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Explosions and fire in Russian-held Ukrainian city: airfield probably affected

2022-12-09T04:11:52.783Z


Explosions and fire in Russian-held Ukrainian city: airfield probably affected Created: 2022-12-09 04:54 By: Marcus Giebel, Fabian Müller President Vladimir Putin has justified the attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and has made accusations against Ukraine. News ticker on war events. Putin comments on the possible end of the war : The Kremlin boss emphasized that he still expects a lon


Explosions and fire in Russian-held Ukrainian city: airfield probably affected

Created: 2022-12-09 04:54

By: Marcus Giebel, Fabian Müller

President Vladimir Putin has justified the attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and has made accusations against Ukraine.

News ticker on war events.

  • Putin

    comments on the possible

    end of the war

    : The Kremlin boss emphasized that he still expects a longer process in the fight against Ukraine.

  • Patriots

    to

    Poland

    : The federal government is open to the stationing of air defense systems on the NATO border.

  • Stoltenberg

    suspects a

    Russian offensive

    : According to the NATO Secretary General, Russia is preparing for a new attack.

  • This

     news ticker

    on

    military events

    in the 

    Ukraine war 

    is updated regularly.

Update from December 8, 6:36 p.m .:

In Berdyansk, a Ukrainian city on the Azov Sea, which is currently under Russian control, there are said to have been several loud explosions on Thursday.

Videos of a fire that then broke out can be seen on several social media channels.

The blasts were confirmed by the head of the city's military administration, Viktoria Galitsyna, and an adviser to the mayor of the nearby city of Mariupol, Petro Andriushchenko.

According to Galitsyna, the explosions happened at an airfield north of the city.

The Russian side did not provide any information on the situation.

Attacks on energy infrastructure: Putin rejects allegations against Russia and accuses Kyiv of genocide

Update from December 8, 4:17 p.m .:

Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism of the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure and announced a continuation of the air strikes.

“A lot of noise is being made about our attacks on a neighboring country's energy infrastructure.

Yes we'll do that.

But who started it?” Putin said, referring to Ukraine, according to the AFP news agency.

Criticism of the Russian approach would "not interfere with our combat missions," added the Kremlin chief.

The attacks are therefore a Russian response to the destruction of the Crimea bridge by Ukraine.

In addition, Putin also blames Ukraine for attacks on a high-voltage power line near a nuclear power plant in Kursk and for cutting off the city of Donetsk's water supply.

"Not providing water to a city of more than a million people is an act of genocide," Putin said.

However, the West would remain silent on these events, the Russian President continued.

Putin spokesman admits "risks" in annexed Crimea

Update from December 8, 1:03 p.m

.: After several drone attacks on the Crimea annexed by Russia, the Kremlin has acknowledged an existing risk of Ukrainian attacks on the peninsula.

"There are certainly risks because the Ukrainian side continues its policy of organizing terrorist attacks," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

"On the other hand, the information we receive indicates that effective countermeasures are being taken."

Kremlin on the Ukraine war: No incorporation of new Ukrainian territories planned

Update from December 8, 12:40 p.m .:

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not planning any further incorporations of Ukrainian territories in the ongoing Ukraine war.

"There is no talk of that," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

Rather, there is “a lot of work” to wrest the incorporated areas from Ukrainian control.

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At the end of September, Putin declared the regions of Luhanks, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Cherson to be annexed by decree.

With a few exceptions, the international community does not recognize the annexations.

In 2014, Russia illegally annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.

Peskov also addressed a possible recapture of Crimea by Ukraine.

"The risk undoubtedly remains, because the Ukrainian side continues its line of organizing terrorist attacks," said Peskov.

However, the air defense shows that the countermeasures worked.

The Kremlin spokesman also rejected statements from Germany, for example, according to which Ukraine did not have to limit itself to its own territory in its defense against Russian aggression.

This would widen the conflict, Peskow warned.

At the end of September, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree annexing the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Cherson regions.

© Kremlin POOL/imago-images

Putin comments on the possible end of the war: "It can be a long process"

Update from December 8, 6:56 a.m

.: "Of course, it can be a long process": Even Vladimir Putin apparently no longer expects the Ukraine war to end soon.

At a meeting of the Human Rights Council he set up himself, the Kremlin chief also said that half of the 300,000 mobilized Russian reservists were already stationed in the combat zone.

The remaining men are housed as “combat reserves” at military bases.

Putin ordered partial mobilization in September after the Russian military suffered a severe defeat in Kharkiv - but this triggered real panic in his own country.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled abroad.

The measure has now been officially completed.

But many Russians do not trust the Kremlin.

According to Western intelligence services, many of the Russians drafted to the front have already been killed.

Vladimir Putin has more soldiers sent to Ukraine for his raid.

© Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Imago

Update from December 7, 8:00 p.m.:

In the city of Kurakhove in the Donetsk region, eight people apparently died as a result of Russian rocket fire.

This is reported by the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, on Telegram.

Accordingly, five injuries are to be lamented.

A market, a bus stop, gas stations and residential buildings were hit.

Patriots to Poland – Federal government probably open to stationing at NATO border

Update from December 7, 7:45 p.m .:

The federal government has basically approved the Polish government’s proposal for the stationing of Patriot air defense systems, as the

German Press Agency

learned from the Ministry of Defense in Berlin.

From the German side it was said that the weapon systems were part of the integrated NATO air defense and would also be managed by NATO in the event of a reaction to an attack.

The day before, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Twitter that they were working on stationing the Patriots on Polish territory and placing them under the Polish command system.

First report from December 7th:

Munich - In the Ukraine war, both sides will presumably hardly be able to shift the front line in their favor during the upcoming frosty winter weeks.

The experts largely agree on that.

However, it is also expected that Vladimir Putin will drive his troops on a new offensive in the second year of the war.

Stoltenberg suspects a Russian offensive – momentum in Ukraine probably concerns the Russian army

Jens Stoltenberg assumes the same.

At an event organized by the British newspaper

Financial Times

, the NATO Secretary General said that Russia was currently trying to pacify the war for a short time.

Most recently, the invaders had withdrawn from Cherson and abandoned the west bank of the Dnieper.

Stoltenberg sees the Russian tactics as a plan to regroup the forces - many of which had only been sent to the Ukraine as a result of the partial mobilization in late summer - and to repair the material before a new major offensive takes place in the spring.

At the same time, he emphasized that the Russian troops would act in this way "because Ukraine currently has the momentum".

(mg)

Source: merkur

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