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Ukrainian president, Volodemar Zelensky, says he's imposing sanctions on some foreign

manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles that are used against Ukraine.

And peers 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, see 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 Kier Starmor's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has quit under pressure over his role in the appointment of Peter Mendelssohn, a friend of convicted sex offender

Jeffrey Epstein, as ambassador to the U.S. McSweeney, a longtime protege of

Mandelson, says he was wrong to help him get the ambassadorship. Mandelson 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.

Katia Mendoza of Arizona Public Media has more.

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