2023-09-27 12:58:57
According to information from Kiev, fighters from the Russian private army Wagner are active again in eastern Ukraine. These are Wagner men who were previously stationed in Belarus, the spokesman for the Ukrainian military’s Army Group East, Ilya Yevlash, told the media in Kiev on Wednesday. While some of the mercenaries went to Africa, others concluded new contracts with Russia’s Defense Ministry and were taking part in combat operations again. The media had previously reported that Wagner fighters were involved in the fighting around Bakhmut.
The Wagner private army has been considered leaderless since the crash of a plane carrying founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and commanders in August. The group had long fought alongside regular Russian units in Moscow’s war of aggression against Ukraine. After withdrawing his troops from Ukraine, Prigozhin attempted an uprising against the Russian military leadership, which failed. Parts of Wagner’s army then moved to Belarus.
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Future course of the war
According to the Ukrainian border guard, of the approximately 6,000 mercenaries who went to Belarus, only around 500 are still in the authoritarian-run ex-Soviet republic. However, the men who have now returned to the battlefield in Ukraine do not pose a major threat, according to Kiev.
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2:44 p.m. – Federal prosecutor’s office is investigating possible shootings at civilians in Hostomel
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is looking into a possible war crime in the town of Hostomel outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev. When asked, a spokeswoman for the authority in Karlsruhe said it was about the allegation that civilians had been shot at and injured by Russian forces. Among those suspected of being shot at was a person with German citizenship.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office initiated the first personal investigation in mid-July. There is an initial suspicion that war crimes have been committed, the spokeswoman explained. To clarify the matter, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office is in close contact with the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” first reported.
It was already known in March 2022 that the Federal Prosecutor’s Office was investigating possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. This is a so-called structural determination process. So it’s not about investigating specific people, but about securing evidence. These may potentially be used in future criminal proceedings against individuals.
12:34 p.m. – Moscow accuses West of involvement in rocket attack on Crimea
Russia has accused the USA and Great Britain of involvement in the Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol in the annexed Crimea. London and Washington have long supported the “criminal regime” in Kiev, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference in Moscow. The attack on September 22nd was carried out “without the slightest doubt” with the help of the American and British secret services.
Western reconnaissance data, NATO satellites and spy planes were used for this purpose. “The obvious goal of such terrorist acts is to divert attention from the failed attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces’ counteroffensive and to frighten people, inciting panic in our society,” Zakharova said.
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Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014 in violation of international law. As part of its counter-offensive that has been running for months, Ukraine has emphasized that it also wants to liberate the peninsula from Russian occupation.
In the attack with drones and cruise missiles, Kiev severely damaged the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol and, according to its own statements, killed a total of 34 officers. Kyiv did not provide any evidence of this. Russia, which has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine for more than 19 months, only spoke of one missing person after the attack.
11:46 a.m. – Ukrainians should enjoy protection in the EU until 2025
Ukrainian war refugees should enjoy special protection in the European Union until at least March 2025. On Thursday in Brussels, the EU interior ministers will discuss the EU Commission’s proposal to extend the temporary protection status by one year. An agreement between the EU ambassadors in Brussels was expected on Wednesday.
The extension is intended to provide security for the more than four million Ukrainians in the EU. Around a million of them have found refuge in Germany.
After Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the EU states activated the temporary protection directive for the first time. This means that war refugees can obtain a residence permit quickly and unbureaucratically without going through an asylum procedure. They can work, send their children to school and have health insurance.
Previously, the temporary protection was limited until the beginning of March 2024. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has already signaled her approval for the extension until March 2025. The EU countries must decide this unanimously.
10:48 a.m. – Russia shows allegedly killed fleet commander on TV again
Russia has again shown on television the commander of its Black Sea Fleet who, according to Ukrainian reports, was killed in an attack. Admiral Viktor Sokolov said in an interview that the Black Sea Fleet was working successfully. The television station belongs to the Ministry of Defense. However, it is not clear from Sokolov’s comments whether the footage was recorded after the Ukrainian missile attack on the fleet’s headquarters in Crimea.
On September 22nd, Ukraine said it attacked the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol in Crimea with missiles and caused significant damage. Sokolov was killed, the Ukrainian special forces said. Russia initially only confirmed the attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet. The Defense Ministry said a soldier was missing. On Tuesday it released video footage and photos purporting to show Sokolov at a video conference with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other senior officers.
