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2023-05-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 12th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:50 There was a loud explosion in Melitopol, electricity, water and communications were lost in the eastern and northern districts of the city and even in the surrounding villages, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
22:47 For three days of counter-offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction, 17.3 sq. km , said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty.
21:13 Zelensky announced another sanctions package: “By his decree, he imposed restrictive measures on the property of Russian companies in Ukraine and on the property of Ukrainian economic entities associated with them. Sometimes even critical infrastructure facilities and key strategic enterprises were under their control. Today we are overcoming these risks. Sanctions have also been imposed on companies associated with Medvedchuk and other sanctioned persons, founders, managers, beneficiaries of pro-Russian companies that own significant assets in Ukraine."
20:45 IAEA Director Rafael Grossi intends to submit an agreement to the UN Security Council this month to protect the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Reuters reports citing diplomats.
20:32 The Russians have been shelling Nikopol and the Marganets community of the Dnipropetrovsk region from heavy artillery all day - one person was injured, said the chairman of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. Three private houses were destroyed, a church, gas pipelines, and electrical networks were damaged.
20:19 In addition to understaffing the units that suffered losses in manpower, the Russians are also forming new units, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. Thus, in the Stavropol Territory, the formation of a separate motorized rifle brigade began on the funds of the Southern Military District. The vast majority of those who signed the contract are not motivated to participate in hostilities, but they strive to earn money.
19:44 Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat did not confirm the information that Ukrainian air defense is supposedly 90-100% effective. According to him, such a percentage can only be discussed when the Russian Federation uses the type of weapons that can shoot down air defense forces - Caliber, Kh-101, Kh-555 cruise missiles, drones. According to Ignat, "here the percentage of defeat is about 75-80%, maybe 90%, and with some kind of attack, even 100%."
But this does not apply to all hostile weapons, Ignat emphasized. Thus, Ukrainian forces cannot yet shoot down Kh-22, Kh-31p, Oniks, S-300 missiles, guided bombs, etc. "One gets the impression that supposedly Ukraine's air defense is already 90% effective. No, it's not, unfortunately. We need to strengthen. The old Soviet systems still form the basis of air defense," Ignat emphasized.
19:13 Telegram channels write about strong explosions in Lugansk. Local residents report that before the strikes, a jet sound similar to the passage of missiles was heard. According to their information, the blows were inflicted on the oil depot and on the Polipak plant, which was used as a supply point and a repair base for the Russian army.
19:08 Private cases of arms exports from South Africa to Russia did take place, but no one provided permission at the government level for this, said the head of the country's Ministry of Communications, Mondi Gumbulele.
18:31 Zelensky clarified in an evening video message that five sanctions packages were approved today. In addition to the confiscation of the Russian share of Zaporizhstal, sanctions packages have been approved that continue the course of isolating and blocking the Russian military industry.
18:24 The German concern Rheinmetall has concluded an agreement with Ukroboronprom on the establishment of a joint venture for the repair of tanks in Ukraine, General Director Armin Papperger said. According to the agreement, Rheinmetall and Ukroboronprom create a joint venture in which 51% of the shares and management belong to the German side. Cooperation will concern the maintenance and repair of armored vehicles in Ukraine, and the construction of tanks will be prepared in parallel.
18:19 Beijing sends its special envoy to Ukraine, whom Putin awarded the Order of Friendship medal. This, of course, worries the Ukrainians, but in Kyiv they say that they will stand their ground and will not make concessions to Russia. More details - in the material Chinese friend of the Russian Federation goes to Kiev .
18:02 In the west of Crimea, Russian air defense shot down a drone, said the "head" of the occupied peninsula Sergey Aksyonov. According to him, there were no casualties and no damage, the situation is "under control."
17:59 Putin spoke on the phone with the President of South Africa, including Ukraine, the Kremlin said. The President of the Russian Federation supported the idea of his colleague from South Africa on the participation of a group of African leaders in the discussion of the settlement of the "conflict" in Ukraine.
17:43 Belgium will transfer to Ukraine 92 million euros received as part of taxes on profits from the 250.6 billion euros of Russian assets frozen in the country, the government announced.
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17:40 In the Dzhankoy region of Crimea, a Mi-28 helicopter crashed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The department claims that it was a planned training flight without ammunition. Both pilots were killed, there is no destruction on the ground. The preliminary cause of the crash is "technical failure".
17:37 South Africa declares neutrality in the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, but the United States believes that weapons were supplied from the republic to the Russians. The case has grown into an international scandal. Read more in the material Weapons for Russia .
17:19 Zelensky announced that he signed decrees on the introduction of several sanctions packages: "The first sanctions package is against Zaporizhstal. By his decree, he imposed restrictive measures on 41 people - 13 individuals and 28 legal ones, - with the help of which the Russian Federation retained control over the enterprise, harmed our economy. We are launching a procedure for the confiscation of the Russian share - it will work for Ukraine and Ukrainians."
16:56 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: "Thanked for the significant strengthening of our capabilities with long-range Storm Shadow missiles and for other indispensable military assistance. We discussed further defense cooperation. We coordinated positions before future international events. In particular we need clear signals about Ukraine's future with NATO."
