Heavy fighting is still raging in Sievjerodonetsk, Russia is launching renewed rocket attacks: the news ticker on the Ukraine war on Monday, June 13.
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- Our editorial team reports on the situation surrounding losses in the Ukraine war this news ticker to the Ukraine conflict ab. The parties to the conflict are partly the source of the information. Information on the number of victims or the course of the war cannot be directly verified independently.
+++ 11.00 a.m.: Vladimir Putin appears to have sacked a prominent face in the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. It’s about Natalia Poklonskaya. The 42-year-old lawyer worked on the peninsula, among other things as a public prosecutor. Since February 2022, she has been deputy head of the state organization “Rossotrudnichestvo”, which is affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is responsible for Russian affairs in the former Soviet republics.
Now the exile medium Nexta reports that Poklonskaya has been dismissed – after only a few months in office. Poklonskaya herself, according to the report, indicated that the decree on her resignation was connected with a transfer to another position. However, she did not specify what this new position is. The lawyer may have fallen out of favor with President Putin. Poklonskaya’s transfer is another example of chair-shuffling in the Kremlin.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian ex-prime minister warns of further invasions
+++ 10.15 a.m.: Former Russian Prime Minister and now exile opposition figure Mikhail Kasyanov has warned of serious consequences for peace in Europe should Ukraine lose the war against Russia. “If Ukraine falls, the Baltic states will be next,” Kasyanov warned. Kasyanov “categorically” rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s assessment that Putin should not be “humiliated”. He is also extremely critical of calls on Ukraine to cede areas to Russia in favor of a peace agreement with Moscow. The Ukrainian President Zelenskyy made a similar statement. Negotiations on territories are “not an option”.
+++ 09.45 a.m.: The British Ministry of Defense has predicted that Russian troops will try to cross several rivers to further develop the Donbass. For example, only the river Siwersky Donets separates the city of Sievjerodonetsk, which is increasingly in Russian hands, from the neighboring city of Lysychansk, a possible next target for the Russian army. “In the coming months, river crossing operations will be among the most important determining factors in the course of the war,” the ministry said in a statement.
However, the British Ministry of Defense concedes that the Ukrainian troops have a good chance of defending themselves: the armed forces have often managed to destroy bridges before retreating in order to prevent a Russian advance. At the same time, Russia has had difficulties crossing larger units in the middle of the fighting.
+++ 09.15 a.m.: The situation around the city of Sieverodonetsk in the Donbass remains tense. The Ukrainian General Staff is now reporting that Russian troops are currently storming the city center. Russia has achieved a “partial success,” it said in a statement. The aim of Russia is to push the Ukrainian troops out of the city. The Russian army has been using siege tactics for weeks. The information is not independently verifiable. The Ukrainian army had already given details of the situation in Sievjerodonetsk early Monday morning.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian troops are likely to launch new rocket attacks
+++ 08.45 a.m.: Russian troops apparently shelled the area around the city of Dnipro on Monday morning. One person is said to have been killed. This is reported by the Kyiv Independent news portal, citing information from the authorities. The information cannot be independently verified.
News on the Ukraine war: New details on the situation in Sievjerodonetsk
First report from Monday, June 13, 8:00 a.m.: The Ukrainian army has acknowledged the loss of the center of the heavily contested city of Sievarodonetsk in the east of the country. Russian troops shelled the city in the Luhansk region with artillery and drove out the Ukrainian soldiers, the Ukrainian general staff said on Monday morning. The fighting continued, however, it said.
A few hours earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj had declared that in the strategically important city there was “literally fighting for every meter” and that there was pressure for additional and faster arms deliveries from the West. “Unfortunately, without German heavy weapons, we will not be able to break Russia’s massive military superiority and save the lives of soldiers and civilians,” said Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk to the German Press Agency. From the visit of the Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz Ukraine hopes for a promise of immediate deliveries of German armaments. According to media reports, the SPD-Politician still in June a joint trip with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Meanwhile, unknown hackers placed a message against the war in Ukraine on Russian state television websites. On Sunday evening (June 12), for example, the streaming portal “Smotrim.ru” featured the text “Putin destroys Russians and Ukrainians! Stop the war!”, as numerous internet users reported. Russian state television later admitted to a hacker attack on “Smotrim” and the website of the news program “Vesti”. As a result, “unauthorized content with extremist calls” was displayed for less than an hour. (dil/fh/tu with AFP/dpa)