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Wagner boss Prigoschin: Mercenaries now apparently receive ammunition
8:35 a.m .:
For several days, the head of the Russian mercenary force Wagner Yevgeny Prigoschin complained that his men received too little ammunition from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
For example, he sharply criticized Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Now the situation appears to be changing.
His troops should now receive ammunition, he explained to Telegram: "Today at 6 a.m. it was announced that the delivery of ammunition had begun," writes Prigozhin: "The ball is probably rolling now.
So far everything is only on paper, but as we were told, the most important documents have already been signed.«
Recently, the conflict threatened to escalate.
Prigozhin shared pictures of dead people on social media to prove that Wagner mercenaries had died in the war because they had not received enough ammunition.
In addition, Prigozhin had asked the people of Russia to put pressure on the army.
London observes heavy fighting in area around Bakhmut
7:50 a.m .:
According to British military intelligence, heavy fighting has continued in the area around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for the past 48 hours.
According to the latest secret service bulletin, the city of Wuhledar, further south in the Donetsk region, was again heavily shelled.
There is a realistic possibility that Russia is preparing for another offensive in the Wuhledar area.
Ukrainian military: Numerous Russian attacks in the east repelled
7:20 a.m .:
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian military has repelled 90 Russian attacks on the front in the north-east and east in the past 24 hours.
Russian troops attacked near Kupiansk in Kharkiv region and around Lyman, Bakhmut, Adviyika and Shakhtarsk in Donetsk region, the military said.
Russia used many soldiers and tried to weaken Ukrainian positions regardless of their own losses.
The Central Council of Jews complains about the influx of radicals
7 a.m.:
The Central Council of Jews in Germany complains about social tensions as a result of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
"We have seen that, as is so often the case with crises, radicals and conspiracy ideologies are gaining ground," warns Central Council President Josef Schuster in a statement on the first anniversary of the war.
"Jews are at the top of those who look for scapegoats for the problems in the country."
Above all, Schuster remembered the victims of the war.
He estimated that the number of dead and wounded was in the hundreds of thousands.
A million people had sought refuge in Germany.
The Jewish communities also helped without hesitation, and he was proud of that.
Russia warns Ukraine against invasion of Transnistria
05:39:
Russia accuses Ukraine of planning an invasion of Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria.
According to the Tass news agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that Kiev intends to carry out an armed “false flag” operation in Transnistria in the near future.
Ukrainian soldiers and the Ukrainian regiment Azov would use a staged invasion by supposedly Russian troops as a pretext for the invasion, it is said.
The Ministry of Defense is ready to respond to any change on the Ukraine-Transnistria border.
Since the 1990s, Russian soldiers have been stationed in the Transnistria region on the border with Ukraine, which was split off from Moldova. They act as so-called peacekeeping troops.
The ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova is not part of NATO; it is politically divided between pro-European and pro-Russian forces.
Ukraine accuses Russia of genocide, Moscow tries to make comparisons with world wars
4:44 a.m .:
The government in Kiev has sharply condemned the Russian way of dealing with children.
The Kremlin speaks of "war like 80 years ago".
And: Habeck wants to monitor sanctions more closely.
The latest developments at a glance in the morning.
Expert Masala: Ukrainian counter-offensive could turn the tide of war
01:05:
According to military expert Carlo Masala, a Ukrainian counter-offensive could "definitely turn the tide" in the war.
If the Ukrainians manage to separate Russia's southern front from the eastern one, it could enable them "to increase the pressure on Crimea to such an extent that Russia is about to lose the peninsula," he told the newspapers Funke media group: "That could possibly cause movement in the Kremlin that someone other than Putin comes to the negotiating table."
Masala therefore considers a counter-offensive to be the most sensible option from the Ukrainian point of view.
Following Tuesday's speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he blamed the West for the war, Masala said it was difficult to say where he "left a back door open to start negotiations without preconditions."
Masala is Professor of International Politics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.
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