Success in Ukraine: advance to the border of Russia - Russian battalion probably refused to attack
Created: 05/16/2022, 15:17
By: Cindy Boden
The fight for eastern Ukraine continues: Ukraine is now making statements about its control of Luhansk.
In addition, reports of tapped phone calls make people sit up and take notice.
News ticker.
Escalated Ukraine conflict:
According to a governor, Ukraine still controls ten percent of
Luhansk
.
Ukrainian success in Kharkiv
: Apparently, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv managed to advance to the Russian border.
According to the Ukrainian general staff, Russia
plans to send up to
2,500 reservists to Ukraine
.
This
news ticker on the military situation in the Ukraine war
is continuously updated.
Update from May 16, 12 p.m.:
The Ukrainian general staff has published new figures on Russian losses in Ukraine.
According to this, around 27,700 Russian soldiers have been killed so far.
The General Staff also claimed the destruction of 1,228 tanks, 2,974 armored personnel carriers, 577 artillery systems and 195 multiple rocket launchers.
In addition, 89 air defense systems, 200 aircraft, 165 helicopters, 427 drones, 97 cruise missiles and 13 boats of the Russian army were destroyed.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine war: Rocket attack on Odessa - Russia claims attacks on Ukrainian military
Update from May 16, 11 a.m.:
According to Ukrainian military information, a tourist accommodation was destroyed in a Russian rocket attack near the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa.
The Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported at least three civilians injured.
In addition, fire broke out.
The target was therefore a previously attacked and damaged bridge over the mouth of the Dniester River.
There was initially no confirmation from the Russian side.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow reported more than 100 airstrikes on military infrastructure in Ukraine on Monday night.
In addition, rockets were fired at more than 300 targets, said ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
This information could not be independently verified.
Ukraine War: Russia's New Eastern Offensive?
- Ukraine is preparing for new attacks
Update from May 16, 7:35 a.m .:
Ukraine is preparing for a new Russian offensive in the east of the country.
After the retreat of Russian units around Kharkiv, more soldiers are now being transferred to the Donbass, said Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich.
Ukraine is preparing for "new attempts at aggression" by the Russian army in Donbass aimed at "increasing its movements to southern Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message.
"The occupiers still do not want to admit that they are at an impasse and that their so-called special operation has already failed," he added.
Ukraine War: Ukrainian success in Kharkiv - advance to the Russian border
Update from May 16, 6:25 a.m .:
Ukrainian troops report a symbolic success in their counter-offensive in the eastern Kharkiv region: they advanced at least to the border with Russia at one point.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense released a video showing a dozen soldiers next to a border post in the national colors of blue and yellow on Monday night.
According to the information, they belong to a volunteer brigade from the city of Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian military had already reported in the past few days that they were gradually pushing back Russian troops near Kharkiv.
Russia had already withdrawn its troops in northern Ukraine after being stopped in front of the capital, Kyiv.
Russia is currently concentrating on the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where pro-Russian separatists have controlled some areas with help from Moscow since 2014.
Ukraine War: Russian attacks on Donetsk - three civilians killed
First report:
Kiev - Despite heavy Russian attacks in the Ukraine war, according to the regional governor, the Ukrainian army still controls around ten percent of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk.
In particular, the Russians have not been able to take the outskirts of the cities of Rubishne, Sievjerodonetsk and Lysychansk so far, Serhiy Hajday said on Sunday (May 15).
Moscow said last week that pro-Russian separatists, with the help of the Russian army, had advanced to the administrative borders of Luhansk just eleven weeks after the war began.
Hajdaj called these statements "fantasy" at the time.
In the Donetsk region, also in eastern Ukraine, three civilians were killed and 13 others injured in Russian attacks on Sunday, according to the regional administration.
Ukraine War: British speak of Russian army suffering heavy losses in river crossing
Meanwhile, near the village of Bilohorivka, Russian forces have been trying unsuccessfully to cross a river for three weeks.
According to the governor of the Luhansk region, Russian troops suffered heavy losses of soldiers and equipment.
From intercepted telephone conversations, the Ukrainian side allegedly learned "that an entire Russian battalion refused to attack because they saw what was happening."
Aerial photos showed dozens of destroyed armored vehicles on the riverbank, as well as wrecked pontoon bridges.
The British Ministry of Defense said the Russian army suffered heavy casualties after Ukrainian forces repulsed their attempt to cross the river.
The maneuver speaks "for the pressure under which the Russian commanders are to advance their operations in eastern Ukraine".
You can read reports on negotiations in the Ukraine war in this news ticker.
Ukrainian soldiers patrol a recently recaptured village north of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.
© Mstyslav Chernov/dpa
War in Ukraine: Russia apparently plans to send up to 2,500 reservists
In addition, the question always comes up as to whom Russia and President Vladimir Putin, about whom some oligarchs are now fueling rumors of cancer, is sending to Ukraine.
As
Kyiv Independent
wrote on Twitter on Sunday evening, Russia is planning to send up to 2,500 reservists to the neighboring country.
At least that's what the Ukrainian General Staff reports.
The new recruits would be trained on various training grounds in Russia.
(dpa/AFP/cibo)
