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Ukraine: Battle for Snake Island rages - USA reports of "brutal interrogations" by Russia, including civilians

2022-05-13T14:14:19.056Z


Ukraine: Battle for Snake Island rages - USA reports of "brutal interrogations" by Russia, including civilians Created: 05/13/2022, 15:58 By: Patrick Mayer, Bedrettin Bölükbasi In the Ukraine war, the Ukraine reports new successes around the island of snakes. Meanwhile, attacks on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol are underway. The news ticker. Russia destroys bridges in Kharkiv : Russian militar


Ukraine: Battle for Snake Island rages - USA reports of "brutal interrogations" by Russia, including civilians

Created: 05/13/2022, 15:58

By: Patrick Mayer, Bedrettin Bölükbasi

In the Ukraine war, the Ukraine reports new successes around the island of snakes.

Meanwhile, attacks on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol are underway.

The news ticker.

  • Russia destroys bridges in Kharkiv

    : Russian military destroys bridges in Kharkiv to slow a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

  • Battles

    for

    Snake Island

    : Satellite photos show new attacks and destroyed Russian equipment.

  • Ukraine

    announces first

    war crimes trial

    : A 21-year-old Russian is accused of shooting a civilian.

  • This

    news ticker on the military battles in the Russia-Ukraine war

    is continuously updated.

Update from May 13, 3 p.m

.: According to US information, Moscow has forcibly kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainians since the start of the Ukraine war.

From the besieged port city of Mariupol alone, thousands of people were taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas, said US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Carpenter, in Vienna.

The Ukrainian government estimates the number of kidnapped Ukrainians at almost 1.2 million.

According to the ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova, at least 200,000 children are among them.

This information is not verifiable, Russia does not comment on it.

According to Kiev, Moscow also operates so-called filtration camps in which arrested Ukrainians are interrogated.

Eyewitnesses have reported "brutal interrogations" in these camps, said US diplomat Carpenter.

These interrogations and the forced deportations would amount to war crimes.

The UN Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to launch an investigation into alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: several dead in the east

Update from May 13, 1:50 p.m .:

According to the authorities, several people were killed as a result of fighting in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv and Luhansk.

According to the civil defense, three men were found dead in the Kharkiv region after a hall fire had been put out.

Five others were injured.

A projectile had hit the hall in the village of Schelynka in the district of Izyum the day before and had started the fire.

In the neighboring Luhansk region, the military governor Serhiy Hajday reported that two civilians from Lysychansk and Zolote were killed by Russian shelling.

On the northern edge of Sievjerodonetsk, a bridge over the Borova River was destroyed for the second time since 2014.

According to Hajdaj, nearly 60 other houses were destroyed in the contested parts of the Luhansk region. 

Ukraine war: Russia claims to have attacked Ukrainian oil refinery

Update from May 13, 11:50 a.m .:

Russia's military said it attacked an oil refinery in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava.

Production plants and tanks with petrol and diesel were destroyed on the outskirts of Kremenchuk, said the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov.

The information could not be verified at first.

Overall, Russia's armed forces attacked more than 150 targets in Ukraine from the air last night, Konashenkov said.

In the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv alone, more than 500 military targets were fired with rockets. 

Ukraine War: Battle for Rubishne - Russian military may have captured city

Update from May 13, 9.45 a.m .:

According to the Ukrainian general staff on Facebook, Russian units in the Ukraine conflict are focusing their efforts on taking complete control of the city of Rubishne in the Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine.

The US broadcaster CNN is now reporting, citing reports from the region, that the Ukrainian military may have lost control of the city to the Russian army.

A bridge between Rubishne and neighboring Sievjerodonetsk was destroyed.

This indicates that Ukrainian units are taking up new defensive positions, the CNN report said.

Ukraine war: Russia destroys bridges in Kharkiv - Ukrainian counter-offensive should be prevented

Update from May 13, 9:35 a.m .:

In the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, three central bridges for the continuation of the Ukrainian counteroffensive were apparently blown up by Russian troops.

