After the rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities, the air alert over Kyiv was sounded again on Tuesday. At least 14 people died in Monday’s attacks. The attack had probably been planned in the Kremlin for some time. You can find all the latest news about the war in Ukraine in the ticker.
Wednesday, October 12, 7:03 a.m .: According to Ukraine, Russian troops fired a total of 28 rockets at the country during attacks on Tuesday. “As of this morning, 28 enemy missiles have been launched, 20 of which have been intercepted,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address on Tuesday evening. He also spoke of 15 drones, “mainly Iranian attack drones”. Almost all of them were shot down, said Zelenskyj.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff reported airstrikes, Russian cruise missiles and multiple rocket launchers. There have been attacks on more than two dozen towns and villages across the country.
The government in Kyiv had previously reported seven dead after an attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia on Tuesday evening. Seven other people were injured in the attacks on the cities of Orikhiv and Stepnohirsk, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russia fired a total of 83 rockets in a series of massive rocket attacks on Monday, 41 of which were reportedly intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. For the first time in months, rockets also fell in Kyiv and in Lviv in western Ukraine. At least 19 people died in the attacks and 105 were injured. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of retaliatory attacks after an explosion on the Crimean bridge on Saturday.
11.47 a.m .: Yesterday, Monday, Belarus announced that it would set up a joint force with Russia. In Ukraine, this has fueled concerns that ruler Lukashenko could enter the war against Ukraine. According to the experts from the “Institute for the Study of War” this will not be the case – at least not directly.
Instead, the army stationed in Belarus is supposed to ensure that Ukrainian troops are tied up in Kyiv and cannot be used in other theaters of war.
The “ISW” experts suspect that mainly inexperienced Russian recruits are transferred to Belarus. These could then be trained there and actively intervene in the war at a later point in time. The experts are certain that Lukashenko cannot afford to officially enter the war because of the consequences for his country.
11:30 a.m .: Russia again fired rockets and combat drones at several regions of the country during its war of aggression against Ukraine on Tuesday. The authorities in Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine reported attacks with Russian rockets. In the vicinity of the capital Kyiv and in the Khmelnytskyi region there were explosions and air defense was deployed, officials said. The authorities called on people to seek shelter in basements and bunkers. The areas of Dnipropetrovsk, Vynytsia, Mykolaiv and Rivne were also shelled.
In the Vynytsia region southwest of Kyiv, a thermal power station was attacked with combat drones. Plants were destroyed in the process. Fortunately, there were no casualties, the power plant’s press office said.
There was also an air alert in Kyiv. The people sought protection there, as a reporter from the German Press Agency reported. Russian military bloggers close to the Kremlin confirmed the massive rocket fire in Ukraine. Ukrainian media reported that 20 rockets landed on Tuesday morning.
On Monday, Ukrainian authorities counted more than 80 Russian attacks. Many were averted by the air defenses. According to preliminary information, 19 people died in the shelling across the country and more than 100 were injured.
9:51 a.m .: According to the US government, the heavy Russian rocket attacks on major cities in Ukraine on Monday were probably prepared a long time ago. “They probably planned it a long time ago,” National Security Council communications director John Kirby told CNN on Monday (local time). However, it is possible that the Crimean bridge explosion may have accelerated some planning, he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had described the massive rocket attacks on Ukraine as a reaction to Ukrainian “terrorist attacks” and counted the explosion on the Crimean bridge, which is strategic for Russia, on Saturday. Kirby’s statements now seem to contradict this account.
Kirby reiterated that Washington has no evidence that Russia is activating nuclear weapons or that the US needs to change its nuclear stance. The US would likely announce new support for Ukraine in the “very near future,” he said.
9.10 a.m .: After the massive Russian attacks with rockets in many parts of Ukraine, the death toll has risen to 19, according to the authorities. More than 100 people were injured as a result of the attacks, the Ukrainian civil protection authorities said on Tuesday in Kyiv. There had previously been talk of 14 deaths. These are preliminary figures, it said.
