Russia attacks Kyiv with rockets. Attacks from the air are also reported from many other cities. The news ticker on the Ukraine war.
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+++ 8 p.m.: Russia launched massive rocket attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Tuesday. According to media reports, two stray Russian rockets have landed in the Polish settlement of Przewodów near the Ukrainian border. Two people are said to have been killed. A US intelligence official confirmed this to the news agency AP.
The Polish broadcaster Radio ZET had previously reported that two rockets hit a grain drying facility. The police, prosecutors and army are on site. Government spokesman Piotr Müller tweeted in the eveningthat Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers for National Security and Defense. Poland is a member of the NATO alliance.
News about the Ukraine war: Republic of Moldova partly without electricity
+++ 7.40 p.m.: The massive shelling of critical infrastructure in Ukraine could impact the energy systems of some neighboring countries. At least that is the assumption of the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Herman Halushchenko. “This attack affects not only the energy system of Ukraine, but also the energy systems of our neighbors,” the energy minister wrote on Facebook.
“Following defeats at the military and international level, the enemy is making another attempt at terrorist revenge, trying to inflict maximum damage on our energy system (…),” he stressed. As a result of the attacks, the Isaccea-Vulcanesti power line, which connects Moldova with Romania, has been disconnected from the grid as a precaution. That led to power outages across the country, quoted The Kyiv Independent Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu.
Ukraine War: Massive attacks – 100 missiles fired
+++ 6.20 p.m.: Air alerts were reported almost everywhere in Ukraine on Tuesday. According to information from Kyiv, the Russian rocket attacks were probably the most massive shelling of the energy infrastructure since the beginning of the war. “About 100 rockets were fired at the territory of Ukraine,” said the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ihnat. That’s more than the shel
ling in early October, shortly after the attack on the Crimean Bridge.
The energy situation in Ukraine is critical, wrote the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, on Telegram. “Most hits were found in the center and north of the country,” it said. In order to balance the grid, state-owned utility Ukrenerho had to implement extraordinary power shutdowns. According to authorities, about half of the city in Kyiv is without electricity. At least one person was killed as a result of the rocket attacks.
News on the Ukraine war: “The danger is not over”
+++ 5:03 p.m.: The danger has apparently not yet been averted after the Russian attacks from the air. The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, circulated footage showing a fire from a five-story apartment building in Kyiv. “The danger is not over,” Tymoshenko declared, urging residents to stay in shelters.
Presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said the attack was probably a reaction to the speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G20 summit. In the speech, Zelenskyy called on the heads of state and government of the G20 countries to urge Moscow to end its war of aggression.
Ukraine war news: air alert across the country – explosions in Kyiv
+++ 3:53 p.m.: After the Russian rocket attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, there is now more information. Two apartment buildings have been damaged according to official information. “Several missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft defenses over Kyiv,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on his Telegram news channel. A total of four rockets were shot down over the city alone.
Information about victims was initially not available. There were also impacts in the area around Kyiv. Attacks were also reported from the Odessa, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In the meantime, an air alert has been declared across the country. According to Ukrainian media reports, the rockets were fired over the Caspian Sea. Massive power failures were reported after impacts in the western Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Kovel. In Kyiv, too, the power grid operator warned of unscheduled power cuts to stabilize the grid.
News about the Ukraine war: Explosions shake Kyiv – rockets hit
+++ 2:58 p.m.: Explosions shake the Ukrainian capital: Kyiv has been attacked by Russian rockets. The mayor announced this. According to Ukrainian sources, two residential buildings were hit. Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, wrote on Twitter that more missiles were fired by anti-aircraft defenses.
News on the Ukraine war: Kadyrov rages against “Satanists and nationalists”
+++ 2.11 p.m.: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has commented on the current situation in the Ukraine war. On Telegram, he accused the West of wanting to destroy Russia. “To this end, the NATO bloc was created and large-scale anti-Russian propaganda was launched. At the same time, unconventional values are being actively propagated to the masses, aimed at destroying the institution of the family, culture, religion and centuries-old traditions,” raged the ruler known as “Putin’s bloodhound”.
Kadyrov thanked the fighters of the Russian republic of Chechnya who are fighting Ukrainian forces. “They have erected an impassable wall among the allied forces, stopping the influx of Western European values, satanism and nationalism,” the 46-year-old wrote.
News about the Ukraine war: UN speaks of war crimes
Update from Tuesday, November 15, 12:55 p.m.: According to the United Nations, war crimes are taking place in the Ukraine war. The UN has accused both parties to the conflict of torture and ill-treatment of their prisoners of war. The Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War prohibits torture and ill-treatment, said the head of the UN mission to monitor human rights in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, who was connected via video from Kyiv. She reminded that both sides signed the Geneva Convention.
Many Ukrainian prisoners of war reported being abused or tortured on a daily basis during their detention by Russian forces or their allies, Bogner said. Among other things, in some camps they were subjected to electric shocks or attacks by dogs or forced to strip naked. On the other hand, their mission had “credible reports” of summary executions and several cases of torture and ill-treatment of Russian prisoners of war by the Ukrainian armed forces, Bogner said.
Ukraine war news: Russia has new headquarters in the south
First report from Tuesday, November 15: Kyiv – After the withdrawal from Cherson, the Russian troops are apparently adopting a new strategy. According to British intelligence, the troops of the Kremlin chief Wladimir Putin selected the city of Henichesk on the Sea of Azov as a temporary headquarters in southern Ukraine.
The choice of Henichesk gives an indication of the priorities and concerns of Russian commanders in consolidating their defense position in southern Ukraine, the Defense Ministry’s daily intelligence update in London said on Tuesday (November 15).
Ukraine war news: Russia accuses Britain of campaigning
Henichesk is in a suitable position to counter potential threats from Cherson or Melitopol in the north-east and to receive supplies from the occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, the British experts continue. Most importantly, the city is out of range of Ukrainian artillery, which has caused severe damage to Russian command centers.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine at the end of February, citing intelligence information. In doing so, the British government wants to both counter the Russian portrayal and keep allies in line. Moscow accuses London of a targeted disinformation campaign. (with agencies)