2023-12-13 09:16:00
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The fighting around the city of Avdiivka is intensifying. Russia attacks Kyiv again. The Ukraine war in the news ticker.
- Russian attack on Kyiv: At least 34 people injured
- Heavy losses for Russia: Kyiv reports current figures
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine as well as their allies. In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from December 3rd, 10:10 a.m.: According to British military experts, Russia is making it more difficult for Ukraine to defend against kamikaze drones by using additional launch sites. This emerges from the daily intelligence report on the war in Ukraine from the Ministry of Defense in London on Wednesday.
Accordingly, five launch sites for Russian kamikaze drones in the Ukraine war are now known. “Russia will likely use additional launch sites, forcing Ukraine to adapt to new flight corridors for these systems,” said the message distributed on the short messaging service X (formerly Twitter).
Heavy losses for Russia in the Ukraine war: Putin loses 850 soldiers in one day
Update from December 3rd, 9:45 a.m.: The Ukrainian General Staff has released new figures on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war. According to this, 850 Russian soldiers were either killed or wounded in the fighting within one day. The information cannot be independently verified.
- soldiers: 341,500 (+850 on the previous day)
- Panzer: 5682 (+18)
- Armored vehicles: 10.594 (+15)
- Artilleriesysteme: 8076 (+3)
- Multiple rocket launchers: 919
- Anti-aircraft guns: 605
- Airplanes: 324
- helicopter: 324
- Rockets/cruise missiles: 1596
- Ships: 22
- U-Boot: 1
- Tank trucks and other vehicles: 10.662 (+12)
Those: Ukrainian General Staff dated December 13, 2023. The information about Russian losses comes from the Ukrainian army. They cannot be independently verified. Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war.
Heavy air strikes on Kiev: Russia attacks with drones in the Ukraine war
Update from December 13th, 5:10 a.m.: According to Ukrainian information, Russia attacked Kiev with drones for the second night in a row, thereby intensifying the shelling of the Ukrainian capital again in the Ukraine war after a break of several weeks. Debris from missiles hit several homes in three Kiev districts east of the Dnipro River and injured at least 34 people, 15 of whom required hospital treatment, including two children, authorities and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian air defense systems intercepted all missiles aimed at the capital around three a.m. (local time), wrote the head of the Kiev military administration, Serhiy Popko, in the short message app Telegram. “There are a lot of injured people,” he said, suggesting the number of wounded could rise. It was not initially known which weapons Russia used in the attack.
Rescue workers extinguish a fire in a residential building after a Russian missile attack on Kiev. © Evgeniy Maloletka/dpa
Winter plays into Russia’s hands in the Ukraine war
Update from December 12th, 9:31 p.m.: According to the military, the situation around the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, which has been under fire for weeks, has become even more serious. “It is very hot. In fact, it is even hotter today than yesterday and the day before yesterday,” said the head of the local military administration, Vitaly Barabash, on Ukrainian television on Tuesday. According to him, the new wave of attacks by the Russians is related to the ground that has become hard due to the recent frost, which allows the attackers to use armored vehicles. According to him, the defenders have already shot down dozens of vehicles. However, the pressure from the attackers remains high, also due to the use of the air force.
US intelligence agencies estimate that 315,000 Russian soldiers have been injured or killed since the start of the war in Ukraine. Parliamentary circles in Washington said on Tuesday, citing released documents from the services, that this corresponds to 87 percent of the armed forces, which numbered 360,000 soldiers before the war.
Hacker attacks in Ukraine: “The war with Russia has many dimensions”
Update from December 12th, 8:24 p.m.: In some parts of Ukraine, including Kiev, Sumy and Dnipro, air raid warning systems are facing technical problems due to the hack of the telecommunications company Kyivstar, regional authorities reported Kyiv Independent.
Authorities advised residents to pay attention to local radio stations and Telegram channels to hear the warning. Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov released a video message around 4 p.m. and said the company was still working to restore the network. However, it is “not entirely clear” when the problem will be solved. “The war with Russia has many dimensions and one of them is cyberspace,” Komarov said.
Kiev hopes for US help for war in Ukraine: Zelenskyj visits the White House
Update from December 12th, 6:40 p.m.: US President Joe Biden receives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House in the evening. Biden had invited the Ukrainian to Washington “to underscore the United States’ unwavering commitment to supporting the Ukrainian people in their defense against the brutal Russian invasion,” the White House said in advance. A press conference is expected afterwards.
Update from December 12th, 4:29 p.m.: Russian troops attacked an educational institution in Kherson, causing significant damage to the building. According to the Ukrainian news portal Ukrinform the state emergency service reported this on Facebook. “The enemy attacked one of the city’s educational institutions. Rescuers went to the scene of the accident. An inspection of the building was carried out and the area was significantly damaged,” said the state rescue service. How Ukrinform According to reports, the number of people injured in the morning shelling in Kherson has risen to two.
