USA: Russians kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainians +++ Russia’s strategic defeat “obviously” for Selenskyj +++ The reports on the war in Ukraine in star-Ticker.
Read in star– Ticker all important developments on the war in Ukraine on Friday, May 13:
9.39 a.m .: EU announces another 500 million euros for weapons for Ukraine
The EU wants to provide another 500 million euros for the supply of weapons and equipment to the Ukrainian armed forces. This was announced by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on the fringes of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting near Weißenhäuser Strand on the Baltic Sea. This would increase the EU funds available for military aid to Ukraine to two billion euros.
9.22 a.m .: G7 meeting: Greenpeace protests to phase out gas, coal and oil
With a large banner reading “G7: Exit Fossils, Enter Peace” Greenpeace demonstrated on the Baltic Sea beach in Wangels for a quick independence of the G7 countries from fossil fuels. The group’s foreign ministers’ meeting is currently taking place in Schleswig-Holstein. “The income from oil, coal and gas is financing Russia’s war against Ukraine,” said Lisa Göldner, climate expert at the environmental organization. The emissions from fossil energy would also fuel the climate crisis and thus fuel further crises and conflicts.
9.13 a.m .: Baerbock emphasizes the solidarity of the G7 with Moldova and Ukraine
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has assured Moldova of full support in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. At a meeting with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Nicu Popescu, the Greens politician emphasized at the G7 meeting in Weißenhäuser Strand on the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein that it was about showing solidarity towards both Ukraine and Moldova. Baerbock told Popescu it was a pleasure to see him for the third time in three months, although “the situation is the opposite of pleasure”.
9.06 a.m .: Truss calls for tougher sanctions against Moscow and more weapons for Ukraine
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has called for more arms supplies to Ukraine and tougher sanctions against Russia. “It is very important at this point in time that we keep up the pressure on (Kremlin boss) Vladimir Putin,” said Truss on the sidelines of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein. The unity of the G7 in the current crisis is “crucial to protect freedom and democracy”. The G7 foreign ministers will meet at Schlossgut Weissenhaus on the Baltic Sea until Saturday noon. The focus of the deliberations is the Russian war against Ukraine.
8.37 a.m .: Consequence of the Ukraine war: Grain more expensive than it has been for ten years
Because of the war in Ukraine, the import price for grain rose more sharply in March than it has in more than ten years. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, import prices rose by 53.6 percent compared to the same month last year. The last time the rate of change was even higher was in May 2011 with a plus of 74.0 percent compared to May 2010.
“The war in Ukraine has an impact on the global grain supply and grain prices,” said the Federal Office. The price increases therefore run through all types of grain: in March 2022, wheat rose by a good 65 percent compared to the same month last year, barley, rye, oats also by around 65 percent and corn by 37 percent.
6.05 a.m .: Welthungerhilfe warns of a “dramatic increase” in hunger because of the Ukraine war
Before the meeting of the G7 agricultural ministers, Welthungerhilfe warned of an “even more drastic increase” in the number of starving people as a result of the Ukraine war. In order to prevent this, the agriculture ministers would have to “get appropriate emergency aid off the ground as quickly as possible,” said Rafael Schneider, Welthungerhilfe’s deputy head of politics, in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ). Otherwise, the rise in food prices caused by the Ukraine war will continue to drive up the number of starving people. According to Schneider, 800 million people worldwide are currently suffering from hunger. The reason is not only the war, but also “system errors”.
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5.04 a.m .: USA: Russians kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainians
The United States assumes that Russia has forcibly abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainians since the start of its war of aggression. From the besieged port city of Mariupol alone, thousands were taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas, said US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Carpenter, on Thursday in Vienna.
The Ukrainian government estimates the number of kidnapped Ukrainians at almost 1.2 million. According to the ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova, at least 200,000 children are among them. According to Kiev, Moscow also operates so-called filtration camps in which arrested Ukrainians are interrogated.
4.35 a.m .: Heil warns of a new economic crisis due to a possible gas embargo
In the debate about a gas embargo against Russia, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) warned of a new economic crisis in Germany. “A unilateral gas embargo by Germany towards Russia, for example, would plunge us into a double crisis, then we would be in stagflation, i.e. in an economic crisis and prices rising even more,” Heil told the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”.
Stagflation is “the horror of all economists and politicians,” he added. “That has to be prevented. And thank God our economy is still growing.” If the situation “escalates economically”, the federal government will act and, for example, further extend short-time work, the SPD minister said.
2.16 a.m .: Ukrainian crowdfunding project brings in millions
A crowdfunding project launched by the Ukrainian leadership to support the country has already raised millions in a week. As Digital Minister Mykhailo Fyodorov announced during the night, donations totaling 25.8 million dollars (24.4 million euros) were received from all over the world via the United24 website. “The support came from 72 countries around the world.” The money from the donation platform will now be divided among the ministries in order to finance the currently most necessary projects.
Ukraine created this state donation platform because of the Russian war of aggression. Donations can now be made separately for the army, humanitarian purposes or post-war reconstruction via the United24 website. According to the site, bank transfers, payments by credit card, but also with crypto money are possible.
1:17 a.m .: Kyiv: Negotiations for soldiers in Azovstal continue
With international support, the Ukrainian leadership is continuing its efforts to rescue the soldiers at the besieged Azovstal Steelworks in the port city of Mariupol. “We have opened a new round of negotiations,” said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Thursday evening, according to Ukrajinska Pravda. Kyiv has given the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross the mandate to hold talks with the Russian side, and Turkey is now involved as a mediator.
“We want to sign an agreement on evacuation from Azovstal, we are ready to sign it,” Vereshchuk said. The aim is an evacuation in several stages – the first priority is the rescue of 38 seriously wounded defenders from Azovstal. If this works, “then we move on”. Among other things, Ukraine is ready to exchange Russian prisoners of war for the wounded from Azovstal.
0.35 a.m .: Selenskyj: Russia’s strategic defeat obvious
Barely two and a half months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, the strategic defeat of Russia is “obvious,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moscow’s defeat was “obvious to everyone in the world and also to those who still communicate with them (the Russians),” said Zelenskyy in his daily video message on Thursday evening. Only Russia does not have the courage to admit defeat. “They are cowards trying to hide this truth behind new missile, air and artillery strikes.”
The Ukrainian leader has criticized the recent Russian attacks, which hit a school in Chernihiv in the north of the country. “Of course, the Russian state is in a state where any education only hampers it,” Zelensky said. Russian commanders who issued such orders to shell educational institutions were “simply sick – incurable”.
12:05 a.m .: Selenskyj adviser reports “idiocy” to Russian leadership
Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych attributes his occasionally erroneous analyzes of the events of the war to the “terrible idiocy” of Russia’s political and military leadership. “I actually think of them as people with an average mind,” said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser on Thursday evening, according to a report by the Unian agency. “But then they do something I never would have thought of because it’s so stupid.”
Russia recently “scraped together” another 15 combat units to throw them into battle. “In the past five and a half thousand years of military history, no greater idiocy can be found,” said Arestovych. Recently he had not ruled out a new offensive by the Russian army against the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and spoke of “senseless suicide”.
Source: Stern
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