Brits report Russia's successes in Kharkiv: Sievjerodonetsk lost after failed evacuation?
Created: 06/14/2022, 10:04 am
By: Patrick Mayer, Markus Hofstetter, Christoph Gschoßmann
Ukrainian forces have not yet given up on Sieverodonetsk.
An evacuation of the defenders and civilians is no longer possible.
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Russia has destroyed all bridges, but Sieverodonetsk has not yet fallen.
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Update from June 13, 9:20 a.m
.: The British Ministry of Defense reports small Russian successes in Kharkiv.
For the first time in weeks, Russia has made progress around the megacity.
However, the main Russian attack efforts are still aimed at the Sieverodonetsk pocket, according to the daily intelligence update on the Ukraine war on Tuesday.
Update from June 13, 9:45 p.m .:
The Ukrainian army has lost the center of the heavily contested city of Sievjerodonetsk, but not the entire city.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haiday, stated that Russian troops now controlled more than 70 percent of the city area.
"The Russians are destroying district after district," he said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously announced that the defenders in the eastern Ukrainian industrial city were fighting for "every meter" of ground with the (pro-)Russian attackers.
Ukraine War: Mayor of Donetsk city of Sviatohirsk defectes to Russia
Update from June 13, 2:25 p.m .:
A mayor defected to Russia: The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Sviatohirsk in the north of Donetsk Oblast has joined the occupiers.
According to the pro-Russian newspaper "Strana", Vladimir Bandura is said to have been appointed "head of administration" of the city that was conquered about a week ago.
Denis Puschilin - the president of the Donetsk separatist republic DNR, which is recognized only by Russia - officially handed over the post to him.
Almost a week ago, Puschilin spoke of the Russian capture of the city, which is important for the Russian Orthodox Church.
Puschilin spoke of a "cleansing".
Mayor Bandura then accused the Ukrainian army of setting fire to the Archmonastery of the Dormition.
For this reason, criminal proceedings against Bandura are already underway in Ukraine.
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Ukraine War: Need hundreds of tanks and guns to win
Update from June 13, 12:46 p.m .:
Ukraine has specified demands for comprehensive arms deliveries, which the government in Kiev believes it needs to win the war against Russia.
"1000 155mm caliber howitzers, 300 multiple rocket launcher systems, 500 tanks, 2000 armored vehicles, 1000 drones," Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podoliak wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Kyiv is expecting a decision on this from the meeting of NATO defense ministers next Wednesday in Brussels.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion since late February.
According to information from Kyiv, a shortage of heavy weapons and ammunition is making the situation on the more than 2,400-kilometer front increasingly difficult.
Ukraine-News: Maize cargo ship bypasses Russia's blockade on the Black Sea
Update from June 13, 12.40 p.m .:
New sea routes from Ukraine: A ship with 18,000 tons of Ukrainian corn arrived at a port in northwestern Spain early on Monday, using a “new sea route”.
This was explained by the animal feed producer group Agafac.
The new route aims to bypass Russia's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports.
The cargo ship Alppila arrived in the Spanish port of La Coruña before sunrise on Monday and is due to be unloaded by Tuesday, the port's press office told
CNN
.
It is the first shipment of Ukrainian grain to reach north-west Spain by sea.
Ukraine.News: Ukrainian army pushed back from city center of Seyerodonetsk
Update from June 13, 10:06 a.m .:
After weeks of fierce fighting, the Ukrainian army says it has been pushed back from the center of the strategically important city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Donbass region.
The Russian army, with the support of its artillery, "partially" managed to push back the Ukrainian soldiers in the city center, the Ukrainian general staff said on the online service Facebook on Monday.
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajdaj, also reported a "partial" success of the Russian troops on Monday night.
Russian forces continued to "destroy" Sieverodonetsk, Hajday said on Facebook.
Update from June 13, 8:38 a.m
.: The Ukrainian army has acknowledged the loss of the center of the heavily contested city of Sievjerodonetsk in the east of the country.
Russian troops shelled the city in the Luhansk region with artillery and drove out the Ukrainian soldiers, the Ukrainian general staff said on Monday morning.
The fighting continued, however, it said.
A few hours earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had declared that in the strategically important Sieverodonetsk there was "literally a fight for every meter".
According to their own statements, Ukrainian troops still controlled around a third of the city on Saturday.
Ukraine conflict: Amnesty International accuses Russia of using cluster munitions
Update from June 13, 6:55 a.m
.: Russian troops are said to have used cluster munitions in the Ukraine war.
This is the result of research by Amnesty International (AI).
