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Ukraine war: "Referenda" start - Putin's nuclear threat is growing

2022-09-26T07:28:51.153Z


Ukraine War: Heavy losses for Russia through mobilization? Assassination attempt in recruiting office Created: 09/26/2022, 09:15 am By: Tim Vincent Dicke, Vincent Büssow, Lucas Maier, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Christian Stör, Sarah Neumeyer Russia will probably not be able to implement the planned mobilization militarily. An assassination attempt occurs in a recruitment office: the situation in the n


Ukraine War: Heavy losses for Russia through mobilization?

Assassination attempt in recruiting office

Created: 09/26/2022, 09:15 am

By: Tim Vincent Dicke, Vincent Büssow, Lucas Maier, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Christian Stör, Sarah Neumeyer

Russia will probably not be able to implement the planned mobilization militarily.

An assassination attempt occurs in a recruitment office: the situation in the news ticker.

  • Counteroffensive:

    Kiev reports further territory gains by Ukraine.

  • War crimes:

    UN finds evidence.

  • 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.

+++ 9:00 a.m .:

In the Russian city of Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk Oblast) there was a shootout in a military registration and recruitment office on Monday morning.

As the news portal

Nexta reports

with reference to local media, the 25-year-old shooter has already been arrested.

It is said to be a young man from Ust-Illimsk.

According to the report, he shot the head of the military replacement office.

The information is not independently verifiable.

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+++ 8.30 a.m .:

The British Ministry of Defense assumes that the Russian army is faced with the challenge of preparing the drafted men for war.

Among other things, there is a lack of military trainers to implement the mobilization in the required hurry, according to a situation report.

The minimal preparation of the soldiers therefore suggest further high losses in the Ukraine war.

The above information cannot be independently verified.

Update from Monday, September 26, 8:00 a.m

.: The United States has warned Russia, both publicly and in private talks, of the “catastrophic” consequences of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

"We have told the Russians very clearly, both publicly and privately, to stop talking about nuclear weapons," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview with

CBS News

.

Any use of nuclear weapons "would obviously have catastrophic consequences for the country using them, but also for many others" and the US has plans to respond accordingly, Blinken said.

soldiers in action.

(Archive photo) © Kostiantyn Liberov/dpa

On Wednesday (September 21) Vladimir Putin indirectly threatened the use of nuclear weapons during a speech on the partial mobilization of the Russian armed forces.

Russia will use all "available means" to protect its territory, Putin said.

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News about the Ukraine war: Russia wants to close borders

+++ 10:53 p.m .:

Russia is apparently planning to close its borders for men of mobilization age.

As the independent Russian news

site Meduza

reports, this should happen after the end of the mock referendums on Tuesday evening (September 27).

The men concerned are said to need permission from the military to leave Russia.

Two anonymous sources close to the Kremlin are said to have confirmed this.

Since Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization on Wednesday (September 21), there have been major protests in Russia against the measure and reports of mass escapes of able-bodied men.

+++ 19:04:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has made it clear that he takes Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats seriously.

“Maybe it was a bluff yesterday.

Now it could be a reality," Zelenskyi told US broadcaster

CBS News

in an interview published on Sunday.

Zelenskyy referred to the skirmishes around the Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia and said: “He (Putin) wants to scare the whole world.

These are the first steps in his nuclear blackmail.

I don't think he's bluffing."

"If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will definitely use all available means to protect Russia and our people.

This is not a bluff," Putin said Wednesday as he announced the mobilization of 300,000 reservists for the war of aggression against Ukraine.

Observers see it as a threat to use nuclear weapons.

US President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told the broadcaster on Sunday that the US government had told the Kremlin "directly, privately, at a very high level" that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic consequences for Russia.

Russia had also been warned that the US and its allies would respond decisively.

Ukraine war: "We are not meat" - resistance to partial mobilization in Russia is growing

+++ 6.30 p.m .:

With the beginning of the partial mobilization of reservists, the war against Ukraine now affects almost every family in Russia.

Many are in sheer panic.

Many Russians are convinced that they are just cannon fodder and should simply be burned for the purposes of a war that even their professional army would fail to achieve.

“We are not meat!” shouted a young woman at a demonstration in Moscow on Saturday (September 24), expressing what many Russians seem to fear at the moment.

About 100 people gathered in the Russian capital on Saturday to demonstrate against the partial mobilization ordered by Vladimir Putin.

There were also protests in other cities this weekend for the second time in just a few days.

These are the largest anti-war protests since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

According to the political scientist Abbas Galliamov, the mood of protest in Russia could increase significantly.

On Saturday evening, the civil rights organization

OVD-Info

counted more than 700 arrests nationwide.

On Sunday, the organization then showed videos from the Republic of Dagestan in the Caucasus, showing police officers firing shots in the air during protests.

Resistance against partial mobilization in Russia is growing – police shoot at protest

+++ 4:25 p.m .:

The Russian population seems to be increasingly protesting against the partial mobilization of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the Russian republic of Dagestan in the Caucasus, activists tried to obstruct partial mobilization with a road blockade, as the independent organization

OVD-Info

announced on Sunday (September 25).

