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Russia is apparently receiving setbacks in the Donbass - new Mariupol reports are unlikely to please Putin either

2022-04-24T15:04:30.054Z


Russia is apparently receiving setbacks in the Donbass - new Mariupol reports are unlikely to please Putin either Created: 04/24/2022, 16:57 By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Cindy Boden, Christoph Gschoßmann Terrible fighting is raging in eastern Ukraine, but Russia is apparently not progressing as quickly as it would like. The news ticker on the Ukraine war. Ukraine conflict : Ukraine reports killing


Russia is apparently receiving setbacks in the Donbass - new Mariupol reports are unlikely to please Putin either

Created: 04/24/2022, 16:57

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Cindy Boden, Christoph Gschoßmann

Terrible fighting is raging in eastern Ukraine, but Russia is apparently not progressing as quickly as it would like.

The news ticker on the Ukraine war.

  • Ukraine conflict

    : Ukraine reports killing two Russian generals.

  • There was a missile attack on Odessa.

    Five deaths were reported.

    Russia has also confirmed the attack.

  • According to the Zelenskyi site, Putin's army has deployed

    Iskander missiles

    on the border with Ukraine.

  • This

    news ticker on the military events in the Ukraine war

    is continuously updated.

Update from April 24, 2:01 p.m

.: Putin’s troops were hardly able to gain more ground on Saturday (April 23).

The resistance of the Ukrainian fighters is too strong.

This is reported by n-tv, citing a situation report by the British Ministry of Defense from the same day.

This in turn is based on information from the country's military intelligence service.

Moreover, the port city of Mariupol - contrary to what Moscow claims - is not yet fully under Russian control.

The fighting there is still heavy and would tie up the strength of Russian soldiers.

In addition, Ukraine's defenses against Russian air and naval forces remain strong, the report said.

New reports from the east should support the report.

According to the Ukrainian military, new hope is also burgeoning there.

Control was regained over eight towns in the Cherson region in southern Ukraine, officials said on Sunday.

However, the Ukrainian General Staff in Kyiv did not provide any information on the names of the towns or their exact location in its statement.

The Russian military had previously announced that it had taken the entire Kherson region.

Ukraine fears that, as in the Donbass, independence from Ukraine could also be declared there, following the example of the “Luhansk and Donzek People's Republics” recognized by Russia.

The General Staff also reported shelling a Russian military convoy near the village of Kyselivka, northwest of Kherson.

"After suffering serious losses, the enemy withdrew to Chornobaivka," says the situation report.

Kyiv put the total daily losses of the Russian troops in the Cherson region at 74 soldiers, 2 tanks, 1 rocket launcher, 6 armored troop vehicles and 4 drones.

Ukraine War: Many dead in bombs on Odessa - including a baby

Update from April 24, 12:44 p.m

.: A three-month-old girl was also killed when Odessa was

shelled (update from April 23, 20:39 p.m.).

According to Selenskyj, up to 20 people were injured in addition to eight dead.

According to him, Putin's troops fired seven rockets on Saturday, two of which were intercepted.

Among other things, a multi-storey residential building was hit.

According to the dpa, Moscow in turn announced that a logistics terminal on a military airfield had been hit, in which a "large delivery" of weapons from the USA and Europe had been stored.

The information could not be independently verified.

Image from April 23: Evacuations in Odessa © Denis Vejas/EST&OST/Imago

Ukraine-War-News: Putin's troops are apparently receiving setbacks in the Donbass

Update April 24, 9:37 a.m.:

Ukraine has “fended off numerous Russian attacks along the line of contact in Donbass”.

The British Ministry of Defense reported on Sunday.

Although the Kremlin can also report territorial gains, the resistance of the defenders in the Ukraine war is anything but broken.

According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Russian army has now deployed Iskander-M short-range ballistic systems about 60 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

The missile systems of the Iskander-M class can be equipped with nuclear weapons.

