07/16/2022
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 03:38 Habeck expects further relief +++
Economics Minister Robert Habeck is assuming further relief for medium and low incomes in the gas crisis. “Even high earners swallow when they suddenly have to pay 4,500 euros a year for heating instead of 1,500,” he tells the editorial network Germany. For people with medium or low incomes, these sums are simply not representable. The government must organize relief here, also in 2023. “I am sure that the Ministry of Finance will make provisions for this.”
+++ 01:36 Zelenskyj: Russia’s society “crippled” for generations +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj also sees Russian society as damaged by the war against his country for decades. Ukraine will preserve “humanity and civilization,” he says in a nightly video speech. “But Russian society, with so many murderers and executioners, will remain crippled for generations – through their own fault.” In view of new attacks on several regions in the evening, almost five months after the start of the war, Selenskyj once again appealed to his compatriots not to ignore air raid alarms. Meanwhile, sirens wailed across the country.
+++ 00:24 Kyiv: three dead in rocket attack on Dnipro +++
At least three people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, according to Ukrainian sources. The responsible governor, Valentin Resnichenko, says that 15 people were injured. The rockets would have hit an industrial plant and a busy street next to it. It is currently being examined how severe the degree of destruction of the infrastructure is.
+++ 23:06 Kyiv: More than 30 Russian logistics centers destroyed +++
Ukraine says it has destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centers in recent weeks. This has significantly weakened the attack potential of the Russian armed forces, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said on television. He tells the Reuters news agency that the targets were destroyed by multiple rocket launcher systems. It is not possible to check the information.
+++ 10:08 p.m. air raid alarm throughout Ukraine – impacts in Dnipro +++
One day after the devastating rocket attack in the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, an air alert has been sounded across Ukraine. Videos and photos are circulating on social networks showing flying rockets and clouds of smoke in the southeastern city of Dnipro. The governor of the central Ukrainian region of Poltava, Dmytro Lunin, also confirmed explosions in Kremenchuk. According to the Odessa military governor, Maxym Marchenko, another rocket was shot down over southern Ukraine. Details of possible victims and destruction are not yet known.
+++ 21:41 USA contradict Russian version of attack on Vinnytsia +++
The United States rejects the Russian claim that the rocket attack in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia hit a military target. “I have no indication that a military target was anywhere near there,” said a senior US Defense Department official. Rather, the hit object looks “like a building with apartments”. The Russian missiles hit downtown Vinnytsia, hundreds of kilometers from the frontline, on Thursday. According to Ukrainian sources, at least 23 people were killed, including three children.
+++ 20:50 occupiers in southern Ukraine threaten critics with deportation +++
In occupied parts of Ukraine, administrations set up by Russia are threatening residents with evictions to Ukrainian-controlled territory if they express criticism of the new leadership. This is intended to “maintain order” and counteract “threats to socio-political stability,” according to decrees published in the Zaporizhia and Cherson regions. A deportation is threatened, among other things, in the case of “denigration” of the government organs and the foreign policy of Russia as well as the Russian army and the occupation organs. Unauthorized demonstrations or the disruption of school operations or referendums are also to be punished in this way.
+++ 8:12 p.m. court sends Kremlin opponent Piwovarov to a prison camp +++
In Russia, a court has sentenced opposition politician Andrei Pivovarov to four years in a prison camp. The judges find the 40-year-old guilty of leading an “undesirable organization”. Pivovarov and other government critics, on the other hand, criticize the procedure as politically motivated. Pivovarov headed the Kremlin-critical organization “Open Russia” until spring 2021 – but then it was declared an “undesirable organization” and thus effectively banned.
You can read earlier developments of the Ukraine war here.