Russia gets fighters from abroad - situation in Kyiv more and more problematic: Klitschko reacts

Created: 03/15/2022, 04:56

By: Astrid Theil, Franziska Schwarz

Apparently, there was an air strike near the Polish border in Ukraine that claimed many lives.

The capital Kyiv continues to come under pressure.

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• Ukraine war*: Ukrainian President Selenskyj asks Chancellor Scholz* and French President Macron* for help

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• Zelenskyj* also threatens collaborators from Putin's* government in Ukraine

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• The Russian army attacks a base near Poland - more than 30 dead

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Update from March 13, 2:03 p.m

.: Putin's troops are also trying to block Kiev from the east, according to the Ukrainian side.

Russian units crossed the E95 highway in the direction of the suburbs of Brovary and Boryspil, the General Staff in Kyiv announced today.

Kiev is preparing for a blockade

The Russian army is also drawing in reserves, it said.

Mercenaries from Nagorno-Karabakh, Serbia and Syria are said to be fighting on the Russian side.

The Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly stressed that the Russian army has serious supply problems and is suffering heavy casualties.

None of the information has been independently verified.

All news about the negotiations in the Ukraine war can be found here.

Ukraine war news: Kyiv stocks up on groceries

Update from March 13, 12:33 p.m

.: Kiev is preparing for a possible blockade by Putin's troops.

Food stocks have been set up to supply the residents of the Ukrainian capital for two weeks.

This was announced online today by Deputy Chief of City Administration Valentyn Mondryjiwskyj.

"These two million Kievans who have not left their homes will not be left alone," he said.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko recently announced that fewer than two million people were still in the metropolis: "Every second Kievan has left the city."

According to unanimous agency reports, there is heavy fighting with Russian troops north-west and east of Kyiv.

An encirclement is feared in the next few days.

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According to the general staff, Ukrainian troops are fighting fierce battles with Russian attackers in the Kiev region.

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War News: Ukraine reports new mayor kidnapping - "systematic war crimes"

Update from March 13, 10:42 a.m

.: First, the Ukrainian side reported the kidnapping of the mayor of Melitopol

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Now there is said to have been another kidnapping by the Putin troops.

This time in the 20,000-inhabitant town of Dniprorudne in the south of the country.

"War crimes are becoming more and more systematic," Zaporizhia oblast military administration chief Olexander Starukh wrote on Facebook today.

"The mayor of Dniprorudne, Yevheniy Matvyeev, was kidnapped."

Observers do not rule out that Russia, under the pretext of “denazification” of Ukraine, will also change administrations in other conquered areas.

The Kremlin claims that “Nazis” are in charge in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has Jewish roots.

Ukraine reports nine dead and 57 injured in war attack on Lviv

Update from March 13, 9:48 a.m

.: According to Ukrainian information, nine people were killed and 57 others injured in a Russian attack on a military base near Lemberg (Lviv).

"Foreign trainers" also worked there, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov tweeted today.

The military training ground is only around 20 kilometers from the Polish border

Ukraine war: Selenskyj speaks of 12,000 Russian soldiers killed

Update from March 13, 8:42 a.m

.: As always in warlike conflicts, the information cannot be checked independently.

According to Volodymyr Zelenskyj*, around 12,000 Russian soldiers have already been killed in the Ukraine war.

Vladimir Putin's government, on the other hand, put the number of soldiers killed last week at almost 500.

The United States under President Joe Biden* assumes 2,000 to 4,000 dead on the Russian side.

According to Zelensky, around 1,300 soldiers died on the Ukrainian side.

Zelenskyj continued: "This is the biggest blow to the Russian army in decades," said Zelenskyj in a video message published on Saturday.

"Nowhere has it lost more in so few days," said Zelenskyj on the 17th day of the war.

“Our armed forces are doing everything to discourage the enemy from continuing the war against Ukraine.

The losses of the Russian troops are colossal.”

Ukraine war: Lviv near Poland reports air attack by Putin's army

Update from March 13, 8:38 a.m.:

Putin's troops have flown an airstrike near the Polish border - the Ukrainian side reports.

The aim was a military base near Lemberg (Lviv), which is around 40 kilometers from the Polish border.

This was announced by the head of the regional administration of Lviv, Maxim Kosizky, according to the AFP news agency on his Facebook page today.

An AFP reporter in Lviv was initially unable to verify the information.

He didn't hear any explosions.

A reporter from the German Press Agency (dpa) reported several detonations on Sunday morning.

An air alert was triggered.

It was initially unclear what exactly the target of the attacks was.

Southwest of Lviv is an airport.

Ukraine War News: Zelenskyy threatens supporters of Putin in his country

Update from March 13, 6

a.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj threatens possible Russian collaborators in Ukraine.

Anyone who is tempted by offers from the Russian occupiers is signing their own verdict, he said in a video message published on Sunday night.

