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Ukraine war: Will the US send new soldiers? Situation in Sieverodonetsk is coming to a head Created: 05/24/2022, 04:50 By: Kim Hornickel, Tobias Utz, Sandra Kathe, Lukas Zigo, Sebastian Richter, Daniel Dillmann, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow The situation in the Ukraine war continues to deteriorate - militarily, diplomatically and humanitarianly: the news ticker on Monday, May 23rd


Ukraine war: Will the US send new soldiers?

Situation in Sieverodonetsk is coming to a head

Created: 05/24/2022, 04:50

By: Kim Hornickel, Tobias Utz, Sandra Kathe, Lukas Zigo, Sebastian Richter, Daniel Dillmann, Nadja Austel, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow

The situation in the Ukraine war continues to deteriorate - militarily, diplomatically and humanitarianly: the news ticker on Monday, May 23rd.

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+++ 9.30 p.m .:

Ukrainian forces, who have entrenched themselves around the city of Sievjerodonetsk, are increasingly being surrounded by Russian troops, a Western government official said, according to the BBC.

According to the report, Russian forces made "gradual progress" in encircling the Ukrainian resistance forces around the city.

According to the government representative, the continued resistance of Ukrainian soldiers serves the function of weakening Russian forces and "buying time" for the remaining Ukrainian forces in Donbass to prepare for further attacks.

Ukraine War: A shelled part of Barabashovo market in Kharkiv.

© Bernat Armangue/dpa

The encirclement of Ukrainian troops around the city of Sievjerodonetsk is a "more achievable goal" for Russia.

The defense expert suggests that once Russia secures this area, it will try to advance towards the city of Kramatorsk (to the south-west).

Ukraine war: Will the US send new soldiers to the war?

+++ 4.45 p.m .:

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According to several US officials, the Biden administration is toying with the idea of ​​sending special forces to Ukraine with a limited assignment to guard the US embassy in Kyiv.

However, there is still no draft that could be submitted to President Joe Biden, reports CNN, citing the anonymous sources.

The embassy reopened last week after being closed for about three months.

US Marines typically guard US embassies around the world, but the consensus in Kyiv is that the typical Marine Corps embassy guards are inadequate for the uncertain security situation in Ukraine without additional forces.

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The US does not believe that Russia would openly attack the embassy.

However, there is concern that Russian air defenses or missiles could accidentally target the site and the situation could escalate dramatically.

Moscow should be aware that the US has its embassies guarded around the world.

Still, the deployment of US forces to Ukraine could raise concerns, as Biden previously unequivocally stated that he would not deploy ground forces in Ukraine.

Ukraine-News: Pro-Russian mayor injured in explosion

+++ 4 p.m .:

In the southern Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, the pro-Russian mayor Andrei Shevchik was injured in an explosion.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the explosion an "assassination attempt" carried out by Ukrainian "nationalists".

However, Shevchik and his two bodyguards are out of danger, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

The mayor appointed by Russia suffered "burns and injuries".

Ukraine-News: Belarus tests military "combat readiness".

+++ 3:00 p.m .:

As the Ministry of Defense announced in Minsk, the Belarusian armed forces are currently checking their “combat readiness”.

The tests should include the military equipment as well as the logistics.

There has long been speculation about the country's active military involvement in the Ukraine war.

Ukraine News: 87 dead in Russian attack

+++ 1:45 p.m .:

According to the leadership in Kiev, 87 people were killed in a Russian attack on a village with a Ukrainian military base in the north of the country last week.

The local authorities had initially spoken of eight fatalities and twelve injured in the past week.

Many more fatalities have now been discovered under the rubble in the village of Desna, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Monday in a video address to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.


Russian forces attacked the village in the Chernihiv region on May 17, the president said.

+++ 1:15 p.m .:

The Ukrainian General Staff has published new data on Russia’s heavy losses.

+++ 1:00 p.m .:

The Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered in Mariupol are to be brought before a court.

This is reported by the Russian news agency Interfax.

Denis Pushilin, the leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, stressed: "There are plans to set up an international tribunal on the territory of the republic." On May 20, the Russian Defense Ministry released video footage of the surrender of the last group of Ukrainian soldiers from the Azovstal Steel Plant in Mariupol.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the factory and the underground facilities of the steel mill had been completely taken over by the Russian army.

Ukraine-News: Military transport hit with rockets

+++ 11.45 a.m .:

The Russian army fired rockets at a military transport near the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

"Weapons and military equipment of the 10th Ukrainian mountain assault brigade from Ivano-Frankivsk, which was to be taken to Donbass, were destroyed by sea-launched high-precision missiles near the Malyn railway station in the Zhytomyr region," said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

In this context, Ukraine stated that one person died in the attack and four others were injured.

+++ 10:00 a.m .:

According to a report by the news portal Kiyv Independent, one person was killed and four others injured in an air raid on the city of Malyn in Ukraine.

The city's mayor reported that the attack damaged local railway infrastructure, some 150 homes, several shops and cafes, and industrial plants in the area.

The information cannot be independently verified.

+++ 8.30 a.m .:

Russia bombed the city of Sievjerodonetsk from all sides.

As explained by the Luhansk governor, Russia is trying to destroy the city using "scorched earth" tactics.

