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A Russian refinery had to stop production due to a Ukrainian drone attack. Xi Jinping should be invited to talks. The news ticker regarding the Ukraine war.
- Chemical weapons used: Russia should use gases banned under the Geneva Protocol
- Not negotiated with the USA: Vladimir Putin denies having been in contact with the US.
- 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 26th, 6:30 p.m.: Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the Ukrainian army for the crash of a Russian military plane in the border region of Belgorod this week. “I don’t know if they did it intentionally or accidentally, but it’s obvious that they did it,” the Kremlin chief said Friday at a military college.
Putin further accused Ukrainian military intelligence of knowing that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane. “It is definitely a crime,” he emphasized.
According to information from Moscow, the Ilyushin transport plane crashed on Wednesday not far from the border with Ukraine following being hit by rockets. Accordingly, the plane with 65 Ukrainian soldiers on board was on the way to a prisoner exchange. According to Russian authorities, all 74 passengers died in the crash. Whether there were actually prisoners of war on board is still controversial.
Ukraine war: Kiev invites Xi Jinping to peace talks in Switzerland
Update from January 26th, 5:15 p.m.: Ukraine has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to Switzerland for peace talks. This is reported by Sky News, citing Volodymyr Zelensky’s top adviser, BiIgor Zhovkva. Neither the place nor the time has been determined yet. However, Switzerland has agreed in principle to hold such a meeting. “We will definitely invite China to participate in the summit, at the highest level, at the level of the President of the People’s Republic of China. China’s participation will be very important for us. We involve our partners in the world to convey to the Chinese side the importance of participating in such a summit,” said Zhovkva.
Chinese participation in the talks might be crucial to ending the war. While Beijing has remained close to Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, it has previously offered to mediate in the conflict, saying the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries must be respected. Xi remains one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies among major powers, and his views on a possible peace plan might prove crucial to the future of the conflict in Ukraine.
Update from January 26th, 4:10 p.m.: The Tuapse oil refinery, owned by Rosneft, a major Russian oil and gas company, stopped refining oil and producing petroleum products due to the attack by Ukrainian drones on January 25. That reports Reuters citing industry sources. The refinery is the only one on the Russian Black Sea coast, one of the ten largest in the country and processes up to nine million tons of raw materials annually.
A vacuum system burned down in the drone attack, which also prompted Russian authorities to close Sochi airport and issue air raid warnings for their settlements. According to the agency, the plant will not be able to quickly resume production: repairs are expected to last until the end of February or early March. Rosneft did not comment on this.
Die Ölraffinerie Tuapse. © IMAGO/xVladimirkarpx
Russia is said to have used chemical weapons
Update from January 26th, 3:15 p.m.: Russian forces are increasingly attacking Ukrainian soldiers with suffocation grenades in the Ukraine war. This was announced by the information agency of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. RG-Vo grenades, a form of tear gas, were used for the first time in December. Since then, 81 cases have been reported. That reports Army Inform citing a spokesman for the Ukrainian Weapons Research Center for research into trophies and future weapons and military equipment. According to the research center, this grenade can kill a person within five minutes if fired into a room or shelter.
Spokesman Captain Andriy Rudyk said opposite Army Inform: “This grenade contains chloroacetophenone, a suffocating substance according to the Geneva Protocol [über chemische Kriegsführung] According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia has used chemical weapons 51 times this year, most often in the form of grenades dropped from drones. The research center assumes that Russia will assess the reaction of the international community before further expanding the use of chemical weapons, it said. The information cannot be independently verified.
Kremlin denies that Putin wants to negotiate with the USA in the Ukraine war
Update from January 26th, 2:15 p.m: The Kremlin denied a news agency report on Friday Bloomberg, according to which Russian President Vladimir Putin is reaching out to the United States for talks regarding ending the war in Ukraine. It was also reported that Putin was considering dropping important demands on Ukraine’s security status. That writes Reuters.
