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In the case of a suspect Missile attack on Sevastopol Bay in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to the regional administration established by Moscow at least 24 people were injured been. A “non-civilian facility” in the port city of Sevastopol went up in flames as a result of the attack, Governor Mikhail Razvoshayev said via Telegram, as Russia’s state news agency Tass reported early Wednesday morning. According to the report, repeated about ten explosions throughout the city, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based. Razvoshayev blamed the Ukrainian army for the attack. His information could not initially be independently verified. Crimea’s Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, in violation of international law. (sda/dpa)

The Ukrainian army According to its own statements, the country is making further progress in two long-contested sectors of the front. On the spot Klishchiyivka, south of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, is “partial success” the general staff announced on Tuesday.

The Russian army captured Bakhmut in the Donetsk region in May after months of costly fighting. However, Ukraine is now attacking north and south of the city and putting pressure on the occupiers on the flanks.

The Kiev General Staff reported further partial successes from the Robotyne area of ​​the Zaporizhia region in the south. The Ukrainian army has been slowly pushing its way through the heavily undermined Russian defense lines there for weeks. The military information is often not directly verifiable; However, in this case they roughly correspond to the situational picture that experts can recognize with the help of photos and videos.

The Ukrainian army reported Russian troops from all sectors of the front Artillery shelling and air strikes. Ukraine has been resisting a Russian invasion for more than a year and a half. (sda/dpa)

a A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet crashed during a training flight in the Volgograd region on the Volga on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow said the plane was carrying no weapons. “The plane crashed over an uninhabited area.” No information was given about the fate of the two pilots. Developed during the Soviet era, the Su-24 is used to combat ground targets. Both sides use this type of aircraft in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. (sda/dpa)

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has again from Russia demanded the immediate release of three of their Ukrainian employees. The three men have been in captivity for more than 500 days, OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid said in Vienna on Tuesday. OSCE representatives should never be arrested while carrying out their duties, North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who holds this year’s OSCE chairmanship, stressed. “These detentions are inhumane and violate their rights,” he added.

The three men were arrested in April 2022 in Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Two of them were each sentenced to 13 years in prison in the Russian-controlled separatist stronghold of Luhansk in September 2022 for alleged espionage.

In February last year, the OSCE decided to withdraw its international unarmed observers in Ukraine in view of the Russian invasion. The main task of the observers was to monitor the ceasefire between state forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The mission’s mandate expired in March 2022. However, the OSCE operation continued for several months with the help of Ukrainian workers also stationed in Russian-controlled areas. (sda/dpa)

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According to official information, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia for a meeting with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. “I confirm this,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian agency Interfax on Tuesday. Where exactly the meeting would take place initially remained secret.

Kim reportedly traveled the vastness of the Russian Far East in his private train, which can only travel at 50 miles per hour due to heavy armor. There was speculation that Putin and Kim would visit the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region together. When journalists asked, Putin simply said: “When I go there, you will know.”

#Break Kim Jong-Un arrives at his destination #Russiaprior to the meeting with Putin pic.twitter.com/RM8wCdNxYu

— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) September 12, 2023

More than a year and a half after the start of the war of aggression he ordered, Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again denied Ukraine any success in his counter-offensive.

“Ukraine is carrying out a so-called counter-offensive. Of course there are no results »Putin said on Tuesday at the economic forum in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok.

In fact, the Ukrainian army had only recently liberated the village of Robotyne in the south and subsequently reported further, smaller territorial gains.

At the same time, Putin stated that Russia would continue its military operations as long as the Ukrainian counteroffensive continued. Moscow’s condition for possible negotiations is the recognition of several territories annexed as Russian in violation of international law. The attacked Ukraine, for which this is completely unacceptable, wants to liberate all occupied territories with Western help – including the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014. (sda/dpa)

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Russia has reported an alleged drone attack on the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Enerhodar near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

Two drones were intercepted on Monday, four others carried out their attacks but caused no damage, the head of Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, said on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency. A park and an area where an office of the Kremlin United Russia party is located were hit.

The information could not initially be independently verified. There was initially no official response from Ukraine. Russia has occupied parts of the Zaporizhia region and the nuclear power plant located there as part of its war of aggression that has been going on for more than a year and a half.

Likhachev portrayed the drone strikes as a response to the sham elections that the Russian occupiers held last weekend in the part of Zaporizhia they controlled. The results, which ultimately presented the Kremlin’s party as the clear winner, are not internationally recognized. (sda/dpa)

According to British information, Russia has adjusted its air defenses around Moscow to protect against Ukrainian drone attacks. “Russian SA-22 air defense systems have been positioned on elevated towers and slopes around the capital since early September 2023,” the Ministry of Defense in London said in its daily intelligence update on Tuesday. The aim is to provide better defense against drone attacks, “which the city is currently exposed to on most days”.

Latest Defense Intelligence Agency update on the situation in Ukraine – September 12, 2023.

Read more about Defense Intelligence’s language: https://t.co/Mv8cRZoCV8

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— Ministry of Defense 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) September 12, 2023

Since December 2022 and the attacks on the Russian air bases Engels and Ryazan, Russia had also installed the Panzir anti-aircraft system (NATO code: SA-22) on the roofs of public buildings in Moscow. This is intended to enable the detection and defense of so-called kamikaze drones. But it was likely a high-profile measure to reassure the public and demonstrate that authorities have the threat under control, it was said in London.

The British Ministry of Defense publishes daily information about the progress of the war since the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow accuses London of disinformation. (sda/dpa)

After meeting with Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj expressed confidence in further German military assistance. “It is important that partners listen to the needs of our state and our soldiers, as well as the protection of our energy infrastructure,” Zelensky said in his evening video address on Monday. “I am confident that there will be results.”

Baerbock also met with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba during her fourth visit to Ukraine since Russia’s war of aggression began more than a year and a half ago. She emphasized this further support from Germany.

At the same time, however, it made the attacked country no hope for a quick decision to deliver the Taurus cruise missiles desired by Kiev. First, “all questions must be clarified,” she stressed. Kuleba responded with disappointment: “There is no objective argument against it,” he said. (sda/dpa)