Ukraine war: Selenskyj calls fighting in Donbass "hell" - rocket hits near Poland
Created: 2022-08-03 04:56
By: Tobias Utz, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nail Akkoyun
The freighter "Razoni" has reached Turkey.
President Zelenskyy describes the fighting in Donbass as "hell": the news ticker on Tuesday, August 2nd.
Treason and collaboration:
Ukraine investigates more than 700 cases
Nuclear weapons threat:
Kiev criticizes Moscow
Editor
's note: You can read all the news about the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.
Some of the information comes from warring factions in the Ukraine war and cannot be checked directly and independently.
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Two explosions occurred near the Ukrainian western border with NATO member Poland on Tuesday evening.
A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian military facility in the Chervonohrad district, the administration of the Lviv region said.
There is still no information on the damage done, wrote Governor Maxim Kosizkyj on the social network Telegram.
The Russian army fired eight missiles at Ukraine from long-range bombers over the Caspian Sea on Tuesday evening, the high command of the Ukrainian air force said.
Seven of them were intercepted.
An anti-aircraft position was hit in the Lviv region.
This military information could not be verified directly.
Explosions were also reported from the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine in the evening.
In mid-March, Russia hit the Yaworiv military training area about 20 kilometers from the border with Poland with rockets.
According to the information, at least 35 soldiers were killed.
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News on the Ukraine war: According to Zelenskyy, fighting in the Donbass is "hell"
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According to President Volodymyr Selenskyj, the Ukrainian army needs more weapons to defeat the Russian superiority in the Donbass.
In his video speech on Tuesday evening, the head of state thanked the United States in particular for wanting to provide further military aid.
His army could inflict painful losses on the attackers, especially with Himar's multiple rocket launchers from the USA.
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov confirmed the arrival of four more Himars units in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"In fact, we still cannot completely break the advantage of the Russian army in terms of artillery and manpower," said Zelenskyy despite this.
This was clearly felt in the battles for Pisky, Avdiivka and other places in Donbass.
"It's just hell."
Ukrainian soldiers during a mass funeral in Donbass in July 2022. © Stanislav Krasilnikov/Imago
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News about the Ukraine war: Cargo ship "Razoni" reaches Istanbul
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During the day, units of the Russian occupation army tried to penetrate the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Donbass and north of Kharkiv.
The Russian troops are said to have been partially successful.
This emerges from the evening operational update of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
However, the information could not be independently verified.
Meanwhile, the first cargo ship loaded with Ukrainian grain since the Russian war of aggression began has arrived in Turkey for inspection.
The freighter "Razoni" arrived with around 26,000 tons of corn from Ukraine at the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus Strait running through Istanbul and anchored at the assigned point, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter.
Representatives of Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations should therefore go on board and inspect the ship on Wednesday morning.
This is to ensure, among other things, that no weapons are loaded.
The freighter is then to pass the Bosphorus.
The ship, flying the flag of the West African state of Sierra Leone, is heading for Lebanon.
News on the Ukraine war: US Secretary of State Blinken comments on the "nuclear accident"
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented on fears about a “nuclear accident” in Ukraine.
He told reporters Monday there were "credible reports" that Russia was using a facility "as a human shield, but as a nuclear shield in the sense that it was firing at Ukrainians from around the facility."
This is reported
by CNBC News
.
News about the Ukraine war: Cargo ship to be inspected in Istanbul
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The first cargo ship with Ukrainian grain since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression should reach the entrance to the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul this Tuesday evening.
The Turkish Defense Ministry said the "Razoni" with 26,000 tons of corn is expected to arrive there around 9 p.m. local time (8 p.m. CEST).
The online positioning system Marinetraffic showed that the freighter did not stop near the strait.
Most recently, the Ministry of Defense spoke of an arrival on Wednesday night.
The freighter should not enter a port, but anchor in front of the entrance to the Bosphorus.
Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations plan to board and inspect the ship on Wednesday morning.
This is to ensure that no weapons are loaded.
