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Ukraine news on Friday: Germany wants to deliver seven self

2022-05-06T06:10:59.215Z


According to Defense Minister Lambrecht, Germany wants to send seven Panzerhaubitz 2000 to Ukraine. And: Russia is said to have used more than 2,000 missiles against various targets in Ukraine. the news


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Secretary of Defense Christine Lambrecht

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Germany sends self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine

7:52 a.m .:

Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht confirms in Slovakia that Germany will hand over seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine.

Together with five other systems from the Netherlands, this is to become a fire unit of twelve systems.

Howitzer training is scheduled to begin in Germany next week.

It will probably take around 40 days.

After that, the howitzers will be delivered to Ukraine.

However, the training could also go faster because Ukraine is probably sending soldiers who already have basic knowledge of howitzers.

Warning for Odessa's beaches - what happened in the night

7:26 a.m .:

Residents of the Odessa region should stay away from the coast.

US intelligence information apparently contributed to the sinking of the Moskva.

You can read about everything that happened during the night here.

Russia continues ground attack on Azov Valley

06:59

: Russian troops have continued their ground attack on the Azov Valley steelworks in Mariupol for the second day in a row, according to British military intelligence.

According to Ukrainian sources, civilians and soldiers are still waiting in the plant.

So far over 2000 Russian missile attacks on Ukraine

6:10 a.m .:

According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Russian army has used missiles against various targets in its war against Ukraine so far in 2014.

Selenskyj announced this in his daily video speech on Friday night.

In addition, since the start of the Russian army's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2,682 airstrikes have already been registered.

“Each of these operations means the death of our people, the destruction of our infrastructure.” Ukraine's medical infrastructure alone has suffered heavy losses, said Zelenskyj.

"To date, Russian troops have destroyed or damaged almost 400 health facilities."

US media:

Ukraine

sank Moskva with US information

6:00 a.m.:

According to media reports, US intelligence information helped the Ukrainian military sink the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet »Moskva«.

However, the US government had no knowledge of Ukraine's plans, according to the Washington Post or the New York Times, citing unnamed people who were familiar with the matter.

At the request of the Ukrainian military, the United States had identified the ship as "Moskva" and helped with the localization, the broadcaster NBC News reported.

The Moskva was sunk in mid-April, presumably with Ukrainian anti-ship missiles of the Neptun type.

Moscow denies that. The missile cruiser was also responsible for air defense in the Black Sea between the mouth of the Danube and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

Zelenskyy reiterates demand for Marshall Plan for

Ukraine

5:50 a.m.:

Despite the West’s massive financial support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is sticking to his ideas about a kind of Marshall Plan for his country after the war.

The international donor conference in Warsaw, which a few hours earlier had raised a little more than six billion euros in support for Kyiv, was "an element of our protection, an element of protection for the whole of Europe," said Zelenskyj in his daily video address on Friday night.

The fate of Ukraine and Europe is now being decided "not only on the battlefield," but also in the economic sphere, in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.

However, the billions pledged in Warsaw are "only part of what is really necessary to restore normal life in the entire area to which Russia brought the war".

This requires even greater participation from the free world and international institutions.

"That's why we need a modern analogue of the Marshall Plan for Ukraine."

With the Marshall Plan, named after the then US Secretary of State George Marshall, the USA had supported the reconstruction in Western Europe with billions in the years after the Second World War.

At that time, a total of almost 14 billion US dollars was distributed to European countries - estimated at today's value 140 billion dollars (around 132.7 billion euros).

Paramedics from Mariupol ask Erdoğan for support

12:15 a.m .:

A medic from the Azovstal plant in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, which was besieged by Russian troops, asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for support.

"End this nightmare," the man, who identified himself as a Muslim Crimean Tatar by the name of Hassan, asked in a video message published on Thursday evening.

“People are dying here, some from bullets, others from starvation, the wounded from lack of medication, in terrible conditions.”

According to Kyiv, Russia wants to capture the steel plant by May 9th

12:10 a.m .:

According to the Ukrainian government, Russia wants to conquer the besieged steelworks in the port city of Mariupol by Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Thursday evening that the Azovstal plant should be captured on the 77th anniversary of the victory over Hitler's Germany on May 9th.

“The finest gift a ruler can give is his opponent's head.

I clearly recognize the desire to conquer Azovstal and give Putin "victory" on May 9," he was quoted as saying by the Unian agency.

"They want it badly, but let's see if they can do it," Arestovych said.

The heavy attacks on the premises of the steelworks, where the last defenders of Mariupol were holed up together with civilians, made the intentions of the Russian military clear.

A grand military parade is planned in Moscow on Monday to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War II, which will be celebrated in Russia on May 9.

President Vladimir Putin will give a speech.

mfh / AFP / dpa / reuters

Source: spiegel

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