The Wagner group reports the capture of a village.
Ex-President Medvedev makes it clear: "Nuclear powers do not lose wars." The news ticker.
Shortly before meeting in
Ramstein
: Medvedev warns of nuclear war in case of defeat in Ukraine
Weapons
for the
Ukraine war
: Russia apparently wants to send the most modern battle tanks to Ukraine
Renewed
concerns
about
the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
: IAEA expert team wants to prevent further attacks with constant presence.
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news ticker on military developments in the Ukraine war
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Update from January 19, 3:08 p.m
.: Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin believes that his mercenary squad can learn something from the Ukrainian army.
“The Ukrainian army works efficiently and coherently.
We can learn a lot from her," said Prigozhin via his press service.
However, he emphasized that his units were advancing and "the settlement of Artemovsk will be taken", using the Russian name for the city of Bakhmut.
Prigozhin regularly criticizes the poor leadership of the Russian army.
Ukrainian special forces encounter “concentration of enemies” in Luhansk
Update from January 19, 2:59 p.m
.: The Ukrainian special forces CCO have now got into heavy fighting with the Russian occupiers in the Kreminna area.
They were dealing with a "conglomeration of enemies," quoted the
Ukrajinska Prawda
portal from a CCO telegram.
They replied with mortar guns, but the Russian fighters were superior to them.
The information could not be checked independently.
Fighting has been raging around the city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region, which was annexed since autumn, for weeks.
Update from January 19, 1:45 p.m .:
Russia has restricted the nuclear threat to the West expressed by ex-President Dmitry Medvedev.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed speculation that Moscow would tighten its nuclear doctrine.
The question arose after Medvedev said that the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war could provoke a nuclear war.
The nuclear power Russia has repeatedly declared that it wants to win a victory in its war of aggression in Ukraine.
Update from January 19, 12:15 p.m .:
The Wagner Group claims a new success in the Ukraine war.
Yevgeny Prigozhin now reported the capture of the village of Klishchiyivka not far from the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, which had been fought over for months.
The head of the Russian mercenary force said in an audio message that it was an important suburb that was now completely under his troops' control.
However, Prigozhin warned against assuming that the Ukrainian soldiers could soon be expelled from Bakhmut.
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The city of Bakhmut was particularly hard fought in the Ukraine war.
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Medvedev warns of nuclear war if defeated in Ukraine
Update from January 19, 10:44 a.m .:
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev renewed his nuclear threats one day before the Ukraine Contact Group meeting in Ramstein.
The NATO countries planned to supply Ukraine with new heavy weapons.
"None of these wretches enters the head to draw the next elementary conclusion: the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can trigger the start of a nuclear war," Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
"Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends." That should be clear to everyone, "even a western politician with a trace of intelligence".
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
Russia apparently wants to send the most modern battle tanks to Ukraine
Update from January 19, 9:10 a.m .:
The Russian military leadership is currently apparently considering stationing a small number of T-14 Armata main battle tanks in Ukraine.
That emerges from the daily Ukraine report of the British Ministry of Defense on Twitter.
Images from late December last year showed T-14 tanks deployed at a military training area in southern Russia.
According to the report, the Russian army would use this to prepare units for stationing in Ukraine.
The T-14 Armata is the most modern tank in the Russian army.
However, the development of the weapon system was repeatedly accompanied by setbacks and problems in production.
The British Ministry of Defense therefore assumes that the stationing of the tanks in Ukraine would only be for propaganda purposes.
This assessment is justified on the one hand by the small number of tanks available.
In addition, the Russian commanders currently have no confidence in the tanks.
Dozens of Russian airstrikes on Wednesday: Ukraine reports new Russian military exercises
Update from January 18, 8:22 p.m
.: According to the situation report by the Ukrainian general staff, there were dozens of air and rocket attacks on Ukrainian targets by Russian troops on Wednesday (January 18).
As the authority announced in its evening Facebook report, there were 22 airstrikes and 50 attacks by Russian multiple rocket launchers.
In addition, Ukraine once again observed joint military exercises by Russian and Belarusian units.
Renewed concerns about the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant: IAEA expert teams begin work
Update from January 18, 6:10 p.m .:
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wants to prevent further attacks on the Ukrainian accident reactor with the constant presence of its team of experts in Chernobyl.
That's what IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday in the facility near the Belarusian border, when his agency's observer mission began work.
"We hope that there will be no further occupation or attack on the power plant," Grossi said.
Grossi traveled to Ukraine earlier this week to permanently deploy small IAEA teams in Chernobyl and in three operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
The presence of international observers should not only reduce the risk of Russian attacks, but the experts should also constantly report on the security of the plants and provide technical assistance.
Grossi's proposal for a non-aggression zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has not yet been implemented.
News about the Ukraine war: series of explosions in Chernihiv
Update from January 18, 3:40 p.m .:
There was heavy shelling in the Chernihiv Oblast on Wednesday afternoon.
This was reported by the "Operative Command Pivnich" on Facebook.
The Russian troops launched a total of 11 airstrikes with the help of mortars "within 15 minutes," it said.
According to initial findings, however, no soldiers were injured in the violent explosions.
Information on civilian casualties and infrastructural damage is not yet available.
News about the Ukraine war: Putin promises a license for industrial workers
Update from January 18, 2:20 p.m .:
During his visit to the Obukhov plant in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that military industry workers could be exempted from the upcoming spring call-up.
CNN
, among others, reports on this
.
“As for the conscripts who are called up for military service, they are exempt from being called up: considering that the defense industry is currently overloaded and you work in three shifts, and the products of defense industry companies are in great demand, we check currently the possibility of granting a stay to those who are called up for military service," he told factory workers on Wednesday.
News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv is apparently planning the next counter-offensive
Update from January 18, 1:10 p.m .:
According to media reports, Ukraine is planning a new counter-offensive in the Luhansk region.
The focus of the battles: the small town of Kreminna and its surroundings.
The place is surrounded by a forest and serves the Russian army, among other things, as a logistical center.
As the
image
reports, Russian reservists are said to be mostly stationed there, which could be an easy target for battle-hardened Ukrainians.
News about the Ukraine war: Supply problems for the Ukrainian army around Bakhmut
Update from January 18, 10:15 a.m .:
According to British intelligence services, the Russian capture of the Ukrainian city of Soledar also poses problems for Ukraine in supplying the larger city of Bakhmut. One of the two main supply routes is increasingly under pressure, it said on Wednesday in the daily Short report from the British Ministry of Defence.
Since the Ukrainian forces withdrew from Soledar in the Donbass region in the past few days, the place has been under the control of the Russian military and Wagner mercenaries deployed by Russia.
The Ukrainian armed forces are believed to have set up a new line of defense further west, the British said.
On the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine is said to be continuing to defend the city against continuous Russian attacks.
News about the Ukraine war: Putin sets a new deadline for his army
First report from January 18:
Moscow/Kiev – According to a Ukrainian intelligence spokesman, Vladimir Putin has given the new commander of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine a deadline of March to take control of the Donbass.
Andriy Yuzov, a representative of Ukraine's Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, told Ukraine's
Freedom TV
channel Monday (January 16) that General Valery Gerasimov had received the order to capture Ukraine's eastern region by March.
As reported by
Ukrainska Pravda
, Yusov also said in the interview that Putin had set similar deadlines in the past - but without success.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was approached on Tuesday (January 17) about the alleged March deadline, the Russian state news agency Tass reported.
"No, I can't comment on that and I have no intention of doing so," Peskow reportedly replied.
(
nak with dpa
)
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