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War in Ukraine: Heavy shelling on city of Sievjerodonetsk continues

2022-05-26T02:54:27.798Z


War in Ukraine: Heavy shelling on city of Sievjerodonetsk continues Created: 05/26/2022, 04:46 By: Tobias Utz, Lukas Zigo, Nail Akkoyun, Marvin Ziegele, Lucas Maier The situation in the Ukraine war is getting worse, both militarily and diplomatically: the news ticker on Wednesday, May 25th. Heavy fighting for the industrial city of Sievjerodonetsk : The shelling of the city increases significa


War in Ukraine: Heavy shelling on city of Sievjerodonetsk continues

Created: 05/26/2022, 04:46

By: Tobias Utz, Lukas Zigo, Nail Akkoyun, Marvin Ziegele, Lucas Maier

The situation in the Ukraine war is getting worse, both militarily and diplomatically: the news ticker on Wednesday, May 25th.

  • Heavy fighting for the industrial city of Sievjerodonetsk

    : The shelling of the city increases significantly.

  • Russia plans "smaller encirclements"

    : The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) sees a change in strategy.

  • Weapons shipments:

    Belarus will supply Russia with weapons and tanks in the Ukraine war.

  • This news ticker about the Ukraine conflict is constantly updated.

+++ 9:00 p.m.:

According to the Kiev general staff, the heavy Russian shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievjerodonetsk (see update from 8:30 a.m.) continued throughout the day.

The Ukrainian military leadership said the city and nearby towns would be attacked with artillery and from the air.

A destroyed building in Sieverodonetsk.

Many people have already fled the city due to the Russian advance.

© IMAGO/Daniel Carde

The Ukrainian General Staff also reported attacks on the towns of Berestove, Lypove and Nyrkove.

These are behind the Ukrainian defenders on the strategically important road to Bakhmut.

Ukraine war: Putin visits soldiers

+++ 8:00 p.m .:

Vladimir Putin visited soldiers for the first time who were injured in military operations in Ukraine.

The Russian President chatted with several soldiers about their hometowns and family situation at a Moscow military hospital, as seen on Russian television.

"These people who risk their health, their lives for the people and children of Donbass, for the good of Russia, they are all heroes," Putin said at a meeting with government officials.

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+++ 6.30 p.m .:

 The governor of the Russian border region of Belgorod has accused Ukraine of renewed shelling.

A young man was injured in the village of Zhuravlyovka, Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in the Telegram news service.

In view of the tense situation, the entire village had actually been evacuated a few weeks ago, the governor continued.

It was initially unclear why the young man was still there.

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War in Ukraine: Heavy fighting for the industrial city of Sievjerodonetsk

+++ 3.15 p.m .:

The Ukrainian Presidential Administration reported on Wednesday “heavy fighting” around the industrial city of Sievjerodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region.

A senior military official said shelling of the city had increased "exponentially".

Six civilians were killed and eight injured in the fighting.

CNN reports.

"Russian troops are very close, they can already fire mortars," said Serhiy Haidai, head of the military administration of the Luhansk region.

“The fighting took place on the outskirts of the city yesterday.

[Russian] forces are being transferred here from different regions – from Kharkiv, Mariupol, even from Donetsk, in order to advance to the Luhansk region at any cost.” He added that the current week is particularly important.

"If they don't succeed by Saturday or Sunday, they will run out of breath and the situation will stabilize, at least for us."

Ukraine war: Tanks "are urgently needed" - Belarus supplies weapons to Russia

+++ 1.30 p.m .:

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenk has confirmed that his country is supplying weapons and tanks to Russia.

Belarusian weapons are therefore not only in demand domestically, but also in Russia.

The two countries have set up joint programs to circumvent Western sanctions that make arms sales more difficult.

This is reported by the Eastern European radio station Radio Svaboda.

Golovchenk stressed that the Russian armed forces needed the weapons "very urgently".

Reports of supply bottlenecks and Russia's poor equipment in the Ukraine war have been piling up for weeks.

