On Tuesday evening, the Russian side reportedly used Ka-52 attack helicopters in the attack on the city.
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new York The Russian military has fired rockets at unspecified military installations around the city of Rivne in north-western Ukraine. Three rockets fell on Tuesday, regional military chief Vitali Kowalj told Unian agency. The messages cannot be checked.
“During the evening alert, the enemy fired three times at an object of military infrastructure,” it said. “A commission is on site, the losses are being determined.” Kowalj did not give any details.
According to their own account, Ukrainian units have fended off an attack by Russian troops in new fighting for Kharkiv in the east of the country. Ka-52 attack helicopters were also deployed by the Russian side on Tuesday evening, regional commander Oleg Sinegubow was quoted as saying by Ukrajinska Pravda. “Our troops are holding their positions.”
The situation in the besieged Izjum, about 100 kilometers away, is difficult. There is no longer any connection to the city. All efforts to create a humanitarian corridor have so far been rejected by the Russian side. The information could not be independently verified.
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The situation for the people in the port city of Mariupol, which has been surrounded for days, seems hopeless. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of blocking a humanitarian convoy into the city and capturing several bus drivers and rescue workers.
In his video address to the nation on Wednesday night, he said the convoy was supposed to bring urgently needed relief supplies to the embattled port city on the Azov Sea on Tuesday. Russia had previously approved the route.
Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said the Russians arrested 11 bus drivers and four rescue workers and confiscated their vehicles. The fate of those affected is unknown. The numbers could not initially be independently confirmed.
“We are trying to organize stable humanitarian corridors for Mariupol residents, but unfortunately almost all of our attempts are thwarted by shelling or deliberate terror by the Russian occupiers,” said Zelensky.
Zelensky also commented on the talks with Russia in the video. Negotiations went “step by step, but they are moving forward,” he said. Negotiations between delegations from both sides will be held via video. “It is very difficult. Sometimes it’s scandalous,” he said, referring to the negotiations, without giving details.
USA: Ukraine on the offensive
According to the US military, there are indications of Ukrainian offensives. According to the Ministry of Defense, this is particularly the case in the south of the country. Reports that Ukrainian forces had recaptured a suburb of the capital Kyiv from Russian troops could not be confirmed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described previous talks between Moscow and Kyiv on the termination as difficult. Sometimes the consultations are also confrontational, he says in the video speech. But “step by step we are making progress”.
Negotiations with Russia are difficult, the Ukrainian President said in his video address.
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Selenski wants to join the extraordinary NATO summit tomorrow, Thursday, via video. This was announced by his spokesman, Serhi Nikiforov, to the Unian news agency on Tuesday. The meeting comes exactly five weeks after Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began.
At the summit, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the support of the NATO countries for Ukraine and the further strengthening of deterrence and defense against Russia will be discussed
Western countries advise Russia’s exclusion from G20
Western countries are questioning Russia’s membership in the Group of the 20 most important industrialized countries (G20). Those involved in the considerations told Reuters.
However, other G20 members are expected to veto Russia’s exclusion. China, India and Saudi Arabia are also members of the G20 and have not joined the West’s crackdown on Russia after invading Ukraine.
However, according to his ambassador to Indonesia, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the G20 summit there in October. “Not only the G20, but also other organizations are trying to exclude Russia,” says Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyova. “The West’s response is totally inappropriate.”
Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping at the 2013 G20 meeting in St. Petersburg.
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The Wall Street Journal newspaper also reports that the US is preparing new sanctions against more than 300 members of the Russian parliament. The newspaper relies on officials and internal documents. The US government initially declined to comment on the report.
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According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Russian military operation in Ukraine is proceeding “strictly according to plan”. The course of the mission corresponds to the goals set in advance, said Peskow in English in an interview with the TV channel CNN on Tuesday. “It’s a significant mission with significant goals,” he said. The government in Moscow describes the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, which has been going on for almost a month, as a “special military operation”, not as a war.
When asked what President Putin had achieved in Ukraine so far, Peskov said that the goals had “not yet” been achieved. Among other goals, he named the decimation of the Ukrainian military and Kiev’s understanding that the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, is now an “unmovable part of Russia”. In addition, Ukraine must recognize that the separatist regions in the east are now “independent states”.
Russia’s goals have not yet been achieved, said Russian President Putin’s spokesman.
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The US government and Ukraine have been saying for days that the Russian armed forces are having logistical problems and are making little progress, especially in the north and east of the country. “We continue to see evidence that the Russians did not plan logistics and supplies properly,” US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.
“We are in a much better position than we were with previous refugee movements,” says Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser. Nevertheless, she calls for the solidarity of the EU countries in taking in the refugees.
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humanitarian situation
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser calls for the solidarity of the EU countries when taking in the refugees. “It is now an absolute priority to ensure fair distribution throughout the EU,” says the SPD politician to the editorial network Germany.
The agreements on joint admission would now have to be implemented jointly by everyone. She rejected criticism of the federal government from the federal states: “Since the first day of the war, we have been coordinating the reception and care of the refugees very closely with the federal states.” She emphasizes: “We are much better positioned than we were with previous refugee movements .”
With material from dpa and Reuters.
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