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2023-01-03T14:34:45.736Z


Russia bombs eastern Ukraine - air alert in several regions Created: 03/01/2023 15:30 By: Helena Gries The Ukraine war has been raging for ten months. Ukrainian police uncover more and more Russian torture chambers. The news ticker. Russian war crimes: More than 3,000 Ukrainians in captivity and around 15,000 people missing. Renewed drone attacks: The Russian army deliberately damages the Ukra


Russia bombs eastern Ukraine - air alert in several regions

Created: 03/01/2023 15:30

By: Helena Gries

The Ukraine war has been raging for ten months.

Ukrainian police uncover more and more Russian torture chambers.

The news ticker.

  • Russian war crimes:

    More than 3,000 Ukrainians in captivity and around 15,000 people missing.

  • Renewed drone attacks:

    The Russian army deliberately damages the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

  • 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.

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On January 3, the Russian attacks are mainly focused on the east of Ukraine.

As several Ukrainian media reported unanimously, heavy rocket attacks were carried out in several regions there.

The city of Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast was hit particularly hard, where artillery hit a residential area.

This was informed by the head of the Ukrainian military administration of the Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko via Telegram.

In the nearby city of Kramatorsk, the city administration asked all citizens to stay in their emergency shelters on Tuesday afternoon.

The report was preceded by a Russian missile attack that injured several townspeople and killed one person.

The air alert was also triggered in several regions in the east and south of Ukraine today.

Mykolaiv and Cherson, among others, are affected.

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News about the Ukraine war: Russian torture chamber discovered in private home

+++ 2.15 p.m .:

Another Russian torture chamber was discovered in southern Ukraine.

According to the General Prosecutor's Office, Ukrainian prosecutors have discovered a torture chamber set up by Russian occupying forces in a confiscated private house in the village of Oleksandrivka in Mykolaiv Oblast. 

Ukrainian tank artillery shells Russian troops on a front line in Kharkiv region, Ukraine.

(Archive photo) © Evgeniy Maloletka/dpa

There, local residents are said to have been arrested and tortured by Russian special forces, who, according to prosecutors, refused to cooperate.

As the news portal

Kyiv Independent

reports with reference to the Ukrainian security service, Russian forces are said to have suffocated the victims with plastic bags, hit them with heavy objects and used electric shocks on them.

News in the Ukraine war: Russia holds more than 3000 Ukrainians in captivity

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There are currently at least 3392 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in Russian captivity.

This is reported by the Selenskyj consultant Alona Verbytska.

The numbers were therefore officially confirmed from Moscow.

An interview by the

editorial network Germany (RND)

with the commissioner for the protection of the rights of defense lawyers also shows that around 15,000 people are currently missing in Ukraine.

It is not clear what happened to the missing persons.

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In 2022, Ukraine returned almost 1,600 prisoners of war, reports

Kyiv Independent

, referring to the Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories.

In the most recent prisoner exchange on December 31, 140 Ukrainians were freed from Russian captivity, according to the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak.

News in the Ukraine war: Selenskyj warns of the wear and tear of the defenders

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has warned of a war of attrition against Russia.

The Russian side obviously wants to wear down the people of Ukraine and their defenders in the long run.

"We have information that Russia is planning a long-term attack by Shahed drones," Zelensky said, referring to the mass deployment of Iranian-made flying robots.

The Russian military mainly uses the drones to damage the energy grid by attacking urban infrastructure.

Russia wants to achieve attrition, "the exhaustion of our people, our air defense, our energy," Zelenskyj said in his video address.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia flies new drone attacks

First report from Tuesday, January 3rd:

Moscow/Kiev – The Russian army has again carried out a targeted attack on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine.

On the night of January 2, Russian soldiers launched an attack using Iranian Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones.

This emerges from reports from the news portal

Kyiv Independent

.

As the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, reports on

Telegram

, 40 drones were spotted over the Ukrainian capital.

Of these, 22 were shot down over Kyiv, three in the surrounding regions and 15 in neighboring provinces.

Ukraine War News: Massive Power Outages After Russian Attacks

However, the Russian attack still led to power cuts in Kyiv.

The power went out again in other parts of Ukraine.

According to state grid operator Ukrenergo, emergency power outages have been introduced while recovery efforts continue.

Russian troops have repeatedly attacked energy infrastructure across Ukraine since early October.

Many people lost their lives, and there were power, water and heating failures.

Only on New Year's Eve did Russia launch a massive rocket attack on Ukraine.

The attacks resulted in several civilian deaths in Kyiv.

According to experts, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin is slowly running out of weapons.

(hg/dpa)

Source: merkur

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