"Until Berlin": Putin friend and Kadyrov ally Daudov threatens Germany in the Ukraine war

Created: 06/07/2022, 04:50

By: Florian Naumann, Stephanie Munk, Franziska Schwarz

Russia has achieved a war goal: the capture of Luhansk.

In Ukraine, men of military age are no longer allowed to leave their place of residence.

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• Head of the

  International Atomic Energy Agency

  alarmed: the risk of an accident at the Zaporizhia nuclear plant is increasing every day

• Ukraine

  faces uproar over

  conscript rule

  : Leaving home no longer allowed, commentators fear problems

• Russia alleges

  torture

  against Ukraine: "Facts of inhumane treatment"

• This news ticker on the military situation in the Ukraine war is continuously updated.

Update from July 5, 10:25 p.m .:

After severe criticism of the reporting requirements for conscripts in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ruffled the military leadership.

At the next meeting of the general staff, the 44-year-old demanded in a video message on Tuesday that the defense minister, chief of staff and army commander-in-chief should report to him in detail.

"I promise the people to clarify the matter and ask the general staff not to make such decisions without me." There is "misunderstanding" and "indignation" in society.

Earlier, Army Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zalushnyi and the General Staff had announced that conscripted Ukrainians would need permission to leave the reporting point.

After criticism on social networks, it was added that this was only necessary for leaving the government district.

The basis is a legal standard from 1992.

War in Ukraine: Kadyrov threatens ally Daudov threatens Germany

Update from July 5, 8:30 p.m .:

The head of the Chechen parliament Magomed Daudov threatened the West and Germany in a video.

In a video that was distributed via the Messenger service Telegram, the 42-year-old celebrates the conquest of the Luhansk region by Russian troops.

Daudov announced that Russia will also conquer further cities along the Black Sea up to the port city of Odessa.

"If Putin doesn't stop us, we will - Allah willing - get to Berlin," Daudov also threatened Germany, adding: "We will win, without a doubt."

The Chechen troops in Ukraine would first and foremost defend Islam and its values, Daudov explains in the video.

The 42-year-old is the second most powerful man in the autonomous republic of Chechnya after President Ramzan Kadyrov.

Chechen armed forces have been taking part in combat operations in Ukraine since the first days of the war.

The head of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, also threatened Germany during a speech in Ukraine.

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Ukraine News: Two people die in rocket attack on Sloviansk

Update from July 5, 5 p.m.:

Russia fired rockets at the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Tuesday (July 5) – according to Ukrainian information, at least two people were killed.

Seven others were injured, said the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, on Telegram.

“Once again, the Russians are deliberately targeting places where civilians are.

This is terrorism, pure and simple,” he continued.

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According to Mayor Vadym Liakh, the Russian soldiers attacked the city's central market.

According to AFP journalists, several rockets hit the market square and adjacent streets.

The market caught fire, the fire brigade tried to put out the flames.

The city has been under rocket fire for days.

A school destroyed by a rocket attack in the village of Mayaky on the outskirts of Sloviansk.

© Michal Burza/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Ukraine-News: Selenskyj does not assume military participation by Belarus

Update from July 5, 4:43 p.m .:

Ukrainian President Selenskyj does not expect neighboring Belarus to intervene in the war with Russia.

“We believe that Belarus will not get involved in this war.

But there are provocations and they will continue," Zelenskyy said in a video address at an event organized by The Economist group.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Ukraine of launching rocket attacks on his country on Sunday (July 3).

However, the missiles were intercepted, he said.

Belarus, an ally of Russia, served as a base for Russian forces after the start of the Ukraine War.

Now Lukashenko has also caused a stir with the statement that Belarus and Russia have “practically a common army”.

Ukraine, for its part, claims that rockets have repeatedly been fired from Belarus into Ukrainian territory.

"Many rockets of different calibers were launched from Belarusian territory and caused a lot of suffering to Ukraine," Zelenskyy said.

He called on the Belarusian people to "do everything possible not to be drawn into this war".

However, Ukraine is “ready” in the event of an attack.

Ukraine war: Russia wants to strengthen the military

Update from July 5, 4:08 p.m .:

There has been war in Ukraine for four and a half months – now Russia wants to align its economy more closely with the needs of the military.

The lower house of parliament in Moscow on Tuesday (July 5) approved a government proposal for a package of changes in the first reading.

Among other things, this stipulates that individual sectors can be obliged to supply the armed forces.

