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War in Ukraine: Russian attacks near Kyiv again

2022-10-14T03:07:48.198Z


Ukraine War: Russian troops attack Kyiv region again Created: 2022-10-14 04:50 By: Helena Gries, Tobias Utz, Moritz Serif, Johanna Soll, Tim Vincent Dicke, Daniel Dillmann, Stefan Krieger, Christian Stör Ukraine uses military equipment from Soviet times, according to NATO it will take years to adapt. Meanwhile there are new attacks near Kyiv. The news ticker. Editor's Note on the Ukraine War:


Ukraine War: Russian troops attack Kyiv region again

Created: 2022-10-14 04:50

By: Helena Gries, Tobias Utz, Moritz Serif, Johanna Soll, Tim Vincent Dicke, Daniel Dillmann, Stefan Krieger, Christian Stör

Ukraine uses military equipment from Soviet times, according to NATO it will take years to adapt.

Meanwhile there are new attacks near Kyiv.

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+++ 8.10 a.m .:

The UN General Assembly issued a resolution asking Russia to reverse the connection of the partially occupied regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Cherson.

143 of the 193 member states voted in favour.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls this historic: "The world has spoken - Russia's attempted annexation is worthless and will never be recognized by free nations," he wrote on Twitter.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also described the vote as a strong sign of international unity.

News about the Ukraine war: Russian attacks on critical infrastructure in the Kyiv region

+++ 6.50 a.m .:

Russian troops apparently attacked the Kiev region again on Thursday night.

This emerges from reports in the

Kyiv Independent

, which refer to the governor of the Kiev region, Oleksiy Kuleba.

Accordingly, Russian forces attacked one of the communities in the Kyiv region with kamikaze drones.

These are critical infrastructure facilities

been taken in the Kyiv region.

According to Ukrainian sources, there was also heavy Russian rocket fire in the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.

"A five-storey apartment building was hit, the top two floors were completely destroyed, the rest is in ruins.

Rescue workers are working on site," says Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich on social media.

After explosions in Kyiv on Monday (October 10), Russian troops again attacked the Ukrainian capital.

© Efrem Lukatsky/dpa

Ukraine War: Britain supplies anti-aircraft missiles to Kyiv

Update from Thursday, October 13, 4:45 a.m .:

Great Britain also wants to deliver anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine to defend against Russia.

"The AMRAAM missiles (...) will be made available in the coming weeks for use with the NASAMS air defense systems promised by the USA," said the British Ministry of Defense on Thursday night.

The missiles would help protect critical infrastructure in Ukraine, it said.

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Britain also announced that it would deliver drones to support Ukrainian intelligence services and 18 howitzers, in addition to the 64 guns already delivered.

"These weapons will help Ukraine defend its airspace against attacks and (...) strengthen its missile defenses," said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.

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News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv gets more air defense systems

+++ 10:28 p.m .:

France has promised Ukraine the delivery of air defense systems in the war against Russia.

"We will deliver radars, (air defense) systems and missiles" to protect the Ukrainians "especially from drone attacks," President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the broadcaster France 2 on Wednesday. Macron also confirmed that France wanted Ukraine to have more Caesars -Send howitzers.

+++ 9:37 p.m .:

The Ukrainian President also commented on German support: “I have always rated Germany very positively because I have felt the support of society from the beginning, since the beginning of this illegitimate occupation.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD ) saw "that the Russian President cannot be trusted and that Ukraine is absolutely right".

However, Ukraine had “knocked on German doors and windows for a long time so that we could be heard”.

News on the Ukraine war: Adaptation of the equipment will take many more years

+++ 8:51 p.m .:

So far, the Ukraine attacked by Russia has mainly used equipment that was developed during the former Soviet Union.

This is currently making it difficult for the West to provide supplies of weapons and ammunition for defense against Russia.

According to the military alliance, the planned adaptation of the Ukrainian armed forces to NATO standards will take many years.

There is a ten-year perspective for the goal of complete interoperability, a NATO representative said on Wednesday at a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels.

It is about switching to Western, NATO-compatible equipment, but also about military doctrine and issues such as tactics and training.

+++ 8:18 p.m .:

The Ukrainian General Staff registered further Russian rocket and air attacks on homes and civilian infrastructure on Wednesday.

In the evening situation report from Kyiv, there was talk of three rocket attacks and four cases of shelling by aircraft.

Multiple rocket launchers were used ten times.

Of the ten targets hit, most were in the front-line areas of Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv to the south.



In addition, the Russian army continues to use Iranian-made combat drones, ten of which have been shot down.

The Ukrainian military data were not independently verifiable.

The civil administration reported from the central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia that two such drones had been intercepted.

Many power supply facilities and civilian objects across the country were hit by Russian missiles.

Bullets also fell in the middle of the capital Kyiv.