This is reported by the US broadcaster CNN, citing satellite images from BlackSky and the European Space Agency.

In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian military was recently able to recapture several towns from Russian units and push back the Russian military.

There were also reports of the Russian military's lack of tactics and "mass casualties".

The Ukrainian General Staff wrote on Facebook that Russian troops have not started new offensive operations in the region, but are trying to prevent the Ukrainian advance near the village of Wessele.

War in Ukraine: Attacks on the Azovstal plant - negotiations to exchange Ukrainian soldiers

Update from May 13, 9:30 a.m .:

In the Azowstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, which was bombed by Russian troops, there are still some seriously injured Ukrainian soldiers.

The government in Kyiv is currently negotiating with Moscow about exchanging the at least seriously injured soldiers for Russian prisoners.

No result has been obtained yet.

Meanwhile, Russian attacks on the Azovstal plant continue, satellite images from Maxar Technologies show.

The large-scale destruction in the area of ​​the steelworks can be seen in the recordings.

Satellite images show the great destruction at the Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol.

© Maxar Technologies / AFP

Ukraine War: Battles for Snake Island - Ukraine reports attack on Russian ship

Update from May 13, 8:15 a.m .:

The Snake Island in the Black Sea is still the scene of military clashes between Ukrainian and Russian troops.

New satellite photos from Maxar Technologies show that the Ukrainian military is continuing drone strikes against the Russian army on the island, but also on Russian boats around the island.

The photos also show the extent of the drone strikes over the past few days.

Most recently, the Ukrainian military slowed down the success of Putin's troops with Bayraktar TB2 drones from Turkey.

Ukrainian drone strikes hit the Russian military on Snake Island in the Black Sea.

© Maxar Technologies/AFP

The satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies show destroyed buildings, helicopters and vehicles from the Russian Pantsir air defense system on Snake Island, the

Reuters

news agency reported.

Another photo shows the Russian landing ship of the type "Serna" sunk by the Ukrainian military off Snake Island.

In the past few days, the Ukrainian General Staff has released footage of drone strikes on these targets.

A Ukrainian drone strike sank a Russian Serna landing ship off Snake Island in the Black Sea.

© Maxar Technologies / AFP

After several of these successful attacks, the Ukrainian Air Force continues to target Russian military material, satellite photos from Maxar Technologies show.

Another Russian Serna landing ship narrowly escaped a missile from a Ukrainian drone, according to the

Reuters

report , citing Maxar.

The photo also shows the vapor trail from a missile launched by the Ukrainian drone.

Another Russian landing ship near Snake Island narrowly escapes a missile from a Ukrainian drone.

© Maxar Technologies / AFP

Meanwhile, Ukraine claimed an attack on the Russian Navy's support and supply ship Vsevolod Bobrov in the Black Sea.

"Thanks to the actions of our sailors, the auxiliary ship Vsevolod Bobrov caught fire - it is one of the newest ships in the Russian fleet," Odessa Military Administration spokesman Serhiy Brachuk was quoted as saying by

Reuters

.

The information has not yet been independently verified.

Ukraine war: battles near the river - the Ukrainian military is probably pushing back Putin's troops

Update from May 13, 6.40 a.m .:

According to the US broadcaster CNN, Russian and Ukrainian troops continue to fight intensely around the Siwerskyi Donets River near the Bilhorivka settlement.

Accordingly, Ukrainian troops are pushing back the Russian advance in this area, the broadcaster reported, citing satellite images from BlackSky.

Fighting would focus on the area where two pontoon bridges erected by Russian troops were destroyed.

A third bridge over the river is visible on the satellite images, the CNN report said.

Ukraine War: Heavy fighting in Donetsk - at least five civilians lost their lives

Update from May 12, 10 p.m.:

According to Ukrainian sources, at least five civilians were killed in heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk region.

