The number of civilian casualties in the Ukraine war is increasing. There was a particularly devastating attack in Chasiv Yar. News ticker on military events.
- rockets probably hit in office center a: Zelenskyj condemns “murderer state”
- counteroffensive in region Kherson: Ukraine reports heavy blow against Putin troops.
- “significant” Ukraine losses for Putin? Secret service reports mercenary recruitment in prison
- This News ticker on the military situation in Ukraine conflict is continuously updated. Here is the background to the Ukraine war.
Updated July 14, 1:19 p.m: OSCE observers see an “alarming” development in the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk. It is believed that tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians are mistreated there in Russian facilities – called “filter centers”. The purpose: to find out whether they are cooperating with the Ukrainian authorities. The AFP news agency quotes this from a 115-page OSCE report.
According to the OSCE, fingerprints are taken from Ukrainians, personal data is recorded and identity papers are copied. There are reports that people in the centers are “subjected to interrogation and humiliating strip searches”. According to the OSCE, people who are believed to have collaborated with the government in Kyiv “often simply disappear”.
Ukraine-News: OSCE reports on “desecration of corpses”
There are said to be around 20 such filter centers in the areas occupied by Russia. The OSCE report is based on a mission of three experts it appointed who observed the Ukraine war from early April to late June.
They also report “serious violations of human rights” in unoccupied territories. This applies in particular to the Kiev suburbs of Bucha and Irpin. There are signs of “torture and desecration of dead civilians”. Targeted killings, rapes, kidnappings and massive deportations of civilians have been documented several times.
Rockets probably hit office center: Zelenskyj condemns “murderer state”
Updated July 14, 11:46 am: Three suspected Russian rockets hit an office center in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, killing at least two people. Another six were injured, according to the authorities of the western Ukrainian city. A fire broke out and hit about 50 parked cars.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry added that almost 3,000 rockets had landed in the country since the Russian invasion and tweeted a video of the accident site. The information could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted immediately: “What is this if not an open act of terrorism?” the Ukrainian President wrote on Telegram. “Beasts. murder state. Terrorist state,” Zelenskyy wrote. Russia has repeatedly emphasized that it only attacks military targets in the neighboring country – even if the many civilian casualties are now obvious.
Ukraine news: Fighting in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine
Updated July 14, 10:48 am: The fight in eastern Ukraine rages on. Now the pro-Russian separatists have claimed territorial gains in the small town of Soledar. This is reported by the Russian state news agency Tass. The city is expected to be captured within the next two days.
The head of military administration Soledar, Serhiy Hoschko, contradicted the account. The Ukrainian fighters pushed back the Russian soldiers. Soledar is located in the Donetsk region. About half of the once over 10,000 residents are said to be staying in the city.
Ukraine-News: Apparently successful counter-offensive near Kharkiv
Updated July 13, 10:06 p.m: According to the Ukrainian general staff, the Ukrainian army is said to have pushed back a Russian offensive near Kharkiv on Wednesday: Russian attacks were repelled in several villages east and north of the city. This information comes from the Ukrainian news portal Kyiv Independent and could not initially be verified independently.
Also loud Kyiv Independent At least 14 people were injured in Russian rocket attacks on Zaporizhia on Wednesday. According to the local authorities, two rockets hit a trading company in Zaporizhia and severely damaged its facilities. Rescue workers are on duty at the site of the rocket impact.
Ukraine: Five people were killed in Russian attacks near the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv
Update from July 13, 2 p.m.: According to Ukrainian sources, at least five people were killed in Russian attacks near the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. The region had been fired at with multiple rocket launchers, said the deputy chief of the presidential administration, Kiril Tymoshenko, in the messenger service Telegram. As a result, a hospital and several residential buildings were damaged. According to preliminary information, five civilians were killed in the Vitovsk district east of Mykolaiv. The Russian Defense Ministry said targets in Mykolayiv had been attacked with “high-precision air-to-surface missiles.” 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
According to the Ukrainian general staff, Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and several quarters of the city of Bakhmut, south of Kharkiv, were also bombed. “The enemy continues its attacks in order to improve its position and create favorable conditions for the offensive” in the direction of the cities of Izyum and Sloviansk, the General Staff said. Donzek Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said four civilians had been killed in the eastern Ukrainian region, one of them in Bakhmut. Information on both sides cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine-News: Russian missile hits residential building in Chasiv Yar – apparently 45 people died
Updated July 13, 11:47 a.m: After the rocket attack on a four-story residential building in Chasiv Yar, the death toll has risen to at least 45. This was announced by Ukrainian rescue workers. The small town is located in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The Russian army had bombed the residential building. The attack was part of a broad offensive in the particularly hotly contested area.