In addition, workers there could be forced to work nights, weekends and public holidays and not to take vacation days.

Critics and international military experts repeatedly point out that Russia may have lost significantly more soldiers and equipment in Ukraine in recent months than officially stated.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borissov justified the project with the increased sanctions pressure on Russia and western arms deliveries to Ukraine.

In order to come into force, the legislative amendments still have to be passed at second and third readings, approved by the upper house of parliament and finally signed by Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine-News: Nuclear authority warns of the risk of accidents at Ukrainian nuclear power plants

Update from July 5, 3:53 p.m .:

The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA warns of the increasing risk of accidents in the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian armed forces.

The Ukrainian management and the local nuclear power plant employees are exposed to extreme stress and difficult working conditions.

"Every day that this continues, the risk of an accident or a security breach increases," said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on Tuesday at a lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March, and alleged plans by Russia to empty the cooling basins were recently announced.

An armed Russian soldier at the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in the city of Enerhodar, Ukraine (stock image, March 2022).

© IMAGO/Konstantin Mihalchevskiy/SNA

War in Ukraine: Sloviansk mayor reports massive bombing of city

Update from July 5, 2:40 p.m .:

According to its mayor, the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk came under massive fire from the Russian army on Tuesday (July 5).

"Slovyansk!

Massive bombardment of the city.

In the center, in the north.

Everyone in the air-raid shelter,” Mayor Wadym Liach wrote on Facebook.

The city, which had a population of 100,000 before the start of the Ukraine war, is apparently the next target for Russian forces as they advance into the Donetsk region.

Former separatist boss now warns Putin of defeat

Update from July 5, 2:24 p.m .:

Criticism of Vladimir Putin comes from a former separatist chief in eastern Ukraine – in the form of an unflattering comparison.

Instead of taking vigorous action, the Kremlin is waiting in vain for a ceasefire offer, Igor Girkin wrote on Telegram.

"Just like Napoleon in 1812 (also in the Kremlin, by the way), who - instead of acting appropriately according to the situation - waited hopelessly and gloomily for negotiators from St. Petersburg."

The French emperor had hoped for Russia's capitulation after conquering Moscow, but when this did not happen and Moscow went up in flames, he had to retreat in the winter, during which the French army was crushed.

Girkin is a Russian ex-intelligence agent who played a central role in both the Moscow-led annexation of Crimea in 2014 and later separatist secession attempts in Ukraine's Donbass region.

As "Minister of Defense" he temporarily led the military uprising against Kyiv in eastern Ukraine.

The 51-year-old is seen as a hardliner and mouthpiece for the influential nationalists in Russia.

He has been calling for a war against Ukraine for years.

Girkin warned of a military defeat for Moscow and called for a transition to a war economy.

There is no other way to win the war, he says.

After taking Lyssychansk, the "offensive potential" of the units fighting there was exhausted.

He predicted that without fresh reserves and supplies of weapons, no significant gains in territory could be expected.

Ukraine: Conscript men are no longer allowed to leave their place of residence – “idiocy”

Update from July 5, 1:34 p.m .:

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has banned men of military age from leaving their place of residence.

The Army General Staff asked on Facebook on Tuesday (July 5) to respond to this order with understanding.

To leave the registered place of residence, men between 18 and 60 now need permission from the associated district military replacement office.

Controls are currently mainly taking place at the borders between the administrative districts and at checkpoints at city limits.

The decree is based on the 1992 Conscription Law.

Within a short time, hundreds of indignant Ukrainians wrote comments under the Facebook post.

The ministry was accused of "idiocy".

The arrangement will promote corruption in the district military replacement offices, it said.

Even more economic chaos was feared because drivers for trains, buses and trucks could be absent.

Many Ukrainians do not even live in their place of registration.

With the start of the Ukraine war on February 24, tens of thousands of conscripts fled to safer areas in the west of the country.

They were forbidden from leaving Ukraine when martial law was imposed around four and a half months ago.

Russia Alleges Torture Against Ukraine – “Facts of Inhuman Treatment”

Update from July 5, 12:44 p.m

.: Moscow accuses Kiev of torturing Russian prisoners of war.

The state investigation committee in Moscow announced that investigations had therefore been initiated.

"Facts of inhumane treatment" of arrested Russian soldiers would be examined.

Moscow and Kyiv each exchanged 144 prisoners of war last week.