"In Kharkiv, people were killed in their homes and on the streets while they visited playgrounds with their children, commemorated their relatives in cemeteries, while queuing for aid deliveries or while shopping," reported Janine Uhlmannsiek from the German AI offshoot, citing a new one Report entitled "Anyone can die at any time".
Uhlmannsiek demanded that those responsible for these attacks should be brought to justice and that the injured and the families of the victims should be compensated.
Cluster munitions are rockets or bombs that burst while still in the air over the target, releasing a large number of small explosive devices.
This is outlawed in most countries around the world.
Ukraine-News: Russia reports "terrorist attack" in Berdyansk
Update from June 12, 5:30 p.m .:
Russia reports a “terrorist attack” in the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk in the southern Ukrainian Zaporizhia Oblast.
"A terrorist attack has been carried out in the city of Berdyansk in the Zaporizhia region," writes the Russian news agency TASS.
The details of the incident are still being clarified.
Berdyansk is currently occupied by Russian troops.
The Ukrainian news portal
Kyiv Independent
reported explosions in the city area, for example at a substation, and referred to the city council.
According to Russian reports, Ukrainian militants could be responsible for the explosions.
They wanted to disrupt Russia Day, a Russian holiday on June 12, it said.
Update from June 12, 3:40 p.m .:
According to AFP, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that more than 150 soldiers from the Ukrainian army were killed in air raids.
In addition, six tanks, five artillery pieces and ten army vehicles are said to have been destroyed.
Two Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets were shot down by Russian jets and another Ukrainian SU-25 was hit by anti-aircraft guns.
This information cannot be verified independently.
Ukraine conflict: Russian missiles are said to have destroyed warehouses with western weapons
Update from June 12, 1:48 p.m .:
According to their own statements, the Russian armed forces attacked a large arms depot near Ternopil in the west of the country during the Ukraine war.
"High-precision long-range Kalibr sea-launched missiles destroyed a large camp of anti-tank missile systems, man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems and artillery shells near the town of Chortkiv in the Ternopil region," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.
The weapons are said to have been supplied by the US and European countries.
Four Kalibr long-range missiles were fired from a frigate in the Black Sea, according to the Defense Ministry.
According to their own statements, the Russian armed forces have destroyed targets in western Ukraine with sea-launched Kalibr long-range missiles (archive photo from June 23, 2017) © picture alliance/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP/dpa
The head of the Ternopil regional administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed the attack.
Accordingly, shortly before 10 p.m. local time, four rockets hit military and several civilian objects.
Among other things, four houses were damaged.
22 people were injured.
Nothing was known about the dead.
Ukraine-News: Russian army to use entire reserve to occupy Sievjerodonetsk
Update from June 12, 11:30 a.m.:
According to information from
Serhiy Hayday, governor of the Luhansk region, the Russian army is using “all its reserves” to occupy Sieverodonetsk.
This is reported by the Ukrainian news agency Unian, citing local media.
The aim of Russia is therefore to bring the road between Lysychansk and Bakhmut under control today or tomorrow.
The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, reports that its navy destroyed a warehouse containing weapons from the US and European countries in a Kalibr missile attack on Chortkiv in Ternopil Oblast.
Previously, Volodyr Trush, governor of the oblast, had confirmed a rocket attack (see update at 9.40 a.m.).
This information could not be checked independently.
Ukraine-News: Rocket attack damages gas pipeline in the west of the country
Update from June 12, 9.40 a.m .:
22 people are said to have been injured in a rocket attack in the Chortkiv area in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine.
This was announced by the governor of the region, Volodyr Trush, on Telegram.
In addition to a military facility, a gas pipeline is said to have been damaged.
Ukrainian secret service: Russian General Staff adjusts plans to the course of the battle in Donbass
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First report from June 12:
Kiev - Russia is said to be preparing for an even longer operation in the Ukraine war.
This emerges from the current report of the "Institute for the Study of War" from June 11th.
According to this, the Ukrainian secret service GRU has the information that the Russian army leadership has extended its planning by 120 days until October 2022.
The Russian General Staff is adapting its plans to the course of the fighting in the Donbass, so that they are changed monthly.
One problem with this is that the Russian army still lacks reserves.
According to the GRU, Russia has deployed 103 BTGs (Battalion Tactical Groups) in Ukraine so far.
Another 40 BTGs are to be held in reserve.
However, these should not be full-fledged combat units, but associations whose personnel have been thrown together from other units.
Meanwhile, according to the Ukrainian military, fighting in the city of Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine continues.
The Russian army fired on the civilian infrastructure in the city and in neighboring Lysychansk and three other places, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army said on Facebook on Saturday.