Did Vladimir Putin try to negotiate with the USA? © IMAGO/Grigory Sysoyev
In them BloombergThe report states that Putin is exploring whether Washington is willing to talk and has reached out to the US through indirect channels. The report quotes two people close to the Kremlin as saying that Putin “may be ready to abandon insistence on neutral status for Ukraine and even abandon opposition to eventual NATO membership – the threat of which was a key Russian justification for the move.” Invasion”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked by reporters regarding the report, particularly regarding whether Moscow was really ready to give up its demands for neutrality and NATO. “No, this is a false report. “It doesn’t correspond to reality at all,” he denied.
Largest waves of air strikes in the Ukraine war in weeks: Numerous people injured
Update from January 26th, 12:46 p.m: The death toll from Russian rocket attacks on the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to eleven, according to official figures on Friday. This is reported by the British newspaper the Guardian.
Losses in the Ukraine War for Russia: Almost 1,000 soldiers killed or wounded
Update from January 26th, 11:57 a.m: The Ukrainian General Staff has released new figures on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war. According to this, 990 Russian soldiers were either killed or wounded in the fighting within one day. The information might not initially be independently verified.
- soldiers: 380,600 soldiers (+990 on the previous day)
- Panzer: 6265 (+8)
- Armored vehicles: 11.637 (+16)
- Artilleriesysteme: 9082 (+15)
- Multiple rocket launchers: 972
- Air defense systems: 660
- Airplanes: 331
- Helicopter: 324
- Drones: 7033
- Cruise missiles: 1845 (+1)
- Warships: 23
- U-Boot: 1
- Tank trucks and other vehicles: 12064 (+20)
- Special equipment: 1425 (+20)
A T-72 tank of the Ukrainian army in the snow. © IMAGO/Dmytro Smolienko
Plane crash in Russia: investigation underway
Update from January 26th, 10:45 a.m: The black boxes from the Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed near the Ukrainian border on Wednesday have been taken to a special laboratory in Moscow for analysis, Russian state media said. Experts have already started restoring the flight data from the boxes, it said.
Russia has accused Kiev of shooting down the Ukraine war’s large military transport plane that was carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to an exchange on Wednesday. The crash killed all 74 people on board. Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied that it hit the plane. But Kiev said Moscow had created a “deliberate threat to the lives and safety” of its prisoners of war by Russia’s previous failure to provide airspace warnings.
Outpost destroyed in Ukraine war: At least five Russian soldiers killed
Update from January 26th, 7:40 a.m: The special forces of the Ukrainian army say they have destroyed a Russian observation post in Kherson. They killed five Russian soldiers. They used a thermal imaging drone for their attack.
They then posted a video on Facebook supposedly showing the attack. They wrote that this blow once morest the Russians would enable them “to control additional sections of this front in the future.” The information might not initially be independently verified. Kherson is on the southern front in the Ukrainian War.
Ukrainian army footage of a thermal imaging drone attack in Kherson © Screenshot: SOF Facebook profile
Ukraine News: Russia rages following plane crash in Belgorod
First report: Kiev/Moscow – After the crash of a Russian military aircraft in the border region with Ukraine, numerous questions remain unanswered. The Ukrainian secret service SBU opened an investigation on Thursday (January 25).
Russia, meanwhile, released footage of the crash site and announced an investigation into “terrorism.” Moscow had stated that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane; the plane was shot down by Ukraine.
Exchange of blows between Russia and Ukraine following plane crash
Now Ukraine and Russia have accused each other before the UN Security Council. According to previous information, it was a “premeditated, well-thought-out crime,” said Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitri Polyansky at a meeting of the body in New York.
The deputy Ukrainian ambassador to the UN, Chrystyna Hajovyshyn, rejected the allegations: Ukraine was not informed regarding the number and type of transport used to transport the prisoners who, according to the Russian account, were said to have died in the incident. This week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov also traveled to New York.
Ukraine News: Russia requests meeting in New York following plane crash
The UN Security Council meeting on the crash was requested by Russia. Representatives of Western states emphasized at the meeting that the crash would never have occurred without Russia’s war once morest Ukraine.
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“Russia has repeatedly sought to shift responsibility for the tragedies of this senseless and self-imposed war onto others, as if it were the victim rather than the aggressor,” said U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood. (Editorial with news agency material)
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