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Ukraine war: battle for Sievjerodonetsk rages - Russia abducts prisoners for "interrogation"

2022-06-19T05:10:34.808Z


Ukraine war: battle for Sievjerodonetsk rages - Russia abducts prisoners for "interrogation" Created: 06/19/2022Updated: 06/19/2022 07:02 By: Daniel Dillmann, Lucas Maier The Russian army advances further in eastern Ukraine and begins deporting prisoners of war from Mariupol. The news ticker. Rocket attacks on refineries: Russia intensifies attacks in eastern Ukraine. Above all, the supply rou


Ukraine war: battle for Sievjerodonetsk rages - Russia abducts prisoners for "interrogation"

Created: 06/19/2022Updated: 06/19/2022 07:02

By: Daniel Dillmann, Lucas Maier

The Russian army advances further in eastern Ukraine and begins deporting prisoners of war from Mariupol.

The news ticker.

  • Rocket attacks on refineries:

    Russia intensifies attacks in eastern Ukraine.

    Above all, the supply routes of the defenders should be interrupted.

  • Negotiations falter:

    In the Ukraine war, there should be no more talks until the end of August.

  • Johnson visit:

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is visiting the capital Kiev in the middle of the Ukraine conflict.

+++ Update from Sunday, June 19, 7:05 a.m .:

Fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues in eastern Ukrainian Donbass.

According to pro-Russian separatists fighting there, five civilians were killed by Ukrainian artillery fire.

The city of Sievjerodonetsk in particular remains hard fought.

But war is also raging in southern Ukraine.

There, the city of Mykolaiv is considered a strategically important destination for Russia.

Taking the city would open the way to Odessa, the main port city still under Ukraine's control after the loss of Mariupol.

Moscow has also started deporting prisoners of war from Mariupol to Russia.

Specifically, the commanders of the Azov regiment, which had defended Mariupol for weeks, are to be brought to "interrogation".

This is reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

A Russian army soldier stands in front of a block of flats in Luhansk that were destroyed in the Ukraine war.

© Alexander Reka/imago

Ukraine war: Russia takes more refineries under rocket fire

+++ 9.30 p.m .:

Russian troops destroyed oil tanks near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a rocket attack on Saturday.

The regional administration reported three rockets hit the depot in the Novomokovsk district.

"There is a strong fire," wrote the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Valentyn Reznichenko on Telegram.

Three people were taken to hospital with burns.

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Russian missiles struck a factory that processes gas near the city of Izyum in eastern Ukraine.

There was also a big fire there, as the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synyehubov, announced.

In addition to the factory, houses were also hit.

No information was given about the victims in this case.

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+++ 19.30 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russia is sending a large number of units from other combat areas to the Sievjerodonetsk region in order to gain full control of the front city.

"Today, tomorrow or the day after they will throw in all the reserves they have," Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said on national television.

"Because there are already so many of them, they have a critical mass." According to Gaidai, Russian troops already control most of the city, but not all of it.

+++ 6.10 p.m .:

According to the pro-Russian mayor of Donetsk, Ukrainian troops shot at the city in the morning.

A building of the Donetsk National University, a school, shops, residential buildings and administrative buildings were damaged, Alexei Kulemzin wrote on Telegram, civilians were killed or injured.

The information could not be independently verified.

+++ 4.10 p.m .:

From Mönchengladbach to the border between Poland and Ukraine: On Saturday (June 18) an airlift for the transport of war casualties from Ukraine was inaugurated in Mönchengladbach.

With the "Ukraine Airlift Day", the initiators want to win more volunteer pilots and aircraft owners for the eastbound flights.

Ukraine War: Zelenskyj travels south

+++ 1.35 p.m .:

Volodymyr Selenskyj has traveled to the front in southern Ukraine again.

A video on his Telegram channel shows the President of Ukraine handing out medals in the city of Mykolaiv and inspecting the situation in the city east of Odessa.

“We discussed the state of the economy, the restoration of the water supply and the situation in agriculture.

Particular attention was paid to threats from land and sea," reads the video's description.

+++ 12.13 p.m .:

The Kremlin is apparently stepping up its efforts to advance further into the Donbass from the north.

This is according to reports from the British Ministry of Defence.

Accordingly, the Kremlin is preparing a new offensive from the direction of the city of Izyum to the southeast.

The aim is to surround the city of Sievjerodonetsk with their own troops from all sides.

This is likely to aggravate the situation of the civilians still there.

Russia fires on refinery in Ukraine

+++ 10.45 a.m .:

Russia has again attacked the centrally located town of Kremenchuk.

The refinery located there was hit by a total of six rockets, as pravda.ua reports.

Two more rockets hit the place, as regional spokesman Dymytro Lunin announced.

Ukraine war: Negotiations with Russia only resume at the end of August

+++ 9.35 a.m .:

The negotiations in the Ukraine war are currently limited to questions of detail.

General peace has long since ceased to be an issue in the talks.

This is reported by the dpa news agency.

Both Moscow and Kyiv are currently counting on improving their negotiating position through military successes.

Ukraine War: Street Fighting in Sieverodonetsk

Update, 8:06 a.m .: Heavy

fighting continues in eastern Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian general staff, the situation in Sievjerodonetsk in particular is confusing.

There is now a fight for every single street.

The city itself and its surroundings have been under heavy artillery fire from Russia for days.

++ Ukraine war: Kyiv reports heavy losses - Johnson surprisingly visits

Kyiv - After 114 days of war in Ukraine, the attacker from Russia seems to have the luck of the war on his side.

According to a high-ranking general, the Ukrainian army has suffered high material losses since the fighting began.

"To date, as a result of active combat, we have an estimated 30 to 40, sometimes up to 50 percent losses in our equipment," Brigadier General Volodymyr Karpenko told the US magazine "National Defense".

In the meantime, around "1,300 infantry fighting vehicles, 400 tanks and 700 artillery systems have been lost."

++ Ukraine war: Johnson assures further support

In order to be able to continue to defend against the attacks from Russia, military support and new weapons from the West are needed above all.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, who surprisingly received British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, also demands this.

During his spontaneous visit to Kyiv, he promised no new weapons for Ukraine, but at least training programs for the soldiers.

Military trainers from Great Britain had already instructed the Ukrainian army in the use of modern Western weapons at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict and before the start of hostilities.

Johnson also promised Selenskyi the delivery of additional weapon systems.

++ Ukraine war: fighting in the east of the country

The fighting between Ukraine and Russia continued to focus on the Donbass region on Saturday night.

In particular, the city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region remains fiercely contested.

The Russian army fired again at the Azot chemical plant on Friday.

According to the Ukrainian army, more than 560 civilians have sought shelter on the extensive factory site.

Among them are said to be 38 children.

++ Ukraine war: number of civilian casualties increases continuously

The number of civilian casualties in the Ukraine war is also steadily increasing.

This is also confirmed by reports from the region around the city of Donetsk.

Four people were killed there by a Russian missile attack, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Six other people were injured in the attack.

The authorities in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv reported two dead and 20 injured after attacks by the Russian army.

The governor of the region, Vitaly Kim, spoke of repeated rocket attacks from Russia on residential areas in the region.

The Kremlin, on the other hand, denies shelling residential areas.

(dil/dpa)

Source: merkur

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