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Ukraine has again attacked the border region of Belgorod with drones.
According to Russia, one person died.
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Update from March 14th, 9:35 a.m.:
Ukraine attacked the Belgorod border region with drones.
According to local authorities, one person was killed in a drone attack by Ukraine on the Russian border region of Belgorod.
In the border region of Belgorod, “according to preliminary information, a driver was killed in an attack on his car,” the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram.
Two women and a man were injured.
Two houses and a medical facility were damaged in the attacks.
The wreckage of a car hit by a Ukrainian drone in the Russian border region of Belgorod on March 14.
© Yelizaveta Demidova/Imago
The Russian Defense Ministry said a total of 14 Ukrainian drones were shot down, including 11 drones over the Belgorod region and three drones over the Kursk region.
Update from March 14th, 7:00 a.m.:
Austria has declared two Russian diplomats to be persona non grata.
Those affected must leave Austrian territory by March 19 at the latest, said a spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP).
Both had “taken actions that are incompatible with their diplomatic status.”
This formulation is usually used when discussing intelligence activities.
Ukraine fends off Russian attacks
Update from March 13th, 8:34 p.m.:
According to the Ukrainian army, there were a total of 70 battles in the Ukraine war over the course of Wednesday.
Russia also carried out two rocket and 68 air strikes and attacked Ukrainian positions with multiple rockets.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this on Facebook.
The information cannot be verified.
Among other things, four Russian attacks near the Kupyansk front were repelled.
According to Ukraine, Russian troops were also routed in the Donetsk areas, especially around the Bakhmut Front.
Ukrainian soldiers maneuver a Bradley tank in the frontline town of Orikhiv in Zaporizhia Oblast.
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EU states guarantee new arms deliveries to Ukraine
Update from March 13th, 6:23 p.m.:
After months of negotiations, the EU states have agreed to continue joint financing of military equipment for Ukraine.
According to the agreement reached in Brussels on Wednesday, the move is intended to guarantee the supply of weapons, ammunition and other goods worth at least five billion euros, according to data from the current Belgian EU Council Presidency.
Specifically, it is planned to provide the European Peace Facility (EFF) with additional funds.
This financing instrument can be used to reimburse EU member states for military support to Ukraine attacked by Russia and to pay for joint orders.
Ukrainian army chief speaks of “difficult” situation at the front
Update from March 13th, 4:24 p.m.:
According to Ukraine, the situation on the battlefield is “difficult”.
Meanwhile, there is a risk that Russian forces could penetrate deep into Ukrainian defense lines in the Donetsk region, army chief Oleksandr Syrskyj said on Telegram.
He visited two brigades “in which the situation is gradually becoming more complicated and there is a danger that enemy units will penetrate deep into our combat units.”
But the commander-in-chief also had positive news for Ukraine: "At the same time, the enemy's activity in other areas of the front has decreased significantly, probably due to high losses." President Volodymyr Zelensky said in the French media only on Monday (March 11) , that the Russian advance in the east has been “stopped” and that the situation is currently “much better” than it was just a few months ago.
Drone attack on thermal power plant: Russia claims to have repelled Ukrainian attack
Update from March 13th, 2:45 p.m.:
Russia claims to have prevented a drone attack on a power plant in Belgorod.
This is reported by the Russian state agency
Tass
.
Pro-Ukrainian partisans had previously announced that they wanted to target the Russian cities of Kursk and Belgorod.
However, it is said to have not been a partisan attack, but rather an attack by Ukraine.
When the Ukrainian armed forces tried to “break through the state border in the Belgorod region, the military and Russian Guard personnel did an excellent job,” Tass quotes
Duma
deputy Alexander Khinshtein as saying.
“Six attack drones” were neutralized as they approached the thermal power plant.
The information could not be independently verified.
Pro-Ukrainian partisans announce attacks on Russia
Update from March 13th, 1:00 p.m.:
Pro-Ukrainian fighters have announced attacks on two large cities in the Russian border area.
Russian militias supporting Kiev called on the people of Belgorod and Kursk on Wednesday to “immediately leave” the two cities.
Kremlin opponents from Russia have joined forces in the pro-Ukrainian volunteer militias.
They had already advanced into Russian border regions on Tuesday.
“We are forced to attack the military bases in the cities of Belgorod and Kursk,” the pro-Ukrainian fighters said on the Telegram online service.
“To avoid civilian casualties, we call on everyone to leave the cities immediately.”
