Ukraine continues its counter-offensive. Apparently, the Russian soldiers are fleeing. News ticker about combat events in the war in Ukraine.
- Ukraine probably reaches the region Luhansk: Reports of mass looting by fleeing Russians.
- military experts to the Ukraine-Gegenoffensive: Putin makes “fatal mistake”.
- anterior course I am War in Ukraine: Experts see the change.
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Update from 12 September at 22:55: According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s counter-offensive since the beginning of September has recaptured 6,000 square kilometers of territory previously controlled by Russia. Soldiers “liberated” this area in the south and east and would “advance further,” Zelenskyy said in his evening video speech.
Update from September 12th at 9:45 pm: Ukrainian authorities discovered four bodies with “traces of torture” in a recaptured village in eastern Ukraine. Initial investigations indicated that people found in Zaliznychne in the Kharkiv region were killed “by Russian soldiers during the occupation of the place,” the regional prosecutor’s office wrote on the online Facebook network on Monday.
Three of the bodies were found on private property, one in a factory near the train station. According to the prosecutor’s office, after the Ukrainian reconquest of several cities, the authorities received information that several citizens had been killed by Russian soldiers. The bodies would now be examined by coroners, the law enforcement agency said. He is being investigated for murder and “violations of martial law”.
Ukrainian offensive in “third phase”: the defense minister gives an idea of the planning
Update from September 12th at 9:46 pm: The Ukrainian counter-offensive currently appears to be a resounding success. Now Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov has declared that the offensive is currently in the “third phase”. The French newspaper The world Resnikov said according to reports from stern And ntv, in the first phase, attempts were made to prevent Russia from further attacks. In the second phase, an attempt was made to stabilize the first line.
According to this, the army leadership also designed the plan after the arms deliveries from the West. After the U.S. handover of the Himar missile systems, supply lines to the Russians began to be cut off.
Update from 12 September at 18:54: The Ukrainian counter-offensive appears to be continuing. CNN reports that troops from Kiev crossed the Seversky Donets River and captured the city of Svyatohirsk. A Ukrainian flag flies over the city administration building. According to the report, this will make the withdrawal of Russian troops from the region much more difficult. Especially if the Ukrainian soldiers advance even further east.
Russia is recruiting new soldiers – “from the poorest regions”.
Update from 12 September at 18:42: Russia has apparently recruited new soldiers for the war in Ukraine. of the Independent Kiev reports, citing the Ukrainian secret service, that volunteers from the Far East could be recruited for the army. Consequently, they are people “from the poorest and coldest regions of Russia”.
Ukraine probably reaches the Luhansk region: news of mass looting by fleeing Russians
Update from 12 September at 4:30 pm: Is the Ukrainian counter-offensive going on? According to their own statements, the Kiev troops are pushing back the Russian occupiers in some areas of the east and south. So also in the Donbass region of Luhansk?
Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai posted a photo of a Ukrainian flag on Facebook. Noisy Independent Kiev It is said to be suspended on a transition tower in Kuzemivka, a village in Luhansk Oblast near the border with Kharkiv Oblast.
According to his own statements on Sunday evening, Ukraine has so far recaptured some 3,000 square kilometers of land. To put it into perspective: this corresponds to about three times the area of Berlin. However, Russian troops still control a large number of areas.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service is now reporting mass looting by Russian soldiers as they “flee” from the Kharkiv oblast.
Russian soldiers would steal the generators and personal belongings of the residents. For example, phones and computers were stolen. According to the secret services, there have also been cases of looting in educational institutions.
War in Ukraine: total power failure in Kharkiv
Update from September 12 at 2:40 pm: Another total blackout in Ukraine. This time the metropolis Kharkiv suffers. “Due to the bombing, the critical infrastructure objects are out of order, as a result the electricity and water supply have failed,” the mayor of the city Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram. Work is underway to resolve the issues. The previous evening there had already been a brief and widespread power outage in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Military experts on the Ukrainian counter-offensive: Putin commits “fatal mistake”
First report of 12 September: Kyiv / Washington – The Washington think tank “Institute for the Study of War” (ISW) has been publishing since Russian invasion of Ukraine regular analysis of combat events – the latest sounds for the Kremlin boss Wladimir Putin not well.
The reason for this assessment is Ukraine’s successes in its counter-offensive. “Putin risks a common but deadly mistake by waiting too long to send reinforcements to the Luhansk front,” he said. Focus online from the paper (Note: ISW’s website was temporarily unavailable on September 12 – starting at 11am).
ISW military experts also see a “space-time dilemma” for Putin, because the Russian military would actually have to withdraw troops from other battlefields to create a new line of defense in the areas they occupy, but ISW sees no sign of this.