According to the investigative committee, Russian soldiers then reported that they had "suffered violence".

One soldier stated that Ukrainian doctors treated him without anesthetic and "beat and tortured him with electricity".

In addition, he had been without water and food for days, the soldier said, according to the Russian information.

The information could not be independently verified.

Occupied Cherson region: Ex-secret service agent new head of government

Update from July 5, 10:47 a.m

.: An ex-secret service agent has taken office as the new head of government of the occupied Cherson region.

This was announced by the pro-Russian head of the regional administration, Vladimir Saldo, on Telegram.

Sergei Eliseev was previously the first deputy prime minister of the Kaliningrad exclave, which is currently the subject of a transit dispute.

The 51-year-old Russian is a graduate of the Academy of Russia's domestic intelligence agency FSB and has served in various capacities for the service, according to the Kaliningrad region's website.

After capturing the Kherson region, the Kremlin declared that the residents should decide their own future.

Since then, the region has been brought ever closer to Russia.

Russian passports were issued and the Russian ruble was introduced as a means of payment.

The local authorities in place want to hold a referendum on official union with Russia.

Ukraine-News: Zelenskyj warns of energy crisis in winter

Update from July 5, 10:24 a.m

.: In Germany, CSU boss Markus Söder warns of a “freezing winter”.

Volodymyr Zelenskyj has the same concern - in the war zone.

The President said in his daily video address that Ukraine must start preparing for the winter now, among other things to secure the energy supply.

Large parts of the economy have been paralyzed by fighting and Russian attacks.

Thousands of companies are at a standstill.

At the same time, reconstruction must be about more than just putting up walls that have been destroyed: "Ukraine must become the freest, most modern and safest country in Europe." The Ukraine reconstruction conference in Lugano is currently still underway.

"We have to break them," says Zelenskyj about Russians - and talks about losses

Update from July 5, 6:39 a.m

.: On the night of Tuesday, the air alarm was triggered again in almost the entire Ukraine.

Rocket and grenade fire was reported from the north-eastern Sumy region, injuring several people.

While Russia has taken control of the Luhansk region of Ukraine, fighting continues in the neighboring Donetsk region.

On the border with the Luhansk region, Russian attacks were successfully repelled near Bilohorivka and Verkhnjokamyanske, the Ukrainian general staff said on Facebook on Monday evening.

The Wuhlehirsk thermal power plant to the west of Svitlodarsk, which has already been conquered by pro-Russian separatists, is also contested.

Zelenskyy's adviser Oleksiy Arestovych expressed confidence that Ukrainian troops will be able to stabilize the defense lines on other sectors of the front after the abandonment of Lysychansk.

Overall, however, one can say that Russia's military has conquered the Luhansk region, he admitted on YouTube.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyj wants to recapture areas in the Russia-Ukraine war.

© Michael Buholzer / dpa

Zelenskyj only briefly commented on the course of the fighting in the east of the country, where Ukrainian troops had to give up the city of Lysychansk at the weekend.

The Russian armed forces have thus largely brought the Luhansk region under their control - which was considered one of their key war objectives.

The Ukrainian armed forces inflicted casualties on the Russian military every day, Zelenskyy said.

"We have to break them." That will take time and "superhuman effort", but there is no alternative to secure Ukraine's future.

Selenskyj was convinced that occupied areas would be recaptured.

War in Ukraine: No medicines, hardly any water and food - situation in the city of Mariupol is critical

Update from July 4, 9:46 p.m .:

The people in the Ukraine war not only suffer from direct fire, but also from the indirect consequences of the war.

In the city of Mariupol occupied by Russian troops, residents are apparently dying due to a lack of medicines.

The city lacks medicines for cancer patients, people with diabetes, tuberculosis and thyroid problems, Mayor Vadym Boychenko said on Telegram on Monday.

Access to sufficient food and drinking water is also restricted.

The information could not initially be verified independently.

Ukraine War: Ukrainian Territory reports gains and losses in Donetsk Oblast

Update from July 4, 7:47 p.m.: Over

the weekend, the Ukrainian army finally withdrew from Lysychansk, so the entire Luhansk region is now under Russian control.

The Ukrainian general staff reported on Facebook on Monday evening that the fighting had been shifted to the neighboring Donetsk region and reported gains and losses from there.

On the border of the two regions, Russian attacks were successfully repelled near Bilohorivka and Verkhnjokamjanske, the General Staff said.

