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Donbass city threatens to fall: Ukraine reports violent Russian attacks - Wagner mercenaries attack

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Donbass city threatens to fall: Ukraine reports violent Russian attacks - Wagner mercenaries attack Created: 01/10/2023 04:48 By: Florian Naumann, Patrick Mayer Russia is apparently attacking in Donbass with large forces. At Bakhmut and Soledar, the Ukrainian army finds itself increasingly on the defensive. The news of the military battles. Ukraine reports violent Russian attacks: Donbass city


Donbass city threatens to fall: Ukraine reports violent Russian attacks - Wagner mercenaries attack

Created: 01/10/2023 04:48

By: Florian Naumann, Patrick Mayer

Russia is apparently attacking in Donbass with large forces.

At Bakhmut and Soledar, the Ukrainian army finds itself increasingly on the defensive.

The news of the military battles.

  • Ukraine

    reports violent

    Russian

    attacks: Donbass city of Soledar threatens to fall.

  • Russia's

    army is probably advancing near

    Bakhmut

    : Ukrainian armed forces are said to be planning a retreat.

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    news ticker on the military situation

    in the Ukraine war is continuously updated.

Update from January 9, 10:30 p.m

.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has described the situation in the heavily contested city of Soledar in the eastern region of Donetsk as still very tense.

"It's very difficult: There are hardly any intact walls left there," said Zelenskyj in his video message on Tuesday night, looking at the Ukrainian soldiers in the badly damaged city.

At the same time, he assured: "Even if the occupiers have now concentrated their greatest efforts on Soledar, the result of this heavy and prolonged struggle will be the liberation of our entire Donbass." The resistance of the Ukrainian soldiers in Soledar buys the whole army time, Zelenskyj said: "The battle for Donbass continues."

The battle for Donbass continues.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Update from January 9, 9:10 p.m

.: According to the authorities, 15 people were injured in a suspected Russian attack on the city of Ochakiv in Mykolaiv Oblast, including a 2-year-old child.

According to the Ukrainian media project

The Kyiv Independent

, Governor Vitaliy Kim reported this Monday.

Ukraine reports violent Russian attacks: Donbass city of Soledar threatens to fall

Update from January 9, 8:10 p.m

.: Ukraine has reported ongoing heavy attacks by Russian forces on the city of Soledar in the east of the country.

"After an unsuccessful attempt to capture Soledar in the Donetsk region, the enemy has regrouped, changed tactics and launched a new, violent attack," Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar wrote on Telegram this Monday.

On the Russian side, it is primarily members of the notorious mercenary group Wagner who are deployed.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi had previously spoken of a difficult situation in Soledar and in neighboring Bakhmut.

At the same time, he had confirmed that the Ukrainian army still had both cities under its control.

Soledar and Bakhmut are part of the Ukrainian defensive wall in front of the conurbation between Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

From the Russian point of view, the capture of this area would be a significant step towards the conquest of the entire Donbass - one of the Kremlin's war aims.

Soledar: Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi of the Ukrainian army gives instructions in a dugout.

© Roman Chop/AP/dpa

Update from January 9, 7:15 p.m

.: A US senator justifies new billions in payments from the United States for military aid to Ukraine by comparing the fighting against Russia in the Donbass with “trench warfare” from the First World War.

And he reminds of Adolf Hitler.

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Alleged Russian rocket attack on market in northeast: According to Ukraine, two people are killed

Update from January 9, 6.45 p.m

.: According to the authorities, at least two people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a market in northeastern Ukraine.

The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, said in the online service Telegram that six people were also injured in the attack on a market in the village of Shevchenkove on Monday.

Photos showed burning market stalls and firefighters amidst debris.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army announced that "fierce" fighting continued for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

"The enemy has concentrated the maximum of combat-ready forces there," said the spokesman for the army's eastern command.

Among them are units of the Russian mercenary group Wagner.

As Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Sunday, the situation in Soledar, 15 kilometers northeast of Bachmut, is "very difficult".

According to Ukrainian intelligence services, Russia is also preparing new attacks on the country's energy system as temperatures have dropped.

Apparently an attack on a residential area in Cherson: the governor reports dead and injured

Update from January 9, 4:53 p.m

.: In Kherson, Governor Yaroslav Yanuschevich reported an attack on a residential area with one dead and one injured.

