Over the past day, Ukrainian troops destroyed two areas of concentration of Russian occupants' personnel, four control points, three artillery systems and an enemy anti-aircraft missile system.
The situation at the front remains tense, with fighting continuing in the Kharkiv sector in the direction of Starytsia village. Since the beginning of the day, Russian occupants have fired 533 times and used more than 50 kamikaze drones, but Ukrainian troops are repelling the attacks and keeping the situation under control.
At night, the enemy attacked Poltava region with two groups of UAVs, but there were no hits on civilian objects or critical infrastructure, no casualties or damage were recorded.
At night and in the morning, Russians shelled 8 communities in Sumy region, 49 explosions from mortars, artillery and aircraft were recorded.
Intense fighting continued on the frontline of the Russian-Ukrainian war yesterday: 110 combat engagements and 39 additional combat engagements took place, Ukrainian troops repelled numerous Russian attacks, inflicting significant losses on the enemy, including 274 occupants killed and wounded, and 19 pieces of weapons and military equipment destroyed or damaged.
The Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian minesweeper Kovrovets and inflicted heavy losses on the Russian occupiers, including 16 tanks, 35 armored vehicles and more than 1,200 personnel.
Russians shelled 7 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, wounding one woman, using UAVs, MLRS and artillery in 459 attacks.
In Kherson region, hostile forces shelled residential areas, damaging a multi-storey building, 8 houses and infrastructure, killing 2 civilians and injuring 2 others.
According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy drones were spotted in various regions of Ukraine, including Chernihiv, Sumy, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, and Dnipro, moving in different directions.
Hostile UAVs were spotted in different regions of Ukraine, including Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Kherson, with different flight paths and directions.
russians shelled the border areas and settlements of Sumy region 46 times, causing 284 explosions and injuring a resident of the Esman community.
In one day, the communities of Sumy region were subjected to 44 attacks by the russian federation, which resulted in 183 explosions in different places.
On May 17, 2024, Russian forces attacked the Odesa region with three ballistic missiles and three guided missiles, damaging civilian infrastructure.
russian troops attacked Kharkiv at night using Shahed drones and S-300 missiles, damaging a multi-story building. Damage analysis and response is ongoing.
There is a significant deficit in the Ukrainian energy system, which necessitates hourly blackouts from 19:00 to 24:00 and imports that reach the technically permitted maximum.
A large part of the temporarily occupied Sevastopol was left without electricity after a nighttime drone attack, and it will take about a day to restore the city's power system.
Russian troops attacked Kharkiv at night with S-300s and drones, damaging the district administration building and a residential building. Over the day, 2 people were killed and 9 injured in the region due to Russian shelling.
The fire at the tuapse oil refinery in russia broke out after an attack by two unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in no injuries but set off sirens in the city.
In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, there was a partial power outage due to a downed drone hitting the equipment of the Sevastopol substation.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported overnight attacks on the Belgorod, Kaluga, Bryansk and Tula regions and Crimea, claiming that 11 UAVs, 2 shells and a Tochka-U missile were shot down.
russian occupants are involving children in the war by teaching them to pilot UAVs, involving them in military-industrial production, rewriting history textbooks, and violating international norms and children's rights.
Border guards destroyed Russian combat vehicles and tanks that were trying to break through the Ukrainian defense on the outskirts of Vovchansk.
Russians fired 24 times at the border areas and settlements of Sumy region, recording 165 explosions from artillery, mortars, MLRS and drones in various localities.
One person was killed and 24 injured in a series of shelling by Russia in Kharkiv region on May 14. Residential buildings, an educational institution and civilian vehicles were damaged.
The EU has expanded the scope of possible sanctions against Iran to include not only those involved in the UAV program, but also anyone who helps Tehran produce missiles.
Local authorities in the Kharkiv region have decided to forcibly evacuate 113 orphans and children deprived of parental care from border settlements in connection with a new Russian offensive in the region.
During the Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region, the occupiers captured a group of local residents. Some of them managed to escape to the territory controlled by Ukraine, but some remained in Russian captivity.
Russia is spreading disinformation that Ukrainian forces have blocked the evacuation of civilians from Vovchansk, when in fact about 6,000 civilians have already been evacuated from the area.
After a drone attack on an oil refinery in the kaluga region, a fire broke out, damaging an oil pipeline and spilling 5 tons of oil.
The video allegedly shows a drone attack on a power substation in the lipetsk region of russia, which caused a fire.