The Dagestani media said that the protest was a reaction to the fact that 110 men were forced into the war against Ukraine, the

dpa

writes .

A video sent by

OVD-Info shows

the police firing warning shots at the demonstrators.

Apparently, the officers fired guns in the air.

Clashes between the police and the population can also be seen in the video.

Dagestan is one of the Muslim regions of Russia.

According to observers, a particularly large number of men are to be ordered to the front in Ukraine, writes the

dpa

.

Activists accuse Russia of “ethnic cleansing” because of this selection.

Ukraine war: Russian attacks have consequences for Iran

+++ 11.30 a.m .:

In the south and east the mock referendums of the troops from Russia continue.

Even the Ukrainian shelling does not cause any interruptions, as the

German Press Agency (dpa)

writes.

According to Russian sources, two people were killed in a rocket attack by Ukraine in the Cherson region on Sunday (September 25).

In the Luhansk region, some voting takes place in bomb shelters.

As a result of the shelling, a polling station had to be relocated in the town of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhia region.

The annexation by the sham referendums is not recognized internationally, and yet Russia could incorporate the occupied territories into the Russian Federation this week, as

dpa

writes.

Vladimir Putin has already announced that future attacks on the occupied territories will be treated the same as direct attacks on Russia.

Update from Sunday, September 25,

6:16 a.m .: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked Russian fighters to give up.

"It is better to run away from this criminal mobilization than to be maimed," he said in his video address that evening.

It is better to turn down the draft than to die as a war criminal on foreign soil.



At the same time he offered that Russian soldiers could voluntarily go into captivity.

There they would be treated in a civilized manner.

"If you are afraid to return and do not want a prisoner exchange, then we will find a way to ensure that too."  

News about the Ukraine war: Hundreds of Russian soldiers in nuclear power plants – Selenskyj warns of an explosion

+++ 18:33:

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj has urgently warned of the situation in the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

The employees of the nuclear power plant have to work under the most adverse conditions, the head of state said in an interview with the French press.

“Russia confiscated this nuclear power plant.

The Ukrainian technicians are there now, but they are like hostages because 500 fighters and equipment are deployed.

This has already been confirmed by the IAEA,” said Zelenskyy.

The IAEA is the International Atomic Energy Agency, it looks after the safety of nuclear facilities around the world.

News about the Ukraine war: Politicians apply for war service

+++ 4.30 p.m .:

The Ukraine war is having an increasing impact on life in Russia.

Since September 21, when the partial mobilization was announced, around 1,500 activists have been arrested, reports

CNN

, citing the independent protest monitoring group

OVD-Info

.

Some of those arrested are said to have been directly drafted into the military.

But not only from the population is recruited since Wednesday.

Some deputies from the State Duma have now volunteered for service in the Ukraine war, as reported by

CNN

.

Only deputies from Putin's United Russia party have volunteered to be deployed.

These MEPs have come forward:

  • Oleg Kolesnikov:

    Member of the State Duma Committee on Protection of Competition;

  • Dmitry Khubezov:

    Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection; 

  • Dmitry Sablin:

    Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee; 

  • Vitaly Milonov:

    Deputy Chairman of the Family, Women and Children Committee; 

  • Sergei Sokol:

    Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Secretary of the Regional Department of United Russia in Khakass.

  • Source:

    CNN

News about the Ukraine war: mobilization is not enough for Putin's plans 

+++ 8.32 a.m

.: US President Joe Biden has already threatened Russia with tough sanctions in the event of annexations.

"Russia's referendums are a sham - a pretext for attempting to annex parts of Ukraine by force in a flagrant violation of international law," Biden said on Friday (September 23).

The US, along with its allies and partners, worked to take further “quick and tough” economic action against Russia in the event.

Update from Saturday, September 24, 6:20 a.m.:

Since the start of its counter-offensive, the Ukrainian army has recaptured around 9,000 square kilometers and freed 400 towns from Russian control, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The help of the Ukrainian population played an important role in this.

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv reports further territory gains

First report from Friday, September 23, 2022:

Kiev – While the bloody fighting in Ukraine continues, the so-called referendums on annexation by Russia have begun in four Russian-controlled areas.

Votes are taking place in the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine's Donbass and in the southern Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia.

The "referendums" are scheduled to run until Tuesday (September 27, 2022), after which a rapid annexation by Moscow is expected.

According to reports from Russian news agencies, voting began at 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

Accordingly, due to the short preparation time, they will not take place by electronic vote, but with paper ballot papers.

Pro-Russian officials will go door-to-door for the first few days to collect votes.

News in the Ukraine war: "Won't let Putin get away with it"

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sharply criticized Thursday's "referendums" in the UN Security Council.

"We cannot and will not allow Putin to get away with this," he said.

Before the votes began, Putin announced partial mobilization in Russia and issued a nuclear threat.

"In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and in defense of Russia and our people, we will certainly use all weapon systems at our disposal.

This is not a bluff," said the Kremlin boss in a TV speech on Wednesday (September 21, 2022).

By considering the four Ukrainian regions as Russian territory, Putin can build a larger nuclear threat scenario.

(vbu/jfw/tvd/cs/lm/sne/tu with dpa/AFP)

Source: merkur

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