The governor of Donetsk in the east of the country, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported a "massive" attack on the town of Kurakhivka, in which at least two people were injured and around 20 houses damaged.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army announced that "fierce" fighting continued for the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian intelligence services, Russia is also preparing new attacks on the country's energy system as temperatures have dropped.

Russia's army is probably advancing near Bakhmut: Ukrainian armed forces are said to be planning a retreat

Update from January 9, 12:38 p.m .:

The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports on progress in the Bakhmut area.

Accordingly, the spokesman for the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LNR), Ivan Filiponenko, told the TV channel

Rossiya 24

that the Ukrainian military was withdrawing from Soledar.

The commander of the 61st Independent Mechanized Brigade, which is to form the backbone of Ukraine's defenses in the Bakhmut area, is said to have instructed his subordinate battalion commanders to organize the withdrawal of the remaining units.

The settling movement should take place from the evening and at night.

According to Filiponenko, the brigade command plans to withdraw the troops as unobtrusively as possible.

But the preparations did not go unnoticed by the other Ukrainian units in the city.

The information cannot be verified independently.

Battles for Bachmut: Pro-Russian separatists report success

Update from January 9, 11:31 a.m .:

According to their own statements, pro-Russian separatists have taken over a village near the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, which has been heavily fought for months.

The village of Bakhmutske was "liberated by the armed forces of the Russian Federation," the separatist authorities said on Monday in the online service Telegram.

The AFP news agency was initially unable to independently verify the information.

The village of Bakhmutske is north-east of Bakhmut and just before the town of Soledar, which is also being fiercely fought over.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video message on Sunday that the area between the two cities was "one of the bloodiest places on the front lines".

After attacks, clouds of smoke rise into the air over the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut.

(Archive photo) © Libkos

Fighting in the Ukraine war: satellite images show destruction in Bakhmut

Update from January 9, 10:10 a.m .:

Maxar Technologies, a US company that manufactures and operates satellites for earth observation, has released images of the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

Outskirts of the city can be seen, with the satellite images showing the situation before August 1, 2022 and after January 4, 2023.

Significant damage to buildings and infrastructure can be seen.

There is currently heavy fighting over Bachmut.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his armed forces withstood the attacks of the Russian army.

(See update of January 8, 10:40 p.m.)

After the Makiivka disaster: the Russian Defense Ministry apparently invents a retaliatory attack

Update from January 9, 7:21 a.m .:

Hundreds of soldiers are said to have been killed in a Ukrainian attack on a Russian base in Makiivka on New Year’s Eve.

Now on Sunday (January 8), the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces had carried out a "retaliatory operation" against the Ukrainian army.

Ukraine is said to have lost more than 600 soldiers in the attack in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.

However, this claim seems to have no basis whatsoever.

The "Institute for the Study of War" (ISW) reports in its current situation report (January 8) that a Finnish reporter visited the site of the attack in Kramatorsk.

All he found was an empty school.

In this school building in the Donbass city of Makiivka, many Russian soldiers are said to have been killed in a Ukrainian attack.

© RIA Novosti/imago

Several Russian military bloggers reacted negatively to the Russian Defense Ministry's claim, according to information from the US think tank.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Defense is said to have invented the "retaliation operation" instead of holding the Russian leadership responsible for the losses.

Update from January 8, 10:50 p.m .:

Hundreds of Russian soldiers are said to have been killed in a Ukrainian bombardment on Makiivka in the Donetsk region.

An alleged survivor now puts it down to a speech by Vladimir Putin.

Heavy fighting for Bakhmut and Soledar: According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian army is holding out

Update from January 8, 10:40 p.m .:

According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces are repelling Russian attacks near Bakhmut.

"Bachmut is holding up despite everything," he said, according to ARD's "Tagesschau" in his evening speech on Sunday.

"Soledar is holding out, even if the destruction is even greater and the situation is very difficult.

This is one of the bloodiest places on the front,” said Zelenskyy about the Ukrainian defensive wall in front of the Sloviansk and Kramatorsk conurbation in the Donetsk region.

Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maljar had previously reported that the military situation in Soledar, 14 kilometers from Bakhmut, was now very difficult.

Soledar holds out even if the destruction is even greater and the situation is very difficult.

This is one of the bloodiest places on the front lines.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Shot your own soldiers?

