Russia’s New Push to Torment Kyiv, and a Whistle-Blower’s Warning on Mail-In Voting

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  From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

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  I'm Will Jarvis, in for Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Wednesday, September 2nd.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  So here in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, drone and missile attacks have become so common

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  over the last few years that people, including myself, have really stopped responding to the air raid alarms.

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  But the sense of danger in Kiev lately has really increased.

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  Shivano Grady is part of a team of Times reporters covering the war in Ukraine.

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  The most common Russian tactic used to be sending waves of drones overnight into Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.

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  But last week, Russia started using a new tactic.

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  Now they're sending drones constantly into Kiev, literally nonstop.

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  Siobhan says that according to Ukraine's president,

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  over the course of just four days in the past week, Russia launched nearly 1,500 drones into Ukraine,

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  including one that hit a weapons depot in the Kiev suburbs, killing at least 37 people.

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  She says that beyond the new frequency of the attacks, the type of weapons Russia is using is also changing.

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