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War in Ukraine: Russian army attacks Odessa - more than 200 houses destroyed

2022-05-10T03:07:41.385Z


War in Ukraine: Russian army attacks Odessa - more than 200 houses destroyed Created: 05/10/2022 05:01 By: Teresa Toth, Daniel Dillmann, Tanja Banner, Nail Akkoyun, Andreas Apetz In the Ukraine war, the Ukrainian general staff reports that Russia is gaining ground. In the port city of Odessa, many buildings are no longer habitable. This live ticker has ended. All further information can be fou


War in Ukraine: Russian army attacks Odessa - more than 200 houses destroyed

Created: 05/10/2022 05:01

By: Teresa Toth, Daniel Dillmann, Tanja Banner, Nail Akkoyun, Andreas Apetz

In the Ukraine war, the Ukrainian general staff reports that Russia is gaining ground.

In the port city of Odessa, many buildings are no longer habitable.

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    During the Ukraine war, the Russian Air Force intensified its attacks in the east of the country.

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After several attacks by the Russian army on the port city of Odessa, the Ukrainian government is now reporting numerous destroyed homes.

More than 250 apartments were damaged by rocket fire, the city council said on the Telegram news channel.

Currently, only a quarter of them are habitable.

So far nothing is known about fatalities.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian politician reported today that there had been a widespread power outage in the heavily contested city of Sieverodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Presumably, power lines were damaged by Russian shelling.

Governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajday, also reports power outages in the city of Lysychansk.

During attacks in Odessa, the Russian army destroyed numerous buildings that are now uninhabitable.

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Ukraine War: Russian troops take small town in Luhansk

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According to the Ukrainian government, Russian troops have taken the ruined small town of Popasna after weeks of fighting.

The Ukrainian soldiers had moved to previously prepared positions outside of the city.

"Unfortunately, our troops actually withdrew a little from Popasna, because the city was shelled for more than two months," said the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajday, according to the Unian news agency in a television interview.

According to Hajdaj, Russian troops "destroyed everything but the foundations" in Popasna.

Other towns in the Luhansk region are also currently heavily contested, such as Voyevodiwka, a suburb of the city of Sievjerodonetsk.

90 percent of the Luhansk region is currently controlled by Russian troops.

However, according to Hajdaj, it is not possible to “completely occupy the Luhansk region by May 9”, as Russia had planned.

Ukraine War: Russia Drops Bomb On School - Up To 60 Dead

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According to British secret services, Russia uses high-ranking commanders in combat in its war of aggression in Ukraine due to large losses in its own troops.

However, there is no indication so far that the presence of these officers in combat has led to an improved operational concept, the British Ministry of Defense said in an update on Sunday.

Planning errors would continue to undermine any Russian advance.

In addition, the strategy leads to disproportionately high losses among Russian officers.

Ukraine-News: Eleven people trapped under rubble after Russian shelling

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As the news portal The Kyiv Independent reports, eleven people are trapped under rubble after Russian shelling in Schylylivka.

Ukraine-News: Russia drops bomb on school - up to 60 dead

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After a Russian air raid on a school in the Luhansk region, the Ukrainian authorities are talking about possibly up to 60 deaths.

After an airstrike on the school in Bilogorivka, two bodies have been recovered so far, the governor of the region Serhiy Hajdaj announced on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

"Probably all 60 people who are still under the rubble of the building are dead," he added. 

Update from Sunday, May 8th, 7:15 a.m .:

After several days without any significant progress, the Russian troops have again gained ground in their attacks in the Donbass region, according to Ukrainian information.

"In the direction of Liman, the enemy attacked the northern outskirts of Shandrigolove," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Sunday.

Shandrigolove is around 20 kilometers north of the city of Sloviansk, which is part of the target of the Russian operation in the Donbass.

Ukraine-News: Russia drops bomb on school where 90 people took shelter

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Ukraine accuses Russia of throwing a bomb at a school in the Luhansk region where 90 people had sought shelter.

As reported by CNN, Serhiy Hayday, part of the military administration in the Luhansk region, said a Russian plane dropped a bomb on the school in the village of Bilohorivka, about eleven kilometers from the front line.

30 people have now been rescued from the rubble.

Ukraine news: Difficult for Russia to replace war equipment

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The Ukraine war is a heavy drain on Russia’s military forces.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian forces have managed to destroy a T-90M, "Russia's most advanced tank".

The war vehicle is one of the Russian elite units and the core of the newly established 1st Guards Tank Army.

The T-90M is particularly well protected against anti-tank systems due to its reinforced armor.

Ukraine-News: Numerous Russian generals killed - military leadership significantly weakened

+++ Update, May 07, 2022, 6:30 a.m.:

The high number of generals killed in the Ukraine war worsens the situation of the Russian military.

This is reported, among other things, by the Moscow Times.

"Every death of a general makes Russian armed forces less effective," independent military analyst Pavel Luzhin told the news portal.

Ukraine News: Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners

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Two and a half months after the start of the war, according to Ukrainian information, there was another exchange of prisoners with Russia.

On Friday, 41 Ukrainians, including eleven women, were released, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk wrote in the Telegram news service.

