October 11, 2024
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:48 Zelenskyj denies talks with allies about ceasefire +++
Ukrainian President Zelensky has denied discussing a possible ceasefire with Russia during his current tour of Western European capitals with allies. “I saw in some media that I came here to talk about a ceasefire. That’s wrong,” he said after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. This is “false information” controlled by Russia. Zelensky reiterates his appeal to Western allies to continue supporting Ukraine. “We need your help before winter,” he says.
+++ 23:53 Italy wants to host a reconstruction conference for Ukraine in July 2025 +++
Italy wants to host a reconstruction conference for Ukraine in July 2025. The conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine will take place on July 10th and 11th, 2025, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to journalists in Rome after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Ukraine is not alone, and we will stand by it as long as it is needed,” she says.
+++ 22:21 Foreigners will soon be allowed to hold officer positions in the Ukrainian army +++
Foreign citizens will soon be able to take up officer positions within the Ukrainian armed forces. The Ukrainian parliament votes for a corresponding change in the law. So far, foreign volunteers can only serve as simple soldiers or sergeants. “The main idea is to enable the recruitment of foreigners not only as soldiers and sergeants, but also as officers,” writes deputy Oleksii Honcharenko on Telegram.
+++ 21:44 Attack on Patriot system: Kiev denies serious damage +++
The Russian army fired on launchers of the US Patriot air defense system in Ukraine, but according to Ukrainian information it did not cause any serious damage. The attack only “damaged some parts of the equipment,” but “did not destroy it,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. The affected Patriot unit is still in action. A Ukrainian military blogger also reported that the damage was not significant. Referring to the Ukrainian Air Force, the blogger on Telegram also reported that the Russian attack hit a Patriot unit in the city of Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region. (See entry from 2:54 p.m.)
+++ 21:02 War blogger reports crash of Russian training plane +++
A Russian military training plane is said to have crashed in the Volgograd region. As the well-known Russian war blogger Ilya Tumanov reported on his Telegram channel, the incident occurred in the Volgograd region during a training flight. Accordingly, the crew of the Yak-130 was able to leave the plane in time and is now in a clinic. The reason for the crash was a technical problem.
+++ 20:23 Shortly before exchange: Ukrainian journalist dies in Russian custody +++
The Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roschtschyna died in Russian captivity. This was confirmed by the head of the coordination staff for prisoner issues, Petro Yatsenko, on Ukrainian news television. The circumstances of the death are not yet known. The journalist was about to be replaced. “Moving her from Taganrog to Moscow was a stage in the preparation for her release,” Yatsenko said. According to media reports, the prisoner had been on a long hunger strike.
+++ 19:38 Shooting in Moscow: Kadyrov threatens Russian politicians with blood revenge +++
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is threatening three Russian politicians from the North Caucasus with blood revenge. In a speech to officers of the security apparatus in Grozny, he accused the three of ordering his murder. Kadyrov published the video of the speech on Telegram. The background is a business conflict over Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries. This degenerated into a shooting in Moscow in September in which two people died. Kadyrov’s threats are directed against two politicians from the neighboring republic of Dagestan: Sulejman Kerimov, a senator in the Russian Federation Council, and Riswan Kurbanov, a deputy in the State Duma in Moscow. The Chechen leader names Duma deputy Bekchan Barachoyev from the neighboring republic of Ingushetia as the third party.
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