The regional administration reported on Thursday in the Telegram news service that four people died in the villages of Novoselivka, Avdiivka and Lyman.

According to media reports, another civilian has died in the fighting in Jasynuwata, which is under the control of the pro-Russian separatists.

The information has not yet been independently verified.

In the war against Russia: Ukraine announces first war crimes trial

Update from May 12, 8:15 p.m .:

While the fighting continues to rage on, Ukraine has now announced a first war crimes trial against a Russian army member.

The 21-year-old Russian has been charged with shooting dead a civilian from a stolen car, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova's office said.

A date for the beginning of the process is not yet known.

According to the information, the 21-year-old suspect wanted to flee with four comrades in the stolen car after an attack on his convoy in northern Ukraine on February 28.

The victim, a 62-year-old unarmed civilian, was riding his bike not far from his home.

According to the prosecutor, the Russian soldier shot the man on the orders of one of his comrades because he had witnessed the theft of the car.

He now faces a life sentence for war crimes and murder.

War in Ukraine: Russia apparently carries out rocket attack on Ukrainian soldiers near Kharkiv

Update from May 12, 5:10 p.m .:

According to their own statements, the Russian armed forces have killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed numerous military vehicles with heavy air and rocket attacks.

Air-to-surface missiles "killed more than 320 nationalists and disabled 72 military vehicles," said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

The information was initially not verifiable by an independent party.

Meanwhile, rocket forces and artillery fired on more than 400 troop formations and military convoys, 12 command posts and 26 enemy artillery positions.

In the Korotych area, just a few kilometers west of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov, an S-300 air defense system was said to have been switched off.

In the city of Sloviansk, three positions for the Smerch rocket launcher were hit.

Ukraine War: Ukrainian military destroys Russian convoy near Kharkiv

Update from May 12, 3:05 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, the Ukrainian military destroyed a convoy of the Russian guards “Rosguardia” in the Kharkiv region.

All Russian armored cars were destroyed and Russian troops in the convoy eliminated, reported

ArmyInform

, the official news portal of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

A video was released showing several burned and destroyed Russian armored cars.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also stated that it had repelled a total of nine attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk.

Eight tanks, six armored personnel carriers, five cars and one anti-aircraft gun and four Orlan 10 drones were destroyed in the process,

ArmyInform

quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Olexandr Motusyanjik as saying.

Ukraine war: Russian shelling in the north-east - Luhansk front "significantly worsened"

Update from May 12, 12:15 p.m .: Combat

operations between Russian and Ukrainian troops are increasing in northeastern Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian information, more and more villages are coming under Russian fire.

In the village of Novi Vykriy, one person died after Russian artillery attacks, the US broadcaster CNN reported, citing Ukrainian authorities in the city of Sumy.

According to this, artillery attacks by the Russian military are also increasing in the Luhansk Oblast.

The situation at the front has "significantly deteriorated," the region's military governor, Serhiy Hajdaj, was quoted as saying by CNN.

The shelling would increase along the entire front line and Russian troops would have "completely destroyed" captured towns in Luhansk.

There was heavy fighting around the strategically important city of Sievjerodonetsk.

According to Hadai, Russia's troops would follow "scorched earth" tactics.

Ukraine war: Russia attacks north-east Ukraine - at least three dead after airstrike

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

According to Ukrainian information, at least three people were killed and twelve others injured in a Russian air raid in northeastern Ukraine.

According to the local emergency services, the attack was aimed at the city of Novhorod-Siwerskyj shortly after midnight.

The airstrike was probably carried out with a Su-30SM fighter jet, the Ukrainian army announced.

The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Tschaus, said that schools, administrative buildings and houses had been hit.

The rescue workers are on duty.


War in Ukraine: Kiev's general staff reports new figures on Russian losses

Update from May 12, 11:25 a.m .:

The Ukrainian General Staff has published new figures on Russian losses in Ukraine.