The pro-Ukrainian fighters had already invaded the Kursk and Belgorod regions on Tuesday and claimed to have taken control of a town near the border.
The attacks were confirmed by the Russian side.
On Tuesday evening, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said that the Russian army had repelled all attacks.
Russia wants to station additional troops on the Finnish border
Update from March 13th, 11:10 a.m.:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the deployment of additional troops and weapons systems on the border with the new NATO member Finland.
As he sees it, joining NATO was an “absolutely pointless step” that did not correspond to Finland’s national interests.
Putin said this in an interview on Russian state television broadcast late Tuesday evening.
Before this decision in Helsinki, Russian-Finnish relations were ideal, as Putin called it.
After the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Finland and Sweden applied to join the Western military alliance;
Both states are now members.
Update from March 13th, 8:45 a.m.:
According to local authorities, Ukrainian armed forces attacked the building of the domestic secret service FSB with a drone in Belgorod, Russia.
There are no injuries, reports the state news agency
Tass
, citing the authorities.
However, the building was damaged.
The Russian Defense Ministry also announced that Russian forces intercepted and destroyed 58 Ukrainian drones on Wednesday night.
The oblasts of Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Ryazan as well as the Leningrad region, which surrounds Saint Petersburg, were affected.
Fire in oil refinery after Ukrainian attack
Update from March 13th, 8:15 a.m.:
A fire broke out in an oil refinery in the Russian region of Ryazan, southeast of Moscow, after a drone attack.
According to initial information, the attack also caused injuries, the region's governor, Pavel Malkow, said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
According to media reports, three drones hit the factory.
Drone attacks have also been reported in several other Russian regions.
Just last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced retaliation for a Russian rocket attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih, which resulted in deaths and injuries.
According to the governor of the western Russian region of Voronezh, Alexander Gusev, more than 30 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted there.
However, the falling debris caused “insignificant damage to infrastructure and housing” in a number of towns, he admitted.
A private residential building and a transformer station were hit in the Buturlinowka district.
Images circulating online also show damage to a market.
Russia attacks Zelensky's birthplace
Update from March 13th, 6:10 a.m.:
After a Russian rocket attack on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih with several fatalities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced retaliation.
“We will inflict losses on the Russian state in response,” Zelensky said in his evening video address on Tuesday.
“You in the Kremlin must learn that terror will not go unpunished for you,” he warned.
“Nothing will cure these patients of their ills, but they will feel the losses.”
According to the Ukrainian military, two residential buildings were hit and set on fire in the rocket attack on Kryvyi Rih in the late afternoon.
By evening, helpers had recovered at least three dead people from the rubble.
Another 38 people were injured, including ten children.
“These are not the final figures, because the recovery work is ongoing,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.
Russia attacks Kryvyi Rih: dead and dozens injured
Update from March 12th, 8:50 p.m.:
There were at least 38 injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih, Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said in the online Telegram network.
Children are also among the injured.
A residential building was hit in the Russian attack on the industrial city, Klimenko explained.
It is feared that the number of victims will continue to rise.
According to Kiev, Russia has been deliberately attacking civilian targets since the beginning of its war of aggression against Ukraine.
Moscow rejects these allegations.
Update from March 12th, 8:02 p.m.:
According to initial reports, there were several victims in a Russian attack on the large city of Kryvyi Rih in southeastern Ukraine on Tuesday.
At least two people were killed, the regional administration initially said, as reported by the
Unian
agency .
According to the Ukrainian military, a missile fired from an aircraft hit a nine-story apartment building and set it on fire.
The regional administration asked all social media users via Telegram not to post any further reports about the situation on site.
“Do not post anything until official information is available, this is a matter of safety and human life.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter) of numerous injuries, many of them in critical condition.
“A child was also injured,” Zelensky added.
France warns of Russian victory in Ukraine war
Update from March 12th, 7:07 p.m.:
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has warned of “noticeable consequences” of a Russian victory in the Ukraine war.
“This war already has its price, but it would increase immeasurably if Russia were to defeat Ukraine,” Attal said on Tuesday in a parliamentary debate on France's Ukraine policy.
“Ukraine’s victory is also in France’s interest,” he emphasized.
Attal called on MPs to approve the already signed security agreement with Ukraine.
The vote, the result of which was expected in the evening, is primarily symbolic.
“Voting against it means playing into Putin’s hands,” said Attal, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Update from March 12, 4:41 p.m.:
After the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane crashed, the authorities reported that the occupants, including pilots from Orenburg, had died.
There was no information on the exact number of deaths.
