She co-founded the Alice Walker Literary Society in 1997, together with Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Rudolph Byrd . [14] She was also an elected board member for the National Book Critics Circle . [15]

Boyd traveled the United States giving speeches and lectures on the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston as a part of the Big Read, a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts designed to re-establish reading for pleasure as a popular American pastime. [16] [17] [18]

Boyd was named editor-at-large for the University of Georgia Press in 2021. [15] Simon & Schuster/37 Ink is scheduled to publish her book, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker , posthumously in the spring of 2022. [6]

Boyd died on February 12, 2022, at a hospital in Atlanta. She was 58, and suffered from pancreatic cancer prior to her death. [1] [2]

Boyd received the Georgia Author of the Year Award in nonfiction as well as an American Library Association Notable Book citation for her work on Wrapped in Rainbows . The Georgia Center for the Book named it one of the "25 Books That All Georgians Should Read", and the Southern Book Critics Circle honored it with the 2003 Southern Book Award for best nonfiction of the year. [5] Boyd was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2021. [19]

( 1963-12-11 ) December 11, 1963 Atlanta , Georgia , U.S.
February 12, 2022 (2022-02-12) (aged 58) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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