The current situation in Ukraine
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10:16 a.m. – Russia blacklists British admiral
The Russian Foreign Ministry says it has imposed sanctions on another 23 British politicians, military officials, journalists and scientists. The best-known name on the list published on the authority’s official website is British military chief Toni Radakin, who the media attributes to a key role in coordinating Western military aid to Ukraine. Russia had previously sanctioned large parts of London’s political elite.
All people who have been placed on the blacklist are now banned from entering Russia. Moscow justified the expansion of sanctions with the alleged “anti-Russian course implemented by London” and “support for the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev”. Admiral Radakin, who has been in office as Chief of the Defense Staff since the end of 2021, met with Russia’s Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov shortly before the outbreak of war, where, according to information from London, he assured him that Moscow was not preparing an invasion.
08:53 a.m. – London considers a timely Russian offensive to be less likely
According to British military experts, a Russian offensive in the war of aggression against Ukraine has currently become less likely due to the deployment of previously uncommitted troops. This emerges from the daily intelligence report from the Ministry of Defense in London.
Accordingly, Moscow probably deployed parts of its newly founded 25th Army for the first time in battle west of the cities of Sievierodonetsk and Kreminna. “Since the start of the invasion, Russia has rarely held back an uncommitted army-sized group that could potentially form the basis of a major new offensive push,” the British statement said. But with parts of the 25th Army being deployed to reinforce thinned ranks at the front, a concerted new Russian offensive in the coming weeks is less likely.
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The British Ministry of Defense has been publishing daily information on the course of the war since the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine began in February 2022. Moscow accuses London of disinformation.
07:47 a.m. – Traffic on the Crimean Bridge is running again after a short interruption
Car traffic on the Crimean Bridge is running again. After a short break in the morning, there were no traffic jams in any direction, the Russian authorities announced on the short message service Telegram. Traffic on the car and rail bridge that connects the annexed Crimean peninsula and the Russian mainland is often stopped because of Ukrainian drone attacks.
The 19 kilometer long bridge is important for supplying Russian troops in Crimea and in the largely occupied Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. The structure, a prestige project inaugurated by President Vladimir Putin himself, has already been attacked several times and, in some cases, significantly damaged. In October 2022 there was a first explosion on the bridge, some of which was significantly damaged.
04:53 a.m. – Estonia’s head of government believes higher defense spending in NATO is necessary
Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has encouraged the other NATO states to significantly increase their defense spending following the example of the Baltic republics. She referred to her own country, which will increase this budget item to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product next year. “And that is something that I also promote at NATO level,” said Kallas on the sidelines of the Baltic Security Conference. The regional security situation following Russia’s attack on Ukraine will be discussed in the Estonian capital Tallin on Wednesday.
“Look at 1988, when all NATO allies spent more than two percent of their gross domestic product on defense. And why? Because they viewed the danger as serious. But now the danger is greater than during the Cold War because the war has returned to Europe,” she said.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will attend the security conference on Wednesday. It is expected that the SPD politician will chart Germany’s future course in security policy. Representatives of the Baltic republics as well as other NATO states and Ukraine take part in the meeting (“Annual Baltic Conference on Defense/ABCD”). The minister’s speech also marks the end of his three-day visit to Latvia and Estonia.
04:28 a.m. – Wladimir Klitschko: No chance for peace talks with Russia
Former Ukrainian boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko currently sees no chance of negotiating peace with Russia. “Negotiations with whom, with Russia, with Putin, Lavrov, with who?”, the 47-year-old answered a corresponding question on Markus Lanz’s ZDF program on Tuesday.
The brother of Kiev’s mayor Vitali Klitschko added: “They are liars, they have lied to the world for decades with their propaganda.” Klitschko went on to ask what one should negotiate with liars and answered himself: “That we cover up, forget: rape, killing “, torture, destroyed lives.” If you go into negotiations, then don’t do it from a position of weakness.
Wladimir Klitschko said he was worried that people in Germany and other countries could become war-weary. “Prices have become higher, life has become more expensive, life in Europe has changed,” said Klitschko. Nevertheless, most people still understand and support the Ukrainians. “In sport as well as in war, endurance beats everything.” Even if everything progresses very slowly and laboriously.
It has become clear that Vladimir Putin’s Russia should “swallow” itself from this war – with the consequences that the war will stop and something like this will not happen again. “Evil has no end unless we give the end to evil.”
00:01 – Airbnb wants to support Ukraine tourism after the war
US accommodation provider AirBnb and Ukraine’s tourism agency have signed a joint agreement to support post-war tourism. “This agreement is very important to me. Even if only a very limited tourist offer is possible in Ukraine today, it is important to set the course now for the time after the war,” said Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
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