In the course of the night there were again Russian attacks on Ukraine and there were air raid alarms in almost the entire country. According to official information, a residential building in the southeastern city of Kryvyi Rih was hit, among other things. There are dead and wounded to mourn. According to political scientist Gerhard Mangott, there is currently no end to the war in sight. He expects it to take many months, maybe longer.
“There are dead and wounded,” the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, wrote on Telegram on Tuesday morning.
A five-story building was destroyed (see photo below). According to preliminary information, three people died and 25 were injured. 19 of them should have been hospitalized, Lyssak continued. There are still people under the rubble.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia continues its war against apartment buildings, ordinary cities and people. He promised that the opposing side would have to answer for every missile.
According to the local authorities, the Russians had also fired cruise missiles again, including at the capital Kiev. There, however, the own air defense shot down all enemy flying objects. There were reports of drone strikes from the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Arms deliveries from North Korea
The US, meanwhile, has expressed concern over possible arms sales from North Korea to Russia. Despite statements to the contrary from the Pyongyang government, North Korea delivered a shipment of weapons, including infantry missiles and rockets, to the Wagner mercenaries in November 2022, a US State Department spokesman said. In March, the United States said Russia was trying to get additional weapons from North Korea in exchange for food aid.
negotiations cannot be foreseen
According to the political scientist Gerhard Mangott, the conflict can probably only be resolved when both sides are militarily exhausted and military successes are no longer to be expected. The expert considers a negotiated solution to the Russian presidential election on March 17 next year “not likely”. Also because President Vladimir Putin does not want to go into the elections with a possible defeat in the war.
Mangott predicted the latter was “at least many months” away, maybe even longer. Russia insists on recognizing territorial gains achieved militarily. Ukraine cannot accept this and a majority of the local population sees it that way. Ukraine, on the other hand, only wants to negotiate with a possible successor to Putin and after the Russian army has withdrawn from all over Ukraine, including the Crimea peninsula. However, that would mean a crushing defeat for Russia.
However, the elites no longer support the Russian president, as they have for decades. “He can no longer afford to sit back,” the Innsbruck political scientist concluded, referring to conflicts between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Scholz: Putin underestimated the unity of Europeans
The Europeans, however, show unity in the war. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Putin underestimated this when he decided to invade Ukraine. “Germany, France and Poland are close to Ukraine,” Scholz said Monday evening in Paris during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish head of state Andrzej Duda. Macron added that the Ukrainian counter-offensive could last “several weeks or months”.
Putin “criminally underestimated this force when he decided to carry out the fatal attack”. It is time for the Russian president to recognize this and end the war “with hundreds of thousands dead,” the French president said.
Source: Krone
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