The Russian army was already using such encirclement tactics around the port city of Mariupol.

The city came under heavy shelling as Moscow troops attempted to seize the industrial area of ​​Donbass.

Serhiy Haidai said on Sunday (May 22) that Russian forces "simply deliberately trying to destroy the city [...] using the scorched earth approach." According to him, after 24 hours of indiscriminate shelling, the Russians had several Places and cities in Luhansk occupied.

Haidai said Moscow is concentrating forces and weapons there, bringing in forces from Kharkiv in the northwest, Mariupol in the south and from inside Russia.

The only functioning hospital in Seyerodonetsk has only three doctors and 10-day supplies, Haidai said.

Ukraine-News: Russia fires rockets - Ukraine reports civilian casualties

Update from Monday, May 23, 6:30 a.m.:

According to Ukrainian sources, at least eight people were killed by Russian fire on Sunday.

At least seven people were killed and eight injured in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.

At least one person was killed in a rocket attack on Malyn northwest of Kyiv.

During the night there were air raids and attacks in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Avdiivka and other Ukrainian cities and regions.

The Ukrainian military reported eleven repelled attacks by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine on Sunday.

More than 200 Russian military vehicles and 3 planes were destroyed during the week.

According to the Interior Ministry, a Russian pontoon bridge over the Siwerskyi Donets river in eastern Ukraine was demolished again.

Ukraine-News: Stricter controls by Russian soldiers in Mariupol

+++ 6.30 p.m .:

According to CNN, Russian forces have introduced strict road controls in the now Russian-controlled Ukrainian port of Mariupol.

That's what Petro Andrushchenko, a Ukrainian adviser to the city's Ukrainian mayor, said according to the US media.

Accordingly, Russian soldiers require one-way passes to enter the city, which must be applied for in surrounding Russian-controlled cities.

An application is required to leave the country, which must be applied for at the “Ministry of the Interior” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, which is supported by Russia.

The waiting time for such a permit to leave the country is several weeks.

Russia intensifies airstrikes - Ukraine extends martial law

+++ 4.30 p.m .:

The fighting in eastern Ukraine continues with all severity.

The Russian army continues "its missile and air strikes on the entire territory" and has "increased the intensity," said the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.

Kyiv on Sunday (May 22) extended martial law for three more months in view of the situation.

Meanwhile, authorities reported airstrikes by Russian forces in Kharkiv to the north, and Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia to the south.

Moscow is increasingly using the air force "to destroy important infrastructure," the Ukrainian general staff said.



According to experts, the city of Seyerodonetsk is at risk of being completely surrounded and besieged by Russian troops.

Selenskyj spoke of "brutal and absolutely senseless" bombardments and attacks on the civilian population, which seeks refuge in cellars and tunnels.

However, the Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Gajdaj, was optimistic.

His troops were rearming and could "probably counterattack in June."

Russia moves nuclear-capable missile launchers to border

+++ 12.26 p.m .:

 In eastern Ukraine there is still heavy fighting for the cities of Sievjerodonetsk and Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.

Positions of Ukrainian troops would be shelled with Russian artillery along the entire front line in the area, the General Staff in Kyiv said on Sunday.

Russian troops tried unsuccessfully to storm towns north, east and south of Sievjerodonetsk.

Fighting was just as fierce for villages south of the route from Lysychansk to Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

At the same time, the Kiyv Independent news portal reports that Russia may have moved Iskander missile launchers near Belgorod near the Ukrainian border.

The Kiyv Independent refers to a report by the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Iskander missile launchers are said to be capable of firing nuclear warheads.

Ukraine-News: Russian offensive repelled - ongoing fighting in the east

+++ 11.18 a.m .:

Russian troops are said to have attacked civilian infrastructure in the Zaporizhia region, reports the news portal Kiyv Independent.

According to the report, the Russian army fired on villages in the region.

Some civilians are said to have been injured.

+++ 9:23 a.m .:

According to a report by the Kiyv Independent news portal, Russia is planning to continue its offensive in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainians reported on Sunday that Russia was shelling the villages of Virnopillia, Dibrivne and Dovhenke in the Donetsk region and preparing for the offensive on Sloviansk.

First report from Saturday, May 21, 6:40 a.m.:

After weeks of fierce fighting, the Russian army says it has completely taken control of the Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.

All enemy fighters surrendered, the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday night in Moscow.

The sprawling industrial complex on the Azov Sea was the last place in the strategically important port city in south-eastern Ukraine that had not yet been fully under Russian control.

Russia is celebrating the capture of the Mariupol Steelworks as a major partial victory in its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine-News: Mariupol under control - Russia celebrates partial victory

The Ukrainian side initially did not comment on the alleged capture of the plant.

According to information from Moscow, a total of 2,439 Ukrainian soldiers holed up in Soviet-era bunkers have been taken prisoner by the Russians since May 16.

The last group of 531 fighters was captured on Friday, it said.

The steelworks had been besieged by Russian troops since April 21.

In a television interview recorded before the Russian government announced the capture, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed the West for the development.

He has repeatedly called on Western leaders to provide his country with "appropriate weapons so that we can reach Mariupol to liberate these people."

(dil/tu/kh/vbu/nak with AFP/dpa)

Source: merkur

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