16:28 On the morning of May 12, there was an explosion in Melitopol. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that as a result of the explosion, the "acting deputy minister of construction" of the occupied Zaporozhye region was wounded and hospitalized.
16:11 Ukraine sees signs of exhaustion of Russian troops in the Bakhmut direction, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty said: "Our defense operation is going well, the enemy is being exhausted and bled. Wagner has not fulfilled a single deadline, Bakhmut has not been captured."
According to Cherevaty, it does not help the Russians that in some places the depleted units of the PMC Wagner are being replaced by units of the regular troops of the Russian Federation - motorized rifle and airborne units. This is due to the fact that the new units are mostly equipped with mobilized, who have extremely low motivation. "As a result of successful military operations in different directions, the enemy was defeated and thrown back at a distance of 250 meters to 1.5 km - Bakhmut is holding on, and our defenders are destroying the enemy and in some places driving him away," he added.
15:52 In July, at the Vilnius summit, Ukraine may receive a political invitation to join the Alliance. Read more in the material Plan of Poland .
15:36 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the Maloiliinovsky direction "in order to increase the stability of the defense, Russian troops occupied the line, taking into account the favorable conditions of the Berkhovsky reservoir." In turn, Prigozhin said that it was "not a regrouping, but a flight."
15:04 Danilov admitted in an interview with Report that the war in Ukraine could be completed by winter. At the same time, according to him, hostilities will continue until all the occupied territories are liberated, and there may be several counteroffensives.
15:01 The Russians again fired at Kherson and the settlements of the region. In the Kakhovka district, as a result of an aimed hit by an enemy shell in a private house, two people were killed, another one was wounded. Another person was wounded as a result of the shelling of the Daryev community, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
14:58 Borrell said that the European Union should focus its efforts not only on measures to immediately support Ukraine on the battlefield, but also on the development of an assistance program that will be designed for the long term and testify that Russia's hopes for EU "fatigue" are in vain.
14:30 The EU proposes to officially stop the transportation of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline to Germany and Poland, writes Bloomberg. These countries have already stopped receiving oil from there, but the EU wants to formalize this. Exceptions remain for Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
14:09 In Mariupol, the residents of the city killed by the invaders are still being buried. Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko showed the sector of the Starokrymsky Mariupol cemetery with new graves.
14:04 The Russians fired at a farm in the village of Cherneshchina, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region, one person died, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
13:55 The last child in the village was evacuated from Khromovo, Bakhmut community, along with their parents, the police of Donetsk region reported. Due to shelling and the proximity of the front, it was impossible to reach the family for a long time. The house was destroyed by a Russian shell, they lived in the basement.
13:48 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on May 11, Ukrainian troops in the Soledar direction carried out offensive operations along the entire line of contact (more than 95 km), allegedly there were no breakthroughs in the defense of Russian troops.
13:14 The Ministry of Defense reported that for more than two months, the air defense system of Kiev has been shooting down absolutely all enemy missiles and drones. In total, since February 24, 2022, 740 air raid alerts have been triggered in the capital, which lasted a total of 851 hours and 38 minutes.
12:47 Zelensky said that he had held a meeting of the Headquarters: "We listened to the report of General Syrsky, whose units stopped the enemy with super efforts and even threw him back in some directions." In addition, according to the president, there were "important reports" by Zaluzhny, Reznikov, the General Staff and the Minister of Strategic Industry Kamyshin. "We checked all our long-term contracts for the supply of ammunition and missiles," he added.
12:23 The Ministry of Defense will order BM Oplot tanks from Ukroboronprom for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Reznikov said. The minister said that he had already tested the latest Ukrainian tank at a training ground in the Kharkiv region. "I am convinced that the Ukrainian tank should be in the forefront in the tank coalition," he stressed.
11:56 The Polish prosecutor's office seized almost $1.2 million from the bank accounts of the Russian embassy and the Rzeczpospolita trade mission. Poland explained the blocking of accounts by an attempt to withdraw a large amount from the account of the Russian diplomatic mission in one of the Polish banks immediately after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that as a response, access to the accounts of the Polish Embassy in Russia was blocked.
11:49 Hungary wants to remove three of the 72 people from the new sanctions list against Russia, Radio Liberty correspondent Rikard Jozwiak said. The top three, in particular, includes the head of the Belarusian Railways Vladimir Morozov.
11:42 The Russian military is training to evacuate from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in case of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, Pavel Kotin, the head of Energoatom, told Radio Liberty: "They even conducted training there on very quick gathering and loading of all this property that they looted, and leaving the station at the first call , at the first command, when required."
At the same time, according to him, the number of Russian military personnel at the ZNPP has recently increased, and in fact the station has become a reference point. They store a lot of weapons, equipment and cars that were taken from civilians.
11:28 British intelligence believes that Russia sees Caliber-type cruise missiles as a key potential to disrupt the expected counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but their stocks are probably limited. How to use these scarce and costly weapons is one of the many dilemmas facing Russian commanders as the war in Ukraine drags on for much longer than they originally planned, analysts say.
