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2022-12-28T21:50:21.204Z


Zelenskyy: "No one in the West is still afraid of Russia" Created: 12/28/2022, 10:40 p.m By: Sandra Kathe, Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Niklas Kirk, Daniel Dillmann New drone strikes in southern and eastern Ukraine. Lavrov threatens to attack supply routes. The news ticker. Sirens wail: air alert across Ukraine Russian airstrikes: 700 critical infrastructure objects destroyed Editor's note:  Read th


Zelenskyy: "No one in the West is still afraid of Russia"

Created: 12/28/2022, 10:40 p.m

By: Sandra Kathe, Caspar Felix Hoffmann, Niklas Kirk, Daniel Dillmann

New drone strikes in southern and eastern Ukraine.

Lavrov threatens to attack supply routes.

The news ticker.

  • Sirens wail:

    air alert across Ukraine

  • Russian airstrikes:

    700 critical infrastructure objects destroyed

  • Editor's note: 

    Read the latest developments from the Ukraine conflict in our new 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.

+++ 10:30 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, the Russian military launched a new wave of attacks with so-called kamikaze drones against Ukraine on Wednesday evening.

The drones were aimed at various targets in the south and east of the country, the command center of the Ukrainian air defense south said on Facebook.

Five drones were shot down in the Dnipro region.

The arrival of several groups of drones was also reported from the Donetsk region, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv.

Observers also reported flights towards Odessa.

According to reports from the Unian agency, numerous unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down.

Further details are not yet available.

Zelenskyy: "No one in the West is afraid of Russia anymore"

+++ 9:20 p.m .:

According to President Volodymyr Selenskyj, the Ukrainian resistance to Russia has an impact on the whole world.

Over the course of ten months, "we helped everyone," he said in a speech to parliament in Kyiv, according to Reuters news agency.

The unity of the EU had been strengthened.

"We have helped the West to find itself again, to return to the global arena and to see how much the West is asserting itself," Zelenskyy said in an annual speech he gives behind closed doors.

"No one in the West is afraid of Russia, nor will they be afraid."

Lavrov expects the supply routes to be interrupted

+++ 8:11 p.m .:

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expects by his own admission that the supply routes for weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian army from abroad will soon be interrupted.

"We are observing that Ukraine is getting more and better Western weapons," Lavrov said during an interview on Russian television, according to the dpa news agency.

Therefore, there are calls among military experts to interrupt these delivery routes.

"Railway lines, bridges and tunnels" are being considered, said Lavrov.

"I expect they'll make professional decisions about how to make those deliveries more difficult or, ideally, stop them altogether."

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Zelenskyy: In Bakhmut "only a few civilians remained"

+++ 6.15 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj, hardly any civilians live in the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

“Last year, 70,000 people lived there.

Now only a few civilians are left," Zelenskyy said on Facebook on Wednesday.

He did not provide information on the number of civilians who remained in the city. 

There is "no place" in the city that is "not covered in blood," Zelenskyy wrote, adding several photos showing the extent of the destruction in the city.

According to AFP journalists who have been to Bakhmut several times in recent weeks, the already difficult living conditions are made even more difficult by the lack of access to water and electricity.

War in Ukraine: Russian shells hit maternity clinic in Kherson

+++ 17.11:

The liberated Cherson is currently experiencing heavy shelling.

At least eight people have been injured in Russian attacks in Ukraine.

Three of them suffered injuries in the contested Bakhmut, said the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

In the Kherson region, Russian shells hit a maternity hospital shortly after two women gave birth there.

According to the Ukrainian side, no one was injured.

Residential buildings, a kindergarten and a bakery were damaged in the attack in Cherson, according to Governor Yaroslav Yanushevich.

The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three civilians, including a 14-year-old, were injured when a village in the region was shelled.

News about the Ukraine war: Man reveals the position of his own troops to the enemy

+++ 3:45 p.m .:

As the news portal

The Kyiv Independent

reports, a Ukrainian was sentenced to 11 years in prison for passing on information to Russian troops.

According to the Ukrainian security service (SBU), he is said to have revealed to the Russian armed forces the locations of bomb cellars and the positions of Ukrainian troops.

The information he provided concerned the areas around Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.

According to the SBU, the Russian armed forces intended to use the data obtained to prepare and conduct missile attacks on Kramatorsk.

Ukrainian soldiers take position during fighting with Russian troops in the Donetsk region.

© Libkos/ dpa

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv is developing drones for air combat

+++ 1.45 p.m .:

Ukraine wants to develop combat drones to ward off Russian air attacks.

