Russia attacks Ukrainian areas with rockets. The city of Bachmut continues to be heavily contested. The Ukraine war in the news ticker.
- Heavy fighting for Bachmut: The Wagner mercenaries are trying to encircle the city
- Shelling in the Zaporizhia region: Several people die
- Editor’s note: Read the latest developments from the Ukraine conflict in our news ticker. The information processed here Ukraine war come partly from the warring parties Russia and the Ukraine. They can therefore not be independently checked in part.
+++ 10.30 p.m.: Bakhmut is still one of the most fought-over areas in the Ukraine war. But there is also fighting over the Donetsk region. According to officials of Ukraine, hostilities in this area are intensifying, reports CNN.
“The enemy shelled the municipality of Vuhledar several times today, killing one person and wounding two, and two people were killed in the municipality of Ocheretyne,” Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of Donetsk region, is quoted as saying by the US portal. “In other words, we are seeing an escalation along the entire front line from the south and from the north.”
News about the Ukraine war: Wagner mercenaries try to encircle Bachmut
+++ 9 p.m.: The battles for Bakhmut continue. Russian units were repulsed south and north of the city, reports CNN. Units of the Russian mercenary force Wagner should try to advance from both flanks. The goal is to encircle the city. Around 6,000 civilians are said to be staying there.
According to Zelenskyj, defense against Russian missiles should be improved
+++ 7.55 p.m.: Zelenskyy called a Supreme Commander’s meeting on Thursday (January 26) to discuss improved defenses against Russian missile attacks, the newspaper reports Ukrainska Pravda.
“Another attempt by a terrorist country to intimidate us with a massive rocket attack has failed once again, as soon as all of Russia will have failed. Instead, a regular meeting of the Supreme Commander’s staff has just ended, at which measures for even more reliable countermeasures against future missile threats were discussed,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
Zaporizhia power plant fired on: several dead
+++ 7.10 p.m.: Three people were killed and seven others injured when Russian troops shelled a power plant in Zaporizhia. This reports the Kyiv Independent citing the regional prosecutor’s office on Thursday. According to media reports, explosions could already be heard in Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk in the morning – possibly due to the use of air defense systems.
Russia attacks Ukraine massively: So far at least eleven dead
+++ 5.45 p.m.: According to current information, at least eleven people were killed in the massive Russian attack on Ukraine on Thursday (January 26). According to Oleksandr Chorunshyj, the representative of the civil protection authority, the attacks hit the Kyiv region in particular. Attacks were made with missiles and drones. In addition to the eleven dead, eleven people were also seriously injured, as Chorunshyj announced in a TV interview. The information could not be independently verified.
Russia fires 55 missiles at Ukrainian territory: hypersonic missiles come through anti-aircraft defenses
+++ 3.45 p.m.: On Thursday, too, Russia carried out far-reaching attacks on major Ukrainian cities. A total of 55 rockets are said to have been fired at areas in Ukraine. This is reported by the Ukrainian military leadership. Of these, 85 percent were intercepted, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valeriy Saluschnyi told the Telegram news service. The Russian army has also used two hypersonic missiles of the type Kinzhal (German: Dolch), which cannot be intercepted by the anti-aircraft defense.
In addition, drones are said to have been involved in the attacks. According to Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, several objects of the energy infrastructure were hit, which is why the electricity went out. The situation is particularly difficult in the Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Odessa regions.
“Hardly a chance”: Russian expert dismantles Abrams tank
+++ 12.12 p.m: A Russian expert is now dismantling the Abrams main battle tank: Even “old Soviet-style tanks” could beat them, believes former Colonel Sergey Suvorov in an interview with the state news agency Tass – and lists the weaknesses of the US vehicle from his point of view:
- Incidents in which the Abrams tanks burst into flames, such as in the Iraq war
- The cause: A bullet-prone engine at the rear of the vehicle
- Difficult maintenance of the main battle tank model
- Only limited suitability for use in dusty areas
The US M1 Abrams main battle tank therefore had “hardly a chance” in a battle against a Russian tank, Suvorov concluded. However, he qualified that the power of the Abrams also depends on the skill of its driver.
Civilians under fire: New attacks on residential buildings in Kyiv
+++ 10.35 a.m: The Russian military again hit a civilian building in Kyiv in the morning, Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced loudly The New Voice of Ukraine with. The incident happened in the Holosiiv district.
Battles for Kherson: “The invaders fought back”
+++ 9.49 a.m: Ukrainian soldiers may have suffered a setback in the Kherson region. At dawn they attempted to cross the Dnieper River near the town of Nowa Kakhovka. “The enemy tried to secretly come to our side of the river at night,” Russian official Vladimir Rogov told Telegram. “We fought back the invaders,” he was quoted as saying by the state news agency Tass. The information could not be checked independently.
In September, Moscow declared the four Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson to be annexed. Large parts of the international community do not recognize the annexations.
New Russian attacks: air alert in large parts of Ukraine
Update from Thursday, January 26, 8:40 a.m.: Russia is launching another attack on Ukraine, the news portal reports Kyiv Independent referring to the Head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak. The first missiles have already been intercepted over Ukraine. Governors of many Ukrainian oblasts are urging residents to stay in shelters. There is an air raid warning in all regions of Ukraine.
News in the Ukraine war: Selenskyj thanks Scholz and Biden for announced tanks
First report from Thursday, January 26, 6:50 a.m.: Kyiv – The Federal government has given Ukraine 14 Leopard 2 tanks from Bundeswehr stocks promised. Other countries like that too USA want in Ukraine war battle tank on Kyiv deliver. president Volodymyr Selenskyj welcomed the announced deliveries of Western-style heavy battle tanks in the fight against the Russian invaders and at the same time called for additional weapon systems.
In his daily video address on Wednesday (January 25), Zelenskyy thanked both Chancellor Olaf Scholz as well as US President Joe Biden for their decision. At the same time, he added that his country’s main needs now are long-range missiles, fighter jets and more artillery, to form “a fist of tanks”, according to the President of Ukraine.
But the key to this now lies in the speed of training Ukrainian tank crews and delivering tanks to Ukraine. The quantity of tanks to be delivered is also decisive.
News about the Ukraine war: air raids and attacks in southern Ukraine
Meanwhile, air alarms were triggered again in large parts of Ukraine on Wednesday evening. According to media reports, explosions were heard in Zaporizhia and Dnepropetrovsk – possibly due to the use of anti-aircraft defenses. The regional military administrator Vitali Kim wrote on Telegram that there are new waves of Russian combat drones made in Iran.
Also in the Kherson region there was a Russian attack on Wednesday (January 25), in which civilians were injured and killed. Russian troops had launched an attack on the town of Beryslav, the news forum reports ukrinform.net.
“In the middle of the day, the Russians made a targeted attack on a busy place. Enemy shells hit a grocery store where people were. Two people were killed by Russian shelling,” the military administration of the Kherson region said on Telegram. The administration also stated that three people were injured in the attack and required medical attention. (talk to dpa)