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On Sunday night, Ukraine reported another Russian drone attack.
A day of mourning is declared in Kharkiv.
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Protests over the Ukraine war: Several people arrested in Russia
Political quake: Ukraine dismisses popular commander
Russia's losses in the Ukraine war: Kiev publishes new figures
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Update from February 11th, 10:35 a.m.:
A day of mourning was declared in Kharkiv for today after a serious attack.
A total of seven people were killed in Kharkiv on Saturday night when combat drones hit a fuel depot and set numerous residential buildings on fire.
A family with three children was also among the dead.
Ukraine again reported dozens of Russian drone attacks on Sunday night.
Of the total of 45 projectiles, 40 were blocked in different parts of the country, as the Ukrainian Air Force announced this morning.
The regions affected were Odessa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kiev, among others.
Firefighters extinguish a fire following a Russian drone attack on a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
© Yevhen Titov/AP/dpa
Update from February 11, 8:30 a.m.:
Estonia wants to continue building a defense line on its border with Russia despite Putin's statement that a Russian invasion of the NATO states Poland and Latvia is "absolutely impossible."
“We will not change our plans just because Putin gave an interview to a journalist,” Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told the German Press Agency.
“Do you believe Vladimir Putin after what he has said and how he behaves all these years?”
Pevkur warned not to believe Putin's appeasing statements.
A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin also categorically ruled out an attack on the neighboring country.
“We are currently increasing our readiness.
And that is what everyone must do.
Not just here in Estonia, but everyone else too,” he emphasized.
Update from February 10th, 10:50 p.m.:
According to the latest situation report from the General Staff in Kiev, the Ukrainian armed forces repelled 87 Russian assault attempts during the course of Saturday.
Moscow troops launched a good two-thirds of these attacks on two sections of the front in the city of Donetsk.
32 attacks were launched around the small town of Avdiivka alone, with 31 clashes on the Marinka sector of the front, almost as many.
The focus is now on the neighboring towns of Heorhiivka in the west and Nowomychajlivka in the south.
According to unconfirmed media reports, the Russians are making progress on Novomykhailivka, although this cannot be independently verified.
Zelensky and Ukraine War: President appoints two deputies to commander in chief
Update from February 10th, 10:25 p.m.:
In his daily video address, Volodymyr Zelenskyj announced that he has appointed two new deputies for the military commander-in-chief.
“Deputies of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky will be Colonel Vadim Sukharevsky - his area is autonomous systems and the development of the use of drones for our soldiers - and Colonel Andriy Lebedenko - his area is innovations and the technological component of the army and combat systems,” the Ukrainian explained President, who thereby passed over some high-ranking generals and preferred two lower-ranking officers to them.
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The 46-year-old emphasized the need to promote new technologies in the military as the reason for the appointments.
In this way, losses at the front could be reduced.
As part of his large-scale restructuring of the army's leadership, Zelensky also replaced three deputies to the chief of general staff.
In this case, however, he appointed three experienced brigadier generals: Volodymyr Horbatyuk, Olexij Shevchenko and Mykhailo Drapato.
Update from February 10th, 7:45 p.m.:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has stated that Ukraine will achieve its targets for weapons and ammunition production.
In a video speech on the occasion of the Ukraine war, the politician said: “I also held a detailed and comprehensive meeting on Ukrainian arms and ammunition production, which covered everything that we produce and want to produce.”
Zelensky further said that drones, drone ammunition, artillery and artillery shells, equipment as well as the expansion of mobile fire units and their supply were discussed.
The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, military commanders and government officials are said to have taken part in the said meetings.
Pravda
also reports this
.
“We have set clear goals regarding the financing and execution of contracts.
Everything planned for this year will be achieved,” Zelensky said.
After a drone attack on a gas station in the Kharkiv region, several residential buildings caught fire (symbolic image).
© dpa
Drone attack in the Ukraine war: Russia fends off Ukrainian missiles over the Black Sea
Update from February 10th, 6:02 p.m.:
While Russia launched a serious drone attack on the Kharkiv region on Saturday, a Ukrainian drone attack on “civilian transport ships” in the Black Sea was repelled on Friday evening, according to the Russian armed forces.
This is what the Tagesschau
reports
.
Russian warships and fighter jets destroyed one of the sea drones and stopped another using electronic warfare.
Building contract canceled in the middle of the Ukraine war: Moscow ends lease with Kiev
Update from February 10th, 5:25 p.m.:
The Ukraine war is now leading to another consequence for the Ukrainian government: Apparently the city of Moscow has terminated the lease agreement for the Ukrainian embassy.
This was preceded by Kiev's termination of the Russian embassy there.
This was stated by the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Maria Zakharova.
“In diplomacy there is the principle of reciprocity,” Zakharova said.
The Ukrainian side was informed about the step.
Shortly after the Russian war of aggression began almost two years ago, diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken off.
The Ukrainian embassy in Moscow itself was closed on the first day of the war, February 24, 2022.
Zelensky comments on the attack on Kharkiv in the Ukraine war: “Terror cannot remain unanswered”
Update from February 10, 4:30 p.m.:
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, strongly condemned the drone attacks on the Kharkiv region.
“Facts always speak louder than words,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday, pointing out that the Russian attack that night had killed a family with three small children.
“Terror cannot remain without an answer.” He also published numerous pictures of destroyed houses and the firefighters' fight against the flames.
The drone attack on Saturday night hit a fuel depot and the explosion set numerous residential buildings on fire.
The fire was only contained in the afternoon, as the region's military governor, Oleh Synjehubow, also announced on Telegram, according to the German Press Agency.
