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Russia fails to make a breakthrough in the east: trench warfare like 100 years ago

2022-11-30T04:03:41.692Z


Medvedev: Patriots in Ukraine would be "legal target" for Russia Created: 11/30/2022, 4:57 am By: Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel Russia could hit Berlin so hard that "nothing is left of it," rumbles Putin's best-known TV man. The news ticker on the Ukraine war. Top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov: "Putin's voice" threatens Berlin with total annihilation. In the middle of the Ukraine war: Russi


Medvedev: Patriots in Ukraine would be "legal target" for Russia

Created: 11/30/2022, 4:57 am

By: Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel

Russia could hit Berlin so hard that "nothing is left of it," rumbles Putin's best-known TV man.

The news ticker on the Ukraine war.

  • Top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov:

    "Putin's voice" threatens Berlin with total annihilation.

  • In the middle of the Ukraine war:

    Russia suddenly changes strategy.

  • Editor's note:

    Read the latest developments in the Ukraine conflict in our news ticker.

    The information on the Ukraine war processed here comes partly from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine.

    They can therefore not be independently checked in part.

+++ 10:55 p.m .:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced on Tuesday (November 29, 2022) the delivery of more Cheetah anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine.

"We will continue to work on providing this very efficient system," Scholz said at a joint press conference with international financial and business organizations.

According to a government press release, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed Scholz in a telephone call on Tuesday about the Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure and the water and electricity supply.

The Chancellor condemned the ongoing shelling and assured Ukraine of further short-term aid, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a press release. 

"The President of Ukraine thanked Germany for the very extensive support in the financial sense, but also in the form of arms deliveries, because the artillery and air defense systems that we provide have a very large impact on Ukraine's ability to defend their own To ensure integrity and sovereignty,” Scholz told journalists.

News about the Ukraine war: Medvedev threatens NATO

+++ 8.45 p.m .: Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, according to

Ukrainska Pravda

, threatens

that Ukraine will become a “legal target” for Russian invaders if NATO delivers Patriot air defense systems.

Accordingly, Medvedev wrote on a telegram: "If NATO, as suggested by Stoltenberg, delivers Patriot systems together with NATO personnel to the Kiev fanatics, they will immediately become a legal target for our armed forces." It is unclear whether Medvedev is referring to this the Patriot systems, the Ukrainian armed forces or NATO personnel as a potential target.

Medvedev also declared that "a civilized world" does not need NATO.

According to him, the alliance must "repent" and be dissolved.

According to Dmitry Medvedev, NATO must "repent" and be dissolved.

(Archive image) © Yekaterina Shtukina/imago-images

News in the Ukraine war: The Kinburn Spit continues to be contested

+++ 8.30 p.m .:

The Ukrainian armed forces have not yet been able to take control of the Kinburn Spit in Mykolayiv Oblast, reports Yevhen Yerin, head of the press center of the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the Tavria front, during a national news broadcast on Tuesday.

The situation on the spit is therefore under control, but it has not yet been possible to take it.

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"The enemy is currently regrouping there," Jerin said.

Russian forces, meanwhile, would attack Kherson to "spread fear and panic among the civilian population" and keep Ukrainian forces "on their toes."

Likewise, the Ukrainian armed forces would "keep the enemy on their toes", there was no ceasefire.

News in the Ukraine war - Kuleba is pushing for NATO help: "Faster, faster, faster!"

+++ 7.55 p.m .:

In addition to transformers for the damaged energy network, Ukraine “most urgently” needs Patriot air defense systems from NATO, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Tuesday before a dinner with the NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg again called on member countries to strengthen Ukraine's air defenses.

The Patriots – as owned by Germany, among others – could repel further Russian attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure.

Poland had previously asked the federal government to make its system available to the Ukrainians instead of Warsaw.

Berlin had offered these poles after the recent rocket hits in the border area.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) expressed reservations about passing on the Patriots to Kyiv.

NATO must ensure that it has sufficient material "in its own alliance area".

She also referred to the Iris-T air defense system, which Berlin has already delivered to Kyiv.

Three more are to follow next year.

Kuleba summed up his demand for NATO in three words: "Faster, faster, faster!"

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Ukraine war news: 14 unmanned ground vehicles promised for Ukraine

+++ 18.45

: The leading European developer of robots and autonomous systems, Milrem Robotics, and the German defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have signed a contract for the delivery of 14 THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles to Ukraine.

The project is being financed by the German Ministry of Defense, Milrem Robotics said on Tuesday.

Of the 14 vehicles, seven would be configured for casualty evacuation and are expected to be delivered by the end of this year.

The other seven vehicles, scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2023, would be configured for route clearing.

Depending on the nature of the mission, THeMIS can be quickly configured from a transport function to an armament, ordnance disposal, or to support reconnaissance operations.

News about the Ukraine war: Scholz on the phone with Selenskyj

+++ 6.05 p.m .:

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj and Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed in a telephone call, among other things, bilateral cooperation to protect Ukraine from Russian rocket attacks.

Following the conversation, the Ukrainian President tweeted: "We also discussed the implementation of the Ukrainian peace formula and cooperation to protect Ukraine from Russian terrorist attacks."

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had previously stated that he currently saw no possibility for peaceful negotiations or a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. 

+++ 17.17 p.m .:

On the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Bucharest, the USA promised further aid for Ukraine in the amount of 53 million dollars.

