Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has positioned herself in the debate about arms deliveries to Ukraine. Image: dpa / Monika Skolimowska
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The EU promised further help to the Ukrainian President Zelenskyj after his visit to Brussels. Russia has the Ukraine again massively attacked with drones and rockets on Friday and primarily targeted the energy infrastructure. Ukraine is demanding that the West supply fighter jets to defend itself against Russian airstrikes.
In our news blog you will find out everything you need to know about the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
February 11th
10:11 a.m .: Baerbock warns of caution when delivering arms to Ukraine
In the debate about arms deliveries to Ukraine, Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) urged caution. These are “difficult decisions,” Baerbock told the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” (Saturday edition). “It’s not about toys, it’s about heavy war material. So it’s important to always carefully consider how we can best Life can protect.”
Asked about a possible delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine, Baerbock told the newspaper that “this is not a debate that we are having”. It is important “that previous decisions are also implemented quickly”.
Most recently, several western countries had decided to supply battle tanks to Ukraine. In the past few days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once again campaigned for more arms deliveries to his country, including fighter jets and longer-range missiles.
5:01 a.m.: Russian missiles damage Ukrainian energy grid
The latest wave of Russian missile attacks is again forcing emergency repairs to Ukraine’s power grid. Several thermal and hydroelectric power plants had been damaged, said the head of the energy supplier Ukrenerho, Volodymyr Kudryzkyj, on Ukrainian television on Friday evening. The power supply in the Kharkiv region looks particularly bad. Due to the instability in the Ukrainian power grid, a reactor unit at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant had to be shut down, and production was throttled at the Rivne and southern Ukraine nuclear power plants.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the Russian attack with about 100 rockets and cruise missiles on Friday as a terror. In a video message, however, he told his compatriots how much support Ukraine had for his Trip to London, Paris and Brussels this week.
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2.34 a.m .: According to Kyiv, Russia deployed 71 cruise missiles
The danger from Russian missile attacks continued into Saturday night. In the capital Kyiv, the air alarm was triggered for the fifth time late on Friday evening. “There is a threat of an attack with drones,” said the military administration of the Kiev region. Iranian-made combat drones were also sighted and shot down over the Mykolaiv and Odessa regions in the south.
Symbolic picture: Russia is said to have fired the missiles from ships in the Black Sea.Image: Navy Visual News Service (NVNS) / Mc3 Jonathan Sunderman
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the Russian army has used 71 cruise missiles in the attacks since Friday morning. 61 of them were intercepted. The cruise missiles were fired from Russian ships in the Black Sea and from aircraft. In addition, according to the preliminary count, Russia used 29 missiles of the S-300 system, which was actually intended for air defense, against ground targets in Ukraine. The information could not be independently verified.
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(nik/with material from dpa/AFP)
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