Protests over the Ukraine war in Russia: several people arrested
Update from February 10th, 4:05 p.m.:
There have been repeated protests in Russia over the Ukraine war in recent weeks.
Authorities are now said to have arrested several people who were protesting in major Russian cities against the mobilization of relatives for the war in Ukraine.
According to the
Tagesschau
, five people were taken away by plainclothes police officers while laying flowers at a soldiers' memorial in Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains.
This emerges from information from the civil rights portal
OWD-Info
.
People are also said to have been arrested in Moscow for protests against possible mobilization in the Ukraine war.
Attack in the Ukraine War: Romania launches fighter jets because of Russia's drones
Update from February 10th, 3:45 p.m.:
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Ukrainska Pravda
, Romania launched fighter jets last night in response to an attack by Russian drones on Odessa.
However, there were no violations of Romanian airspace.
“The Ministry of Defense strongly condemns the attacks by the Russian Federation on facilities and elements of civil infrastructure in the Ukrainian Danube ports.
These attacks are unjustified and seriously contradict the norms of international humanitarian law,” said a statement from the Ministry of Defense, quoted by
n-tv
.
Heavy fighting in the Ukraine war: 111 combat operations between Russia and Ukraine in one day
Update from February 10th, 12:00 p.m.:
The bitter fighting between Russia and Ukraine along the front line continues.
As the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced in a situation report on Facebook, there were 111 fighting operations along the front on Friday alone.
Russian forces carried out a total of 73 airstrikes and 76 multiple rocket launcher attacks on Ukrainian positions and civilian infrastructure.
Significant losses for Russia in the Ukrainian war
Soldiers:
394,270 (+980)
Tanks:
6394 (+9)
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
11,942 (+21)
Artillery systems
: 9459 (+24)
Air defense equipment
: 666
Aircraft:
332
Helicopters:
325
Drones
: 7235 (+26)
Cruise missile:
1881
Ships/Boats
: 24
Automotive equipment and tankers:
12,579 (+28)
Submarines:
1
Special equipment:
1512 (+3)
Source:
Ukrainian General Staff as of February 10, 2024. The information about Russia's 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 drone attack in the Ukraine war – six-month-old baby among victims in Kharkiv
Update from February 10th, 9:14 a.m.:
The Ukraine military leadership has published new information about the Russian drone attacks on Kharkiv.
Kharkiv military governor Oleh Synyehubov confirmed on Telegram that seven people were killed in the attacks.
“There are also three children among them: seven and four years old and a baby about six months old,” Synjehubow continued.
Firefighters extinguish a fire after a Russian drone strike on a residential neighborhood in the city of Kharkiv.
© Andrii Marienko/dpa
Update from February 10, 8:33 a.m.:
Russia apparently used 31 Iranian kamikaze drones in the attack on Ukrainian cities on Saturday night.
The Ukrainian air defense was able to intercept 23 of the drones.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported this via its Telegram channel.
The drones primarily flew to targets in the Kharkiv and Odessa regions.
Update from February 10, 6:55 a.m.:
Russia again attacked several targets in Ukraine with Iranian Shahed drones on Saturday night.
The targets of the attacks included the cities of Kharkiv and Odessa.
Civil infrastructure was also hit in Kharkiv, the city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said via Telegram.
Terekhov wrote that gasoline caught fire at a gas station and 14 private houses burned.
The Kyiv Independent portal reported on Saturday morning that seven people had died in the fire.
Including three children.
The information cannot currently be independently verified.
Meanwhile, in the Black Sea region of Odessa in the south, at least one person was injured, according to military governor Oleh Kiper.
A 44-year-old man was injured in the arm by shrapnel and is being treated in hospital.
Kiev has to worry about Western aid in the Ukraine war against Russia
First report from. February 10:
Kiev/Moscow – In the fight against Russia, Ukraine currently has to worry about Western aid.
After a billion-dollar package for Kiev was rejected in the US Senate, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and US President Joe Biden met on Friday afternoon (February 9th) for a one-on-one conversation, which also discussed the Ukraine- war should go.
Shortly before the Chancellor's arrival, there was at least a small glimmer of hope: an aid package for Ukraine cleared at least the first procedural hurdle in the Senate.
Further negotiations will now follow.
Whether the Senate - and also the House of Representatives as the second chamber of parliament - will actually agree in the end is still unclear.
There is still a long way to go before a solution in Congress.
Scholz wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Ukraine needs all our support to defend itself against Russian aggression.”
Political earthquake in the middle of the Ukraine war: Zelenskyj dismisses popular commander
Meanwhile, the dismissal of Valeriy Zalushnyj after almost two years of war caused a political earthquake in Kiev.
The beefy general was considered popular in the army and among the population.
However, he probably assessed the military situation more negatively than the political leadership and made this public in articles.
Zelensky took two hours on Wednesday evening (February 7) to speak behind closed doors to leading Ukrainian journalists and explain his decision.
This is what participants reported afterwards.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister Rustem Umjerov publicly thanked the outgoing top military leader.
However, they agreed that “new approaches” were needed in the third year of the war.
They didn't give any details.
News of the dismissal, while expected, was not well received by many Ukrainian military observers.
“Kicking out Zalushny and replacing him with Syrsky is not a new approach.
Sorry,” criticized the well-known Ukrainian journalist IIlya Ponomarenko.
On Thursday (February 8), Zelenskyj appointed Colonel General Olexander Syrskyj as Saluschnyj's successor in a video message.
(talk to agencies)