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Equipment problems in the Ukraine war: Russia lacks night vision devices
Update from December 12th, 11:05 a.m.: According to British assessments, Russian troops have problems fighting in the dark due to a lack of night vision devices. While the Ukrainian troops have been equipped with good material by their international partners, Russian soldiers have to ask for equipment from relatives and supporters, the British Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. There is also a lack of cameras for drones that can take good pictures in the dark.
There is also probably a cultural problem, it was said in London. “Russian military training has rarely emphasized nighttime drills, but rather standard daylight drills to impress senior officers during inspections.”
Ukraine War: Russian army with successes in Zaporizhzhia
Update from December 12th, 10:40 a.m.: According to authorities, the Russian army has made “significant” progress in the partially Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia. “Our units have advanced significantly northeast of Novopokrovka,” said Russian-appointed local governor Yevgeny Balitsky on the Telegram online service on Tuesday. The Ukrainian army, however, spoke of repelling Russian attacks.
The Russian side said that the situation around Novopokrovka was “continuously tense,” but that Russian soldiers were “gradually making progress” – while on the Ukrainian side there were “significant losses.”
The Ukrainian army, however, said in its morning situation report that it had repelled three Russian attacks in the area around Novopokrowka – but did not provide any further information. In addition, “42 enemy attacks” were repelled near the heavily contested eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka and dozens of Russian advance attempts were repelled in other regions. The town of Novopokrowka is located northeast of Robotyne. The Ukrainian army took the place in August – and then hoped to achieve a breakthrough towards the Sea of Azov further south.
Ukraine reports shooting down of Russian attack drones
Update from December 12th, 6:40 a.m.: According to the Air Force, Ukrainian air defense destroyed nine of 15 Russian attack drones and two cruise missiles during the night. The Iranian Air Force said the Shahed drones were destroyed over several regions of Ukraine. The two cruise missiles were intercepted over the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. It is initially unclear what happened to the drones that were not shot down and whether there was any damage or casualties in the attack.
Ukraine war: Russia has resumed missile attacks
Update from December 11th, 8:20 p.m.: The Russian military continued its missile and drone attacks on Monday (December 11). Citing Ukrainian military information, the portal reported Kyiv Indepent of two Russian Kh-59 cruise missiles shot down. One was shot down over the Zaporizhia region. Several groups of Shahed drones have also been reported. These flew from Russian-occupied Crimea towards the Ukrainian cities of Odessa, Zaporizhia and Donetsk.
Update from December 11th, 7:20 p.m.: Russia’s army is apparently trying to encircle the city of Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian portal Kyiv Indepent reports, citing Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Syrsky, that Russia is trying to take the village of Synkivka. The most likely goal, the general said, was a “blockade” of Kupyansk. According to a report by the editorial network Germany, around 5,000 people still lived in Kupyansk in September. Before the attack on Ukraine there were once 27,000. According to General Syrskyj, there are Russian offensive operations along the entire front line.
Putin significantly increases attacks in the Ukraine war before elections in Russia – ISW gives details
Update from December 11th, 9:50 a.m.: The presidential elections in Russia in March 2024 are approaching. Apparently, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an increase in attacks against Ukraine before the elections, as the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports. Accordingly, Russian troops are intensifying their attacks particularly near the border between Kharkiv and Luhansk, i.e. near Bakhmut, as well as Avdiivka – despite the difficult weather conditions of the winter. The think tank reported that there were also increasing offensive actions by the Russian military in western Zaporizhzhia. According to the ISW, Russian troops are trying to seize the initiative in the middle of winter in order to retain the military advantage in the period before the elections.
Update from December 11th, 5:30 a.m.: According to Ukrainian information, Russia is attacking the capital Kiev from the air. Debris from the rockets fired by air defense fell in several parts of the city and at least one residential building was damaged, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said via Telegram.
Rescue workers are on the way to the Holosiiwskyj district in the southwest of the city, where a piece of debris hit the roof of a residential building. Rescue workers are also on duty in two other parts of the city.
Kiev: Situation on fronts of the Ukrainian war remains difficult
First report: Kiev – From the point of view of the generals in Kiev, the situation on the various front lines in Ukraine remains difficult. Especially in the east of the country, Ukrainian troops are continually registering new attacks by Russian units, said Olexander Syrskyj, commander of the army, on Sunday. Bad weather with temperatures below freezing caused a slight decrease in Russian attacks in some places, but their direction remained unchanged. “The enemy is not giving up its plans to retake Kupiansk,” military spokesman Volodymyr Fityo said on television.
Ukraine has been fending off a Russian invasion with Western help for over 21 months. Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region was liberated from Russian occupation by Ukrainian troops at the beginning of September last year. Recently, however, the Russian army was able to gain territory there again.
Late on Sunday evening, the Russian military launched another wave of so-called kamikaze drones towards Ukraine. Air alerts were sounded in the south and central Ukraine. There were reports of explosions in the region around the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa, as anti-aircraft defenses were presumably in action there. (With material from news agencies)
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