His country initially bought about 1,400 reconnaissance drones, Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said in an interview with the

AP

news agency .

Now it's the turn of combat drones.

"These are both drones with explosive charges and drones that fly three to ten kilometers high and hit targets," he said.

"I can already say that the situation regarding drones will change drastically in February and March," he said.

So far, Ukraine has benefited from Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drones.

(Archive image) © Volodymyr Tarasov / Ukrinform / IMAGO

Ukraine war news: air alert across the country

+++ 11.30 a.m .:

The authorities have again been triggered an air alarm throughout Ukraine.

The sirens are also wailing in the capital Kyiv.

The alarm was raised after Russian fighter jets took off from bases in neighboring Belarus, according to reports on social media.

The cities of Kharkiv and Cherson had previously reported attacks.

Rocket hits were reported from the industrial city of Kharkiv in the morning (see update from 8.50 a.m.).

The city of Kherson, recently recaptured from Ukraine, has come under fire from 33 rockets and artillery, according to the General Staff.

In addition, inhabited areas on the right bank of the Dnipro River near Cherson were shelled with mortars and artillery.

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News about the Ukraine war: 700 critical infrastructure objects destroyed in the war

+++ 11.00 a.m .:

According to government information, more than 700 critical infrastructure objects have been destroyed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Ukraine war.

"It's about gas pipelines, substations, bridges and the like," Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin said on television.

In all, more than 35,000 objects were shot down by Russian troops, he added.

+++ 10.25 a.m .: According to the

New York Times

, the Ukrainian military is approaching

the liberation of the city of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast.

The liberation of the city will allow Ukrainian forces to control the main roads to Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, the industrial centers of the Donbass.

As the newspaper reports, there was also fighting for the city on Tuesday (December 27).

However, the Russian military is trying to defend the city and has strengthened defenses near Kreminna.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia launches missile attack on Kharkiv

+++ 8.50 a.m .:

Russian troops launched a rocket attack on the city of Kharkiv.

The Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko wrote this on Telegram.

“Kharkiv, a missile attack.

State disaster control units are on site," he wrote.

According to Ukrainian authorities, the Russian military shelled the Kharkiv region on the previous day (December 27).

A woman was injured.

Ukraine war: UN says 6,884 civilians killed in Ukraine

+++ 7.15 a.m .:

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) counted 17,831 civilian casualties in Ukraine as of December 26, including 6,884 dead and 10,947 injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This was announced by OHCHR in a civilian casualty report released on Tuesday (December 27).

Most of the civilian casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with large-scale effects, including heavy artillery fire, multiple rockets, missiles and airstrikes.

Ukraine war: Putin bans oil sales to countries with a price cap

+++ 6.44 a.m .:

A document published on Tuesday says about the oil export ban: “The deliveries of Russian oil and oil products to foreign companies and individuals are prohibited if the mechanism for fixing a price ceiling is directly or indirectly built into these contracts .” The ban on oil shipments comes into effect on February 1.

For oil products such as gasoline and diesel, the Russian government should set the exact date, although it cannot be earlier than February 1, the decree says.

Initially, the decree is valid until July 1, 2023.

The price cap for Russian oil was decided by the EU at the beginning of December and is currently 60 US dollars (57 euros) per barrel (159 litres).

The G7 countries, Australia and Norway have joined the measure.

The price cap is one of the sanctions with which the West is responding to Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine.

President Zelenskyy expects Ukraine's liberation from Russia next year

Update from Wednesday, December 28, 6:25 a.m .:

President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said in his daily video address on Tuesday evening (December 27) yesterday that Ukraine is preparing its defense and security forces for the coming year, which is likely to be a crucial year.

"We know about the risks in winter, we know what we have to do in spring, and therefore we know what results the entire defense and security sector has to show," Zelenskyy.

The President named the liberation of Ukraine from Russia and reconstruction, the repatriation of the Ukrainians who had fled, the further rapprochement of the state with the most important partners and the opening of new opportunities for Ukraine in the world as the main goals.

He also said that he would soon present his concept for the implementation of these tasks in the Ukrainian parliament.

Ukraine war: The border with Belarus also remains in focus

+++ 10:55 p.m .:

After the recent meetings between Vladimir Putin and the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Ukraine is particularly closely monitoring what is happening on the border with Belarus in the north of the country.

In this way, Ukraine wants to be able to react quickly in the event of a further possible escalation.

According to a report in the

Kyiv

Independent newspaper , Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian border guard, said on Tuesday.