In addition to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, twelve areas in the country were affected by the Russian rocket attacks on Monday. About 300 villages are still without electricity, according to a balance sheet in the morning. In more than 3,500 towns, the supply has already been restored, it said.
Hundreds of emergency services are therefore nationwide in the process of eliminating the consequences of the Russian attacks. Russia fired dozens of rockets at Ukraine on Monday, including at civilian infrastructure and especially at energy facilities.
7:04 a.m .: The air alarm was triggered again in Kyiv on Tuesday morning. This is reported by local journalists. There are no further details yet.
03:11: Russian rocket attacks on Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities on Monday killed at least 14 people and injured 97 others, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The attacks also disrupted power supplies in Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions, the agency said. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia has launched more than 84 missile and air strikes. Ukraine claimed it intercepted 56 of the missiles and drones. According to the military, about 20 Ukrainian residential areas were hit.
Tuesday, October 11, 1:10 a.m.: After a Russian rocket attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, according to local military chief Oleksandr Wilkul, 98 miners are still trapped underground because of a power failure. The miners should be freed on Tuesday night, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, Wilkul announced on Monday evening via his Telegram channel. According to Wilkul, more than 850 miners were initially trapped in four mines. The information could not be independently verified.
Russia fired more than 80 rockets at Ukrainian cities on Monday. In addition to the capital Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Kryvyi Rih in the east as well as Lviv, Chemelnytskyi and Schyytomyr in the west or Mykolaiv in the south of the country were also affected.
11:28 p.m.: Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine will continue to liberate areas across Ukraine despite a wave of Russian missile attacks on Monday. “Whatever he [Putin] does, we will continue to liberate our territory,” Kuleba told CNN. “Putin can escalate it, he can do whatever he wants. But we will keep fighting and we will win,” he added.
Kuleba said the “vast majority” of the targets of the Russian attack were energy installations, adding that he was “not aware of any major military installations that were attacked. It was just power plants and civilian houses, apartment buildings.” He said he believed the attack was an act of revenge by Russian President Vladimir Putin following recent battlefield defeats. “When his army couldn’t defeat the Ukrainian army, he decided to terrorize civilians in revenge,” Kuleba said.
3.30 p.m .: After the heavy Russian air raids, the Ukrainian leadership called on the population to switch off electrical devices in the evening so as not to overload the power grid. “Because of today’s shelling, we urge everyone to limit energy consumption between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. if possible,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday. This is the only way to survive the peak load period without further shutdowns.
The representative of the Ukrainian President in Parliament, Andriy Herus, warned of one of “the most difficult evenings” for the Ukrainian energy supply. In some regions there will be no electricity at all, in others the electricity will be switched off for a certain period of time. The load on the network is greatest in the evening hours. The more electricity citizens save themselves, the more likely it is that a large-scale shutdown can be avoided, explained Herus. He listed electric heaters, boilers, electric stoves, microwave ovens and washing machines as the biggest power guzzlers.
Russian missile strikes primarily hit objects of energy infrastructure in Ukraine. In Kyiv, among other things, the thermal power station was shot at, and targeted shelling of power stations and substations was also reported from other regions.
12:22 p.m .: Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has described Moscow’s rocket attacks against numerous Ukrainian cities as a reaction to the “terrorist attacks” against Russian territory. At the same time, at a Security Council meeting on Monday, Russian President Kyiv threatened an even tougher “response” if the “Ukrainian attacks” continued.
11.18 a.m .: After the heavy attacks on Kyiv, the G7 states called an urgent meeting under Germany’s presidency. This was announced by Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy on Monday morning. Accordingly, he telephoned Chancellor Scholz and agreed on the meeting. His speech is already “timed”.
11.12 a.m .: The visa section of the German consulate was also hit during the heavy Russian rocket attacks on Kyiv. The ex-chairman of the Heinrich Böll Foundation on site, Sergej Sumlenny, shared photos on Twitter.
Tagging Foreign Minister Baerbock and Chancellor Scholz, he wrote: “Would you like to send some Leopard tanks to check on the situation on the ground?”
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