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The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine and their allies.
In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from January 28th, 10:04 p.m.:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj does not want to use pressure to bring back conscientious objectors who have fled abroad.
He is therefore not calling on Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to send these people back to Ukraine, he said on Sunday evening in an interview with
ARD
presenter Caren Miosga.
“I’m definitely not calling out to Olaf Scholz: bring them back quickly,” he said.
“We live in a democratic world.”
What Ukraine needs with regard to conscientious objectors is a “functioning law”.
This is currently in preparation.
Personally, he would like these people to return, if only for reasons of justice.
Russia launches offensives: drone strikes against Zaporizhia and Kherson
Update from January 28th, 6:50 p.m.:
According to Ukrainian air defense, the Russian military has again launched kamikaze drones against targets in Ukraine.
According to media reports, the combat drones reached the central regions of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro as well as southern Kherson.
There was initially no information on possible shootings, damage or possible victims on Sunday evening.
According to official information, Russia attacked Ukraine again with combat drones and missiles on Sunday night.
The Ukrainian Air Force announced this morning that the air defense was able to fend off four of a total of eight drones.
The Russian army also attacked the central Ukrainian region of Poltava with two Iskander missiles and the eastern Donetsk region with converted anti-aircraft missiles.
Ukraine's vice admiral advocates attacks on Russian territory
Update from January 28th, 5:00 p.m.:
According to their commander, the Ukrainian naval forces are playing the role of David in the fight against Goliath in the defensive battle against Russia's navy.
Without their own large ships, the Ukrainian associations are trying to fight Russian combat ships around Crimea and also keep them away from the coast of Ukraine, explained Vice Admiral Olexij Neischpapa on Sunday in an interview with the British broadcaster
Sky News
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“We would like to have the opportunity to dissuade Russia from ever setting its eyes on Ukraine again, in this case also at sea,” Neischpapa said.
At the same time, he regretted that Ukraine was not allowed to use many of the weapons it received from the West against targets on Russian territory.
This could have had a “significant” influence on the course of the war.
Update from January 28th, 3:33 p.m.:
There have apparently been several explosions in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk in Zaporizhia Oblast.
This was reported by Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov on Telegram and Ukrainska Pravda.
Suspected residents also reported loud, explosive noises on social networks.
However, more precise details are not yet known.
Russia appears to be making progress in the Kharkiv region
Update from January 28th, 1:56 p.m
.: Despite high losses, Russia was apparently able to make progress on the Ukraine front.
According to unconfirmed information, President Vladimir Putin's army captured the village of Tabayevka, Ukrainian news platform
unian.net
reported .
Accordingly, the attackers are now trying to advance from there towards Peschanoye in the Kharkiv region.
The Ukrainian armed forces initially did not want to confirm the capture of the town and warned against fearmongering.
The Russian information could not be independently verified.
Update from January 28th, 12:15 p.m.:
Fighting also continued on the Donetsk front on Sunday.
A Russian attack at night left several people injured,
Kyiv Independent reports.
According to the report,
Three people were injured in the attack on the city of Myrnohrad, including a child.
A Russian T-90 tank fires during field demonstrations as part of the International Military Technical Forum “ARMY-2015” at the Russian Armed Forces “Patriot” Park in Kubinka, Moscow Region, Russia, June 18, 2015. © Yuri Kochetkov/picture alliance / dpa
Weapons for Ukraine in the fight against Russia: Lindner calls for more commitment from EU partners
Update from January 28th, 11:35 a.m
.: Urgent appeal to the EU: FDP leader Christian Lindner has called for more support for Ukraine from European partners.
Germany is making its contribution and, if necessary, will “mobilize even more,” assured Lindner at the European Liberal Party Conference in Berlin.
But this should not lead to other countries “continuing to do too little,” he said.
Europe is a community of values “and that must be proven in this hour,” demands Lindner, emphasizing that Germany already provides half of European aid for Ukraine.
Ukraine News: Russia suffers heavy losses on the front
Update from January 28th, 7:50 a.m.:
Devastating fighting on the Ukraine front: The General Staff of Ukraine has announced Russia's current losses.
