2024-01-08 22:09:00
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Air alert over the entire Ukraine: Russia attacks with missiles. The latest news regarding the war in Ukraine in the live ticker.
- The explosion in Belgorod: Reports of new attack
- Heaviness Russian losses: Ukraine gives current figures
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia and Ukraine and their allies. In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from January 8th, 10:45 p.m.: Explosions are said to have occurred once more in the Russian city of Belgorod. This is what the portal reports Ukrainian Pravda citing local sources. Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram that three people had been injured by shrapnel. Russian air defense shot down ten objects over Belgorod Oblast on Monday evening, it said.
Ukraine wants to respond to Russian attacks
Update from January 8th, 9 p.m.: According to its own statements, Ukraine does not want to leave Russia’s latest serious attacks unanswered. “The terrorist state will definitely feel our response,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening video address on Monday. That’s what she reported German press agency. A total of four people were killed and 45 others injured in the areas of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and in his home region of Kryvyi Rih.
On Monday morning, Russia bombed Ukraine with dozens of rockets, cruise missiles and drones for the second time in just a few days. However, fewer of the total of almost 60 projectiles were intercepted than usual – partly because parts of the country that were not as well protected as the capital Kiev were bombed. This is equipped with air defense systems supplied from the West.
Update from January 8th, 7:50 p.m.: The Belarusian exile medium Nexta reports on two Russian paratroopers who were shot at and killed by Russian anti-aircraft defenses during an exercise in the Rostov-on-Don region. Accordingly, the anti-aircraft defense mistook the two soldiers for Ukrainian paratroopers. The Kyiv Post quoted a Ukrainian army spokesman as saying the Russian army “shoots at everything that moves.”
Recently there have been repeated so-called friendly fire incidents in the Ukraine war.
Update from January 8th, 6:45 p.m.: Apparently there has been an explosion at an oil depot in central Russia. This is reported by the Ukrainian portal Kyiv Independent citing the Russian state news agency Tass and Telegram channels. The explosion is said to have occurred on the outskirts of the Russian city of Nizhny Tagil.
The city lies east of the Ural Mountains. According to the portal, the cause of the explosion is unclear. However, citing local sources, there is speculation regarding a “bomb”. Ukrainian authorities generally do not comment on such events in Russia. Last year, however, they repeatedly reported on sabotage operations in Russia.
A video on social media shows a fireball rising above a Russian tank factory. (Archive image) © Screenshot Twitter/X
Current news regarding the war in Ukraine: Kiev is suffering from a shortage of tanks
Update from January 8th, 5:16 p.m: Observers are sure that Ukraine is suffering from a lack of tanks in the fighting. A new tactic with the “Leopards” might indicate this: Ukraine is moving German tanks between three sources of fire.
“Death to spies”: Putin reactivates Stalin’s special unit in the Ukraine war
Update from January 8th, 4:52 p.m: Russia is fighting once morest alleged spies in its own country in the Ukraine war. Kremlin chief Putin has now apparently reactivated a Stalin special unit.
Ukraine News: Russia is increasingly attacking behind front lines
Update from January 8th, 3:20 p.m: In recent weeks, Russia has repeatedly attacked cities from the air that lie far behind the front lines in the east and south. Russia has repeatedly denied attacking civilian targets. “This morning a multiple attack was carried out using long-range, high-precision, sea- and air-launched weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, on facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,” the Defense Ministry in Moscow said loudly Archyde.com same with today.
Ukraine News: US general criticizes Germany – “nightmare scenario”
Update from January 8th, 2:54 p.m: According to a new report, Ukrainians have long had to ration artillery shells at the front. In this context, a US general is now criticizing the West – and also Germany: “Ukraine’s nightmare scenario is now becoming a reality.”