The Wuhlehirsk thermal power plant west of Svitlodarsk, which has already been conquered by pro-Russian separatists, is said to be contested.

On the other hand, the Russian troops had gained territory north of Slowjansk near Masanivka.

In addition, Ukrainian positions on large parts of the front were shelled with artillery, rocket launchers and mortars and by the Russian air force.

The information could not initially be verified independently.

Ukraine war: Moscow wants to rename square in front of British embassy

Update from July 4, 5:24 p.m

.: Provocation in the Russian capital: Moscow wants to rename a square in front of the British Embassy after the Luhansk region that has just been conquered.

In an online survey, the majority of Muscovites voted in favor of this location in order to dedicate it to the "Luhansk People's Republic", the city administration announced.

Places not far from the German consulate and an area not far from the embassies of Lithuania and Belgium were also available for selection.

At the end of June, the city of Moscow had already renamed the square in front of the US embassy “Donetsk People's Republic Square”.

Putin wants troops to "rest" - but the separatist leader is already demanding more

Vladimir Putin and his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin on Monday.

© Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool Sputnik Kremlin/AP/dpa

First report from July 4, 2022:

Luhansk/Munich – The Russian invasion of Ukraine was preceded, among other things, by bold demands from the separatist areas in Luhansk and Donetsk.

Now renewed calls for aggressive action are coming from Luhansk;

piquantly with reference to western arms shipments.

They could be a harbinger of further attacks - although Vladimir Putin tended to leave the offensive rhetoric to his subordinates on Monday.

Moscow only reported the case of Lysychansk, the last Ukrainian-controlled city in the Luhansk region, at the weekend.

The Kremlin has thus achieved one of its most important war goals.

But that's not enough for Leonid Pasechnik, leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic: he wants to see the Ukrainian troops pushed back further.

Pasechnik called for another security buffer on Russian television and reminded the Kremlin of the goal of "denazification and demilitarization of all of Ukraine," as reported by the Ria Novosti news agency.

Ukraine war: Separatists demand more conquests from Putin - "Unfortunately reach our territory"

“The territory of the republic has been liberated.

Unfortunately, the safety of the residents of the republic was not fully guaranteed on our territory," Pasechnik said, according to the report on the Perwy kanal TV channel.

The separatist chief argued with multiple rocket launchers that the West had delivered to Ukraine: "Unfortunately, they are reaching our area," said Pasechnik.

He added: "We must at least push the enemy into an area that is safe for us."

Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin officially recognized the two so-called People's Republics in February - and initially gave the order to invade the areas, officially to "secure peace".

A little later, Moscow took up the cause of “denazification” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine in a narrative that was heavily criticized in the West.

"Nobody has canceled this task," explained Pasechnik now.

The statement in the important medium can be read as a declaration of war on Kyiv.

But it also increases the pressure on the Kremlin to succeed.

Putin comments on the Ukraine war: Soldiers should "rest" - Minister announces further fighting

However, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also announced a continued offensive on Monday (July 4).

"The armed forces of the Russian Federation are continuing the military special operation," he said at a meeting with Putin - in Russia there is still talk of a "special operation" instead of a war.

However, Putin himself said that Russian soldiers who took part in the capture of Luhansk should now “rest” in order to gather strength for further fighting.

Other units, on the other hand, should continue to fulfill their "tasks," Putin told Shoigu - hoping that "everything will happen in their directions as in Luhansk."

The head of the Kremlin also awarded two generals the Order of Heroes of Russia.

According to Ukrainian sources, only a few thousand people remain in Lysychansk, once having more than 100,000 residents.

The military governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajdaj, said the number was around 10,000 on Ukrainian television on Monday.

In the neighboring city of Sievjerodonetsk, which is also under Russian control, only about 8,000 people remained.

More than 100,000 lived there before the war began.

Observers have recently repeatedly expressed concern that Russia wants to depopulate the areas through brutal attacks.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not yet see Lysychansk as lost.

"If the command of our army withdraws people from certain points of the front where the enemy has the greatest fire advantage - Lysychansk in particular - it means only one thing: that thanks to our tactics, thanks to the increased supply of modern weapons, we will come back," said he still on Sunday in a video message.

Ukraine also celebrated a symbolic triumph on Monday: after the withdrawal of Russian soldiers, troops raised the Ukrainian flag on Snake Island off the Black Sea coast.

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