Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 14. März 2022 (Updates)

Zum russischen Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine ein (zunächst) nur sparsamer Überblick – der Sammler am 14. März 2022:

• Das Morgenbriefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums (im englischsprachigen Original via Facebook):

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
▪️Units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continuing the offensive, reached the border of Vodyanoe, Sladkoe, Stepnoe, Taramchuk and Slavnoye. The advance per day was 11 kilometers.
▪️The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic, having previously blocked Severodonetsk from the eastern and southern directions, is fighting against nationalists on the northeastern outskirts of the city.
▪️💥During the night of March 14, 4 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including иBayraktar TB-2, were shot down by aviation and air defence of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
✈️💥Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aviation hit 46 military infrastructure assets of Ukraine, including: 2 command posts, 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, 1 guidance and target designation radar station, 2 MLRS, 2 electronic warfare stations, 2 ammunition and fuel depots, 31 areas of military equipment concentration.
💥In total, during the operation, 3,920 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine were disabled.
💥Destroyed: 143 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,267 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 124 multiple launch rocket systems, 457 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,028 units of special military vehicles.

• Die Informationen vom ukrainischen Generalstab (in dieser Form gemischt ukrainisch/englisch veröffentlicht):

🇺🇦 Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02 по 14.03 орієнтовно склали / 🇬🇧 The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 14.03 were approximately:
особового складу / personnel – понад/ more 12 000 осіб,
танків / tanks ‒ 389 од,
бойових броньованих машин / APV ‒ 1249 од,
артилерійських систем / artillery systems – 150 од,
РСЗВ / MLRS – 64 од,
засоби ППО / Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 34 од,
літаків / aircraft – 77 од,
гелікоптерів / helicopters – 90 од,
автомобільної техніки / vehicles – 617 од,
кораблі /катери / boats / cutters – 3 од,
цистерн з ПММ / fuel tanks – 60,
БПЛА оперативно-тактичного рівня / UAV operational-tactical level – 8.
Дані уточнюються. Підрахунок ускладнюється високою інтенсивністю бойових дій. / Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.

• Das russische Verteidigungsministerium warf am Nachmittag der Ukraine vor, Wohngebäude in Donezk in der Separatistenregion gezielt mit Streumunition beschossen zu haben:

❗Statement by Russian Defence Ministry
▪ On March 14, at about 11.30 a.m. Moscow time, Tochka-U tactical missile was fired at a residential block of Donetsk city from the territory controlled by the Kiev nationalist regime.
▪ The shelling of the city was carried out from the north-western direction, from the area of Krasnoarmeysk settlement, which is controlled by Ukrainian nationalist units.
▪ As a result of the explosion of a cluster warhead in the center of Donetsk, 20 civilians were killed. Another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured and taken to medical institutions.
▪ The use of such weapons on a town with no armed forces firing positions, i.e. deliberately targeting civilians, is a war crime.
▪ The armament of Tochka-U missile‘ warhead with cluster ammunition proves that the purpose of the nationalists‘ strike on the city was to kill as many civilians as possible.
❗I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the decision to use this type of missile weapons is made, at least, by the command of the Ukrainian grouping of troops, after approval by the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kiev.
▪ All this once again confirms the Nazi and anti-human nature of the ruling regime in Ukraine today.

Zwar deuten zahlreiche Berichte in sozialen Medien darauf hin, dass tatsächlich ein solcher Beschuss stattgefunden hat. Wer dafür verantwortlich ist, lässt sich bislang nicht unabhängig überprüfen.

• Ein Lageüberblick, den ich bislang – leider – noch gar nicht wahrgenommen hatte: das französische Verteidigungsministerium veröffentlicht eine tägliche Lagekarte zur militärischen Situation in der Ukraine:

Die Lagekarten gibt es hier; das Archiv der bisherigen vom 2. bis 14. März als Sicherungskopie:
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• Das tägliche Briefing im Pentagon, die wesentlichen Punkte von Dan Lamothe von der Washington Post. Eine interessante Aussage zum Angriff mit Marschflugkörpern auf das Trainingszentrum im Westen der Ukraine am Vortag: Diese Waffen wurden von russischen Flugzeugen außerhalb des ukrainischen Luftraums gestartet  – auch eine Flugverbotszone hätte daran nichts geändert:

A background briefing at the Pentagon about the Russian war on Ukraine just finished. It’s Day 19 of the war.
Basic takeaways:
I’ll start with the strikes Sunday on the Ukrainian military training center at Yavoriv, near the border with Poland.
A senior U.S. defense official says they were carried out by cruise missiles launched from long-range Russian bombers from Russian airspace.
Note: That’s different than speculation and some reporting yesterday that they were carried out by sea-launched missiles from Russian ships. Those are still quite rare in this war.
“More than a couple dozen” Russian cruise missiles were launched at the training center from aircraft, the senior U.S. defense official says.
He notes that a no-fly zone patrolling Ukrainian airspace would not have stopped this strike.
The Pentagon cannot verify the number of killed and wounded at the training center. The senior U.S. defense official repeats U.S. statements yesterday that no U.S. troops, U.S. contractors, or U.S. civilians in a government capacity were there.
The Pentagon is not clear on whether any Americans there as volunteers for the Ukrainian effort were there. It’s not something they are tracking, the senior U.S. defense official says.
Russian ground advances remain largely stalled, the senior U.S. defense official says. No “appreciable” change on advances on Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, etc.
Pentagon still sees no indications of the Russians sending in military reinforcements from elsewhere in Russia, the senior U.S. defense official said.
„Siege mentality“ by Russia still playing out, the senior U.S. defense official says. Heavy bombardment of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, etc.
Mariupol and Chernihiv remain under attack and isolated.
Senior U.S. defense official on Russia: „Clearly, they are increasing the amount of long-range fires they are applying to these cities, these population centers that are holding out … They are obviously continuing the bombardment and increasing that, no doubt about it.”

• Russland sieht sich weiterhin im Gegensatz fast zum Rest der Welt – und wendet sich auch gegen internationale Organisationen wie die Vereinten Nationen und das Internationale Komitee vom Roten Kreuz. Aus einer Mitteilung der russischen gemeinsamen Koordinierungsstelle für humanitäre Hilfe in der Ukraine (im auf Englisch veröffentlichten Original):

Western countries, the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as a number of other international organizations, in the catastrophic humanitarian situation that has developed for Ukraine, still remain on the sidelines and do not give a principled assessment of outright neo-Nazism, which has already befuddled the Kiev authorities and reigns in the territories controlled by Ukrainian nationalists.

Die komplette Mitteilung angesichts der Länge hier:
20220314_RUS_Humanitarian Response_Ukraine

(Weiter nach Entwicklung)