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Monday, 18 May 2026, 16:02
Ukrainian-made Chaklun interceptor drones achieve mission success rates of 88% to 100%. Maximum effectiveness is possible because, even in cases of unsuccessful interception or loss of communication, these UAVs can be safely returned, prepared, and redeployed.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, drone flights and powerful explosions were reported overnight on May 13, and the Kerch Bridge was closed to traffic.
A nine-month-old girl injured in yesterday’s Russian strike on a building in Kryvyi Rih is in critical condition.
As of the morning of May 13, Russian attacks have left users without power in six regions near the front lines; in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, six settlements are without power due to inclement weather.
There are currently more than a hundred Russian drones in Ukrainian airspace, and further waves of drone attacks may occur throughout the day.
Reports indicate a fire in the vicinity of the Nurlino LPDS in Bashkortostan, Russia.
Local authorities in Russia have stated that an “industrial facility” in Yaroslavl was damaged as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones.
Air Defense Forces shot down 111 of the 139 drones used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine since the evening of May 12.
On May 12, there were 210 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops on the front line.
Eight people have been killed and 11 others injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian strike drones carried out a mass attack on industrial infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region overnight on May 13.
Russia’s total combat losses in the war against Ukraine have reached approximately 1,344,180 personnel since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, including 1,130 troops lost over the past day alone.
A Russian military intelligence agent who plotted to blow up a major gas pipeline in eastern Ukraine and spy on Ukraine’s Defense Forces has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Ukraine’s National Police has exposed an interregional criminal group that illegally transported servicemen out of military units to help them evade service in the country’s Security and Defense Forces.
The Kremlin is using criminal networks, mercenaries, and marginalized recruits as a low-cost tool for terror and destabilization in European Union countries, according to Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD).
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a Russian agent in the Donetsk region who directed Russian strikes on the town of Sloviansk.
Russian forces carried out two strikes on the Shevchenkivskyi and Kholodnohirskyi districts of Kharkiv, causing a fire at an infrastructure facility hit in the attack.
Russia no longer has the capacity for large-scale escalation and lacks the resources for confrontation with NATO, but only the recognition by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that his war objectives against Ukraine have failed will push him toward real negotiations.
Canada has become the first country outside Europe to sign the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine.
Authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region have announced a mandatory evacuation of families with children from certain areas of Nikopol district.
A large-scale forest fire that broke out in the Koriukivka forestry district on May 5 has been localized.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement report a significant change in Russian logistics: warehouses storing FPV drones and ammunition are being rapidly relocated further away from the line of combat.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced plans to intensify its work with “compatriots” living abroad amid what it describes as a hybrid confrontation with the West.
12 May 2026
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that Russian strategic aviation has become more active and that aircraft are being redeployed to distant airfields, which may indicate that Russia is preparing new strikes against Ukraine. At the same time, the exact timing of a possible attack remains unknown.
Speaking at the "Strategic Ark" conference organized by the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, he said that arms supplies continue without interruption.
The enemy carried out nearly 50 attacks on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
In the Sumy region, a 13-year-old boy was injured as a result of a Russian drone attack.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that two elderly people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, while their nine-month-old granddaughter suffered severe injuries.
Russian forces struck the Dubovyky community in the Dnipropetrovsk region with aerial bombs, killing four people and injuring three others.