Dramatic scene as 14 wide-bodied aircraft landed near Ukraine’s border today with a bristling array of Javelin antitank missiles, rocket launchers, guns and ammo.
Troops from 22 countries worked around the clock to then get the arms by land to Ukraine. nyti.ms/3ttkR2x
The weapons have quickly found their way into the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.
“All of us have been tremendously impressed by how effectively the Ukrainian armed forces have been using the equipment that we’ve provided them,” a Pentagon official said. nyti.ms/3ttkR2x
Weapons:
• Stinger antiaircraft missiles from the US, Germans, Poles and Latvians
• rocket launchers from the Dutch
• Javelins antitank missiles from the Estonians
• machine guns and sniper rifles from the Czechs
By @helenecooper@EricSchmittNYT nyti.ms/3ttkR2x
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APNEWSALERT:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Plant spokesman says Russian troops have begun shelling Europe's largest nuclear power station in Ukraine.
APNEWSALERT:KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian government official says smoke visible from Europe’s largest nuclear plant as Russia attacks city of Enerhodar.
Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent news organizations, says this video shows the Russian attack on the nuclear plant.
🚨Cuomo Is Accused of Sexual Harassment by a 2nd Former Aide
The woman, 25, told NYT that Cuomo asked her if she “had ever been with an older man.”
He denied impropriety and called for an outside review.
Exclusive by @jessemckinley nyti.ms/2ZWzn4t
She said Cuomo asked her about her personal life, including whether she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships, and had said he was open to relationships with women in their 20s — comments she saw as overtures to a sexual relationship. nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyr…
“I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” Ms. Bennett said. “And was wondering how I was going to get out of it and assumed it was the end of my job.” nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyr…
Cuomo said today that governors were not responsible for sounding warnings about coming pandemics: “Where were all the experts? Where was The NY Times?”
Let’s look at just three of numerous examples from our coverage:
• Jan. 26: "WUHAN, China — A top Chinese health official warned on Sunday that the spread of the dangerous new coronavirus, already extraordinarily rapid, is accelerating further." nyti.ms/2yQ5wQT
• Feb. 2: The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. nyti.ms/3bONq0f
Just in: Mayor de Blasio orders an inquiry in response to the groundbreaking NYT investigation into exploitative loans in the taxi industry by @brianmrosenthal
Read Part 1 of the NYT investigation: Thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were trapped in reckless loans by bankers who made huge profits. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyr…
Read Part 2: The government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyr…
This one chart explains why @nytimes is thriving in the digital era.
@nytimes Strong @nytimes earnings:
• $709 million in digital revenue last year.
• 3.3 million people pay for NYT digital products, 27 percent jump.
• Total paid subscriptions for digital and print reached 4.3 million, a high. nyti.ms/2UKE2lg
@nytimes .@nytimes CEO Mark Thompson:
"We are scaling digital revenue more successfully than any other news organization in the world. We’ve proven that an engaged audience will pay for high-quality journalism."
Breaking: NY attorney general is starting a civil investigation into whether dioceses and other Roman Catholic institutions potentially covered up allegations of sexual abuse of minors within NY. nyti.ms/2Q7QGcJ
Just in:
New Jersey has launched its own inquiry into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy bit.ly/2NSlX1N
The announcements by the two states comes several weeks after an explosive Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed the abuse of more than 1,000 children in the state by hundreds of priests over decades nyti.ms/2nFLRdq