740 soldiers died within one day, and Putin's army also lost nine tanks and 12 artillery systems.
Here are the exact numbers at a glance:
People:
around 382,110 (+740 on the previous day)
Tank:
6280 (+9)
armored fighting vehicles:
11,671 (+19)
Artillery systems
: 9097 (+12)
Air defense equipment
: 660 (+0)
Aircraft:
331 (+0)
Helicopters:
324 (+0)
Drones
: 7041 (+4)
Cruise missiles:
1845 (+0)
Ships/Boats
: 23 (+0)
Submarines:
1 (+0)
Automotive equipment and tankers:
12103 (+31)
Special Equipment:
1436 (+3)
Source:
Ukrainian General Staff dated January 27th.
The information about Russian losses comes from the Ukrainian army.
They cannot be independently verified.
Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war.
The situation in the Ukraine war is coming to a head: Russia is launching an offensive on all fronts
Update from January 28th, 6:32 a.m.:
Offensive on all fronts in the Ukraine war: There were 64 battles in Ukraine within 24 hours.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook.
The situation in the east and south of the country therefore remains difficult.
Among other things, Russia's army attacked an industrial plant in the Kremenchuk district of Poltava Oblast with rockets.
The facility caught fire.
On Sunday morning, nothing was initially known about the number of fatalities and injuries in the fighting that night.
Current situation in the Ukraine war: Russia launches new missile and drone attacks
Update from January 27th, 10:09 p.m.:
Russia has again hit Ukraine with missile and drone attacks.
“Enemy drones have attacked the regional center,” wrote the military governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, Yuriy Malashko, on Telegram late Saturday evening.
An infrastructure object was hit.
He did not provide any further details.
Rocket attacks were reported in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava.
There was an impact on an industrial property in Kremenchuk, wrote military governor Filip Pronin.
This caused a fire to break out.
According to authorities, the extinguishing work is continuing.
There was initially no information about possible victims.
Zelensky emphasizes help in the Ukraine war: “Good dynamics” in armaments aid
Update from January 27th, 9:11 p.m.:
Despite the current problems with arms deliveries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not see any war weariness among his country's international partners.
“Despite various challenges and many difficulties, Ukraine has managed to maintain international attention for our, Ukrainian struggle for independence,” he said in his daily video address on Saturday.
In a review last month, he particularly highlighted the security agreement with Great Britain as a success.
Zelenskyj signed the agreement two weeks ago with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his visit to Kiev.
This agreement is now a model for security agreements with other countries that are in the works, he said.
Zelensky also spoke of “good dynamics” in international arms aid.
However, he emphasized the importance of the USA as the most important military supporter in the defense against the Russian war of aggression.
Kiev is waiting impatiently for the decision in Washington – “it is of crucial importance,” he warned.
In the USA, a domestic political dispute between Democrats and Republicans is paralyzing further aid for Ukraine.
After Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine: several dead people recovered from the rubble of a residential building
Update from January 27th, 7:43 p.m.:
According to the authorities, five dead people were recovered from the rubble of a residential building in eastern Ukraine.
“I remind you that on January 15, the Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on a three-story building in Nyu York - three people were injured and five were buried under the rubble,” wrote the military governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, on Facebook.
The rescue work would have taken two weeks.
The town of Nyu York is located in Ukrainian-controlled territory directly behind the front line opposite the industrial town of Horlivka.
In contrast to many other sections of the front, the Russian military has not yet succeeded in pushing back the Ukrainians at this point.
However, the town was badly damaged by the ongoing shelling.
Meanwhile, the death of another victim, a 13-year-old girl in Kharkiv region, became known.
The Ukrainian teenager was seriously injured ten days ago when the town of Malyj Burluk was shelled with aerial bombs and fell into a coma.
Now she has died in the hospital, the military governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synjehubow, said on Saturday.
Putin attacks Ukraine and the Baltics – “Heroizing Hitler’s aides and SS men”
Update from January 27th, 6:41 p.m.:
Russian President Vladimir Putin described his war against Ukraine at a memorial event as a fight against Nazism.