According to this, around 26,650 Russian soldiers have been killed so far.

The General Staff also claimed the destruction of 1,195 tanks, 2,873 armored personnel carriers, 534 artillery systems and 191 multiple rocket launchers.

In addition, 87 air defense systems, 199 aircraft, 161 helicopters, 398 drones, 94 cruise missiles and 13 boats of the Russian army were destroyed.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Ukraine war: HRW reports use of cluster munitions - apparently hundreds of civilians dead

Update from May 12, 8:59 a.m

.: The Russian armed forces have used internationally banned cluster munitions in Ukraine.

The human rights organization Human Rights Watch reports this Thursday in Geneva.

Hundreds of civilians were killed by the ammunition.

The Ukrainian army also used such ammunition at least once.

There is an international treaty that has banned the use, stockpiling, trade and production of cluster munitions since 2010 (Cluster Munitions Convention).

Strictly speaking, however, only the 110 contracting states are bound by it - Russia and Ukraine are not among them.

Nonetheless, the widespread condemnation of so many countries has made the use of these weapons internationally outlawed.

Ukraine War News: Russian troops suffer heavy casualties in eastern Ukraine

Update from May 12, 7:21 a.m

.: Putin's troops in eastern Ukraine suffered heavy losses when crossing a river.

This is what current US media reports say.

The battalion wanted to build a poton bridge over the Donetsk River near the village of Bilohorivka and came under heavy artillery fire from the Ukrainian fighters.

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the bridge was destroyed.

The business

magazine Forbes

writes that the Russian unit consisted of 50 armored vehicles and up to 1,000 soldiers.

Many of the vehicles were destroyed.

It is still unclear how many Russian soldiers were killed in the incident.

"But it is clear that no battalion can lose three quarters of its vehicles and then continue to operate," said

Forbes

.

All of the information could not initially be checked independently.

Ukraine War News: Mariupol commander seeks help from Tesla boss Musk

Update from May 12, 5:53 a.m

.: A Ukrainian military commander has made a desperate appeal to Elon Musk: "Help us get from Azov steel to a mediator country.

If not you, then who?” Serhiy Volyna tweeted on Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.

He is the commander of the 36th Marine Brigade and is currently in Mariupol.

Musk is considered the richest man in the world.

Wolyna explained that he set up a Twitter account specifically to reach Musk.

"They say you come from another planet to teach people to believe in the impossible," he wrote to Musk.

"Our planets are next to each other as I live where it is almost impossible to survive." He called on "every human being on planet earth" to help Musk heed his appeal.

Musk had previously challenged Putin to a "one-on-one" over Ukraine on Twitter.

The Tesla and SpaceX founder has also sent equipment for his Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine to provide internet to areas hit by Russian military attacks.

Ukraine war news: Mariupol commander reports on ZDF about "heavy losses"

Update from May 11, 10:55 p.m .:

ZDF shows photos of severely injured Ukrainian fighters from Mariupol in the “heute journal” while the Russian attacks on the steel mill continue.

The commander reports on the dramatic situation of the marines and national guards entrenched there.

Around half of the 1,000 trapped fighters are said to be injured and/or wounded.

Russia-Ukraine War: Warehouse in Lozova town destroyed by bombardment

Update from May 11, 9:55 p.m .: According to the Ukrainian online medium

The Kyiv Independent

, a civilian was killed

in a suspected Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv Oblast this Wednesday evening .

According to Mayor Serhiy Zelensky, an agricultural warehouse in the city of Lozova was destroyed by the bombardment.

Update from May 11, 8:55 p.m .:

The Czech Republic has given around 100 citizens the green light to participate in the Ukraine war.

President Milos Zeman signed an order on Wednesday allowing 103 volunteer fighters to join Ukrainian troops, according to his spokesman.

Zeman was once a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After Russian troops invaded Ukraine, however, he called the head of state in Moscow a "madman".

