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18 May 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the battle for the future of the world is underway, and Ukraine and its allies have no right to lay down their arms prematurely and not to fight until the final victory.
In the afternoon, the Russian army hit Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, with heavy artillery.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace has confirmed that long-range Storm Shadow missiles provided to Ukraine have been used.
In the past 24 hours, 17 combat clashes have been recorded in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions. Fierce battles are ongoing in the cities of Bakhmut and Maryinka in Donetsk region.
Italy will train Ukrainian recruits at schools and military installations in Italy, as well as take part in EU-Ukraine training programmes in Brussels, Poland and Germany.
As a result of Russia’s missile attack on the village of Tsyrkuny, Kharkiv region, two residential buildings were completely destroyed, many private houses and farm buildings were damaged.
A missile strike on the village of Tsyrkuny, Kharkiv region, killed one person and injured two others.
Employees of Khmelnytskyi National University have debunked Russian fakes about an increase in radiation levels in the city following the attack by Russian forces on the night of May 13th.
Ukraine will soon have more Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) in order to shoot down everything that Russia fires at peaceful Ukrainian settlements even more effectively and defend itself against Russian brutal attacks.
It is important for the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite the full-scale invasion, to work on the crimes committed by Russians since 2014.
Russian troops have attacked the Kharkiv region’s village of Tsyrkuny. A civilian is likely to have been trapped under the rubble of a detached house.
As a result of the missile strike on Odesa on May 17th, three people were injured and one man died.
A group of 14 members of the U.S. Congress, comprising Democrats and Republicans, has sent a letter to President Joe Biden's administration urging the immediate unblocking of the supply of F-16 fighters to Ukraine.
The teenager who was injured on May 17 during the shelling of the village of Zelenivka in the Kherson region remains in critical condition, while a 24-year-old man sustained injuries of moderate severity.
Residents of the Novhorod-Siverskyi district in the Chernihiv region heard 32 explosions within a day.
Ukrainian Navy units destroyed five Russian invaders and a Lancet drone on May 17.
During the night, Russians carried out a rocket attack on Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region. As a result, two apartment buildings, two private houses, two administrative buildings, and a store were damaged. One person was killed, and another person was injured.
Representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense have said they will not object to the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by third countries.
Over Odesa region, Ukrainian air defense forces downed eight cruise missiles launched by the Russian army from missile carriers in the Black Sea and ground systems located in the temporarily occupied territory.
Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down an enemy drone with one shot from a Stinger MANPADS.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, a railroad track was blown up in the Simferopol district, causing several cars to derail and suspending train traffic.
In Kirovohrad region, air defense forces eliminated a cruise missile in the sky over the Oleksandriia district and a drone in the Kropyvnytskyi district.
Between 21:00 on May 17 and 05:30 on May 18, the Russian occupiers launched several waves of missile attacks from different directions. Air defense forces and means of the Air Force, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 29 cruise missiles.
As a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression, 482 children have been killed and 978 more injured in Ukraine.
Russian troops shelled at least 20 settlements in the Kharkiv region yesterday, May 17.
In Zaporizhzhia region, a 68-year-old resident of Huliaipole was killed in Russia’s shelling.
On Thursday morning, May 18, Russian troops struck Khmelnytskyi region, hitting an infrastructure facility.
Russia has already lost about 201,100 troops in Ukraine (+510 over the past day).
On May 17, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 90 times, having fired 529 projectiles.
On the evening of May 17, 2023, Russian invaders launched a missile strike on the city of Odesa. One civilian was reported killed and two injured.