“We are doing everything, everything, to stop Nazism and finally eradicate it,” he said, according to the media, on Saturday at the opening of a memorial for civilian victims of fascist terror after Hitler’s Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin chief cited Ukraine and the Baltics as current examples of the rise of Nazism.
The Baltic states are “declaring tens of thousands of people subhuman, depriving them of their most basic rights and subjecting them to hate speech,” he claimed, without providing any evidence for the statements.
Ukraine, in turn, “heroizes Hitler’s helpers and SS men and uses terror against people they don’t like,” Putin continued.
For almost two years, the Kremlin has repeatedly justified the war in Ukraine with the alleged need to protect the Russian-speaking population living there from attacks by Ukrainian nationalists.
Moscow now seems to want to build a similar narrative with regard to the Baltics.
Ukraine and Lithuania plan joint drone production
Update from January 27th, 5:15 p.m.:
Ukraine and Lithuania have discussed the joint production of drones.
A large part of his conversation with his Lithuanian counterpart Gabrielius Landsbergis was dedicated to this topic, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday at a joint press conference between the two in Kiev.
“Lithuania has the technologies, we have the opportunity to expand cooperation, and that was the key issue,” Kuleba said.
In addition, Ukraine's path to NATO, further military aid for the country and sanctions against war enemy Russia were also discussed.
Update from January 27th, 4:12 p.m.:
There has apparently been a Russian drone attack in the city of Beryslaw in the Kherson region.
A civilian was killed,
Ukrainska Pravda
reported, citing the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
Houses and public buildings were also affected.
However, this information could not be independently verified.
Russia wants to retake several places: Putin's army increases “storming operations”
Update from January 27th, 2:51 p.m.:
According to information from Kiev, the Russian military has enormously increased its efforts to conquer Ukrainian places in the past few days.
“The occupiers have significantly increased the number of attacks and storming operations - for the second day in a row the enemy is carrying out 50 combat operations,” wrote General Alexander Tarnavskyj, who is responsible for the sector of the front in the south and southeast of Ukraine, on his Telegram channel on Saturday.
The number of air raids has also increased.
The figures given by Tarnawskyj apparently refer to the southern part of the Donetsk region.
He explicitly mentions strikes against the towns of Myrnohrad and Novohrodivka, which are close to the front, and which were bombarded with converted anti-aircraft missiles the day before.
Heavy fighting for Avdiivka: “Russians are carrying out a three-pronged attack”
Update from January 27th, 1:00 p.m.:
In its latest intelligence report, the British Ministry of Defense states that the Ukrainian counterattacks prevented the Russians from taking full control of Avdiivka.
“The main focus of Russian forces is the city of Avdiivka,” the report said.
“The Russians are conducting a three-pronged attack to encircle the city from the south and north, and are also fighting on the outskirts of the eastern quarter of the city of Avdiivka itself.”
However, Russian forces have suffered heavy losses in personnel and armored vehicles, often caused by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle munitions.
Although they continue to try to bypass the Ukrainian fortifications, "Ukrainian counterattacks deter Russian forces from advancing further within the city."
Ukraine News: Russia's parliamentary leader warns of World War III
Update from January 27th, 11:40 a.m
.: Russia's parliamentary leader Vyacheslav Volodin has raised the danger of a third world war on the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad.
“Fascist ideology has become the norm for the leadership of NATO countries,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday.
He accused Western governments, including explicitly the federal government under Olaf Scholz, of supporting a policy of genocide in Ukraine.
“This is a dangerous path that could lead to a new world war.”
Russia justifies its almost two-year war of aggression against Ukraine by claiming, among other things, that it has to “denazify” the neighboring country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin repeatedly uses historical comparisons with the Second World War to justify his attack on the neighboring country.
He equates the invasion of Ukraine he ordered with the defense of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany's criminal war of aggression.
Especially on anniversaries, Moscow uses the argument of “defending the memory of the war dead” for its war propaganda.
Update from January 27th, 9:40 a.m
.: The plane crash in Russia continues to cause discussions.
