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It's Friday the 22nd of August.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, Russia launches one of its largest missile barrages of the war.

And among the buildings and infrastructure hit, well, an American-owned

factory in Western Ukraine. We'll have those details. Later in the show, the FBI has raided the home

of former National Security Advisor John Bolton in a classified documents probe. Is there anybody in

Washington not storing classified documents at their

home? But first, today's afternoon spotlight. Russia unleashed one of the largest aerial assaults

of the war yesterday, of course, which is what you do when you're super interested in a peace deal,

and one of its missiles hit an American company. Two Russian cruise missiles slammed into an American-owned electronics factory in Mukachevo,

a town in far western Ukraine, near the Hungarian border.

Ukrainian officials, say more than a dozen people were injured, and a third of the massive

plant went up in flames.

The strike was part of a wider overnight barrage. According to

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