After an appeal for help by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, volunteers from Poland, Belarus, Canada, the USA and Great Britain had already joined the Ukrainian armed forces.

A Czech law actually forbids the Czechs from participating in war operations abroad.

However, Zeman and Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala decided in March not to punish Czechs who go to war with Ukrainian troops.

Ukraine War: Allegedly Russian troops pushed out of village north of Kharkiv

Update from May 11, 7:55 p.m .:

According to the General Staff in Kiev, Ukrainian forces have pushed out Russian troops from the village of Pytomnyk, around 25 kilometers north of the center of Kharkiv.

The two-lane road E105 leads past the said village directly into the city.

It is a correspondingly important line of communication in the battles.

A counter-offensive is running successfully, it said.

As the ARD "Tagesschau" reported in the evening, Vladimir Putin's invasion troops in Kharkiv Oblast were pushed back up to ten kilometers to the Russian border.

The Ukrainian armed forces had previously reported the recapture of several villages around the city of Kharkiv.

ZDF had reported that the metropolis was now out of reach of Russian artillery.

Ukraine War: Russian forces pushed back in Kharkiv region

Update from May 11, 7:15 p.m .:

As ZDF’s “heute journal” reports in the evening, the city of Kharkiv with its approximately 1.4 million inhabitants is out of range of Russian artillery after the Ukrainian armed forces have advanced in the northeast.

There was no shelling this Wednesday, the article said.

The Russian army would instead focus on attacks in Donbass in south-eastern Ukraine, it is reported.

Most recently, the Ukrainian general staff had declared that several villages around Kharkiv could be recaptured.

Mine squads would get through these currently, whether to turn off any booby traps.

There should be a few of these.

Ukraine War: According to British analysts, Russia could lose up to 60,000 soldiers

Update from May 11, 4:30 p.m .:

According to information from the Ukrainian general staff this Wednesday, the losses among Russian soldiers are now said to amount to more than 26,350 soldiers killed, wounded or missing.

However, Moscow's losses could be much higher, according to UK analysts.

As Justin Bronk of the independent research institute Royal United Services Institute told the British

Daily Mail

, the figure could be "up to three to four times" as high.

Analyst Bronk believes that the number "after two more weeks of fierce fighting could well be 50,000 to 60,000 victims".

Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow probably lost control of Snake Island after the sinking of the "Moskva".

First report from May 11th:

Munich/Kiev - A radio message went around the world: When Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24th, the Russian missile cruiser "Moskva" and the "Vasily Bykov" in the Black Sea made their way to to conquer the tiny little snake island off the coast of Romania.

The few Ukrainian border guards on the island answered the Moskva's call to surrender with the announcement: "Russian warship, f... you!" Nevertheless, they had to surrender.

The Snake Island is so important because from here the airspace on the coasts of southern Ukraine around Odessa can be monitored.

But: According to British findings, Ukrainian drone attacks in the Black Sea recently prevented Russian troops from dominating the country.

Russia is always trying to strengthen its forces on the strategically important Snake Island near the port city of Odessa, the Ministry of Defense in London reported this Wednesday (May 11), citing British secret services.

Since the sinking of the guided missile cruiser "Moskva" and the withdrawal of the navy to the annexed Crimean peninsula, the Russian supply ships have had little protection.

"The Moskva" had controlled the airspace in this area of ​​the Black Sea with its S-300 air defense.

War in Ukraine: Bayraktar TB-2 combat drone causes problems for Russian troops

"Russia's current efforts to strengthen its forces on Snake Island give Ukraine more opportunities to attack Russian troops and destroy materiel," the UK ministry said.

Ukraine has successfully deployed Bayraktar (TB-2 drone) combat drones.

However, if Russia manages to consolidate its position with strategic air defense and cruise missiles for coastal defense, this could change the situation.

Reports from both sides had recently suggested heavy fighting around Snake Island, which is 35 kilometers from the coast just off the Danube Delta in the Odessa region.

(pm)

Source: merkur

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