During takeoff, one of the four engines caught fire.
A reason for the fire's outbreak was not initially given; authorities said a technical cause was suspected.
Experts traveled to the crash site to investigate the cause.
Military plane crashed in Russia: 15 people on board
Update from March 12th, 12:03 p.m.:
A Russian Il-76 military transport plane crashed on Tuesday (March 12th) in the Ivanovo region northeast of Moscow with 15 people on board.
This is reported by the Interfax news agency, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying that one of the plane's engines caught fire, causing the crash.
FSB: No intrusion into Russian territory
Update from March 12, 10:45 a.m.:
The Russian security service FSB has denied that armed groups from Ukraine had managed to penetrate Russian territory.
This is reported by the
RIA news agency.
Separately, state news agency
TASS
quoted the FSB as saying that Russian forces had killed 100 people and destroyed several armored vehicles while "repelling break-in attempts."
Pro-Ukrainian partisans invade Russia
Update from March 12th, 10:00 a.m.:
At least two Ukraine-based armed groups, which allegedly consist of Russians, said they entered Russia via the western border on Tuesday (March 12th).
This was reported by the
Reuters
news agency .
The Legion of Freedom of Russia and the Siberian Battalion both announced on their Telegram pages that they had launched attacks on Russia from Ukraine.
The “Legion of Freedom of Russia” stated in its Telegram post that they would “take our country inch by inch from the regime.”
The group also said its fighters had destroyed an armored Russian military vehicle in the town of Tyotkino in the Kursk region.
The governor of Kursk confirmed the attack but denied a “breakthrough” by the attackers.
In the past, Russian officials have described the groups as “puppets of the Ukrainian military and U.S. intelligence” that Moscow believes are trying to sow chaos in Russia.
Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, told Ukrainian Channel 24 that the groups carried out the operation on Russian territory independently of Ukraine.
Russia attacks more than 350 targets in Ukraine
Update from March 11th, 2:45 p.m.:
A Russian air strike is said to have hit over 350 Ukrainian military targets in the Avdiivka region.
As the Russian news agency
Tass
reported, citing the Russian army's "Battlegroup Center", the attack hit, among other things, two Ukrainian command outposts and around 90 artillery positions.
The information cannot be independently verified.
A total of 60 attacks were carried out by Russian bombers and fighter jets near the settlements of Ocheretyne, Berdychi and Novokalinovo.
In addition, Russia's air defense is said to have shot down five Ukrainian drones.
Kremlin spokesman calls France's plan to send ground troops to Ukraine "dangerous line"
Update from March 11th, 1:09 p.m
.: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has accused France in particular of further inflaming tensions in the conflict with the debate about sending ground troops to Ukraine.
“This is a dangerous line, a very dangerous one,” Peskov said today.
Russia is following this closely.
The Russian services already have information that there are forces in Ukraine who, although they describe themselves as advisors, have a direct connection to NATO.
Putin reacts to debacle in the Black Sea and appoints new naval commander-in-chief
Update from March 11th, 12:46 p.m
.: Ukraine is increasingly targeting the Black Sea Fleet.
Russian losses are increasing rapidly.
A change of command should help: Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is likely to appoint a new naval commander-in-chief.
Putin's air force sends swarm of combat drones towards Odessa
First report
: Kiev – Russia launches swarms of combat drones against Ukraine almost every night.
The anxious question is always: How many drones can be intercepted?
This also applied on Sunday night: of 39 approaching drones, 35 were taken out of the sky, the Ukrainian Air Force announced in the morning.
There was a new wave of attacks on Monday (March 11th).
Russia launches attack lasting one and a half hours: wave of drones on Odessa
The Ukrainian military says it repelled a massive Russian drone attack on Odessa overnight.
The Shahed drones of Iranian design approached from the Black Sea - air defense units were in action for an hour and a half.
This was announced by Ukraine's southern operational command.
Accordingly, the Ukrainian air defense shot down ten combat drones.
There was initially no information about injuries.
The wave of attacks caused damage to infrastructure and several administrative buildings.
Debris from crashed drones also caused destruction.
Border regions in the Ukraine war: Russia and Ukraine are shelling targets behind the front
Russia regularly fires on targets far behind the front.
Ukraine reported attacks on the Kharkiv region in particular during the night.
However, Russian border regions near Ukraine are also increasingly complaining about shelling from the neighboring country.
However, the number of victims and the amount of damage are not comparable to the extent of the destruction caused by the Russian military.
(Editorial with news agency material)