Russian soldiers are said to have set fire to school buildings - they probably wanted to blame Ukraine
Created: 03/12/2022 08:57
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Stephanie Munk
In the Ukraine war, hundreds of Russian soldiers apparently refuse to fight and flee back to Russia.
In addition, there are logistical challenges for the army.
The news ticker.
Attack
on
school
: Russian soldiers are said to have set fire to buildings
Russia launches another
missile
attack
: air alert in five Ukrainian regions.
Russia
probably has
logistical problems
: the secret service reports a lack of ammunition since the Kherson withdrawal
This
news ticker on military events in the Ukraine war
is updated regularly.
Update from December 3,
8:39 a.m.: In a short ceremony, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj celebrated the return of some Ukrainian prisoners of war.
"It was a special day in a special week," said the Ukrainian President in his recent video address.
At the same time, he announced that he would bring more of his soldiers back from Russian prison camps.
“We will not leave a single Ukrainian in Russian prisons, camps and 'isolations' (detention centers).
We think of everyone.”
Fuel depot under fire: "Unfortunately, there are victims"
Update from December 2, 9:11 p.m .:
Ukrainian forces hit a fuel depot in Shakhtarsk in the Donbass in a rocket attack on Friday.
Donbass is a large coal and industrial area on both sides of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Mayor Alexander Shatov from the pro-Russian administration there said that several people had been injured.
The Russian state agency Tass had previously reported on the attack.
"The tank farm was hit, unfortunately there are victims," quotes the Shatov agency.
So far it was unclear what effects the two Ukrainian rocket hits had in the camp.
No information was given about this.
According to the Russian account, the Ukrainian armed forces are said to have used Himar-type artillery rocket launchers in the attack.
However, the information could not be verified.
Attack on school: Russian soldiers are said to have set fire to buildings
Update from December 2, 6:47 p.m .:
After an air alert due to Russian attacks in the Ukrainian regions of Cherson, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv, a daring provocation is said to have occurred in Zaporizhia on Friday when the Russian occupiers set fire to a school building and blamed Ukraine.
"In the village of Mykhailivka in the temporarily occupied area of the Zaporizhia region, accusing the defense forces of destroying civilian infrastructure, the enemy set fire to the building of the Mykhailiv Higher Vocational School," the
Unian
news agency quoted the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as saying
Explanation.
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Bulgaria wants to support Ukraine with arms and ammunition
Update from December 2, 3:45 p.m .:
Bulgaria also wants to support Ukraine militarily, but only with what the country can afford.
According to the Russian state news agency Tass, Economy and Industry Minister Nikola Stoyanov said his country would send small arms and ammunition to Ukraine.
"Yes, it's not tanks, we're talking about handguns and ammunition, we're helping with what we can afford," Tass quoted the minister as saying.
Stoyanov assured that this would not affect the combat capability of their own military.
Russia launches another missile attack – air alert in five Ukrainian regions
Update from December 2, 1:55 p.m .:
According to the Ukrainian news agency Unian, there was an air alert due to Russian attacks in the Ukrainian regions of Cherson, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv.
Citing the local publication
Suspilny
, the agency also reported explosions in the city of Dnipro, where Ukrainian air defense is now also active.
In recent days, Ukrainian sources have repeatedly warned of Russian plans to launch massive air and missile attacks on Ukraine again.
Update from December 2, 12:10 p.m .:
Russia has launched attacks in the Kherson region again in the past 24 hours.
The Ukrainian governor of the region, Yaroslav Yanushevich, reports on the Telegram news service that grenades have also been thrown into residential areas, private houses and high-rise buildings.
Three civilians were killed and seven injured.
Russia probably has massive logistics problems in the Ukraine war
Update from December 2, 11:16 a.m .:
Putin's army has apparently been struggling with logistical problems since it withdrew because of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kherson region.
This is what the British Ministry of Defense writes in a recent report.
The Ukrainian troops have recently been able to attack Russian logistics hubs and communication channels more easily, which is why Russia is believed to be moving the hubs further south and east.
In addition, a lot of equipment now has to be transported on roads instead of rails - on the road, the transports are again easily attacked.
The logistical problems would probably lead to the fact that the Russian troops lack ammunition, according to the British.
That is why Russia would hardly launch effective ground offensives at the moment.
Hundreds of deserters arrested at the border: Russia's problems in the Ukraine war are increasing
Donetsk/Washington – Low morale, many deserters and conscientious objectors: This is what the US think tank “Institute for the Study of War” reported in an analysis on Thursday (December 1).
Oleksiy Hromov, a high-ranking representative of the Ukrainian army, explained that Russia had already had to reinforce several units in the Kherson region with new recruits.
The reason is the many deserters and a number of soldiers who refused to continue fighting against Ukrainians.
A Russian soldier in training.
© Vitaly Nevar/Imago
Low morale, hundreds of deserters: Russian soldiers are apparently trying to flee from the front
According to Russian security officials, there is also an increasing number of Russian deserters in Luhansk, according to Hromov.
Many would try to get back to Russia across the border and had already been arrested by the hundreds by Russian security forces.
According to the independent Russian news portal
Astra
, around 90 soldiers who refused to fight were detained by Russian forces for more than a month - in a children's camp in the village of Makarowe, as the ISW writes.
Ukraine-News: Military leadership should abandon front-line soldiers
Family members of deserted soldiers are said to have contacted the public prosecutor's office to ensure that the men do not have to go back to the front.
A local Russian news website reported on this, according to the think tank.
The recruits were "abandoned" by the military leadership at the front, after which they withdrew from their positions.
In addition, the equipment in the Russian army is said to be miserable and the mood among the soldiers has changed.
Documents left behind by the Russian army at the end of October also painted a dilapidated picture of the troops, which indicated low morale and a significantly weakened combat capability.
But Ukrainian soldiers are also reporting great hardship at the front.
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