Ukraine considers the information provided by Russia so far regarding the alleged shooting down of the Il-76 military transport aircraft to be unfounded.
There is still no evidence that there were actually 65 prisoners of war on board the Ilyushin, which crashed in Belgorod on Wednesday, said the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
According to a statement from the coordination staff for the exchange of prisoners of war published on Friday (January 26), Russia provided a list of names after a long delay.
However, it is still unclear whether these people were in the Il-76.
“There is currently no information that would indicate that so many people could have been on that plane,” Budanov said.
High losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Kiev reports current figures
Update from January 27th, 8:05 a.m
.: The Ukrainian General Staff has published new figures on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war.
According to this, 770 Russian soldiers were either killed or wounded in the fighting within one day.
The information could not initially be independently verified.
Soldiers
: 381,370 soldiers (+770 on the previous day)
Tanks
: 6271 (+6)
Armored vehicles
: 11,652 (+15)
Artillery systems
: 9085 (+3)
Multiple rocket launchers
: 972
Air defense systems
: 660
Aircraft
: 331
Helicopters:
324
Drones
: 7,037 (+4)
Cruise missiles
: 1842 (+22)
Warships
: 23
Submarines
: 1
Tanker trucks and other vehicles
: 12,072 (+8)
Source:
Ukrainian General Staff dated January 27th.
The information about Russian losses comes from the Ukrainian army.
They cannot be independently verified.
Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war.
Russian plane crash: Moscow releases footage
Update from January 26th, 8:45 p.m.:
After the Il-76 military transport plane crashed in the Belgorod region, the Russian Investigative Committee published videos with images of corpses and an airplane.
The recordings published in Moscow on Friday show investigators in a rubble field, closing a body bag and also showing tattoos on body parts.
Ukrainian documents from suspected prisoners of war can also be seen.
Another video shows a plane to which several transporters are heading.
According to authorities, this proves that the Ukrainian prisoners of war boarded the plane before it was shot down.
The videos could not initially be independently verified.
Russia is likely to want to refute Ukraine's doubts that there really were prisoners of war on board the Ilyushin when it crashed last Wednesday.
According to Russian information, the plane carrying 65 prisoners of war and 9 Russian crew members was shot down.
The collected body parts will be genetically examined in order to identify the people killed in the crash, it said.
According to Russian investigators, the plane was fired from an anti-aircraft system in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Lypzi in the Kharkiv region.
Update from January 26th, 6:30 p.m.:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the Ukrainian army for the crash of a Russian military aircraft in the border region of Belgorod this week.
“I don’t know if they did it intentionally or accidentally, but it’s obvious that they did it,” the Kremlin chief said Friday at a military college.
Putin further accused Ukrainian military intelligence of knowing that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane.
“It is definitely a crime,” he emphasized.
According to information from Moscow, the Ilyushin transport plane crashed on Wednesday not far from the border with Ukraine after being hit by rockets.
Accordingly, the plane with 65 Ukrainian soldiers on board was on the way to a prisoner exchange.
According to Russian authorities, all 74 passengers died in the crash.
Whether there were actually prisoners of war on board is still controversial.
Ukraine war: Kiev invites Xi Jinping to peace talks in Switzerland
Update from January 26th, 5:15 p.m.:
Ukraine has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to peace talks in Switzerland.
This is reported by Sky News, citing Volodymyr Zelensky's top adviser, BiIgor Zhovkva.
Neither the place nor the time has been determined yet.
However, Switzerland has agreed in principle to hold such a meeting.
“We will definitely invite China to participate in the summit, at the highest level, at the level of the President of the People's Republic of China.
China's participation will be very important for us.
We involve our partners in the world to convey to the Chinese side the importance of participating in such a summit,” said Zhovkva.
Chinese participation in the talks could be crucial to ending the war.
While Beijing has remained close to Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it has previously offered to mediate in the conflict, saying the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries must be respected.
Xi remains one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies among major powers, and his views on a possible peace plan could prove crucial to the future of the conflict in Ukraine.
