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Two people were injured and a building was seriously damaged in Russian rocket attacks in Kiev. Russia also attacked the energy supply in Odessa and Mykolaiv, and the electricity went out in Odessa. The developments in the live blog.
After the attacks on Kiev, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on international partners to provide more air defense. There are no atrocities that Russia would not commit, he wrote on X. Therefore, Ukraine reminds us that it urgently needs to expand its air defense. To do this, they particularly need Patriot systems and missiles that could repel any Russian attack.
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, two people were injured in the new Russian attacks on Kiev. A three-story building in the center of the city was badly damaged by falling debris, the capital’s military administration said. Debris from rockets fired over Kiev also fell in three other parts of the city. According to US Ambassador Bridget Brink, Russia attacked with hypersonic missiles.
According to Ukrainian information, a residential building in the central Pechersky district was damaged in a Russian missile attack on Kiev. There was initially no information about possible victims. At least five explosions were heard earlier.
According to consistent reports from several news agencies, several explosions were heard in Kiev this morning. Shortly before, an air alarm had been triggered. “Explosions in the capital. Go to shelters immediately,” wrote Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram.
Last night, Russia damaged power supplies in the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions of southern Ukraine. The power went out in parts of Odessa and the surrounding area. According to the city administration, local public transport with trams and trolleybuses had to be stopped. But no one was injured. The energy supplier Ukrenerho said a substation caught fire in the Mykolaiv region. Eleven people were injured, two of them seriously.
Hatched: territories occupied by Russia
Russia apparently doubts that IS is responsible for the terrorist attack on the concert hall near Moscow. “Attention – a question for the White House: Are you sure it was Isis? Could you think about it again?” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in an article for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. The USA spread the specter of IS in order to distract attention from its “wards” in Kiev.
Russia and Ukraine attacked each other again with drones last night. The Ukrainian army said eleven people were injured in Russian attacks on the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. In Odessa the power supply was hit. On the Russian side, a fire broke out in an electricity plant following Ukrainian attacks Rostov out of.
The power supply has collapsed in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, local supplier DTEK announced. In order to reduce the load on the networks, no electricity will be fed into the city’s lines on Monday, and the electricity for industrial plants will also be reduced. The city administration said Odessa had been attacked by Russian drones. Falling debris from a drone sparked a fire at a power utility facility.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has warned of growing dangers from Russia’s hybrid warfare. “We are actually experiencing a new dimension of threats from Russian aggression,” the SPD politician told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “We see attempts to exert influence through lies, through massive disinformation. But espionage is also at least as active,” said Faeser. At the same time, she accused the Kremlin of specifically promoting refugee movements to Western Europe: “Russia also wants to destabilize the West with migration.”
The federal government will arm itself more strongly against Russia’s influence in Western Europe in the coming months, the minister announced. Protecting the upcoming elections is particularly important.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian air defenses shot down 11 drones launched from Ukraine over the Rostov region in southwestern Russia. Earlier, the region’s governor, Vasily Golubev, said on Telegram that two power units of the Novocherkassk power plant were out of operation after a fire early in the morning. The fire was quickly extinguished and there were no injuries. He did not provide any information about the cause of the fire.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to the conflict cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Migration researcher Gerald Knaus has warned of millions more refugees from the country in the event of a military defeat by Ukraine in the defensive war against Russia. “Those who are hesitant in Europe to support Ukraine more have still not really grasped what is at stake,” Knaus told the editorial network Germany (RND) and added: “Because if Ukraine loses the war, then experience it “We have the largest refugee movement in the world since the 1940s. Then many millions more people will come.”
Knaus said: “We already have around ten million displaced Ukrainians. But many more millions of people have stayed in Ukraine because they are counting on success.” If this belief fades, the number of refugees could “grow very quickly.” In this context, Knaus referred to the weeks after the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, when three million people fled the country within three weeks.