Ukraine War: Russian Missile Hits Kyiv TV Tower – “Sixth Day of Hell”

Created: 03/01/2022Updated: 03/01/2022 23:46

By: Tobias Utz, Lukas Rogalla, Johannes Nuß, Katja Thorwarth, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nico Scheck, Nail Akkoyun, Andreas Schmid, Marvin Ziegele, Christian Stör

The situation in the Ukraine war is getting worse.

The fight for the capital Kyiv could be crucial – the news ticker.

• The attack from Russia* meets with heavy resistance in Ukraine*.

• Russia should already expect a significantly higher number of victims in the Ukraine conflict*.

  NATO* also assumes “problems”.

• The situation in Ukraine* in the ticker.

>>> Update news ticker <<<

+++ 11.45 p.m .:

Turkey has denied other Russian warships passage through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits into the Black Sea.

Corresponding requests for passage made by Moscow were withdrawn after the Turkish side had asked.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu told the daily Habertürk. 

+++ 9:14 p.m .:

In the midst of the war against Ukraine, Russia is taking action against the well-known radio station Echo Moskwy, which is critical of the Kremlin.

According to the Interfax agency, the Russian media supervisory authority Roskomnadzor announced on Tuesday evening that it would restrict access to the broadcaster's website at the request of the public prosecutor's office.

Editor-in-chief Benedikt Venediktow wrote that the radio broadcast was no longer working.

His deputy Maxim Kurnikov, on the other hand, said that in several Russian cities people could initially hear Echo Moskwy on their radios.

The Attorney General's Office accuses the broadcaster, among other things, of spreading "knowingly false information".

The media watchdog had previously accused Echo and other critical media of spreading false information about Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Moscow officially describes the invasion of the neighboring country as a "military operation" - and has banned the media from using terms such as "attack" or "invasion".

The online broadcaster Doschd is now also threatened with blockade.

War in Ukraine: Russian missile hits Kyiv TV tower – Klitschko stunned

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According to Ukrainian information, five people were killed in the air raid on the television tower in Kiev, the broadcast of the television programs was temporarily interrupted.

The tower stands near the Babyn Yar Gorge and the memorial to a massacre of Jewish Ukrainians committed there by the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself a Jew, denounced that the world is silent while bombs fall on Babyn Yar.

"Once again these barbarians are murdering the victims of the Holocaust," he wrote on Twitter.

On September 29 and 30, 1941, SS commandos shot more than 33,000 Ukrainian Jews in the Babyn Jar gorge.

Up to 100,000 people were killed in the area by 1943 - Jews, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.

Ukraine War: Russian missile hits Kyiv TV tower

+++ 19:04:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his conditions for ending the "military operation" in Ukraine, according to the Kremlin.

The government in Kyiv must recognize the "people's republics" of Luhansk and Donetsk and Russia's sovereignty over the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, the Kremlin said.

In addition, Ukraine must be demilitarized and given a neutral status. 

It was the first statement of this kind after representatives of Ukraine and Russia in Belarus on Monday negotiated an end to the war.

Results were not initially communicated after the meeting.

According to the Kremlin, Ukraine must also undertake to continue to do without nuclear weapons in the future.

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Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko is shocked by the attack on the TV tower in Kiev, in which five people died.

"Today the people of Kiev and all of Ukraine are going through the sixth day of hell," Klitschko said.

Four million citizens of the city are currently trying by all means to "stop the Russian aggression at the doors of our houses" so that it does not continue.

War in Ukraine: Russian missile hits Kyiv TV tower – Klitschko stunned

"In Kyiv, rockets hit multi-storey houses," Klitschko describes the current situation and is stunned.

"Imagine a peaceful city more than 1,500 years old being hit by rockets and bombs in the 21st century."

+++ 5.40 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, five people were killed in the Russian attack on the Kiev television tower.

Five other people were injured in the attack on Tuesday (03/01/2022), said civil protection.

The attack disrupted the broadcast of television programs.

The central square in Kyiv lies in ruins after the city hall was shelled.

© Pavel Dorogoy/dpa

Ukraine War: Russian missile hits Kyiv TV tower

+++ 4.45 p.m .:

According to the Ukrainian government, the Kiev television tower was hit by a Russian rocket on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the broadcast of the TV programs in the capital was interrupted "for a certain period of time".

Recordings by the Ukrainian medium Nexta showed a huge explosion next to the radio tower.

So far it is unclear how much of the infrastructure was damaged.

+++ 3:00 p.m .:

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced upcoming air attacks on the center of Kiev.

Residents were asked to leave the area.

"In order to thwart information attacks against Russia, [Russian forces] will attack technological objects of the SBU and the 72nd PSO main center in Kyiv," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"We call on Ukrainian citizens involved in provocations against Russia by Ukrainian nationalists, as well as Kiev residents living near relay stations, to leave their homes."

This photo, taken by Ukrainian soldiers, shows soldiers pulling a cart in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

It was published on Tuesday (03/01/2022).

