As of: February 29, 2024, 8:45 a.m
By: Stefan Krieger
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Russia attacks the Kupiansk region.
The Ukrainian military reports a successful counterattack.
The news ticker about the Ukraine war.
Serious attack
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Kupyansk
: Among other things, a six-year-old child was killed in an attack on Ukraine
Russian losses
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Ukraine war : Kiev publishes current figures on
Russian
losses
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 February 29th, 8:45 a.m.:
Russian President Vladimir Putin will give his eagerly awaited State of the Union speech today.
Two years after the start of his war of aggression against Ukraine, he is also expected to comment on the situation in the conflict.
Russian troops recently recorded tactical gains in their invasion.
A good two weeks before the presidential election, the 71-year-old head of state would like to use his speech to inform the Federal Assembly - that is, the State Duma and the Federation Council - about his economic, social and foreign policy goals for the coming year.
Heavy Russian losses in the Ukraine War
Update from February 29th, 8:30 a.m.:
How high are the losses in the Ukraine war?
This question cannot be answered independently, even though Volodymyr Zelensky has given Ukraine's official loss figures for the first time.
He also gave information about Russia's losses, but the Kremlin immediately denied these.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff gives the following figures for wounded and killed Russian soldiers:
Soldiers:
413,760
Tanks:
6593
Armored fighting vehicles:
12,552
Artillery systems
: 10,070
Multiple rocket launchers:
1000
Air defense systems:
690
Aircraft:
342
Helicopters:
325
Drones
: 7,768
Ships/Boats
: 25
Automotive equipment and tankers:
13,152
Successful advance by Ukraine in the East
Update from February 29th, 6:20 a.m.:
Ukrainian military reports of a successful counterattack in eastern Ukraine.
The military leadership in Kiev announced yesterday evening (February 28) that an assault brigade had recaptured the town of Krasnohorivka.
Heavy losses were inflicted on the Russian troops.
The information provided by both warring parties can hardly be verified independently.
A Ukrainian soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade at Russian positions on the front line near Avdiivka.
(Archive image) © LIBKOS/dpa
The daily situation report from the General Staff in Kiev said that a total of 91 Russian air strikes and 102 rocket attacks were registered during the day.
One of the focal points of Russian attacks was the area around the small town of Avdiivka in the east of the country, which Ukrainian troops had recently abandoned due to a lack of ammunition.
The Ukrainian armed forces destroyed several Russian artillery systems in counterattacks, it said.
This information could not be independently verified either.
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Scholz clearly rejects the deployment of ground troops
First report:
Kiev – Ukraine has been fending off a Russian invasion for over two years with massive military and financial aid from the West.
Germany is one of the most important supporters.
However, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised the Bundeswehr and the German population that his rejection of sending ground troops to Ukraine is an unwavering red line.
“To make it clear: As German Chancellor, I will not send soldiers from our Bundeswehr to Ukraine,” he said in a video message on Wednesday.
NATO will not become a warring party.
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron did not rule out the use of ground troops in Ukraine after a meeting of around 20 heads of state and government in Paris.
Two dead in Russian airstrike in eastern Ukraine
Two people were killed in a Russian air strike in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon.
As a spokesman for the Ukrainian interior authorities said, the victims were a 48-year-old and a six-year-old girl.
The girl's mother was seriously injured in the Russian Air Force attack on a train station in the Kupyansk region.
A woman was killed and three other people were injured in further Russian artillery attacks in the Bakhmut region.
(talk to agencies)