Ukraine war: Russia bombs train stations and factories - with "high-precision missiles"

+++ 11.45 a.m .:

According to its own statements, Russia attacked a Ukrainian engine plant and several train stations during the heavy air raids last night.

"High-precision air and sea-launched missiles destroyed the production halls of the Motor Sich factory, which builds aircraft engines for the Ukrainian armed forces, including unmanned drones," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Wednesday.

According to him, the railway station of the urban settlement of Pokrovske in the Dnipro region was also hit by rockets.

The aim here was a troop transport of reservists who were on their way to the Donbass region.

Several command posts and telecommunications centers in the Bakhmut area and a logistics center in the Soledar area were attacked near the front, Konashenkov said.

The Air Force and Army Aviation have meanwhile killed more than 300 Ukrainian soldiers and disabled 46 military vehicles.

This information could not be verified independently.

Ukraine war: "There is heavy destruction" - Russia launches further airstrikes

+++ 9.45 a.m .:

Ukrainian administrative authorities reported Russian rocket attacks on the east-central Dnipro region and the south-eastern Zaporizhia region on Wednesday.

The Russian military is said to have fired four cruise missiles at Zaporizhia, according to the Zaporizhia Regional Council.

A rocket was shot down by the city's air defenses, it said.

In an update, the council added that at least one person had been killed and three people injured.

In addition, 62 buildings in residential areas were damaged in the attacks.

In a separate statement on Wednesday, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipro regional military administration, said there had been constant air raid alerts throughout the night.

"The enemy fired three missiles at Kryvyi Rih this morning," Reznichenko said.

“An industrial company was hit.

There is heavy destruction.

We are in the process of clarifying information about the victims.”

Ukraine war: Russia launches next offensive

+++ 8.30 a.m .:

According to information from Kiev, the Russian troops have gone on the offensive in eastern Ukraine and are fighting heavy battles for the city of Sievjerodonetsk.

"With the help of artillery support, the Russian occupiers are launching an attack on the village of Sieverodonetsk, fighting continues," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Wednesday morning.

In addition to Sievjerodonetsk, the nearby town of Lyman is also a target of the Russian attacks.

Here, too, the ground offensive is supported by airstrikes and artillery.

In addition, the General Staff reported fighting from the Bakhmut area southwest of Sievjerodonetsk.

Russian troops attacked the villages of Komyschuvahka, Jakowliwka and Troitzke, but retreated again after losses.

In the Avdiivka area there was continuous artillery fire on the defenders' positions.

+++ 8.15 a.m .:

Due to heavy losses in the Ukraine war, the Russian army is now apparently changing its strategy in Donbass.

The US think tank "Institute for the Study of War" gives new details in an analysis.

Ukraine war: Russian troops apparently planning “small encirclements”

+++ 7.45 a.m .:

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) issued an update on the situation of the fighting in Ukraine.

"The Russian armed forces have probably given up their efforts to encircle large Ukrainian formations in eastern Ukraine," the institute said.

Accordingly, the Russian troops would "instead try to reach smaller encirclements and concentrate on Severodonetsk".

This shift in strategy allows for gradual advances, but at the cost of abandoning several planned advance lines and deep encirclement of Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.

Update from Wednesday, May 25, 7:15 a.m .:

According to the authorities, the city of Zaporizhia was hit by several rockets early on Wednesday morning.

"Today, May 25, at 05:13, Russian forces fired four ballistic missiles at Zaporizhia," the oblast administration announced on its Telegram channel.

One of the missiles was intercepted by air defenses.

The rescue workers are on site to get an idea of ​​the situation, the damage and possible victims of the attack.

War in Ukraine: Almost 4,000 civilian casualties in three months – UN publishes balance sheet

+++ 9 p.m.:

The war in Ukraine has been raging for three months now.

On February 24, Russia began its attack on the neighboring country.

The United Nations have now published a summary of the number of victims.