According to Kyiv, Moscow deployed the Russian National Guard for this purpose

Update from January 8, 9:05 p.m .:

Moscow is said to have used the Russian National Guard to shoot six soldiers from its own ranks.

This is what the Ukrainian General Staff wrote in its evening statement on Sunday.

The incident is said to have occurred on January 5, in the south of Zaporizhia Oblast.

"In order to maintain military discipline and prevent panic from spreading among the troops," the Russian soldiers were shot.

According to the general staff, the six men had previously signaled that they wanted to surrender to the Ukrainian armed forces

Hard fought in the Ukraine war: the region around Zaporizhia.

© IMAGO/Dmytro Smoliyenko

Heavy Donbass fighting in the Bakhmut area: Ukrainian defenders probably on the defensive

Update from January 8, 7:35 p.m .:

According to information from Kiev, the Ukrainian defenders in the Bakhmut area got into a difficult situation during the fighting in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

"It's difficult in Soledar at the moment," Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maljar wrote on her Telegram channel.

Like Bakhmut, only 14 kilometers away, Soledar is part of the Ukrainian defensive wall in front of the conurbation between Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

The Russians had concentrated large forces in front of Soledar, Maljar continued, not only regular units of the Russian army but also mercenary troops were involved in the attacks. 

Incendiary ammunition against Cherson?

Russia is again shelling several Ukrainian cities

Update from January 8, 5:55 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russia shot at several cities in the country on Sunday night.

A district of Cherson was affected, among other things.

"They used incendiary ammunition for the attack," said the region's military governor, Yaroslav Yanuschevich, according to ARD's "Tagesschau" on his Telegram channel.

The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of incendiary ammunition against civilian objects.

According to Yanushevich, the attack ended without any deaths or injuries.

According to information from the dpa news agency, however, victims were reported from other regions.

One person was killed in night attacks in Kharkiv, reports the German Press Agency (dpa).

First prisoner exchange in 2023: Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are released

Update from January 8, 4:55 p.m .:

Russia and Ukraine completed the first exchange of prisoners after the turn of the year.

"On January 8, as a result of the negotiation process, 50 Russian soldiers who were in imminent danger in captivity were withdrawn from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime," the Russian Defense Ministry announced on its Telegram channel on Sunday.

Shortly thereafter, the Ukrainian side confirmed the exchange.

Largest flight since World War II: More than 7.9 million people fled Ukraine

Update from January 8, 4:30 p.m .:

According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, the Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine has led to the largest refugee movement since the Second World War.

The extent and speed are unprecedented in the history of flight and expulsion since the Second World War, it said in a statement.

"More than 7.9 million people have fled the country and another 5.9 million are displaced within Ukraine," said UNHCR representative in Germany Katharina Lumpp.

Almost 14 million people correspond to more than a third of the country's total population of around 41 million.

Energy infrastructure and large factories under fire: Russians and Ukraine bomb

Update from January 8, 3:50 p.m .:

Russia and Ukraine are attacking each other’s energy infrastructure and large factories during the war.

Massive explosions could be heard in Russian-occupied Melitopol during the night, the Ukrainian mayor of the city said, according to

Ukrainska Pravda

via Telegram.

"The thunder lasted several hours, and a pressure wave shattered the windows of neighboring houses," he said.

The target of the attack was the Hydromash factory – Russia had set up a “military base” there.

Ukraine, in turn, complained about the shelling of a thermal power plant.

The attack happened on Friday (January 6), the

Kyiv Independent

wrote , citing the energy company DTEK.

The utility Ukrenergo meanwhile issued a power consumption limit for the entire Ukraine in view of the low temperatures.

Otherwise there is a risk of power outages.

The people of Ukraine have been suffering from blackouts and the resulting chaos for a long time.

But Russia is also feeling the consequences of the war.

A train with refrigerated containers had arrived in the Russian Oblast of Kemerovo, Ukrainska Pravda reported on Sunday, citing the Ukrainian General Staff.

500 bodies of Russian soldiers were transported.

This information cannot be verified.

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Update from January 8, 1:45 p.m .:

The fighting and preparations for fighting in Ukraine seem to be increasing in intensity.

According to Ukrainian media reports, the army has once again targeted Russian military shelters.

In the city of Rubishne in the occupied Luhansk Oblast, a hostel for mobilized recruits was hit and at least 14 soldiers were killed, reports the

Nexta

portal , citing the Ukrainian military.