The freighter is then to pass through the strait.
The ship, flying the flag of the West African state of Sierra Leone, is heading for Lebanon.
News about the Ukraine war: Erdogan wants to talk to Putin about grain agreements
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Vladimir Putin wants to talk to Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the grain agreement with Ukraine on Friday.
This was announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
It will be about how effective the agreement is, it said.
The agreement must be renewed after 120 days.
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Russian troops attacked an evacuation bus in the Cherson region on Monday (August 1).
Three people were killed and five injured.
The vehicle was on its way from the Russian-held village of Starosilya to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kryvyi Rih, said Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military.
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Former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has described Georgia and Kazakhstan as artificial states.
In a Telegram post, he hinted at the upcoming annexation of the countries as a target of Russia.
This is reported, among other things, by the news portal
Nexta
.
Medvedev also said that "all the people who lived in the once great and powerful USSR will soon live together again in friendship".
Shortly after publication, the Telegram post was apparently deleted.
Medvedev then claimed his account had been hacked.
That cannot be verified.
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According to information from Moscow, Russian troops are currently carrying out attacks on Ukrainian forces in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that there were also fatalities.
However, there is no confirmation from the Ukrainian side for this information.
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Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, has announced that the evacuation from the Donetsk region has begun.
The first train with evacuees from the area has already arrived in Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohrad region), as reported by the news portal
Kyiv Independent
.
This cannot be verified independently.
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Despite the lack of major successes in recent weeks, everything is going according to plan for the Russian army in eastern Ukraine.
"After taking control of the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic, the Donetsk People's Republic will be liberated as planned," Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the
Interfax agency on Tuesday
according to.
At the beginning of July, Russia announced the conquest of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk - but since then only relatively small gains in territory have been made in neighboring Donetsk.
Shoigu listed six towns in Donetsk that his troops are said to have last conquered.
The statements by the Russian defense minister contrast with the data reported daily by the Ukrainian general staff: According to them, more than 41,000 Russian soldiers have already died in the Ukraine war.
However, both the information from Kyiv and Moscow comes from warring factions and is therefore not independently verifiable.
Ukraine war news: Russia classifies Azov regiment as a "terrorist organization".
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The Supreme Court of Russia classified the Ukrainian Azov regiment as a “terrorist organization”.
The Azov paramilitary units would be classified as a "terrorist organization" and their activities would be banned in Russia, a court judge told the Russian news agency Tass on Tuesday.
The decision could mean very harsh punishment for the members of the Azov regiment captured by Russia, best known for its bitter fighting over the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
Ukraine war news: Russia responsible for 53 dead prisoners of war?
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According to the “Institute for the Study of War” (ISW), Russian forces are responsible for the killing of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka.
According to the US think tank, there is no evidence that Ukrainian forces fired HIMARS multiple rocket launchers at a detention center near Olenivka on July 28.
According to the ISW, only one building was damaged in the Ukrainian attack, with no walls collapsing or shell craters left in the area, suggesting that the prison's destruction was the result of either a "precision strike or internally placed incendiary or explosive devices." be.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian troops shoot at residential buildings - and advance to Bachmut
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In the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, fighting for the city of Bakhmut between Russian and Ukrainian troops continues.
The Ukrainian general staff announced on Tuesday that Russian advances had also been made in the direction of Soledars, eight kilometers to the north.
Russian attacks in several places south of Bakhmut, on the other hand, were largely repelled, it said.
This information could not be independently verified.
Ukraine war news: civilians killed by Russian army
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As the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, announced, three civilians were killed in his region by the Russian army on August 1.
Two people were killed in Maryinka and one in Bakhmut, Kyrylenko said.
He said three other people were injured.
Russia also shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday night (August 2).
The governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, reported that the Synelnykivsky and Kryvorizky districts were shelled by Russian forces during the night, damaging houses and vehicles.
