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Ukraine general names weapons wish list to drive Russia out of the country - and warns before the end of January

2022-12-15T16:24:16.075Z


Ukraine general names weapons wish list to drive Russia out of the country - and warns before the end of January Created: 2022-12-15, 5:04 p.m By: Bettina Menzel, Fabian Müller Russia is said to suffer new territorial losses in the Ukraine war. Ukrainian soldiers advanced in Luhansk. (Archive image) © Pavlo Bahmut/imago London does not expect a joint offensive by Russia and Belarus in northern


Ukraine general names weapons wish list to drive Russia out of the country - and warns before the end of January

Created: 2022-12-15, 5:04 p.m

By: Bettina Menzel, Fabian Müller

Russia is said to suffer new territorial losses in the Ukraine war.

Ukrainian soldiers advanced in Luhansk.

(Archive image) © Pavlo Bahmut/imago

London does not expect a joint offensive by Russia and Belarus in northern Ukraine.

Kyiv reports on torture chambers in Kherson.

The news ticker.

  • Russia

    reports

    shelling of Donetsk

    : According to the information, it is said to be the heaviest shelling in years.

  • Russian army

    reportedly transfers 60 military vehicles to

    Belarus

    : Ural trucks, armored personnel carriers and tankers.

  • Apparently

    "children's cell"

    discovered in Cherson: Witnesses report torture chambers for children.

  • This

    news ticker

    on the

    military situation in the Ukraine war

    is continuously updated.

Update from December 15, 4:57 p.m .:

The Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Saluschnyj has called for new weapons for a victory over the Russian army.

"I need 300 main battle tanks, 600 to 700 infantry fighting vehicles and 500 howitzers," said the 49-year-old in an interview with the British magazine The

Economist

.

This would make it possible to push the Russian troops back to the positions before the invasion on February 24, said Zalushny.

However, he is currently receiving less funding than he needs.

Larger operations cannot be carried out with it, but a new one is being worked out.

"She's on her way," the general assured.

At the same time, Zalushnyj expects a new major Russian offensive in the coming year.

"In the worst case, at the end of January," he said.

The Russians would train around 200,000 fresh soldiers for this.

The Ukrainian army, for its part, is also preparing its own reserves for this purpose.

He cannot yet say whether the offensive will start in eastern Ukraine's Donbass, in the south, or from the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus to the north, aimed directly at Kyiv.

Nevertheless, sooner or later the Ukrainian capital will be a target again.

"I have no doubt that they will attack Kyiv again," Zalushnyi said.

Ukraine reports two dead in shelling of Cherson — Russia: "Most massive attack since 2014" on Donetsk

Update from December 15, 2:44 p.m

.: The United States wants to almost double the number of Ukrainian soldiers they train in Germany to fight in the Ukraine war.

According to the plans, one battalion (600 to 800 members) would then be trained per month.

The

New York Times

reports .

The start should be "early 2023".

Update from December 15, 11:38 a.m .:

Two people apparently died when the Russian army shelled the city of Cherson on Thursday.

This was announced by the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, on Telegram.

According to the information, the two victims were only a few hundred meters away from the administration building.

Since the recapture of the city of Cherson by the Ukrainian army, the Russian armed forces have been shelling the city almost daily with artillery and rockets.

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Russia reports shelling of Donetsk: "Most massive attack since 2014"

Update from December 15, 9:05 a.m .:

According to Russian information, the Ukrainian armed forces fired on the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday night.

The Russian officials spoke of the toughest attacks in years.

"This morning at exactly 7 a.m. they subjected the center of Donetsk to the most massive attack since 2014," Russian mayor Alexei Kulemzin wrote on Telegram.

"Forty rockets from BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers were fired at civilians in our city." The information cannot currently be independently verified.

British secret service does not expect a new offensive in northern Ukraine

Update from December 15, 8.30 a.m .:

Despite the recent troop movements from Russia to Belarus, the British secret service does not assume an impending joint offensive in northern Ukraine.

That emerges from the daily situation report of the British Ministry of Defense on Thursday.

"However, it is currently unlikely that the exercising Belarusian troops and Russian units constitute a force capable of conducting a successful new attack on northern Ukraine."

Russia had moved at least 60 military vehicles to Belarus in the past few days.

The government in Minsk also surprisingly ordered a troop inspection on Tuesday to check the "combat readiness" of the Belarusian troops.

Update from December 14, 9 p.m.:

The Russian army has moved at least 60 military vehicles to Belarus since last Friday (December 8).

Russian army apparently transfers 60 military vehicles to Belarus

This is according to a report by the Belarusian project Hajun on Wednesday, which monitors the movements of Russian troops.

Accordingly, the vehicles include Ural trucks, infantry fighting vehicles and tankers.

In addition, two batches of military equipment have also arrived in Belarus in the past few days, the report said.

The information could not be verified.

Torture chambers for children apparently discovered after Russian troops retreated from Cherson

First report from December 14

: Kherson - On November 11, the Ukrainian troops recaptured Kherson as part of their counter-offensive, according to media reports, the remaining residents raised Ukrainian flags and celebrated the liberation in the streets.

A month has passed since then and more and more details from the time of the Russian occupation are now coming to light.

According to Ukrainian authorities, Russia is said to have set up torture chambers for children in both Cherson and Kharkiv.

This was confirmed by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, Dmytro Lubinets, on Wednesday, as reported by the

Kyiv Independent

and

Ukrainska Pravda

.

Apparently "children's cell" discovered in Cherson: Witnesses report torture chambers for children

Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, on December 9, 2022 at the Human Rights in Dark Hours conference.

© IMAGO/Volodymyr Tarasov/ NurPhoto

Dmytro Lubinets, the human rights commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada, as the Ukrainian parliament is called, said Ukrainian authorities have said they have discovered a room where the Russian occupiers in Kherson were apparently holding and torturing children.

According to testimonies from local residents, other torture victims in the facility knew that Ukrainian children were being held in this room by Russian security services.

This room was referred to as a "children's cell" by the Russian armed forces,

Ukrainska Pravda

's report continued.

Minors were held there who, from the point of view of the Russian armed forces, "resisted".

"I thought that the bottom after Bucha and Irpin could not be surpassed"

The children are said to have received little water and food and been psychologically abused.

For example, the minors were told that their parents had left them and would never return.

In addition, witnesses reported the case of a 14-year-old boy who took a picture of broken Russian equipment and was tortured as a result, the report said.

"We recorded the torture of children for the first time," Human Rights Commissioner Lubinets said, according to the

Kyiv Independent

.

“I thought that the bottom after Bucha and Irpin could not be beaten.

But we really hit rock bottom in Kherson.” The information could not be independently verified.

Source: merkur

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