According to

Ukrainska Pravda

, the General Staff also reported strikes against a Russian command post and five "concentrations of military personnel" on Saturday.

Deadly attacks on troop quarters had also recently sowed concern in Russia.

Russia is also bringing new personnel and ammunition to the war zone - but is currently suffering massive losses in offensives in Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Lyman, it said.

Russia is also bringing new troops to the long-contested Mariupol,

Ukrainska Pravda

reported , citing an adviser to the city's Ukrainian mayor.

Ukraine also raised new allegations against Russia.

Vladimir Putin's military attacked a UN humanitarian mission in Zaporizhia Oblast during the announced ceasefire.

In the occupied Luhansk Oblast, a maternity hospital has also been converted into a military hospital.

"The occupiers have almost entirely wiped civilian medical facilities off the map,"

Kyiv Independent

quoted Ukrainian officials as saying.

All of this information is not independently verified.

Update from January 8, 12:45 p.m .:

The occupiers in the Ukrainian Oblast of Donetsk have confirmed an attack by Ukraine on a large thermal power plant.

At least two employees are believed to be buried under the rubble, state agency Tass officials said.

The attack was carried out with a multiple missile system.

Six rockets were fired at the Starobeshevskaya power plant.

So far, Russia in particular has been targeting Ukraine's energy and heat supply.

Now there are increasing signs of a similar response from Kiev.

Putin facing “dilemma”: worried about Ukraine on two fronts?

Probably more than 1000 new soldiers in Belarus

Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov view a defense exhibition.

(Iconic image) © IMAGO/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin Pool

Overview of January 8th:

London/Washington, DC – Vladimir Putin's “ceasefire” over the Orthodox Christmas was apparently not even a brief respite in the Ukraine war: January 6th and 7th also brought reports of fighting and explosions.

And especially on the Russian side, there is obviously sometimes hectic activity.

The British Ministry of Defense attests that Kremlin troops are preparing for Ukrainian offensives in Zaporizhia or Luhansk.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is now apparently also attacking energy infrastructure in occupied areas.

And Moscow is moving troops – from Chechnya to the war zone and probably also to Belarus.

Russia in the Ukraine war in a "dilemma": Commanders are probably preparing for the offensive in Kiev

In its Sunday morning update, the British Ministry of Defense reported on Russia's "reinforced fortifications" in southern Zaporizhia Oblast.

The latest actions "very likely" indicated concerns about Ukrainian offensives - either in Zaporizhia or in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

In both places, loss of territory would have massive consequences, London judged.

That is why the Kremlin is now in a "dilemma" when it comes to setting priorities: in the south, a Ukrainian advance could cut important supply routes, in the east the symbolically important conquest of the Donbass could be a long way off, it was said.

On Saturday, however, the US Institute for the Study of War did not see any indications that Russia had announced an "encirclement" of the city of Bakhmut.

But there are also other problems for Russia, especially in the Donbass: After weeks of heavy Russian attacks on the Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukraine could now turn the tables.

After a gas pipeline explosion in Luhansk, the occupying authorities suspect "sabotage" - at the same time there were reports of two rocket attacks on thermal power plants in the occupied part of Donetsk.

Belarus im Ukraine-Krieg weiter im Fokus: Mehr als 1000 neue Soldaten aus Russland?

Unterdessen verlegt der Kreml wohl Truppen. 300 Kämpfer einer tschetschenischen Spezialeinheit seien in Kriegsgebiet gebracht worden, teilte Tschetschenen-Anführer Ramsan Kadyrow laut der Staatsagentur Tass mit. Sie sollten „den Brüdern an der Frontlinie helfen“, erklärte Kadyrow demnach – er bemühte sich am Sonntag auch um beruhigende Worte für die russische Öffentlichkeit.

Zudem sind wohl „700 bis 800“ russische Soldaten nach Belarus verlegt worden. Das berichtet das Portal Ukrainska Pravda unter Berufung auf belarussische Quellen. Damit seien 1400 bis 1600 Kämpfer binnen kurzer Zeit in der Stadt Vitebsk eingetroffen. Zuletzt wuchsen wieder Sorgen vor einem Angriff auf die Ukraine aus belarussischen Gebiet. (fn)

Source: merkur

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