The Ukrainian military reports numerous Russian attacks, President Zelenskyj speaks up: the news ticker on Wednesday, September 14th.
- Editor’s note: All news about Ukraine conflict read in this news ticker. The information comes partly from warring parties in the Ukraine war and cannot be directly verified independently.
- Russian missile attacks: Air raid sirens went off in many parts of Ukraine.
+++ 10.40 p.m.: During his visit to the recaptured city of Izyum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed his compatriots on Telegram: “We are moving in only one direction – forward and towards victory,” he said. “Our blue and yellow flag is already flying in liberated Izyum. And in the same way it will blow in every Ukrainian city and village,” Zelenskyy continued.
This pledge also seems to apply to the whole of southern Ukraine: the president called Russia’s annexation of Crimea a “tragedy” eight years ago and assured that his troops would eventually retake the peninsula.
Izyum is one of the largest cities recaptured from Russian troops during the current Ukraine counter-offensive. Moscow said the Russian troops had responded to Ukrainian territorial gains with “massive attacks” and inflicted losses on the Ukrainian military. The Ukrainian representative for the eastern Donetsk region confirmed Russian attacks along the entire front.
News in the Ukraine war: General staff records successes at Kharkiv despite Russian attacks
+++ 10 p.m.: The Ukrainian military reports that the Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region has eased significantly since the success of the counter-offensive and the recapture of the town of Izyum located there. However, the General Staff also said that areas in Donetsk, particularly around Bakhmut and Avdiivka, would continue to be bombed by Russia. However, Russian advances into several districts of Donetsk could have been pushed back.
The General Staff also reports that Russian shelling is widespread in the Zaporizhia region. There, Russian forces have so far successfully resisted efforts by Ukrainian forces to capture areas in the direction of Mykolaiv and Kherson.
News in the Ukraine war: Selenskyj remains confident despite attack on hometown
+++ 9 p.m.: After the attack on Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi declared that a hydroelectric power station on the Ingulets River had been damaged. He spoke of an attempt to flood his hometown. Unverified videos showed that the Ingulez water level was rising rapidly. “All the occupiers can do is create panic, create an emergency, leave people without light, heat, water or food,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “Can this break us? Not at all.”
Ukraine war news: Zelenskyy’s hometown under fire
+++ 8.30 p.m.: According to the authorities, the infrastructure of the central Ukrainian industrial city of Kryvyi Rih has been badly damaged by the “massive rocket attack” by the Russian armed forces. The head of the administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Resnichenko, said hydrotechnical systems were badly damaged. Sometimes the water supply failed.
Chief of Administration Resnichenko spoke of seven Ch-22 cruise missiles that had been fired from a distance by Russian fighter jets. In Kyiv there was talk of eight missiles. Vice Presidential Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko spoke of an act of terrorism because critical infrastructure had been breached. The transport infrastructure was also hit. Information on civilian casualties was not initially published. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
News in the Ukraine war: UN chief Guterres calls Putin
+++ 7.15 p.m: After a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has no hopes for peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv in the near future. “It would be naïve to think that we are close to the possibility of a peace deal,” Guterres said in New York.
Although the United Nations is ready to work on a diplomatic solution, the chances of this are currently “minimal”. The United Nations, together with Turkey, had successfully negotiated between Russia and Ukraine, at least as far as the export of grain from Ukraine across the Black Sea was concerned.
News about the Ukraine war: the military warns of Russian missile attacks
+++ 6.25 p.m.: Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih, has warned the Ukrainian population of a rocket attack by Russian forces on the city. “Stay in the shelters,” Vilkul wrote on Telegram.
Photos of a column of smoke at the site of one of the impacts in the city were published on Telegram channels. Vilkul had previously urged the attacks not to be filmed and shared on social media. Air raid sirens went off across Ukraine, reports said Ukrainska Pravda.
News on the Ukraine war: Ukraine wants to consolidate conquests – Russian troops back?
+++ 5 p.m.: Ukraine is building fortifications in the liberated areas, according to the news portal Kyiv Independent reported. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal explained that this was done to prevent Russian troops from recapturing them.
+++ 3.30 p.m.: In the Luhansk region, Russian troops are apparently returning to the city of Kreminna. According to Governor Serhij Hajdaj, the armed forces with their “massive presence in the city” give that impression. One measure taken by the Russian army in the region was to shut down internet connections to prevent the exchange of information. The governor’s statements are not independently verifiable.
News about the Ukraine war: Ukrainian troops liberate more than 300 settlements
+++ 3 p.m.: Since the counteroffensive began, Ukrainian troops have apparently liberated more than 300 settlements. That comes from one Analyse of the news portal Kyiv Independent out. This began on September 6th and affected the Kharkiv region in particular. The information is not independently verifiable.
+++ 2.15 p.m.: Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has declared the International Atomic Energy Agency’s mission around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to have failed. “The situation would only have improved if the terrorists took their weapons and explosives and left the power plant,” he said, according to a report by the news portal Kyiv Independent.
Update from Wednesday, September 14, 1:45 p.m.: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, visited the recaptured city of Izyum on Wednesday afternoon. “The President of Ukraine thanked the soldiers for the liberation of Ukrainian land and solemnly raised the Ukrainian flag over the city parliament,” the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade Sicheslav said in a statement on Facebook.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian rocket attacks on Mykolaiv reported
First report from Wednesday, September 14, 1:00 p.m.: Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych has reported numerous attacks by Russian troops. During the night, the armed forces bombed the city several times. According to Sienkevych, security forces were still busy cleaning up at noon. So far, little is known about the injured and dead. The information cannot be independently verified. (do with dpa/AFP)