"The verdict is to follow more than 12,000 occupiers who could not understand in time why Ukraine should not be attacked." Most recently, the Ukrainian side said that more than 12,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the war in Ukraine be.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy © -/Ukrinform/dpa

Ukraine War News: Mayor of Melitopol kidnapped, according to Kyiv

Update from March 12, 11:08 p.m

.: Apparently the kidnapped mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, was replaced by the Russian occupiers with the pro-Russian opposition Galina Danilchenko.

This is reported by n-tv with reference to the Ukrainian internet television station Hromadske.

In a video, Danilchenko is said to have urged local authorities and deputies to "adapt to the new reality" and "not to destabilize the situation and not engage in extremist activities."

According to the broadcaster, the latter means demonstrations with Ukrainian flags.

Update from March 12, 10:36 p.m

.: Ukraine suspects that a referendum on the establishment of an independent “people’s republic” could be staged in the occupied city of Cherson.

This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter on Saturday.

According to Kuleba, the referendum will be completely rigged because there is no popular support for it.

Should Russia go through with this, severe sanctions would have to follow.

"Kherson is and always will be in Ukraine."

Current war in Ukraine: Fifth escape corridor from Mariupol fails - more than 10,000 people from other cities brought to safety

Update from March 12, 9:19 p.m

.: According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the fifth attempt at an escape corridor from Mariupol was unsuccessful on Saturday.

According to the Interfax news agency, a senior officer in the Russian Defense Ministry said that 50 buses could not leave because of shelling.

According to information from both sides, evacuations were carried out in other corridors: More than 10,000 people were brought to safety from the Sumy region with the cities of Sumy, Lebedyn, Konotop, Trostjanets and several villages.

There should be another attempt on Sunday for the evacuations from Mariupol.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the humanitarian situation in the city is now "very difficult".

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the column was held at a checkpoint for five hours.

There should be another attempt on Sunday.

Russia, on the other hand, accused Ukrainian “nationalists”.

Both statements could not be verified independently.

War in Ukraine now: Russia is increasing the pressure on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine

Update from March 12, 7:37 p.m

.: On the 17th day of the war in Ukraine, Russia increases the pressure on the capital.

According to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak, Kyiv is in a "state of siege".

More and more people would also be brought from the attacked suburbs to the capital, where, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, food and medicine stocks are being stocked up.

According to the mayor, the airport was destroyed during air raids in Vasylkiv, 40 kilometers south of Kyiv, and an oil depot hit by rockets was on fire.

An aid convoy loaded with 90 tons of food was on its way to the surrounded city of Mariupol on Saturday, accompanied by several Orthodox priests.

The convoy is supposed to evacuate people from the city on the way back.

Several attempts to set up humanitarian corridors had already failed.

Some evacuation attempts across Ukraine were successful, according to the Ukrainian emergency services.

According to the AFP report based on Ukrainian information, 487,000 people, including 102,000 children, were brought to safety within 24 hours.

During the evacuation of a village east of Kyiv, seven people are said to have been killed in a shelling on Saturday, the Ukrainian secret service reported on Saturday evening.

The information cannot be independently verified.

On March 12, emergency services extinguish a fire in a bombed apartment building in Kyiv.

© ARIS MESSINIS/AFP

Ukraine war: Russia speaks of 79 destroyed military facilities in Ukraine on Saturday

Update from March 12, 6:38 p.m.:

According to the Russian army, 79 Ukrainian military facilities were destroyed on Saturday, including four command and control centers.

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense also reported attacks on ammunition and fuel depots and the shooting down of a combat helicopter and three drones.

The UN contradicts Russian statements that only military targets are attacked.

Among other things, 26 attacks on health facilities in Ukraine are known.

Current war in Ukraine: Cities and villages continued to be shelled on Saturday - Uncertainty about the aid convoy for Mariupol

Update from March 12, 5:34 p.m

.: Cities and villages in Ukraine were again under heavy fire from the Russian army on Saturday.

On the 17th day of the war, the Russian Ministry of Defense speaks of attacks on a "broad front".

Heavy fighting was reported from the south, but Kyiv and the east of the country are also still heavily fought over.

So far it is not known whether an aid convoy planned by Kyiv has reached the besieged city of Mariupol.

Ukraine war current: Russian experts arrived at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

Update from March 12, 5:11 p.m

.: According to information from Kiev, experts from Russia have arrived in the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

Eleven employees, including two engineers, from the Russian state-owned company Rosatom had reached the nuclear power plant in south-eastern Ukraine.

Representatives of a self-proclaimed military-civilian administration said the group would assess the safety of the facility and would also be responsible for repair work.

Rosatom confirmed in the afternoon that "a group of several Russian experts" is "advising" the Ukrainian specialists.

However, administration and operation remained in the hands of the Ukraine.

Ukraine War News: Parts of Mariupol captured by Russian army

Update from March 12, 2:30 p.m .:

The Ukrainian army has lost control of parts of the enclosed port city of Mariupol.

The Ukrainian military announced that Russian troops are said to have seized eastern outskirts.

Shortly before, the Russian Ministry of Defense had already reported the capture of several parts of the city.

