Military historian sees Ukraine’s Lyman success as a “path to overall strategic victory.” Partial mobilization in Russia is chaotic. And: Selenskyj criticizes Russian farce. All voices and developments on the Ukraine war in the ticker.
9:24 am: Thousands of Russians mobilized for military service in Ukraine have been sent home, Reuters news agency reports on Monday. Another setback for President Vladimir Putin’s chaotic conscription of around 300,000 soldiers.
Mikhail Degtyarev, governor of the Khabarovsk region in Russia’s far east, said several thousand men had reported for conscription over the past 10 days, but many of them were unfit. “We sent about half of them home because they didn’t meet the selection criteria for military service,” Degtyarev said in a video on Telegram. He also reported that the Khabarovsk military commissar was dismissed. However, his dismissal had no effect on the mobilization.
8.39 a.m .: In view of his army’s recent successes in recapturing areas that have been occupied in the meantime, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has described the annexations by Russia as meaningless. “As soon as the Ukrainian flag has returned, no one remembers the Russian farce with any papers and any annexations,” said Zelenskyj in his daily video address on Monday night. A few hours earlier he had said that following the withdrawal of the Russians, Ukrainian troops had regained full control of the strategically important small town of Lyman in the eastern region of Donetsk.
Around seven months after the war began, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Cherson in addition to Donetsk last Friday. The incorporation of the regions, parts of which Russia has not even conquered, in violation of international law, is not recognized internationally.
According to a report by “Bild”, Lyman, which has now been liberated, is experiencing great destruction after the Russians have left. Several dead Russian soldiers are still lying on the streets of the city, the newspaper writes, citing a local reporter.
Monday, October 3, 12:15 a.m.: According to Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is changing the relationship between Germans in East and West. “This war will be an incision that will go down in the collective memory of the Germans as a common bitter experience,” he told the editorial network Germany (RND). “In the future we will talk about how we experienced it together.” That will “fundamentally change” Germany and the way we live together. Now is the time to stop just looking in the rear-view mirror and to shape the new era together.
32 years after reunification, one has to accept “that there are different points of view, also with regard to the view of the war in Ukraine and the question of how to deal with it”. You have to accept “that we have a different position” and that it is “absolutely equal”. It can’t be the case that Sunday speeches always say that opinions from the East have to be taken seriously, and then in everyday life it’s different again.
11:53 p.m.: In view of his army’s recent successes in recapturing occupied areas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the annexations by Russia as meaningless. “As soon as the Ukrainian flag has returned, nobody will remember the Russian farce with any papers and any annexations,” Zelenskyj said in his daily video speech on Monday night. A few hours earlier he had said that following the withdrawal of the Russians, Ukrainian troops had regained full control of the strategically important small town of Lyman in the eastern region of Donetsk.
Around seven months after the war began, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Cherson in addition to Donetsk last Friday. The incorporation of the regions, parts of which Russia has not even conquered, in violation of international law, is not recognized internationally.
According to a report in the “Bild” newspaper, Lyman, which has now been liberated, is experiencing great destruction after the Russians have left. Several dead Russian soldiers are still lying on the streets of the city, the newspaper writes, citing a local reporter.
10:43 p.m .: Former Federal President Joachim Gauck appealed to politicians and society not to be guided by fear. With a view to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Gauck said on Sunday evening in the ZDF “heute journal” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was pricing in the fears of the Germans in his planning. “It’s an element of his warfare, and that’s why we need a sober assessment of his threats and a very clear realization that fear makes eyes small, drives us to flee. And escape is what we cannot afford.”
A country had been invaded. “We have to support this country – not only because it is moral, but also because they represent our interests,” said Gauck, referring to Ukraine. Ultimately, our freedom and democracy would be attacked there.
Fears cannot be magically removed, “but you can tame them,” said the former Federal President. “And you can take something like courage and determination.” The Day of German Unity also reminds of this. The Federal Republic of Germany has overcome deep valleys in its history. “Of course, this works particularly well when we have a government that is determined, that shows its determination and that explains to the population what is happening right now.” In relation to the high energy prices, this means that the government says which groups of people, which Parts of industry and crafts should be supported, he said.
7:18 p.m .: Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) has contradicted her cabinet and party colleague Karl Lauterbach in relation to Germany’s role in the Ukraine war. “It is very clear – both for the German government and for the entire NATO: We will not become a war party,” said Lambrecht on Sunday in the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach had previously written on Twitter: “We are at war with Putin”.
With his tweet on Saturday, the SPD politician referred to statements by the writer Richard David Precht. He had demanded that individual NATO states should guarantee Russia that Ukraine would not be included in the alliance.
“Let’s be honest: What should kneeling before Putin do now?” Lauterbach wrote. “We are at war with Putin and not his psychotherapists. Victory in the form of the liberation of Ukraine must continue to be consistently pursued.” Whether the “psyche” of Russian President Waldimir Putin can handle it “doesn’t matter”.
Lambrecht, on the other hand, emphasized on ARD that the principle of not becoming a party to the war “guided us from the start. And that hasn’t changed either.”
7:06 p.m .: According to British secret services, the Russians suffered high losses when retreating from the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman. The city in the eastern region of Donetsk had previously been defended by undermanned Russian units and reservists, according to the daily short report by the British Ministry of Defense on Sunday. Many soldiers were said to have died when retreating via the only road out of the city that was still under Russian control.
On Saturday – one day after the illegal annexation of several Ukrainian territories – Russia gave up the city of Lyman in a bitter defeat by the Ukrainian army. According to the Russian military, the armed forces have been withdrawn because of the risk of encirclement. Ukrainian authorities had previously spoken of around 5,000 surrounded Russian soldiers. So far, however, there has been no concrete information about the number of dead and prisoners.
According to the British, the withdrawal triggered a wave of public criticism of the military leadership in Russian government circles. Further defeats in the regions of the annexed territories are likely to further intensify this and increase the pressure on senior commanders.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, citing intelligence information. In doing so, the British government wants to both counter the Russian portrayal and keep allies in line. Moscow accuses London of a targeted disinformation campaign.
5:09 p.m .: Like several European countries, Germany has also summoned the Russian ambassador. At the request of the German Press Agency, the Federal Foreign Office said on Sunday that Ambassador Sergei Nechayev had been “summoned to the Federal Foreign Office promptly”.
The German government is thus reacting to the further escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine and the annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia. In Italy, too, the ambassador there was summoned for Monday, in Belgium this happened on Friday.
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