30.11.2022
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 06:52 Habeck: Weapons deliveries are correct, but also “an impertinence” +++
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck has stressed the need to supply arms to Ukraine. “I don’t doubt it for a moment,” the Green politician told Stern magazine. “And yet you can’t applaud that lightly when you realize that a large number of the 300,000 Russian recruits will be injured or die – also from weapons that we sent. Me. The release bears my signature.” The deliveries are “as correct as they are, also an impertinence,” said the Vice Chancellor. Germany recently supplied Ukraine with Gepard tanks and a modern Iris-T air defense system to ward off the Russian war of aggression.
+++ 06:35 Scholz: “Russia cannot win the war on the battlefield” +++
According to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Russia will not win the war of aggression against Ukraine. He again called on Russia to negotiate an end to its war of aggression. The West will support Ukraine in defending against Russia for as long as necessary. “Russia, I am convinced, can no longer and will not win this war on the battlefield. The relentless attacks on vital infrastructure, on water and energy lines, on Ukrainian cities and villages – they are a terrible and at the same time desperate scorched earth strategy.” , Scholz said in a speech at the Berlin Security Conference. One can be sure that Russia “will not be allowed to get away with it”.
+++ 05:05 German approval for arms deliveries decreases +++
EU citizens overwhelmingly support Ukraine’s admission to the EU and arms deliveries to the country – but support has fallen slightly after several months of war. This is the result of a survey by the Bertelsmann Foundation across the EU. The Germans are therefore more reluctant than the EU average to accept higher costs for energy independence. The survey is therefore representative of the EU, Germany and six other member states. In Germany, only 48 percent were in favor of arms deliveries to Ukraine in September – in March it was 57 percent. Across the EU, too, approval fell slightly to 50 percent.
+++ 03:13 Ukraine: Russians erect fortifications around the village near Bachmut +++
According to Ukrainian sources, Russian forces have built fortifications near Bakhmut to protect themselves from Ukrainian artillery fire. According to the Kyiv Independent portal, citing aerial photographs provided by the Ukrainian armed forces, the fortifications surround the village of Volodymyrivka, which is occupied by the Russians. Fierce fighting has been going on around Bakhmut for months without the Russian side gaining any major ground.
+++ 01:41 procurement of ammunition – Greens increase pressure on Lambrecht +++
Defense politicians from the Greens criticize the slow procurement of ammunition for the Bundeswehr. After a meeting of the Defense Committee in the Bundestag, it was clear that more pressure had to be exerted on this issue, said Sara Nanni, spokeswoman for security policy, and Sebastian Schäfer, rapporteur on the defense budget in the budget committee. “It is unclear why ammunition was not at the top of the Ministry of Defense’s to-do list after February 24 at the latest. Despite the Procurement Acceleration Act and the decision by the special fund this year, we do not see any faster procurement,” said the two MPs.
+++ 00:54 Selenskyj does not believe that Putin uses nuclear weapons +++
According to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin will not use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Selenskyj says that at a conference in New York, where he was connected via video.
+++ 00:01 US group builds surface-to-air missile system for Ukraine +++
The US defense company Raytheon Technologies has received a $1.2 billion contract from the US Department of Defense to build surface-to-air missile systems for Ukraine. Corresponding information from an insider is confirmed by a document that the news agency Archyde.com can see. There are therefore six Nasams weapon systems. The US has authorized the deployment of a total of eight.
+++ 23:09 “Truth always wins” – Selenskyj thanks the Bundestag +++
Ukrainian President Selenskyj expressly welcomes the Bundestag’s decision to classify the famine in Ukraine, which was deliberately caused 90 years ago, as genocide. “This is a decision for justice, for truth,” said Zelenskyj in his daily video address. “And that is a very important signal for many other countries in the world that Russian revanchism will not succeed in rewriting history.”
+++ 22:13 online exhibition shows Kyiv at war +++
Sport in a destroyed gym, music on rubble, a flowering bush in front of a bomb crater. The German Bundestag shows on its website Photos of everyday life in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv during the Russian war of aggression. According to the Bundestag, the individual recordings document the extent of the destruction in Kyiv and the surrounding areas, “the suffering and courage of the civilian population during the Russian siege at the beginning of the war and the gradual recovery after the Russian troops withdrew.” The exhibition was prepared by the Kyiv city administration.
Read earlier developments in the Ukraine war here.