Mariupol on the Azov Sea with 400,000 inhabitants has been under siege for days.

The evacuation of civilians has failed so far.

Ukraine war current: Selenskyj asks Scholz and Macron for help because of the kidnapped mayor

Update from March 12, 2 p.m.:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has asked Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and French President Emmanuel Macron to help release the kidnapped mayor of the city of Melitopol.

In a video message on Saturday (March 12), Zelenskyy said he had spoken to several allies about the case.

"Our demand is clear: he must be released immediately." He will speak to "all the necessary people" to get the mayor of Melitopol released, the Ukrainian president said.

Kremlin: Russian attacks in Ukraine continue on 'broad front'

Update from March 12, 12:30 p.m .:

According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, the Russian army is continuing its attacks in Ukraine on a “broad front”.

Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow on Saturday (March 12) that near the capital Kyiv an air force base in Vasylkiv and the intelligence reconnaissance center of the Ukrainian armed forces in Brovary had been destroyed.

According to Russian information, their own troops and those of the separatists from Luhansk and Donetsk again took numerous towns in eastern Ukraine.

Units of the Donetsk "People's Militia" advanced another 9 kilometers, the Russian armed forces a total of 21 kilometers and the groups of the "Luhansk People's Republic" 6 kilometers.

The Russian military information cannot be verified.

The military column of the Russian army broke up in front of Kyiv on Friday.

Now the new destination of the convoy seems clear.

War in Ukraine: Kyiv has so far reported 79 dead and more than 100 injured children

Update from March 12, 11:30 a.m.:

According to information from Kiev, at least 79 children have been killed and more than 100 injured since the Russian attack on Ukraine.

"These figures do not claim to be exhaustive, since there is no possibility to inspect the shelling sites where Russian forces are conducting active hostilities," Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said on Saturday (March 12).

Ukraine War: Humanitarian Catastrophe - Cities without electricity, gas and water

First report from March 12, 9:40 a.m.:

Kiev – Air raid sirens could be heard again this morning (March 12) in many Ukrainian cities.

According to reports from local media, people in the capital Kyiv, in Odessa, Kharkiv, Cherkassy and in the Sumy region in the north-east of the country, but also in Lviv in the west of the country, have been asked to take shelter in air raid shelters.

In Kyiv and other cities there is no more electricity, no gas and no water, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyj*.

Meanwhile, the Russian army is advancing on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and is increasingly encircling it.

Yesterday (March 11) the presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak spoke of a "state of siege".

Kyiv is "ready to fight" and will "stand firm to the end," he tweeted.

The Ukrainian General Staff announced that there had been Russian offensives around Kyiv on the northern city limits at Zazymya and in the south at Vyshenky.

These offensives were partially successful.

War in Ukraine: Air raids in numerous cities, according to Ukrainian sources, a cancer clinic was shot at

Russian Air Force bombers are also said to have used cruise missiles in the cities of Lutsk, Ivano-Krankivsk and Dnipro.

Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk are located north and south of the city of Lviv near the Polish border.

The southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv is also said to have been attacked: According to Ukrainian sources, a cancer clinic was shot at.

Hundreds of patients were in the hospital at the time of the attack, chief physician Maxim Besnosenko said.

The information could not be independently verified.

According to Ukrainian military information, the north-east Ukrainian city of Chernihiv was blocked from the south-west.

Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy also said that in Chernihiv, an important water main was damaged by shelling.

The almost 280,000 inhabitants of the city are therefore without water supply.

Ukraine war: Zelenskyj calls for the release of the kidnapped mayor - "a sign of Russia's weakness"

In a video speech, Zelenskyy also called for the release of the mayor of the city of Melitopol, which had been taken by Russian troops.

Pressuring him or "physically eliminating" him will not help Russia capture more Ukrainian cities.

This approach is much more a "sign of weakness" on the part of Russia.

Mayor Ivan Fedorov was kidnapped yesterday.

A video fragment showed hooded people taking a man away from a central building.

This is said to be Fedorov.

The information could not be independently verified.

An explosion is seen in an apartment building after a Russian army tank fired in Mariupol.

© Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa

According to the Ukrainian government, there will be another attempt this Saturday to evacuate civilians via escape corridors from the cities besieged and shelled by Russian troops.

This also includes the escape corridor in the particularly hard-fought city of Mariupol, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereschuk.

She hopes that Russia will stick to a promised ceasefire so that civilians can be evacuated.

The agreed escape corridors had repeatedly come under fire in the past few days.

War in eastern Ukraine: 70 percent of Luhansk Oblast occupied by Russian troops

According to Ukrainian information, 70 percent of the territory of the Luhansk Oblast in the east of the country is now occupied by Russian troops.

This was announced by the head of the regional administration of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajdaj, on Saturday night.

Dozens of civilians are injured or dead. At the same time, there are no escape corridors for people from the region.

This information could not initially be verified independently.

The course of the war in maps shows how two weeks of invasion ravaged Ukraine.