- 12:35 p.m.: Zelenskyj travels to the recaptured city of Izyum after the offensive
- 12:04 p.m .: ➤ Ukraine is planning a new offensive on Luhansk
- 10:49 am: Another Russian manager died under strange circumstances
- 10:23 am: London: Russia allegedly used Iranian drones in Ukraine
- 10:02 a.m .: Von der Leyen travels to Kyiv today and meets Selenskyj
- 07:27: Report: Russian government wants to declare fertilizer exports
➤ Ukraine plans new offensive on Luhansk
the Ukraine apparently planning an offensive on the eastern province of Luhansk. “There is now an attack on Lyman, and there could be a push on Siversk,” said Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych loudly Report by “ntv” in one on youtube published video.
That’s what they fear most – that we’ll take Lyman and then advance to Lysychansk and Sievarodonetsk. Then they would be cut off from Svatovo,” Arestovych continued.
After her Defeat in the Kharkiv region pull themselves of Russia According to Ukrainian information, troops are also withdrawing from the first places in the neighboring Luhansk region. “Today (the small town) Kreminna is completely empty,” said the Ukrainian military governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Hajdaj, on Tuesday. “There is no police, no headquarters, no public prosecutor’s office – there is no one left, they all ran away.” These statements could not initially be verified independently.
However, Russian military bloggers had already reported on Monday about the storming of the town of Bilohorivka by Ukrainian forces. Bilohorivka is located near Kreminna on the opposite bank of the Seversky Donets River.
However, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Puschilin, remains calm and explains in a video clip that Lyman is still in the hands of the separatists. The situation has stabilized. “The (Russian-led) Allied forces are repulsing them completely.”
Russia had announced the complete capture of Luhansk in July. According to their own statements, the Ukrainians currently hold around 40 percent of the territory in Donetsk. (lh)
The US government sees a new dynamic in the war against Russia in view of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. Most recently, the Ukrainian troops had recaptured large areas in the north-east of the country. Russia, on the other hand, speaks of a “regrouping” of its soldiers. (Image credit: picture alliance/dpa/AP/Evan Vucci)
The situation at a glance:
Since February 24, Russia has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine from the air and on the ground. Had just before
Since then, the Ukrainian army has been fighting the invaders as best they can. Thousands of dead are reported on both sides, but exact numbers of soldiers and civilians have not been independently verified. The fact is: the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is getting worse every day. The refugee agency UNHCR has now registered more than 12.3 million border crossings from Ukraine (as of September 6th). The refugees are mainly women and children, as men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country.
The EU and the USA reacted with sanctions. They are also supplying arms to Ukraine, and Germany is also supporting the country with arms deliveries. Also tanks of the class Cheetah is to receive Ukraine from Germany. So far, it has been ruled out that NATO will actively intervene in the war.
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The other reports from September 14th
After the offensive, Zelenskyy travels to the recaptured city of Izyum
Shortly after the withdrawal of Russian troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the liberated part of eastern Ukraine. “Our blue and yellow (flag) is flying over the liberated Izyum,” said the head of state on social networks on Wednesday. Selenskyj announced a further advance of the Ukrainian army. “We are only moving in one direction – forward and to victory,” emphasized the 44-year-old. Photos showed Zelenskyy in Izyum in the Kharkiv region with soldiers of the Ukrainian army.
Izyum was only recaptured last week as part of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. The important transport hub is considered the gateway to the industrial district of Donbass and had over 40,000 inhabitants before the war. Kyiv has been fending off a Russian invasion since the end of February. (dpa)
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Another Russian manager died under strange circumstances
In Russia, another high-ranking Russian manager has died under mysterious circumstances. that reports”nvAccording to Russian media reports, Ivan Peshorin, CEO of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (ERDC), fell off a private yacht near Russky Island near Vladivostok on Saturday.
The 39-year-old was therefore with friends on the boat. His body was finally recovered from the sea on Monday. A few days before his death, Peshorin had taken part in the widely acclaimed Eastern Economic Forum. This was organized by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. Peshorin also gave a speech at the conference.
Peschorin’s predecessor at ERDC, Igor Nosov, also passed away recently. He is said to have succumbed to a stroke at the age of 43. Since the start of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, multiple deaths have rocked Russia’s business community. It was only at the beginning of September that there were reports of a deceased high-ranking energy manager from the Lukoil group, who is said to have fallen out of a hospital window. (lh)
LONDON: Russia allegedly used Iranian drones in Ukraine
According to British intelligence, Moscow deployed Iranian combat drones in Ukraine. Russia is now almost certainly buying weapons from sanctioned countries such as Iran and North Korea, while its own stocks have dwindled, the British Ministry of Defense said in its daily briefing on Wednesday.
Moscow has probably used Iranian drones for the first time in Ukraine, the British wrote. On Tuesday, Ukraine said it had shot down a Shahed-136 unmanned drone near the city of Kupyansk as part of its successful counter-offensive.
Similar drones like this combat drone are with a range of 2,500 kilometers London reportedly been used in the Middle East, for example in an attack on the Mercer Street oil tanker last year.
The British Ministry of Defense has published information on the course of the war every day since the start of the Russian war of aggression in late February. Moscow accuses London of a targeted disinformation campaign. (dpa)
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Von der Leyen travels to Kyiv today and meets Zelenskyj
EU Commission President
In her speech in the European Parliament, which received applause, von der Leyen thanked Selenskyj and his wife Olena for their commitment. You gave your people a voice in the Russian war of aggression and gave hope to the whole world, von der Leyen said to Olena Selenska. The Ukrainian First Lady attended the address as a guest in Strasbourg.
There will be no end to the sanctions against Russia, emphasized von der Leyen, who was dressed in yellow and blue, the national colors of Ukraine. “This is the price for Putin’s trail of death and destruction,” she said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Europe wants to “fail Putin with courage and solidarity”. (AFP)
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Report: Russian government wants to declare fertilizer exports
According to a media report, against the background of the global food crisis, the Russian government is planning to increase the cost of exporting fertilizers through tariffs. The export duty on fertilizers should secure additional income of 105 billion rubles (1.75 billion euros) per year for the Russian budget, wrote the daily newspaper “Kommersant” on Wednesday. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin recently lamented the Western sanctions that hampered the export of Russian fertilizers and food and thus provoked a hunger crisis in poor countries.
The proposal comes from the Ministry of Finance and is to be discussed at a government meeting this week, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. “The decision on this has been made in practice, and now the specific tariff rate is being negotiated,” the paper reported, citing government circles.
The proposal is explosive. With reference to the global food crisis, Russia had pushed for a relaxation of sanctions against the sector. In return for the Grains Agreement, which provides for the unblocking of Ukrainian seaports for food exports, Moscow negotiated a mitigation of sanctions that hampered the export of Russian fertilizers and food. However, the Kremlin was recently dissatisfied with the implementation of the agreement. (dpa)
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turning point reached? US government sees new momentum in Ukraine war
The US government sees a new dynamic in the war with Russia in view of the military successes of the Ukrainian troops. “I think what you’re seeing is certainly a shift, a momentum in Ukraine’s armed forces, particularly in the north,” National Security Council communications director John Kirby said in Washington on Tuesday. However, he wants to leave it up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to decide whether a turning point has actually been reached. More information can be found here.
According to statements by the British secret services, important units of the Russian army in Ukraine have been severely weakened. A short report shows that Russia had to accept heavy losses at the beginning, from which the army was probably never really able to recover. (Image Credit: IMAGO/SNA)
With material from dpa, Reuters and AFP
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