The fighting apparently continues to focus on Bachmut - and Moscow is directing new allegations against Berlin.
News ticker on the Ukraine war.
Speculations
about
Nord Stream blasts
: Moscow sees Berlin as "not independent"
Battle
of
Bakhmut
: Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops used grenade launchers
Wagner mercenaries
in
Bakhmut battles
: Yevgeny Prigozhin sees the situation as "very difficult".
Weapons deliveries
from
Germany
: Klitschko praises Berlin in the
Ukraine war
Update from March 13, 10:41 a.m .
: The Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya is certain: Alexander Lukashenko is an “accomplice” in the Russian attack on Ukraine and “carries out all of Putin’s orders”.
That's what Tichanovskaya said on Deutschlandfunk.
The ruler is selling Belarus' independence bit by bit.
Lukashenko has ruled the former Soviet republic for more than a quarter of a century.
Critics call him "Europe's last dictator".
He makes Belarus available as a deployment area for the Russian war of aggression.
Tichanovskaya ran against Lukashenko in 2020.
She now lives in exile in Lithuania.
In her homeland she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Ukraine news: Moscow sees Berlin as “not independent”
Update from March 13, 10:21 a.m
.: New allegations from Moscow to Berlin: The German government is not independent in the Ukraine conflict, said Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, according to the Ria Novosti news agency.
Patrushev's statements came against the background of speculation about the Nord Stream blasts.
The German government is aware "that close economic cooperation between Germany and Russia has never suited Washington and London."
He pointed out that the UN is forcing the German authorities to "follow the version favorable to Washington."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin.(Archive photo)
© Mikhail Klimentyev/POOL SPUTNIK KREMLIN/AP/dpa
Ukraine news: "Defense of Bakhmut Fortress continues!"
Update from March 13, 9:42 a.m .
: The Wagner group is still trying to penetrate Bachmut’s center, said the Ukrainian Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyj.
"In the course of fierce battles, our defenders inflict significant losses on the enemy," he declared on Telegram, according to the official military portal
armyinform.com
, as well as: "The defense of the fortress continues!"
Ukraine news: Shelling in the Russian city of Belgorod
Update from March 13, 9:07 a.m
.: The Russian side reports shelling in the Russian border region of Belgorod.
According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the air defense system brought down four missiles on Monday morning (March 13).
This is reported by the Meduza
portal
.
Belgorod is near the Ukrainian border.
Since the beginning of the war, there have been repeated attacks on Russian territory.
As a rule, these are limited to the border area.
First report from March 13
: Bakhmut - In the battle for Bakhmut, Ukrainian units continue to brace themselves against Russian attackers.
Enemy infantry, supported by artillery, stormed a base of border guard troops also fighting in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army said.
Ukraine news: Ukrainian troops use grenade launchers in the battle for Bakhmut
The attackers in Bakhmut were also pushed back with the help of grenade launchers.
The government in Kiev with President Volodymyr Zelenskyj once again underlined the importance of the fighting.
Key Russian forces and reserves would be tied down and suffered significant casualties, it said.
Ukraine news: Wagner boss Prigozhin sees a “very difficult” situation in Bakhmut
The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozchin, spoke of a "very difficult" situation.
The former head of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, spoke out in favor of preparing framework conditions for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
"Apart from arms deliveries and financial support, we have to offer perspectives to the growing critical chorus of questions in the USA just as we do in Germany," he wrote in a guest article for the
Tagesspiegel
on Monday (March 13).
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Photo from March 11: Ukrainian fighters in the Bakhmut region
© Sergey Shestak/AFP
Ukraine news: Klitschko praises Berlin for arms deliveries in the Ukraine war
Meanwhile, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko praised Germany's military support for Ukraine in the war against Russia - and at the same time called for more speed in further arms deliveries.
"I don't want to complain and I want to thank the Germans again," said the ex-boxing world champion to the editorial network Germany (RND).
“Germany is one of the biggest supporters of Ukraine in terms of financial aid and arms supplies.
But it's true, the German government is taking its decisions far too slowly, and we're paying the highest price for it: the lives of our soldiers and the lives of our citizens."
(AFP/dpa/frs)
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