The information cannot be independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv criticizes Moscow for nuclear weapons threat
Update from Tuesday, August 2, 6:30 a.m.:
Kiev has sharply criticized Moscow for indirect threats to use nuclear weapons in the course of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
"The world is witnessing how nuclear terrorism, sponsored by a nuclear-armed state, is becoming a reality," said Deputy Foreign Minister Mykola Tochytskyi on Monday (local time) at the start of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in New York, according to the speech.
Robust collective action is needed to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
No-fly zones would have to be set up over Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
The aggressor Russia should not get away with invading Ukraine just because it has nuclear weapons.
News about the Ukraine war: New US rocket launchers for the Ukrainian army
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The USA recently delivered four more “HIMARS” missile systems to Ukraine.
These can now be used by the army, as Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov announced.
"The sound of the HIMARS is the top hit on the front lines," he wrote on Twitter.
The US multiple rocket launchers have a longer range and are more accurate than the Soviet Union's artillery used by the Ukrainian army.
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Russian troops are apparently currently preparing an offensive in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine.
According to an analysis by the US think tank Institute for the Study of War,
however, this will fail.
Update from Monday, August 1st, 2022, 6:00 a.m.:
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened Russia with consequences after the rocket fire.
"No Russian attack goes unanswered by our military and secret service agents," Zelenskyy emphasized, referring to the shelling of Mykolaiv.
In his video language, he also commemorated Oleksiy Vadaturskyj, the owner of one of the largest Ukrainian grain trading companies, who was killed in the southern Ukrainian city.
In the meantime, on the eve of the 159th day of the war, air raids were sounded almost all over Ukraine.
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The Russian Navy is to receive “Zircon” hypersonic cruise missiles in the coming months.
This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech on "Navy Day" in St. Petersburg, as reported by the
Reuters
news agency .
"The frigate Admiral Gorshkov will be the first to go into combat with these impressive weapons on board," he said, praising the missiles as unique in the world.
News about the Ukraine war: NATO mission starts on Monday
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In a situation report on the Ukraine war, the US think tank “Institute for the Study of War” analyzed that Russian troops are currently apparently concentrating on the cities of Bakhmut and Donetsk in the Donbass.
“Russian commanders are likely trying to use recent successes in the Novoluhanske area to pressure Bakhmut from the east.
Their efforts around the city of Donetsk are likely aimed at pushing Ukrainian forces out of the city's artillery range," it said.
In addition, it is possible that the Russian military is trying to gain as much ground as possible in the Donetsk region in order to underpin the upcoming sham referendum with a troop presence.
The information provided by the think tank cannot be independently verified.
News on the Ukraine war: Headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet hit in a drone attack
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The headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was apparently hit by a drone attack.
As the governor of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Rasvoschajew, announced on Twitter, five employees of the headquarters were injured in the attack.
"Early this morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil our Navy Day," Rasvozhayev stressed.
The "Day of the Navy" celebrations are taking place this Sunday, primarily in St. Petersburg.
The achievements of the military are to be honored, similar to May 9, the "Day of Victory" over Nazi Germany.
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In the early hours of the morning, the Russian army also attacked Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.
The mayor asked people to go to shelters.
First report from Sunday, July 31, 5:00 a.m.:
Donetsk – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has called on the population to leave the city of Donetsk immediately.
He justified this with the massive rocket fire by the Russian army on the entire Donbass.
On Saturday evening (July 30) he said in a video speech that it was no longer safe.
"In the Donbass there are hundreds of thousands of people, tens of thousands of children, many refuse to leave."
He urged the people of Donbass to make this decision.
"Believe me," he pleaded.
"The more people leave the Donetsk region, the fewer people the Russian army can kill." The government in Kyiv had previously ordered an official evacuation because the citizens had to get to safety in time before winter.
With gas lines destroyed by Russian missiles, heating in the Donbass is likely to become almost impossible.
Zelenskyy emphasized that everything is being organized for people to flee from the areas of the region still controlled by Ukraine.
"Break up, we'll help." (tu/tvd/nak with dpa/AFP)
