07/15/2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 04:25 Russia reports repelled drone attack over Sevastopol +++
Russia’s air defense forces and the Russian Black Sea Fleet said they repelled Ukrainian drone attacks in Sevastopol in Crimea early in the morning. As Mikhail Rasvozhayev, the governor of Sevastopol installed by Moscow, writes on Telegram, the attacks happened over the port of Sevastopol and the districts of Balaklava and Chersonese. There was no immediate indication of the extent of the attack or any.
+++ 03:19 Ukraine and Poland confirm Wagner’s arrival in Belarus +++
Wagner Group fighters have arrived in Belarus, according to Ukrainian and Polish authorities. “Wagner is in Belarus,” Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s border authorities, told Telegram. “It could be that there are several hundred of them at the moment,” deputy coordinator of the Polish special services Stanislaw Zaryn tweeted about the arrival of the Wagner fighters in Belarus. At the beginning of July, Poland announced that it wanted to strengthen its border with Belarus because of possible threats.
+++ 02:41 Klitschko: With support “please don’t get weak” +++
Former world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has appealed to the Germans not to let up in their support for Ukraine, even if Russia’s war of aggression continues for a long time. “We don’t know how long it will take. Please support us, please don’t become weak,” Klitschko said in a joint interview with Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for the “Bild” newspaper, the “Welt” and “Politico”.
+++ 01:02 Baerbock: I wish we could negotiate with Putin +++
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock sees no basis for negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine in the foreseeable future. “I wish we could negotiate. But at the moment it’s not (about) what you want, it’s about facing reality,” says the Green politician when asked whether you want to go along with it Putin could negotiate, in a joint interview with ex-boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko for “Bild”, “Welt” and “Politico”. The Foreign Minister points out that in the period before the war of aggression, attempts were made to prevent further escalation at the negotiating table. “The answer was that 100,000 soldiers marched in.”
+++ 23:51 Deputy Minister praises Ukrainian society +++
Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar praises Ukrainians for their role in information warfare. After the Russian invasion, Ukrainian society learned very quickly how to pass information during the war and learned “very well” to distinguish Russian information attacks, she writes in her Telegram channel. “We are the pioneers of a completely new quality of information warfare,” writes Maliar. “Nowhere in textbooks or training is it said how to prepare for it.”
+++ 21:00 UK: So far 18,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in “Operation Interflex” +++
In a year, Britain has trained 18,000 Ukrainian volunteer soldiers as part of the Operation Interflex training program. This is reported by the British Ministry of Defense on Twitter. Since the program launched by the British government on July 26 last year, Ukrainian soldiers have been trained to “survive and be effective in the fight against the illegal invasion of their homeland.”
+++ 19:45 report: Another Russian general dismissed +++
Telegram reports that after the dismissal of Major General Ivan Popov, another Russian general has been dismissed. This is reported by the US broadcaster Sky News. Accordingly, Major General Vladimir Seliverstov was deposed as commander of the 106th Airborne Division. As the leader of the group, he has been involved in the fighting for Bakhmut since the beginning of the year. However, it is unclear why the major general was fired. According to military analysts, the dismissals of the generals are a sign of division in the Russian armed forces after the failed mutiny of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner group.
+++ 18:38 newspaper: Russian attack in Zaporizhia injured 3 people +++
Russian troops have launched numerous rocket attacks on the town of Stepnohirsk in the Zaporizhia region, injuring three people. This is what the Ukrainian newspaper “Kyiv Independent” reports, citing the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak. Accordingly, the attack hit an administration building of the municipal council. Two women and one man were injured.
+++ 18:09 Selenskyj: Timing of the end of the war depends on global aid +++
According to President Zelensky, the end date of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine depends on the extent of international aid. “Now that the speed of the end of the war depends directly on global support for Ukraine, we are doing everything we can to ensure that this support is of maximum intensity and maximum substance,” he says.
+++ 17:14 newspaper: USA brake coalition for fighter jet training +++
Nearly a dozen European countries this week officially agreed to train Ukrainians to operate F-16s and possibly other fighter jets. However, the 11-country coalition led by Denmark and the Netherlands is still awaiting US approval, the Politico newspaper reports. The training program cannot begin without American approval. According to the newspaper, European officials want to start the program in Denmark in August – and a training center is also to be set up in Romania.
Read earlier developments here.