Civilians die in Russian missile attack in Ukraine war
Update from January 8th, 2:34 p.m: Russia has another one during rush hour this morning large-scale missile attack on Ukraine started. Dozens of rockets were fired at homes and industrial facilities across the country, Ukrainian authorities said. At least four civilians were killed and several injured. According to the information, the target cities were, among others:
- Krywyj Rih
- Charkiw
- Saporischschja
- Dnipropetrowsk
- Chmelnyzky
In some cases the power supply failed, amid a cold wave in Ukraine. “The crazy enemy has attacked civilians once more,” Kryvyi Rih Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated loudly Archyde.comthe military attacked military-industrial targets.
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Ukraine News: Ukraine fends off Russian Shahed drones
Update from January 8th, 12:00 p.m.: According to Kiev, the Russian army used 59 cruise missiles, rockets and drones in its heavy air attack on Ukraine on Monday (January 8). This was announced by Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zalushnyj on Telegram. All 8 Iranian-made Shahed drones used and 18 of 24 Ch-101, Ch-555 and Ch-55 cruise missiles were repelled. There were no independent confirmations of his information.
Salushnyj said that civilian infrastructure, industrial and military targets had been attacked. The Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow said there had been a combined attack on military-industrial facilities in Ukraine.
A Russian military drone made in Iran, type Shahed-136 (archive image) © IMAGO/Aleksandr Gusev
Update from January 8th, 10:50 a.m.: According to Ukrainian sources, two people were killed in renewed Russian air strikes in the Khmelnytskyi region. In addition, critical infrastructure was hit, as the local authorities announced.
Ukraine News: Heavy Russian losses
Update from January 8th, 8:50 a.m.: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has revealed new details regarding Russia’s losses in the Ukraine War. According to this, 365,170 Russian soldiers have been either wounded or killed in battles since the start of the war in Ukraine. According to the information, there were 440 in the last 24 hours.
The information on losses in the Ukraine War comes from the Ukrainian army and cannot be independently verified. However, the West assumes that the figures for Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war are largely correct. Here is an overview of Russia’s losses in the Ukraine War:
- Soldiers: 365,170 (+440 on the previous day)
- Panzer: 6031 (+9)
- Armored vehicles: 11.194 (+14)
- Artilleriesysteme: 8666 (+13)
- Multiple rocket launchers: 953 (+2)
- Air defense systems: 638 (+1)
- Airplanes: 329
- Helicopter: 324
- Drones: 6822 (+1)
- Rockets: 1786
- Tank trucks and other vehicles: 11.542 (+19)
- Warships: 23
- U-Boot: 1
Those: Ukrainian General Staff dated January 8, 2024. The information regarding Russian losses comes from the Ukrainian army. They cannot be independently verified. Russia itself does not provide any information regarding its own losses in the Ukraine war.
Russia attacks Ukraine with missiles
Update from January 8th, 6:30 a.m.: The Russian Air Force has once once more launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. On Monday morning, Ukrainian media reported explosions around the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. According to observers, almost a dozen strategic bombers fired cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine. Kinschal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles are also in use. Air alerts were sounded across Ukraine.
Ukraine News: Rescue work in Pokrovsk continues
Kiev – Rescue work is still ongoing in the eastern Ukrainian district of Pokrovsk, more than a day following heavy Russian rocket attacks left at least eleven dead. In the affected places, which are in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region, the search for victims under the rubble is continuing, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in his evening video address. He thanked all the rescuers who have been on site since Saturday evening.
The serious attacks on Saturday evening shook not only the district town of Pokrovsk but also the town of Rivne. According to official Ukrainian information, a rocket hit the house of a family of six. Accordingly, the bombardment was carried out using repurposed S-300 anti-aircraft missiles.
Ukraine News: Dead and injured following Russian shelling of Kherson
Deaths from Russian shelling were also reported in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Sunday. Two people were killed and several others were injured, wrote military governor Olexander Prokudin on Telegram. “The Russian army shelled the residential areas of Kherson continuously for a few hours today.” Among other things, a market and several residential buildings were hit. (Talk to agency material)
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