At the same time, however, he emphasized that no acute threats from offensive forces were foreseeable at the border.

However, the fact that preparations are being made for a possible escalation has been made clear by Ukrainian officials, and not just since the meetings of the two heads of state, because even if Belarusian troops are not involved in the current military operations, the country in northern Ukraine offers the Russian ones Troops again and again terrain for training and airfields as well as bases for military equipment and personnel.

Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine's defense ministry news chief, accused Russia in a recent interview with the

New York Times

with the help of implied troop deployments on the Belarusian border, to try to get Ukraine to withdraw personnel from other fronts.

So far, however, he too sees no signs of a concrete threat from Belarus in the near future.

Russian attack on maternity ward in Kherson – Ukraine plans counter-offensive

+++ 9.50 p.m .:

Russia once again carried out a bomb attack on a civilian hospital in the Ukraine war on Tuesday, in which two babies were born on the same day.

This is reported by the

Kyiv Independent

news portal , citing information from the Ukrainian Presidency.

"Miraculously" no one was injured in the attack on the hospital in Kherson.

According to official sources, five women and their recently born children were in the maternity ward at the time of the attack.

The hospital workers had completed a caesarean just before the attack.

+++ 19.55 p.m .:

On the southern front of the Ukraine war, Ukrainian troops expect military successes to come soon on the left bank of the Dnipro River, which is currently largely occupied by Russian troops.

This is reported by the online news portal

Ukrainska Pravda

, which quoted the spokeswoman for the units in southern Ukraine, Nataliya Humenyuk.

According to Humenyuk, there are already preparations on the fronts of the liberated right bank of the river for extensive offensives with the aim of liberating areas to the left of the river in the near future.

According to Humenyuk, the fact that the Russian occupiers are nervously waiting for Ukrainian counterattacks is shown not only by the corresponding troop movements, but above all by the "terrorist attacks" on the liberated area to the right of the river, which are intended to put pressure on the civilian population.

Nationwide air alert in the Ukraine war: explosions in Odessa

+++ 4.50 p.m .:

Air alarm sirens warned of impending attacks throughout Ukraine on Tuesday afternoon.

Explosions erupted in the city of Odessa, which is not far from the front line on the Black Sea shore.

This is reported by the online news portal

Ukrainska Pravda

.

A possible trigger for the air alert is reports by military experts from the independent portal

Belaruski Hajun

that several Russian military planes have left airfields in Belarus.

The all-clear was only given after more than an hour of nationwide alarm around 4:30 p.m. local time.

Ukrainska Pravda

reports that the noise of the explosion in Odessa

may have been the noise of a Ukrainian air defense system shooting down enemy drones.

War in Ukraine: Patriot system to be operational soon - Fierce fighting for Bakhmut

+++ Update from Tuesday, December 27, 6:25 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to the

Associated Press

, the Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine are expected to be operational in about six months, once all the necessary preparations have been completed.

According to Kuleba, the US government has drawn up an action plan to have the Patriot missile battery operational in less than six months.

The training usually lasts up to a year.

Russia is expanding troops in Belarus

First report:

Minsk – A fire broke out in an oil refinery in Belarus.

The fire in the "Naftan oil refinery" near the city of Wizebsk in the north-west of the country was discovered on Sunday morning (December 25, 2022).

This was reported by the Belarusian Ministry of Emergencies. The news portal Ukrainska Pravda from Ukraine reported on this.

The fire was extinguished shortly after it broke out.

No people are said to have been injured in the accident.

A cause of the fire has not yet been announced.

A commission has been set up to take care of the investigation.

Ukraine News: Will Belarus still be a party to the war?

Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Belarus had recently become the focus of public attention again.

The country north of Ukraine is considered a close ally of Russia.

President Vladimir Putin recently visited ruler Alexander Lukashenko in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

In the meantime, Russia is strengthening its troops stationed in Belarus in the Ukraine war.

This is reported unanimously by the US Institute for War Studies (ISW) and the Ukrainian military.

Moscow is moving more battalions to the Ukrainian border with Belarus.

While the ISW still considers a Russian attack on Ukraine from Belarusian soil to be unlikely, the danger must be taken seriously.

The construction of a field hospital is seen as an indication of a planned offensive.

Russia had set up such military hospitals near the border shortly before the start of hostilities in the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.

"Field hospitals are not necessary for exercises and can be an indication of the preparation for combat operations," said the ISW.

Lukashenko made his military bases available to Kremlin troops for their attack on Ukraine in February.

(editorial/dpa)

Source: merkur

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