The rockets are fired from a vehicle.

The range of the missiles is about 500 kilometers.

Ukraine War News: Kyiv accuses Moscow of forced conscription of civilians

Update from April 24, 6:25 a.m

.: Kiev accuses Putin's troops of forcibly recruiting residents in occupied territories, above all.

young people and medical professionals.

According to dpa, the Ukrainian military intelligence wrote on Saturday (April 23) on Facebook.

The regions of Cherson, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv are affected.

For example, medical staff from the city of Vovchansk were forced to treat Russian soldiers at the front under threat of execution.

In the Zaporizhia region, the Russian military and secret service agents were looking for people of draft age, the military intelligence continued.

It is said that they should reinforce Russian units.

The information could not be independently verified.

The British Ministry of Defense stressed in its update on the situation in Ukraine on Saturday that any conscription of residents of occupied territories violates the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Time of War.

Ukraine War News: Kyiv laments violent deportations

Update, April 23, 10:50 p.m.:

Forced deportation?

Ukraine officials claimed on Saturday that Russia forcibly deported citizens of Mariupol to a remote Russian region.

"Russia forcibly sent Ukrainian citizens from Mariupol to Primorsky Krai - 8,000 kilometers from home," said Lyudmyla Denisova, the human rights commissioner of Ukraine's parliament, in a Telegram post.

According to Denisova, volunteers informed her that on April 21, a train carrying 308 Ukrainians from Mariupol, including mothers with young children, people with disabilities and students, arrived in the city of Nakhodka.

Denisova also added photos to her Telegram post showing the arrival of Ukrainian citizens at the train station.

CNN

reported

.

Ukraine war: NATO officers in steel plant in Mariupol?

Update, 8:49 p.m .:

Why hasn’t the steelworks in Mariupol been taken yet?

Russian state media stated that the steelworks had not yet been taken because "Western mercenaries" and even NATO officers had barricaded themselves in the building.

Ukraine-Russia War: Moscow confirms shelling of southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa

Update, 8:39 p.m .:

Russia has confirmed the shelling of the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine with rockets.

A logistics terminal at a military airfield was hit on Saturday, in which a "large shipment" of weapons from the United States and European countries were stored, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, according to the Interfax agency in Moscow.

The Russian armed forces also killed depots with rocket and artillery weapons, ammunition and fuel as well as up to 200 fighters in attacks in Ukraine, Konashenkov said.

The information cannot initially be independently verified.

Ukraine news: Two Russian generals killed?

Ukraine probably hit command post

Update, 7:23 p.m.:

According to military intelligence, Ukraine claims to have killed two Russian generals in an attack on a command post.

This is reported

by CNN

.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine issued a statement on Saturday that two Russian generals were killed in the southern Kherson region.

"On April 22, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a devastating blow against a forward command post of the 49th combined arms army of the occupying Russian forces, located not far from the battle line in the Kherson region," the statement said.

"The Result: The 49th Combined Arms Army field checkpoint was destroyed. Two occupying generals were eliminated and one was seriously wounded and evacuated in critical condition."

The attack has not yet been verified.

Ukraine war: At least five dead after rocket attack on Odessa

Update, April 23, 5:40 p.m .:

At least five people were killed in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa as a result of a Russian missile attack.

At least 18 people were injured, as the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, announced on Saturday via the news service Telegram.

At the same time, the Ukrainian air defense announced that it had shot down two missiles and two reconnaissance drones.

The missiles were fired from a Tu-95 long-range bomber over the Caspian Sea.

Despite the shooting down, a military object and two residential buildings in Odessa were damaged, it said.

War in Ukraine: Russia attacks civilian infrastructure and claims destruction of military equipment

Update from April 23, 11:30 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces are continuing their attacks on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The Russian soldiers would target the civilian infrastructure in the entire Kharkiv region, said the region's military governor, Oleg Synyehubov.

Two people died during the day.