11:04 The Polish Senate (upper house of parliament) unanimously adopted a resolution on Ukraine's membership in NATO. Parliamentarians insist that the decision should be made under an emergency procedure, as in the case of Finland. The document states that Ukraine today has the strongest army on the continent with extraordinary combat experience. The resolution also noted that during the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Ukraine should receive "much more than in previous statements on the open door policy."
10:51 Zelensky's press secretary, Sergei Nikiforov, denied The Times' information about the alleged refusal of the Ukrainian president to perform at Eurovision. According to him, the Office of the President of Ukraine did not approach the organizers of the competition with such a proposal at all.
10:34 Sweden, which currently chairs the Council of the European Union, will seek to classify PMC Wagner as a terrorist organization at the level of the entire EU, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said. He clarified that the legal prerequisites must first be secured. In particular, in order for a group to be subject to EU sanctions for terrorism, a court or prosecutor must decide to initiate a preliminary investigation or criminal prosecution. Only after that the issue can be discussed in the EU Foreign Affairs Council.
10:24 Chinese Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui will visit Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany and Russia on May 15 to discuss a solution to the "Ukrainian crisis," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
10:21 Reuters reports, citing diplomatic sources, that Zelensky will meet with the Pope and Italian Prime Minister George Meloni on May 13 in the Vatican, and then go to Germany.
10:18 American Abrams tanks arrived in Germany, on which the Ukrainian military will learn. The equipment arrived a few weeks earlier than indicated during the last meeting in the Ramstein format, according to Sky News. The training of Ukrainian tankers will begin in two to three weeks and will last about ten weeks.
09:54 Russian aviation on the evening of May 11 attacked the border area of the Chernihiv region, probably controlled by a FAB-500 bomb from a Su-35 aircraft. In Arkhipovka, two people were injured as a result of the strike, and a fire destroyed three private houses, OK Pivnich reported.
09:27 The European Union supported the tightening of energy sanctions against Russia, Politico writes, citing its sources. Representatives of the 27 participating countries met on Thursday 11 May to discuss the technical aspects of the 11th package of sanctions. The preliminary version of the proposals of the European Commission on the sanctions package prohibits ships secretly transporting Russian oil from entering the bloc's ports. This is aimed at the so-called shadow fleet of aging tankers that carry Russian oil.
08:48 During the week, Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut did not lose a single position, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. In addition, the enemy suffered heavy losses, and the Defense Forces advanced 2 km forward in the Bakhmut direction.
Meanwhile, in Russian Telegram channels and media, the enemy praises himself, talks about alleged success and invents stories about the Ukrainian military command. And at the same time, it gives false information about the alleged lack of weapons, which is probably intended to justify the real situation, Maliar noted. According to her, the analysis of Russian messages shows that for the enemy Bakhmut has "a super-important meaning, almost sacred."
08:42 According to experts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the deployment of low-skilled Russian forces on the flanks around Bakhmut indicates that the Russian Defense Ministry has abandoned the goal of encircling a significant number of Ukrainian forces there. Analysts believe that the division of the forces of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, combined with changes on the battlefield, also indicates that the danger of a Russian encirclement of significant Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut is likely over.
08:31 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person died (in Slavyansk), 12 more were injured. In the Kherson region, one person died, four were injured. Four people were injured in the Kharkiv region, including a 16-year-old child, according to the IVA.
04:20 Eurovision organizers denied Zelensky a speech with a video message in the final of the contest, which will be held on May 13, writes The Times. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) explained that the Eurovision Song Contest "is an international entertainment show and is subject to strict rules and principles", and one of the cornerstones of the competition is the "non-political nature" of the event.
08:18 Ukraine will receive 31 Abrams tanks from the United States in early autumn, at the same time the corresponding training programs for the Ukrainian military should be completed, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said. He added that at the end of April, NATO countries and members of the Ramstein Group delivered more than 230 tanks, 1,550 armored vehicles and other equipment and ammunition to Ukraine to support more than nine new armored brigades.
08:14 Ukrainian forces have begun to "form" counter-offensive operations, CNN reports, citing senior Western military officials. "Formation" involves strikes against armories, command centers, armored and artillery systems. This should prepare the battlefield for the offensive.
07:53 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 12.
- personnel - about 197,670 (+750) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3745 (+5),
- armored combat vehicles - 7295 (+8),
- artillery systems - 3068 (+15),
- MLRS - 559 (+2),
- air defense systems - 312 (+2),
- aircraft - 308 (+0),
- helicopters - 294 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2636 (+9),
- cruise missiles - 970 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5996 (+12),
- special equipment - 393 (+2).
07:49 The Russian army continues to concentrate its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - 44 enemy attacks are reflected. The most fierce battles are going on for Bakhmut and Marinka, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
03:01 Washington welcomes London's decision to supply long-range missiles to Kiev, because "it meets the needs of Ukraine," Blinken said. The Secretary of State also added that the United States is ready to help Ukraine replenish the weapons it lacks for the counteroffensive, if such a request is made.
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