According to tagesschau.de, the UN Human Rights Office quoted the majority of the civilian casualties as a result of the attack with explosive weapons with a broad impact.

This includes attacks with heavy artillery, for example.

The numbers at a glance:

  • Civilians killed:

    at least 3942

  • Injured civilians:

    at least 4591

  • Source: UN Human Rights Office

However, the dark figures are likely to be significantly higher in the information.

According to tagesschau.de, news from the contested areas often arrives with a delay, and some information still has to be confirmed.

War in Ukraine: Russia attacks country's largest chemical plant

+++ 19:25:

In the Luhansk region, Russia attacked the chemical plant "Azot".

On Tuesday morning (May 24), the area in the city of Severodonetsk was shelled, said the head of the regional military administration, Serhiy Haidai.

The attack reportedly killed four people.

The information has not yet been independently confirmed.

There are said to be several air raid shelters on the site of Ukraine's largest chemical plant.

The industrial plant no longer poses a threat, since operations were already terminated at the start of the Russian attack.

In March, the operator informed the news portal pravda.ua that it had also removed all the remaining substances from the factory.

Ukraine War: General shot down over Donbass

+++ 18:25:

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a Russian Su-25 fighter jet was shot down over the small town of Popasna in the Donbass.

The shooting is said to have happened on Sunday (May 22nd).

According to a report by the British news channel BBC, Major General Kanamat Botashov was in the fighter jet.

Botashov is said to have died in the Stinger attack.

This has not yet been officially confirmed.

It would be the highest-ranking Russian air force officer to have been killed in the Ukraine war, according to the Tagesschau.

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+++ 4.45 p.m .:

In the Ukraine war, 600 hospitals have already been destroyed or damaged.

100 of them are irreparable.

This was reported by Andriy Basylevych, board member of the Ukrainian Medical Association, on Tuesday (May 24) at the German Medical Association in Bremen.

Many doctors were also killed or wounded.

According to Basylevych, the medical conditions in the Ukrainian clinics are catastrophic.

+++ 16.15:

Russian forces have apparently conquered the city of Svitlodarsk in Donetsk Oblast.

This was officially announced by the head of the local military administration, Serhiy Hoshko, on Tuesday morning, as reported by the news portal Kyiv Independent.

A Russian flag was hoisted there on the city council building.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Ukraine-News: Belarus is massing forces at the border

First report from Monday, May 23, 2022, 9:28 a.m.:

Kiev – The former Soviet Republic of Belarus, which has not yet actively participated in the Russian-Ukrainian war, is pulling together armed forces at the border, according to information from Kiev.

"The Belarusian armed forces are conducting increased reconnaissance and have set up additional units in the border area," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Monday morning (May 23).

Accordingly, the danger of rocket and air attacks on Ukraine from Belarusian territory remains.

The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko did not take part with his own troops in the war against Ukraine that Russia started at the end of February.

However, Russian troops were allowed to use the country as a staging area for the attack.

Kyiv therefore does not see Minsk as neutral and fears that Belarusian soldiers could potentially intervene in the conflict on the part of Russia.

Lukashenko, who is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Monday, has always denied such intentions.

Ukraine-News: Russia defends positions

According to the general staff, there are few changes in the fighting in eastern Ukraine itself: the Russians are trying to defend their positions in the north of Kharkiv, and further south they are preparing a new offensive against the city of Sloviansk.

When trying to take the village of Dovgenke west of the strategically important road between Izyum and Sloviansk, the Russian military was repulsed, it said.

According to Ukrainian information, the night's attacks in the direction of Sieverodonetsk and Bakhmut were also unsuccessful.

In the area of ​​Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Novopavlivka and in the direction of Zaporizhia, hostilities have abated, said General Staff Spokesman Olexandr Stupun.

A total of eleven enemy attacks were repelled.

Because of the high losses, Russia now has to reactivate the decommissioned "T-62" tanks in order to equip reserve units.

The information could not be independently verified.

(marv/tu/nak with dpa/AFP)

Source: merkur

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