With this, the United States wants to “provide important equipment for the power grid”, as Foreign Minister Antony Blinken explained in the Romanian capital.

The US package includes, but is not limited to, transformers, circuit breakers, vehicles and other equipment.

Washington wants to deliver them to Ukraine as emergency aid.

News about the Ukraine war: Nuclear talks between the USA and Russia have been cancelled

+++ 4.48 p.m .:

Planned disarmament talks between Russia and the United States on strategic nuclear weapons have been postponed until further notice immediately before the start of the consultation.

According to Moscow, Russia's cancellation is a "political signal" to Washington.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov blamed the United States for the failure of the dialogue.

If the US wants the talks, they should make proposals for a revival, Ryabkov said, according to the

Interfax agency

.

The consultations were supposed to be about the future of the Treaty on Nuclear Disarmament (New Start).

The mutual control of the respective nuclear arsenals has been suspended since the summer.

Russia complained that it was no longer able to make inspection trips to the USA because of the sanctions imposed as a result of the Ukraine war, and for its part canceled western inspections.

News about the Ukraine war: "Putin's voice" threatens Berlin with total annihilation

+++ 15:56:

The well-known Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has sent a clear warning to Germany.

"We can send our paratroopers to Berlin," said the 59-year-old on his show.

Solovyov is a confidante of the Russian President and is considered "Putin's voice".

"Our air and space forces can hit Berlin so hard that nothing will be left of it," the propagandist said.

Russia has no sympathy for the Germans, Solovyov said.

The Ukrainian political adviser Anton Gerashchenko provided the translation of the article.

This could not be independently verified.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia uses forced labourers

+++ 2:27 p.m .:

Russia’s prison authority wants to use 250 prisoners sentenced to forced labor in an armaments factory in the Urals.

The forced laborers are said to work as machine and crane operators, turners and welders at the Uralvagonzavod company in the city of Nizhny Tagil.

This was reported by the Russian media, citing the authority.

According to the reports, the work comes with some privileges.

The prisoners are not housed in cells, but in a dormitory, or they can even live with relatives.

In addition to the usual taxes, only a rate of 5 to 20 percent is deducted from their salary as a penalty.

Uralvagonzavod is one of the largest defense companies, known for the production of main battle tanks from the T-72 to the new T-14.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia suddenly changes its strategy

+++ 1.30 p.m .:

After drastic defeats in the Ukraine conflict, Russia has moved away from its basic military and tactical concept, according to British assessments.

In the past three months, the Russian forces in Ukraine have largely stopped appearing as tactical battalion groups (BTG), the Ministry of Defense said in London, citing intelligence findings.

The high-intensity fighting over a wide area would have revealed several errors in the concept.

"The relatively small allocation of infantry to the BTG has often proved insufficient." In addition, the decentralized distribution of artillery did not allow Russia to exploit its quantitative advantage with this important weapon.

Only a few commanders have permission to use the model flexibly, it said.

The BTG concept is a central pillar of Russian military doctrine in recent years.

Each tactical unit is equipped with infantry, anti-aircraft, artillery, logistics and reconnaissance units.

News about the Ukraine war: air alert across the country – fear of a drastic attack is growing

Update from Tuesday, November 29, 12:45 p.m .:

According to media reports, the air alarm sounds throughout Ukraine – including in the capital Kiev.

A massive attack on national territory is apparently expected.

Strategic Russian bombers are said to be in the air, but this information could not initially be verified.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia is preparing trench warfare like 100 years ago

First message from Tuesday, November 29:

Kiev – At the beginning of the invasion on February 24, Russia wanted to bring down Ukraine within a few weeks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speculated that the government in Kyiv would be ousted in the near future.

This plan failed completely.

In order to achieve at least part of the war goals, the Kremlin troops are concentrating on the east of the country.

But a breakthrough does not succeed there - the Ukraine war is increasingly degenerating into a trench warfare.

The battles for the town of Bakhmut in particular are reminiscent of the darkest times of the First World War.

The descriptions of the soldiers at the front are frightening.

The winter hasn't even started yet, but the wet and cold are already taking their toll on the soldiers on both sides.

News on the Ukraine War: Shocking reports from the East

"We literally live in a swamp," a 30-year-old Ukrainian

, who calls himself Kit during the war, told the

AFP news agency.

"When I went to the hospital yesterday, I looked like a big pile of mud." More and more soldiers are getting sick, many suffering from what is known as trench foot, a dreaded infection of the feet.

Rows of Ukrainian artillery pieces and tanks line the brown landscape on the outskirts of Bakhmut.

The noise of battle is deafening.

A soldier watches the action from a hilltop, smoking.

"We are preparing for a counter-offensive," says the man with the combat name Rambo.

"We have reinforced our troops in this area," says another soldier, nicknamed IT Guy.

"Our morale is very high," he insists.

News about the Ukraine war: Selenskyj warns of new attacks

Over the weekend, images emerged of Ukrainian soldiers in flooded, muddy trenches and battlefields.

The footage shows tree stumps hit by artillery fire dotting the landscape.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russian troops are preparing new attacks - "and as long as they have missiles, they won't stop".

For weeks, Russia has been attacking Ukraine massively from the air in order to literally bomb the country's energy infrastructure to the ground.

The perfidious calculation behind it: break the Ukrainian civilian population.

(tvd/na with dpa/afp)

Source: merkur

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