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23 May 2023
Over the last day, the Defense Forces in the Tavria direction carried out more than 1.000 fire missions, destroying and wounding more than a company of Russian occupiers.
Russian troops have opened fire on the Kharkiv region’s city of Vovchansk and village of Lyptsi. As a result, a civilian was injured, and detached houses were damaged.
A woman has been killed in Russia’s mortar shelling of the Kherson region’s urban-type settlement of Kozatske.
Following Russia’s air strike on the Donetsk region’s Avdiivka, about five people are likely to have been trapped under the rubble of a 9-storey apartment block.
In Donetsk region, at least two people were injured as a result of an enemy airstrike on Avdiivka.
Portugal can train Ukrainian pilots to use F-16 fighter jets but cannot send its aircraft now.
The Russian forces are concentrating main efforts on the Avdiivka and Maryinka sectors - 19 clashes have been recorded in these areas in the past day.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the creation of the Navy Corps in Ukraine.
On Tuesday morning, May 23, Russian attacks damaged a school, an outbuilding of the church and a multi-story building in Toretsk, Donetsk region.
The Polish government has confirmed the information about the start of training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft in Poland.
There are 400 sea mines in the sea around Ukraine.
Russian forces are shelling the city of Ochakiv in the Mykolaiv region with multiple rocket launchers.
Russia keeps eight warships on combat duty in the Black Sea, including two Kalibr cruise missile carriers, with a total salvo of up to 16 missiles.
Over the past day, 22 May, the Russian army fired 61 times at the Kherson region, killing one person.
On May 23-25, military exercises will be held in the capital and Kyiv region involving the units of the Kyiv Defense Force.
Russian troops shelled settlements in four districts of the Kharkiv region yesterday, 22 May.
The Russian Federation will likely use the latest incidents in Belgorod region to support the Kremlin's official narrative that it is a victim of war.
Ukrainian servicemen as part of the Marine Corps successfully perform difficult tasks so the enemy is fully aware of their might.
The handover of American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will take several months in the best-case scenario best, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on Monday.
Russia’s military leadership exaggerates the significance of capturing Bakhmut against the background of the vulnerability of the combat situation for Russian troops in the wider area.
The Russian invasion army has killed 482 children across Ukraine, injuring another 982.
One civilian has been killed and five injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Russia has already lost about 204,360 troops in Ukraine (+480 over the past day).
Two enemy Shahed-136/131 suicide drones have been shot down by Ukraine’s air defense units in the Mykolaiv region.
The National Police of Ukraine has opened a total of 78,248 criminal proceedings over Russian war crimes in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion started.
On the night of May 23, 2023, Russia again attacked the territory of Ukraine with four Shahed suicide drones. Ukraine’s air defense units destroyed all of them.
Russia is highly likely creating a new "elite" attack aviation group code-named "Shtorm" to operate over Ukraine. The unit is likely to consist of at least one squadron of Su-24 FENCER and Su-34 FULLBACK fighter-bombers, and a squadron of attack helicopters.
In the United Kingdom, Norwegian instructors are training Ukrainian soldiers to fire small arms in low visibility conditions and at night in defensive and offensive combat as part of a unit.
The Russian military leadership made a decision to reduce to 10 days the training period for personnel contracted from among convicts.
22 May 2023
Providing the F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine is a priority, and the United States will begin to implement that in the coming months.