There are 28 soldiers and 13 civilians.

There was initially no confirmation from the Russian side.

It was also initially unclear how many Russian military personnel were said to have been released from Ukrainian captivity in return.

Ukraine war: "Russia is here forever!"

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According to Ukrainian media reports, a Russian frigate in the Black Sea caught fire after rocket fire.

The reports were initially not officially confirmed in either Moscow or Kyiv.

However, the Ukrainian general staff has already increased the number of allegedly sunk Russian ships by one more to a total of eleven.

"The explosion and subsequent fire occurred on board the Burevestnik project 11356 frigate, which is located near Snake Island," reported the Odessa-based medium Dumskaya.net.

According to other media reports, however, the ship that was hit by a Neptun anti-ship missile is said to be the "Admiral Makarov".

Ukraine-News: Russia confirms massive rocket fire in Kramatorsk

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According to their own statements, the Russian military has destroyed a large ammunition depot in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.

"High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located on the territory of the Energomashstal factory in the city of Kramatorsk," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday.

The day before, Ukrainian authorities had spoken of a massive rocket attack on the city that injured 25 people.

Ukraine-News: Hundreds freed from steel mill in Mariupol

Update from Friday, May 6th, 9:52 a.m .:

According to Ukraine, 500 civilians have so far been freed in the course of the recent evacuation of the Azovstal steelworks in the besieged port city of Mariupol.

"We managed to get 500 civilians out," said the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Andriy Yermak on his Telegram channel on Friday.

He spoke of a "further stage of the evacuation" that should continue in the next few days and thanked the UN for its help in organizing the refugee corridors.

Ukraine video: Russia continues shelling in the east

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Even after more than 70 days, the end of the Ukraine war is not in sight.

According to the Russian government, this is mainly due to the EU and NATO.

The West is constantly providing Ukraine with "intelligence information," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference.

In addition, there would be a constant “flow of arms deliveries”.

These are "measures that do not contribute to a quick conclusion of the operation".

Ukraine War: Video shows extent of destruction

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Since the beginning of the war with Russia, Ukraine has been a field of rubble in some places.

This is underscored by a video made by a drone of the town of Popasna.

The recordings were published by the US news channel CNN.

When the video was shot cannot be verified.

It was first published in a pro-Russian Telegram channel.

The drone is apparently a reconnaissance drone used by the Russian military.

Ukraine News: Kyiv launches counterattack in north - fierce fighting in east

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In the Ukraine war, the armed forces of Kiev are apparently preparing for the next counterattack.

The offensive was launched near Kharkiv, said Valeriy Zalushnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The area around the city of Izyum is particularly affected.

In the east of the country around the city of Luhansk, too, the attackers from Russia continued to resist fiercely.

Ukraine News: Russian Air Force focuses on east of country

First report from Thursday, May 5th, 3:00 p.m.:

Moscow/Donetsk – Is Russia about to change course in the Ukraine war?

According to analysts, the Russian armed forces are still unable to gain air superiority in eastern Ukraine.

They told the Moscow Times online newspaper that Russian pilots went into aerial combat "largely risk-averse" and preferred to attack ground targets with long-range missiles.

But with dwindling stockpiles of precision missiles, a lack of infantry, and the pressure on the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin, Moscow is likely to step up its airstrikes in the coming weeks.

“Russia has been very reluctant to use tactical airstrikes in this conflict.

I think we're at a point now where they're taking a different approach," Dara Massicott, a senior policy researcher at America's Rand Corporation, told The Moscow Times.

Ukraine news: Russian pilots 'not as good as we thought'

After the failed attempt to take Kyiv in April, Russian troops are now concentrating on the roughly 480-kilometer front in eastern Ukraine.

Since then, Moscow's new strategy has become particularly clear: Since the shift to the East, Russian airstrikes have increased by over 150 percent to around 300 per day.

Sam Cranny-Evans, a military analyst at the British think tank Royal United Services Institute, told the Moscow Times.

News on the Ukraine war: Russia is concentrating on the east with airstrikes

The new course is making itself felt in the badly damaged port city of Mariupol and in the city of Kharkiv in the north-east, where recent attacks caused widespread destruction.

Numerous amateur photos are circulating on the Internet, purporting to show Russian jets operating at low altitude over the Donbass.

However, the Russian military is said to limit such operations in Ukraine to areas near Russian-controlled airspace.

One explanation for the Russian reluctance could be the large amount of short-range anti-aircraft missiles that have been supplied to Ukrainian forces by Western countries since the start of the invasion.

"The Russians might recall their experience in Afghanistan, where the Stinger missile took away their supremacy in the air," James Lewis, an analyst at Washington's Strategic and International Studies Institute, told the Moscow Times.

Ukraine News: Is Russia speculating on a military conflict with NATO?

"The modus operandi we're going to see is the same as in Syria, where most of the weapons were unguided," predicted analyst Dara Massicot.

The new commander of Russia's military operation in eastern Ukraine, Alexander Dvornikov, was once nicknamed the "Butcher of Syria" for authorizing such operations in civilian areas of the country during Russia's military intervention in support of the Assad regime.

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Source: merkur

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