Update from January 26th, 4:10 p.m.:
The Tuapse oil refinery, which belongs to Rosneft, a major Russian oil and gas company, has stopped refining oil and producing petroleum products due to the attack by Ukrainian drones on January 25th.
This is reported
by Reuters
, citing industry sources.
The refinery is the only one on the Russian Black Sea coast, one of the ten largest in the country and processes up to nine million tons of raw materials annually.
A vacuum system burned down in the drone attack, which also prompted Russian authorities to close Sochi airport and issue air raid warnings for their settlements.
According to the agency, the plant will not be able to quickly resume production: repairs are expected to last until the end of February or early March.
Rosneft did not comment on this.
Russia is said to have used chemical weapons
Update vom 26. Januar, 15.15 Uhr: Russische Streitkräfte greifen ukrainische Soldaten im Ukraine-Krieg zunehmend mit Erstickungsgranaten an. Das teilte die Informationsagentur des ukrainischen Verteidigungsministeriums mit. RG-Vo-Granaten, eine Form von Tränengas, wurden im Dezember zum ersten Mal und eingesetzt. Seitdem seien 81 Fälle bekannt geworden. Das berichtet Army Inform unter Berufung auf einen Sprecher des ukrainischen Waffenforschungszentrums für die Erforschung von Trophäen und zukünftigen Waffen und militärischer Ausrüstung. Nach Angaben des Forschungszentrums kann diese Granate eine Person innerhalb von fünf Minuten töten, wenn sie in einen Raum oder einen Unterstand geschossen wird.
Sprecher Hauptmann Andriy Rudyk sagte gegenüber Army Inform: „Diese Granate enthält Chloracetophenon, eine erstickende Substanz, die nach dem Genfer Protokoll [über chemische Kriegsführung] verboten ist.“ Laut dem Generalstab der ukrainischen Streitkräfte hat Russland in diesem Jahr 51 Mal chemische Waffen eingesetzt, am häufigsten in Form von Granaten, die von Drohnen abgeworfen wurden. Das Forschungszentrum geht davon aus, dass Russland die Reaktion der internationalen Gemeinschaft prüft, bevor es den Einsatz chemischer Waffen weiter ausweitet, hieß es weiter. Die Angaben können nicht unabhängig verifiziert werden.
Kreml dementiert, dass Putin im Ukraine-Krieg mit den USA verhandeln will
Update vom 26. Januar, 14.15 Uhr: Der Kreml dementierte am Freitag einen Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg, laut dem der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin die Fühler nach den USA ausstreckt, um Gespräche über die Beendigung des Krieges in der Ukraine zu führen. Weiter war berichtete worden, Putin ziehe in Erwägung, wichtige Forderungen zum Sicherheitsstatus der Ukraine fallen zu lassen. Das schreibt Reuters.
In dem Bloomberg-Bericht heißt es, Putin sondiere, ob Washington zu Gesprächen bereit sei, und habe sich über indirekte Kanäle an die USA gewandt. Der Bericht zitiert zwei dem Kreml nahestehende Personen mit der Aussage, Putin sei „möglicherweise bereit, das Beharren auf einem neutralen Status für die Ukraine aufzugeben und sogar den Widerstand gegen eine eventuelle Nato-Mitgliedschaft aufzugeben – die Drohung damit war eine zentrale russische Rechtfertigung für die Invasion“. Kreml-Sprecher Dmitri Peskow wurde von Reportern zu der Meldung befragt, insbesondere dazu, ob Moskau wirklich bereit sei, seine Forderungen nach Neutralität und Nato aufzugeben. „Nein, dies ist ein falscher Bericht. Er entspricht absolut nicht der Realität“, dementierte er.
Größte Wellen von Luftangriffen im Ukraine-Krieg seit Wochen: Zahlreiche Menschen verletzt
Update vom 26. Januar, 12.46 Uhr: Die Zahl der Todesopfer der russischen Raketenangriffe auf die zweitgrößte ukrainische Stadt Charkiw ist nach offiziellen Angaben vom Freitag auf elf gestiegen. Das berichtet die britische Zeitung the Guardian.
