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The Kremlin denies that Putin wants to negotiate with the US. The crash of a Russian military plane represents a mystery. The news about the war in Ukraine.
- exchange of blows in new York: Dispute in the UN Security Council after plane crash
- After Military plane crash: Russia under Vladimir Putin requests meeting in New York
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the belligerent parties, Russia and Ukraine, and their allies. In particular, information about the losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update January 26, 2:15 p.m.: The Kremlin on Friday denied a Bloomberg report that Russian President Vladimir Putin was contacting the United States for talks on ending the war in Ukraine. It was also reported that Putin was considering dropping key demands on Ukraine's security status. This is what Portal writes.
Did Vladimir Putin try to negotiate with the US? © IMAGO/Grigory Sysoyev
The Bloomberg report said Putin was exploring whether Washington was willing to talk and had contacted the US through indirect channels. The report quotes two people close to the Kremlin who said that Putin “may be ready to abandon insistence on neutral status for Ukraine and even abandon opposition to possible NATO membership – the threat of which was a key Russian justification for the move.” . . Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was questioned by reporters about the report, particularly whether Moscow was really ready to give up its demands for neutrality and NATO. “No, this is a false report. “It doesn’t correspond to reality at all,” he denied.
Biggest wave of airstrikes in Ukraine war in weeks: numerous people injured
Update January 26, 12:46 p.m.: The death toll from Russian rocket attacks on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv has risen to eleven, official figures showed on Friday. This is reported by the British newspaper The Guardian.
More than 100 people were injured and at least 18 killed in one of the biggest waves of airstrikes in weeks after Russian missiles struck across Ukraine, including the capital Kiev and northeast Kharkiv, on Monday morning. The Kharkiv prosecutor's office said on Friday that a 61-year-old woman died from her injuries, bringing the death toll in that city alone to 11, AFP reported.
Ukrainian War Losses to Russia: Nearly 1,000 soldiers killed or injured
Update January 26, 11:57 am: The Ukrainian General Staff released new figures on Russia's losses in the Ukrainian war. According to this, 990 Russian soldiers were killed or injured in the fighting in one day. The information could not initially be independently verified.
- soldiers: 380,600 soldiers (+990 the previous day)
- tank: 6265 (+8)
- Armored vehicles: 11,637 (+16)
- artillery systems: 9082 (+15)
- Multiple rocket launchers: 972
- air defense systems: 660
- Airplanes: 331
- Helicopter: 324
- Drones: 7033
- cruise missiles: 1845 (+1)
- Warships:23
- Submarines: 1
- Tank trucks and other vehicles: 12064 (+20)
- Special equipment: 1425 (+20)
A Ukrainian army T-72 tank in the snow. © IMAGO/Dmytro Smolienko
Plane crash in Russia: investigation underway
Update January 26th, 10:45 am: The black boxes from the Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday have been taken to a special laboratory in Moscow for analysis, Russian state media reported. Experts have already begun restoring flight data from the boxes, he said.
Russia accused Kiev of shooting down the large military transport plane from the war in Ukraine carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war for an exchange on Wednesday. The accident killed all 74 people on board. Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied that it struck the plane. But Kiev said Moscow created a “deliberate threat to the lives and safety” of its prisoners of war due to Russia’s previous failure to provide warnings about the airspace.
Outpost destroyed in the war in Ukraine: at least five Russian soldiers killed
Update January 26th, 7:40am: Ukrainian army special forces claim to have destroyed a Russian observation post in Kherson. They killed five Russian soldiers. They used a thermal imaging drone for the attack.
They then posted a video on Facebook allegedly showing the attack. They wrote that this strike against the Russians would allow them to “control additional sections of this front in the future.” The information could not initially be independently verified. Kherson is on the southern front of the Ukrainian War.
Ukrainian army footage of a thermal imaging drone strike in Kherson © Screenshot: SOF Facebook profile
Ukraine News: Russia rages after plane crash in Belgorod
First report: Kiev/Moscow – After the crash of a Russian military plane in the border region with Ukraine, numerous questions remain unanswered. The Ukrainian secret service SBU opened an investigation on Thursday (25 January).
Russia, however, released images of the crash site and announced a “terrorism” investigation. Moscow declared that there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board the plane; the plane was shot down by Ukraine.
Exchange of blows between Russia and Ukraine after plane crash
Now Ukraine and Russia have accused each other before the UN Security Council. According to previous information, it was a “premeditated and well-thought-out crime”, said Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitri Polyansky, at a UN meeting in New York.
Ukrainian deputy ambassador to the UN, Chrystyna Hajovyshyn, rejected the accusations: Ukraine was not informed about the number and type of transport used to transport the prisoners who, according to the Russian report, died in the incident. This week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov also traveled to New York.
Ukraine News: Russia requests meeting in New York after plane crash
The UN Security Council meeting on the accident was requested by Russia. Representatives of Western states emphasized at the meeting that the accident would never have occurred without Russia's war against Ukraine.
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“Russia has repeatedly sought to shift responsibility for the tragedies of this senseless, self-imposed war onto others, as if it were the victim and not the aggressor,” said U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood. (Editorial with news agency material)