Ukraine reports heavy blow against Putin troops: “Thought they were safe”
Updated July 13, 8:31 a.m: Kyiv reports a counter-offensive in Cherson. The southern Ukrainian region was captured shortly after the Russian invasion began. Now the Ukrainian side has apparently succeeded in counterattacking.
In an attack on a Russian ammunition depot, Putin’s troops lost about 1,000 tons of ammunition and 50 fuel vehicles. Cited with this info focus.de the regional military administrator Sergei Khlan. The locality is Nowa Kachowka.
According to the report, the head of the regional police station spoke of a “remarkable” day. The Russian troops had started to set up their camps further away from the front line because they felt safe there. The information could not initially be independently verified.
“They lack courage”: Selenskyj confirms that Russian troops are afraid
Updated July 13, 6:09 a.m: After initial hesitation, several western states have meanwhile delivered modern rocket systems and artillery to Ukraine. Its President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is now also due to this help optimistic about the further course of the war.
“The occupiers have already learned very well what modern artillery is, and they will no longer have a safe rear anywhere on our soil that they have occupied,” Zelenskyy said in his daily video address. According to Zelensky, the Russians are now afraid of the Ukrainian army, also thanks to the partisan activities of Ukrainian agents in the occupied territory.
But they also lack “the courage to admit defeat and withdraw troops from Ukrainian territory.” Despite the high losses, the Russian troops could only continue fighting thanks to the “inexhaustible stocks of old Soviet weapons”.
Killed civilians in the Ukraine war: UN gives current figures
Update from July 12, 10:20 p.m.: The death toll in the rocket attacks on a residential building in the city of Chasiv Yar has risen again. Nine people have been rescued from the rubble since the attack on Saturday, civil defense in the Donetsk region said on Tuesday. Kyiv speaks of a civilian residential building. The Russian army, on the other hand, claims to have attacked a building used for military purposes. The information can hardly be verified independently.
On Tuesday, a woman was also injured as a result of artillery fire in the city of Sloviansk. Other towns in the area, such as Bakhmut and Soledar, were also under fire. At least five people were also injured in neighboring Kharkiv as a result of Russian attacks, said military governor Oleh Synyehubov. The United Nations has recorded more than 5,000 civilians killed since Russia’s war of aggression began in late February, but assumes the number of casualties to be far higher.
Ukraine-News: Death toll after rocket attack on Chasiv Yar rises again
Update from July 12, 3:50 p.m.: After the rocket attack on a house in the small town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk, the number of dead recovered from the rubble has risen to more than 38. This is reported by the news channel ntv. The residential building had been fired upon by the Russian side over the weekend.
“Significant” Ukraine losses for Putin? Secret service reports mercenary recruitment in prison
Moscow/London – British intelligence experts believe it is possible that Russia is hiring fighters for the Wagner mercenary group in prisons. “Staff shortages in the Russian armed forces could force the Russian MoD to resort to unconventional recruitment methods,” said the British MoD’s daily intelligence update.
Secret service on the Ukraine war: Moscow is probably recruiting mercenaries from prisons
The Ukrainian secret service had already announced that Russia was recruiting prisoners for private military companies. Now the British secret service is also reporting on it. “If true, this move likely indicates difficulties in replacing the significant Russian losses,” it said. An ex-Wagner mercenary recently published a book about Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin’s “shadow army”.
Counter-offensive in Cherson: Kyiv reports 52 killed Russian soldiers
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces say they killed 52 Russian soldiers in attacks in the Kherson region. Artillery, armored vehicles and “a warehouse with ammunition” were also destroyed, said the command responsible for southern Ukraine.
This information could not initially be verified independently. The Kherson region is largely controlled by the Russian invading forces. The region borders the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014. (AFP/dpa/frs)
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