19 others were injured.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed the destruction of more than 20 ammunition depots in Ukraine.

Air-launched missiles and the tactical air force each destroyed 3 depots, while the missile forces destroyed another 16 ammunition depots, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

The reports cannot be verified independently.

“Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Nova Dmytrivka area of ​​the Kharkiv region.

In addition, 15 Ukrainian drones were destroyed during the night, including a Bayraktar TB-2 over the village of Nova Zorya in the Mykolayiv region,” Konashenkov said.

A total of 66 Ukrainian military objects were hit by the air force, and as many as 1,098 objects by rocket forces and artillery.

Konashenkov emphasized that these were mostly troop concentrations, military convoys and command points of the Ukrainian army.

You can read reactions from Germany to the Ukraine war in this news ticker.

Ukraine war: Russia intensifies attacks in Donbass - Bucha unit now attacks Izyum

Update from April 23, 7.40 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have increased their attack efforts in the Donbass region.

"In the direction of Donetsk, the enemy is carrying out offensive actions along the entire front line," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Saturday morning.

The strongest Russian attacks are aimed at the city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region.

In addition, the General Staff reported ongoing storm attempts in Rubishne, Popasna and Marjinka.

The attacks were repelled.

To the north, near the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region, Russian troops are attempting to advance further south in order to encircle the Ukrainian troops.

According to Ukrainian information, the Russian 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which was deployed in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, was also involved in the attacks.

Images of more than 400 civilians killed there had caused horror around the world.

Kyiv had therefore accused the Russian soldiers of war crimes, while Moscow denied having anything to do with the atrocities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin honored the brigade.

The Russians are also increasing the pressure on the southern sections of the front.

While there are no changes in the situation in Mariupol, the Russian troops in the Zaporizhia region are said to have been reinforced by fighters from the “Wagner” mercenary unit.

Kyiv speaks of around 200 Wagner fighters.

The reports could not be independently verified.

Ukraine war: Russia wants to use "new methods" - the British interpret this as an admission

First report:

Kiev - An announcement by the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to use "new methods of warfare" is, according to the British assessment, a tacit admission that Russia is not progressing as planned in its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Nevertheless, it will take a while to adapt tactics, techniques and procedures and to implement them with improved effectiveness, the British Ministry of Defense said on Friday evening (April 23), citing intelligence information.

This applies in particular to land-based maneuver warfare.

Meanwhile, London expects Russia to continue using bombing to quell Ukrainian resistance to Russian forces.

As a result, frustration at not being able to quickly defeat the Ukrainian defense is likely.

War in Ukraine: Russian units are likely to establish themselves in several places

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have meanwhile established themselves in several places in eastern Ukraine.

Russian units in the Ukraine war are said to have gained a foothold in the small town of Losowa, an important railway junction in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country, as the Ukrainian General Staff announced in its report on Friday evening.

In the areas of Selena Dolyna in the Donetsk region and Crimea in the Luhansk region, which is about 40 kilometers to the east and was conquered a few days ago, Russian troops are expanding their positions and preparing for further advances.

They could also have gained a foothold in the town of Stepne in the Donetsk region.

Attacks were fended off in the Luhansk region, around 80 percent of which is already under Russian control, according to Ukrainian sources, in the area of ​​the city of Rubishne and the village of Novotoschkivske.

The information could not be independently verified.

A wrecked Russian military vehicle was seen on April 21 near a building destroyed by Russian troops near the Chernihiv highway in northern Ukraine.

© ---/Ukrinform/dpa

War in Ukraine: Zelenskyj calls for resistance against Russian attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his country's citizens to resist Russia's war of aggression.

"Everyone has to defend themselves against the occupation at every opportunity," said Selenskyj in his video message every evening on Saturday night.

People shouldn't cooperate with the Russians.

Those living in areas controlled by Russian units should "cause as many problems as possible" for them.

(dpa/cibo)

Source: merkur

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