+++ 19:43:

NATO has no evidence to suggest that Belarus would actively participate in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.

The military alliance announced this at a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels.

I don't think we should doubt that Lukashenko understands that the full force of the sanctions imposed on Russia would also be used on Belarus if the Belarusian armed forces were to conduct the same type of operations against Ukraine," said a Representative.

+++ 18:47:

According to NATO circles, Russia has used up a significant part of its precision-guided ammunition.

Russian industry could not produce all types of missile ammunition and weapon systems, reports ntv.

According to the news portal, it could still be months before the mobilization of 300,000 soldiers is complete.

News about the Ukraine war: Zaporizhia nuclear power plant again cut off from electricity

+++ 6.33 p.m .:

The contested Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia was again cut off from the external power supply within a few days.

The currently decommissioned reactors and the nuclear fuel stores in the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant had to be temporarily cooled again with emergency power from diesel generators, as observers from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on site.

The outage was resolved by the afternoon.

"This repeated power outage at the Zaporizhia NPP is a deeply worrying development," IAEA chief Rafael Grossi wrote on Twitter.

According to the IAEA, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe has diesel reserves to operate the cooling systems for about 10 days without external electricity and to prevent a nuclear accident.

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv wants to recapture Cherson

+++ 5 p.m .:

The Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych expects the Cherson region to be recaptured in a month and a half at the latest.

Arestovych told the weekly newspaper

Die Zeit

.

Vladimir Putin may try to force Ukraine to move troops north from Kherson.

But he will not succeed, Arestovych said when asked what situation he expected a year after the start of the war at the end of February.

"I think in February next year Putin could use tactical nuclear weapons.

That's his last joker."

However, the people in Ukraine were not afraid.

"Even if the Russians deployed 10-20 tactical nuclear missiles, that would not end the war." In such a case, the Russians would not have enough people on the ground to make a conquest, Arestovych said.

Putin would have to fire hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons.

"But this amount would pose a threat to all of Europe, and the wind would also blow the fallout across the borders." If NATO countries are involved, then there will be an American reaction.

“The next stage would be nuclear war, the end of civilization.

I don't think that would be Putin's wish."

News about the Ukraine war: Podolyak speaks of genocide

+++ 3.50 p.m .:

The Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has asked the West to officially classify Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.

Russian crimes are obvious, Podolyak wrote on Twitter: attacks on civilian infrastructure, mass executions, rapes, forced deportations, separated families and the destruction of Ukrainian literature in schools.

News about the Ukraine war: 30 percent of the energy infrastructure hit since Monday

+++ 2.40 p.m .:

According to information from Kiev, the heavy Russian airstrikes have hit around 30 percent of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure since Monday.

It was the first time since the beginning of the hermak war in late February that Russia had "dramatically targeted energy infrastructure," Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told US broadcaster

CNN

.

Halushchenko said one reason for the attacks was that Ukrainian electricity exports would help European countries use less Russian gas and coal.

The Ukrainian energy system is "still stable".

He urged other countries to "deploy air defense systems that could really help us protect our infrastructure."

Ukraine war news: Russian attack on a market

+++ 1:15 p.m .:

Seven people are said to have been killed and eight injured in a Russian attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.

"The Russians attacked the central market, which was crowded at the time," the

Reuters

news agency quoted Donetsk Region Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko as saying.

There is no military logic for such an attack.

News about the Ukraine war: Germany hands over Iris-T air defense system to Kyiv

+++ 11.15 a.m .:

Shortly after Russia’s new rocket attacks on dozens of Ukrainian cities, Germany handed over the Iris-T SLM air defense system to the country.

This was announced by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov on Twitter.

"A new era of air defense" has now begun.

He expressly thanked Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) for her strong support for Ukraine, which has been fighting a Russian invasion since February.

Germany initially wants to provide Kyiv with four of the 140 million euro systems of the ground-based type of Iris-T, the financing of three more has been secured.

The system consists of several components: radar installation, command post and three truck-mounted missile launchers.


News on the Ukraine war: Russia recruits soldiers in prison

+++ 10.50 a.m .:

After the recruitment of prisoners for Russian mercenary troops, the regular Russian army is now also recruiting soldiers for the Ukraine war in prison, according to civil rights activists and the media.

"Since the end of September, the Ministry of Defense has started recruiting convicts," the Internet portal

Vashnye Istorii said

on Tuesday (October 11).

The Kremlin-critical medium reported on visits by the military to penal colonies in the Ryazan region near Moscow and in Stavropol in the North Caucasus.

The civil rights activists from

Gulagu.net

had previously reported on poaching attempts in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia uses Iranian combat drones

+++ 9.45 a.m .:

According to British information, Russia also used Iranian combat drones in its massive rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

The Shahed unmanned missiles are slow and fly very low, making them easy for air defense to hit, the Ministry of Defense said in London on Wednesday.