© Maria Volkova/AP/dpa

Ukraine conflict: Scholz expects further escalation in Russia - "Bloodshed must end"

+++ 1.45 p.m .:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz apparently expects further escalation levels in the Ukraine war.

He said so on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference in Berlin.

Scholz again called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw the armed forces.

"The bloodshed must come to an end," said Scholz.

Putin "offended the Ukrainian people," he stressed.

+++ 1:15 p.m .:

At least ten people died in the Russian bombing of the city of Kharkiv.

The rescue services said that 20 people were injured so far.

Ukraine war: Russia continues invasion - Belarus troops reach border

+++ 12.30 p.m .:

The United Nations has published new information on the dead and injured in the Ukraine war.

According to this, 136 people from the civilian population, including 13 children, have died so far.

Around 4,000 people have been injured so far.

The UN expects a high number of unreported cases: "The actual number is probably much higher," emphasized a spokeswoman for the UN human rights office OHCHR.

The regional focus of the injured is the east of Ukraine, especially the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

The United Nations data excludes deaths and injuries among Russian and Ukrainian forces.

+++ 11.30 a.m .:

Belarusian forces have apparently reached the region around the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, near the border.

The Ukrainian government announced this on Twitter.

Accordingly, corresponding observations by Vitalij Kyrylov, spokesman for the defense forces in the north of the country, were confirmed.

Alexander Lukashenko had again denied in the morning that he was involved in the Russian invasion (see update from 10 a.m.).

Ukraine War: Russia Continues Invasion - Until 'Set Goals' Are Reached

+++ 11.15 a.m .:

Russia has confirmed the continuation of the attack against Ukraine.

"The grouping of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to conduct a special military operation until the set goals are achieved," Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in Moscow on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency.

The most important thing is to protect Russia "from the military threat from Western countries trying to use the Ukrainian people in the fight against our country," Shoigu said.

The satellite image apparently shows a Russian military convoy near the Ukrainian border.

© Maxar Technologies/AFP

+++ 10.45 a.m .:

The Bundeswehr reports that fighter jets are now securing the airspace over Poland.

The Bundeswehr also distributed a recording on Twitter showing a combat aircraft taking off.

+++ 10.15 a.m .:

According to an adviser to the Ukrainian President Selenskyj, Russia deliberately attacks residential areas and inner cities.

"Russia's goal is clear - mass panic, civilian casualties and destroyed infrastructure," the spokesman said.

This is reported, among other things, by the ARD*.

+++ 10:00 a.m .:

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has again denied involvement in Russian attacks on Ukraine.

He told the Belta news agency that Belarus was not involved.

+++ 9.30 a.m .:

Amnesty International has accused Russia of using internationally banned cluster munitions in Ukraine.

As the human rights organization announced in London on Sunday, three civilians, including a child, were killed by cluster munitions in an attack on a kindergarten in north-eastern Ukraine.

According to Amnesty International, the kindergarten in the town of Ochtyrka, where civilians had taken shelter, was hit by cluster munitions on Friday.

Three civilians, including a child, were killed and another child was injured.

The organization cites video footage from drones from the scene of the attack, which should show "cluster munitions hitting at least seven locations in and around the building".

Amnesty also said it received 65 photos and videos from a local source.

A kindergarten is said to have come under fire from Russian occupying forces on February 17.

© Ukrinform/dpa

Ukraine conflict: Russia's military convoy in front of Kyiv 60 kilometers long - warplanes shot down

+++ 7.45 a.m .:

The Ukrainian army claims to have shot down several of the opposing side’s fighter planes.

A total of five Russian warplanes and one helicopter were shot down in airstrikes on Monday, Ukrainska Pravda wrote on Tuesday, citing the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

The Ukrainian Air Force also reported these numbers.

The information could not be independently verified.

The shooting down of the fighter planes took place during the air raids on Vasylkiv and Brovary in the Kiev region, it said.

A cruise missile and a helicopter were also shot down near Kyiv.

Ukraine war: rocket attacks near Kyiv – Russia's military convoy 60 kilometers long

+++ 6:20 a.m .:

In Ukraine, there is growing fear of major Russian attacks on Kiev and other cities.

Satellite images taken on Monday showed a 60-kilometer Russian military convoy northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

The convoy "stretches from the area around Antonov Airport (about 25 kilometers from central Kiev) in the south to the area around Prybirsk" in the north, US satellite imaging company Maxar said in an email Monday evening.

Images of the convoy show dozens of vehicles lined up on roads in the Ukrainian countryside.

Some of the vehicles are "very far apart," Maxar said.

Others are grouped “in twos and threes”.

Some of the images show smoke from buildings that are believed to be on fire.

The US company also released images showing new troop deployments from attack helicopters and vehicles in Belarus, less than 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

First report :

Moscow/Kiev – Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine on Thursday morning (02/24/2022).

Within a few hours, the Russian armed forces advanced to the greater Kyiv area.

According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops captured a military airfield near the capital and the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after fierce fighting.

According to Ukrainian sources, dozens of people were killed, including many civilians.

(skr/tu/ktho/marv/lrg/nak with dpa/AFP)