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A million people have already fled Ukraine – Russia and Belarus are now excluded from the Paralympics after all
Ukrainian refugees after crossing the border from Ukraine in Medyka, Poland
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War has been raging in Ukraine for a week. As Russian troops escalate their attacks, a million people have already fled the war to neighboring countries. Follow the news situation and background information in the live blog.
The war in Ukraine has already lasted eight days and Russian attacks are increasing. From the north, east and south, Putin’s troops are advancing in the neighboring country.
The most important news of the night in brief:
In the Ukrainian Capital Kyiv there were several on Thursday night heavy explosions. Ukrainian media reported fighting in the suburbs of the city of millions. The information was not independently verified.
- In the East Ukrainian City of Izyum near Kharkiv were killed in an airstrike, according to local authorities killed eight people including two children.
- Ukraine confirms Russian capture of port city of Kherson. This means that the country’s first major city is officially under Russian control
- the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is according to local authorities after air raids without water, heating and electricity. The municipal utilities want to try to restore the critical infrastructure. According to the authorities, more than 130 people have been injured in air raids in Mariupol.
- In Korosten north of the city of Zhytomyr died according to the administration two people in an air raid to a large checkpoint. Five people were injured.
- Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the United Nations already a million people from the attacked country fled.
- the International Criminal Court (ICC) has official War crimes investigations launched in Russia-attacked Ukraine.
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Given the war many experts fear rising food prices. This is due, among other things, to the fact that the Ukraine is a major exporter of wheat. In addition, natural gas, which is important for the production of nitrogen fertilizers, could become more expensive as a result of the war.
“Eat first, then morality, doesn’t apply here, because we have huge challenges to manage in European agriculture,” says Martin Banse, head of the Thünen Institute for Market Research.A million people have been in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR fled to neighboring countries before the war.
I’ve been working in refugee emergencies for 40 years, but I’ve rarely seen an exodus as rapid as this
– Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees
If the conflict were not ended immediately, millions more would have no choice but to flee. “Peace is the only way to end this tragedy,” Grandi continued.
Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa
Helpers and refugees are sitting by a fire in a temporary aid station for refugees on the Ukrainian-Polish border in Medyka.
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With Cherson, the first major Ukrainian city has fallen completely into Russian hands. Ukrainian authorities have since confirmed that Russian troops have captured the port city in the south of the country.
]In the video you can see how Russian soldiers enter the Kherson Council building.
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The German Aerospace Center ends cooperation with Russian institutions. All ongoing or planned projects will be stopped, according to a statement published in the morning. It also says: “There will be no new projects or initiatives with institutions in Russia.” The decision also applies to the space travel agency at DLR. “DLR employs staff from 96 countries. They stand for peaceful coexistence between all nations and people. For us, violence must not be used as a means of achieving goals of any kind,” it says in explanation.
https://twitter.com/DLR_de/status/1499295810630135811German companies are also encouraging the Ukraine. According to the managing director of Eastern Committee of German EconomyMichael Harms, stand behind the sanctions against Russia.
“Everyone is convinced that these sanctions are necessary; economic considerations must now take a back seat,” said Harms in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”.The rating agencies Fitch and Moody’s lowered Russia’s creditworthiness to junk level. The two companies thus place the country in the category of states that may not be able to repay their debts.
The radio station Echo Moskwy, which is popular in Russia and critical of the Kremlin, will be closed. The board of directors decided to close the broadcaster and its website, according to editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov. The broadcaster had reported critically about Russia’s war against Ukraine.
According to information from Moscow pro-Russian separatists pushed further into Ukraine and have the southern Ukrainian Port city of Mariupol included. This information cannot be independently verified.
The day before, the population had been offered a withdrawal to the east, i.e. in the direction of the separatist areas. Mariupol on the Azov Sea has almost 450,000 inhabitants.
the British Minister of Justice Dominic Raab warns Russian President Vladimir Putin and its military leaders against legal consequences of war crimes in Ukraine.
“They need to know that there is a real chance that they will face the dock of a court in The Hague and a prison cell,” Raab told The Telegraph newspaper.According to Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, war refugees from Ukraine should initially be able to decide for themselves in which EU country they seek refuge.
“I believe that now, within the European Union, people from Ukraine primarily go to places where they have many friends, relatives and acquaintances,” she says on Deutschlandfunk.
In that case, no distribution key is needed for taking in the refugees – even if the European Commission is theoretically able to set one.Changed mind: Because of the war in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are not allowed to take part in the Winter Paralympics in Beijing, which begin on Friday. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is thus revising its decision from yesterday.
Several associations, teams and athletes have threatened to boycott the games, which would have endangered the “viability of the Paralympic Winter Games”. The situation in the athletes’ villages is also escalating, making the safety of the athletes untenable, the IPC said.
https://twitter.com/paralympics/status/1499279863068332034?s=21
With the new supply of arms to Ukraine have Germany and NATO have exhausted all possibilities to provide military support to Ukraine – at least that’s how CDU leader Friedrich Merz sees it. This just shows “how limited our options are today to protect a country that doesn’t belong to an alliance. It’s not a NATO conflict,” says the 66-year-old on “ZDF’s “Morgenmagazin”.
However, Merz thinks it is conceivable that the gas and oil deliveries from Russia to Germany and other countries, which are still being maintained, will be suspended.We are at the limit of what is militarily possible here
– CDU leader Friedrich Merz in the “ZDF-“Morgenmagazin”
Germany will support Ukraine with another shipment of weapons. The Ministry of Economy approved the delivery of 2700 anti-aircraft missiles of the “Strela” type, as the German Press Agency learned from circles in the ministry on Thursday. These are weapons of Soviet production from former stocks of the National People’s Army (NVA) of the GDR.
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are again expected at the Polish border today. Border guards checked more than 88,000 Ukrainians yesterday alone.
Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa
A Polish border guard walks along the Ukrainian-Polish border in Medyka.
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As the Belarusian media project “Nexta”, which is critical of the government, reports, the Ukrainian Ministry for Digitization has one App released to warn of Russian air raids.
The app is not available in Germany.https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499249552620240898