Bei einer der größten Wellen von Luftangriffen seit Wochen wurden mehr als 100 Menschen verletzt und mindestens 18 getötet, nachdem russische Raketen am frühen Montag in der gesamten Ukraine, einschließlich der Hauptstadt Kiew und dem nordöstlichen Charkiw, eingeschlagen waren. Die Staatsanwaltschaft von Charkiw teilte am Freitag mit, dass eine 61-jährige Frau ihren Verletzungen erlegen sei, womit sich die Zahl der Todesopfer allein in dieser Stadt auf 11 erhöhte, berichtet AFP.
Absturz von Flugzeug in Russland: Untersuchung angelaufen
Update vom 26. Januar, 10.45 Uhr: Die Blackboxes des russischen Militärtransportflugzeugs Il-76, das am Mittwoch nahe der ukrainischen Grenze abgestürzt ist, wurden zur Analyse in ein Speziallabor in Moskau gebracht, so russische Staatsmedien. Experten hätten bereits damit begonnen, die Flugdaten aus den Boxen wiederherzustellen, hieß es.
Russland hat Kiew beschuldigt, das große Militärtransportflugzeug im Ukraine-Krieg abgeschossen zu haben, das am Mittwoch ukrainische Kriegsgefangene zu einem Austausch transportieren sollte. Bei dem Absturz kamen alle 74 Menschen an Bord ums Leben. Die Ukraine hat weder bestätigt noch dementiert, dass sie das Flugzeug getroffen hat. Kiew sagte aber, Moskau habe eine „vorsätzliche Bedrohung für das Leben und die Sicherheit“ seiner Kriegsgefangenen geschaffen, indem Russland zuvor auf Warnungen für den Luftraum verzichtet hat.
Außenposten im Ukraine-Krieg zerstört: Mindestens fünf Soldaten aus Russland getötet
Update vom 26. Januar, 7.40 Uhr: Die Spezialeinheiten der ukrainischen Armee haben nach eigenen Angaben einen russischen Beobachtungsposten in Cherson zerstört. Dabei töteten sie fünf russische Soldaten. Für ihren Angriff nutzten sie eine Wärmebilddrohne.
Danach posteten sie auf Facebook ein Video, das den Angriff zeigen soll. Dazu schrieben sie, dass es ihnen dieser Schlag gegen die Russen ermögliche, „in Zukunft weitere Abschnitte an dieser Front zu kontrollieren“. Unabhängig prüfen ließen sich die Angaben zunächst nicht. Cherson befindet sich an der südlichen Front im Ukraine-Krieg.
Ukraine-News: Russland wütet nach Flugzeugabsturz in Belgorod
Erstmeldung: Kiew/Moskau – Nach dem Absturz eines russischen Militärflugzeugs in der Grenzregion zur Ukraine bleiben zahlreiche Fragen unbeantwortet. Der ukrainische Geheimdienst SBU leitete am Donnerstag (25. Januar) Ermittlungen ein.
Russia, meanwhile, released footage of the crash site and announced an investigation into “terrorism.”
Moscow had stated that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane;
the plane was shot down by Ukraine.
Exchange of blows between Russia and Ukraine after plane crash
Now Ukraine and Russia have accused each other before the UN Security Council.
According to previous information, it was a “premeditated, well-thought-out crime,” said Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitri Polyansky at a meeting of the body in New York.
The deputy Ukrainian ambassador to the UN, Chrystyna Hajovyshyn, rejected the allegations: Ukraine was not informed about the number and type of transport used to transport the prisoners who, according to the Russian account, were said to have died in the incident.
This week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov also traveled to New York.
Ukraine News: Russia requests meeting in New York after plane crash
The UN Security Council meeting on the crash was requested by Russia.
Representatives of Western states emphasized at the meeting that the crash would never have occurred without Russia's war against Ukraine.
“Russia has repeatedly sought to shift responsibility for the tragedies of this senseless and self-imposed war onto others, as if it were the victim rather than the aggressor,” said U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood.
(Editing with news agency material)