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Monday, 18 May 2026, 15:04
Over the course of the week, Ukrainian defenders struck several targets deep behind Russian lines, including strikes on targets located nearly 1,000 km from the front line.
As a result of repatriation efforts, the bodies of 528 deceased individuals have been returned to Ukraine; according to the Russian side, these may be Ukrainian servicemen.
Russian troops attacked Kherson with drones and shelled the city with artillery early this morning, injuring eight civilians, including a 15-year-old boy.
Russia’s demonstrations of new types of weapons do not make much of an impression on the West because the Kremlin tries to use such threats far too often.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 46 strikes on the Chernihiv region, wounding one civilian woman.
Three men were injured in Kharkiv as a result of a strike by an enemy Molniya drone.
Damage has been reported in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region following an attack by Russian drones.
Since Friday evening, the Russian army has attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 20 times, leaving one person injured.
Air Defense Forces shot down 269 of the 294 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since the evening of May 15.
In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, Russian troops killed a resident, and four other civilians were wounded.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 15, 263 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines.
Over the past 24 hours, one person was killed, and 23 others were wounded in the Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling.
Russian troops launched a massive attack on the southern part of the Odesa region overnight using combat drones, resulting in damage to residential and port infrastructure, with casualties reported.
Total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to May 16, 2026, amount to approximately 1,347,620 personnel, including 1,230 over the past 24 hours.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers launched 850 strikes on 53 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of the enemy’s attacks on Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia district, and Polohy district, one person was killed, and 21 were wounded.
The Security Service of Ukraine has noted a rise in fraudulent schemes in which criminals pose as law enforcement officers.
The capital’s community has provided soldiers of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with another 3,100 drones of various types, bringing the total for this year to over 50,000.
A Russian drone hit a road in the central part of Kharkiv.
Ukrainian helicopter pilots are undergoing training in the United Kingdom as part of the multinational Interstorm Operation.
Ukrainian authorities on Friday held negotiations regarding a humanitarian evacuation from several settlements in the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region currently controlled by Russian forces.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that a 20-year moratorium on Iran's nuclear program would be sufficient for him to reach an agreement and end the war.
Ukraine has already returned almost all members of the National Guard who were taken prisoner by Russia following the occupation of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
In Lviv, authorities have identified the perpetrator who doused Mayor Andrii Sadovyi with an unidentified liquid.
A man who claimed he intended to detonate an explosion in a high-rise building on Ihor Turchyn Street in Kyiv was taken to the police station.
Ukraine is ready to share with Azerbaijan its experience in operating air defense systems gained during the war against Russia in order to strengthen the country’s air defense capabilities.
15 May 2026
The number of people injured as a result of the Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to three.
The Russian army shelled Komyshany in the Kherson Oblast with artillery, injuring two people.
Russian drones struck two districts of Kharkiv. A woman was injured in the Osnovianskyi district of the city.
The number of people injured as a result of a Russian drone strike on the Odesa region has risen to eleven.