However, there is a "realistic possibility" that Russia has had some success with the use of several drones at the same time, it said, citing intelligence findings.

Russian troops have been using the Iranian drones, including Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, since at least August, the ministry said.

"Despite a reported range of 2500 kilometers, the Shahed-136 has only a small explosive payload." Therefore, it is unlikely that the drone will achieve the desired effect.

With Russian warplanes having limited effect because of Ukraine's anti-aircraft defenses, the Russians continue to lack an aerial attack weapon that offers a reliable, sustained and accurate strike capability.

This is one of the most important gaps in the Russian war against Ukraine, it said in London.

Ukraine war news: Suspects arrested after Crimean explosion

+++ 9:00 a.m .:

After the fatal bomb explosion on a bridge from the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, the Russian domestic secret service FSB arrested eight suspects.

The FSB said on Wednesday that five Russians were among those arrested, according to Russian news agencies.

According to the agencies, in its statement the FSB blamed the Ukrainian military intelligence service for the attack and spoke of a "terrorist attack".

The explosives used in the attack were hidden in rolls of plastic film that left the Ukrainian port of Odessa in August and made their way to Russia through Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia.


News about the Ukraine war: Russia transfers masses of weapons to Crimea

+++ 8.15 a.m .:

Russia is apparently currently relocating masses of weapons to the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula.

This is the result of an analysis by the US think tank “Institute for the Study of War” (ISW).

In this way, Vladimir Putin wants to strengthen the position of the troops in the region, it says.

The military package is said to contain around 500 tons of ammunition and 13 trains with weapons and equipment.

According to the ISW, this is borne out by images from social networks.

The institute refers to the Ukrainian military main intelligence service (GUR).

The information is not independently verifiable.

News about the Ukraine war: population in Lviv cut off from power supply

+++ 07.00 a.m .:

Several substations in Lviv in the west of the country were completely destroyed by the heavy Russian shelling, which was obviously aimed in particular at the energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

Many residents were cut off from electricity.

According to Ukraine, Russian troops fired a total of 28 rockets into the country on Tuesday (October 11).

As reported by President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, 20 of them could be intercepted.

He also spoke of 15 drones, "mainly Iranian attack drones".

According to Selenskyj, almost all of them were shot down.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff reported airstrikes, Russian cruise missiles and multiple rocket launchers.

There have been attacks on more than two dozen towns and villages across the country.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov thanked the US and Germany for the arms deliveries.

News about the Ukraine war: According to Biden, Putin misjudged the war

Update from Wednesday, October 12,

4:45 a.m .: According to US President Joe Biden, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin misjudged his war of aggression against Ukraine.

"I think he's a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly," Biden told the US broadcaster.

Putin had wrongly assumed that the Ukrainians would submit to a Russian invasion.

"I think he thought he was going to be welcomed with open arms," ​​Biden said.

"I think he just completely miscalculated."

Asked whether Putin could carry out his threats to use nuclear weapons, Biden said: "I don't think he will." But it was "irresponsible" for the leader of one of the world's largest nuclear powers to say he could deploy a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

As a result, mistakes could be made and misjudgments made.

"He cannot talk about using a tactical nuclear weapon with impunity as if that were a reasonable thing to do."

First report from Tuesday, October 11:

Kiev - Russia has continued the large-scale attack of Ukrainian cities with rockets.

Several regions of Ukraine reported attacks on Tuesday (October 11).

In Zaporizhia, among other things, the city center is said to have been hit.

The regional administration reported this via the short message service Telegram.

The rockets are said to have hit a school, a hospital and several residential buildings.

The latest rocket attacks also seem to point to a change in Moscow's strategy in the Ukraine conflict.

The attacks are increasingly directed against the infrastructure and the civilian population of Ukraine.

Putin's goal is to provoke panic among the population and to plunge the country into chaos due to supply problems with electricity and water.

At least that's what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address to his people.

Ukraine News: Russia's new general is said to be particularly unscrupulous

Attacks on Russia's infrastructure and civilian population during the Ukraine war are increasingly reminiscent of the strategy that President Vladimir Putin had already used in his campaign in Syria.

The Russian army had also used barrel bombs there.

According to weapons experts, the infamous bombs can cause destruction in a radius of up to 250 meters.

As early as May of this year, specialists from Syria were said to have been sent to the front in Ukraine to examine the use of barrel bombs there as well.

The fears that Russia is also using a Syria strategy in the Ukraine war are supported by a new personality: Putin recently made General Sergei Surovikin the new supreme commander of the military operation.

Surovikin made a name for himself in the Syrian war and is considered particularly unscrupulous when it comes to bombing civilians.

(dil/tvd/mse/tu/cs with dpa/AFP)

Source: merkur

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