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11 May 2023
Before the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian children are being taken en masse from settlements adjacent to the demarcation line to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea and to Russia.
Artillerymen of the Third Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using a D-30 howitzer, struck at Russian troops near the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, causing losses to the enemy.
Throughout the day, Ukraine’s Air Force carried out 13 strikes targeting Russian manpower and equipment clusters.
Air defense forces in Kherson region shot down a Russian Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone.
A military object discovered in a forest near the Polish city of Bydgoszcz is believed to be a missile.
Russian artillery hit one of the educational facilities in Kherson, the regional center in southern Ukraine liberated from invasion forces last fall.
In Bakhmut, Donetsk region, units of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service repelled yet another wave of Russian attacks, shooting down four enemy unmanned aerial vehicles using anti-drone guns.
In the past 24 hours, fifteen military clashes have occurred in the Bakhmut direction, and Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated 165 Russian invaders.
The invaders are feeling restless in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and, not understanding where to expect the main attack, are scattering their efforts in several directions.
Six civilians have been injured in Russia’s missile attack on the Donetsk region’s Toretsk.
At night, during an air raid, the Russian army fired missiles on Zaporizhzhia. There were hits to infrastructure facilities.
Kropyvnytskyi has completed the development of a project for the reconstruction of sectors for honorary burials of servicemen in the Rivne and Far Eastern cemeteries.
Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom Ben Wallace has confirmed that London is sending the Storm Shadow long-range air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine.
The enemy army launched air strikes on the Preobrazhenska community.
Providing Ukraine with the required number of F-16 aircraft requires more financial resources than the U.S. government has currently allocated. This would complicate the supply of air defense capabilities and artillery shells for the needs of the nation's Defense Forces.
On Thursday, May 11, soldiers of the 31st Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle launched by Russia for reconnaissance.
In the Kherson region, in a field near the village of Blahodatne, a local resident exploded a Russian mine, killing a man.
Russian troops shelled the border areas in Chernihiv and Sumy regions three times with mortars and aircraft on the morning of May 11.
Four houses were completely burned down, about 47 were partially damaged, and eight people were injured.
The United Kingdom has supplied Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles on the eve of the highly anticipated counteroffensive against the Russian forces.
On the morning of May 11, Russian troops fired missiles at Sloviansk, Donetsk region, killing a woman.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, says Ukraine is not going to surrender Bakhmut, intending to hold ground for as long as the military deems necessary.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Ukraine needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid from the West.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleksandr Karasevych as Ambassador of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The curfew will be reduced in Kherson on May 16.
Over the past day, Russian forces attacked positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdiivka and Maryinka sectors 22 times. The Ukrainian defenders destroyed and damaged 10 units of Russian weapons and military equipment and eliminated more than a company of invaders.
In the Mykolaiv region, Russians bombed a private enterprise, causing environmental damage worth almost 850 million hryvnias - more than 200 tons of oil products and 145 tons of car tires were burned.
At night and in the morning, 40 explosions were recorded in four communities of Sumy region due to Russian shelling.
Over the past day, May 10, the Russian army killed three residents of the Donetsk region and injured two others.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 10, the Russian army fired 90 times at the Kherson region, killing one person and injuring another.