About 27,400 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine – General Staff
Ukrainian defenders have already killed about 27,400 Russian soldiers since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
15 May 2022
Ukrainian defenders have already killed about 27,400 Russian soldiers since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
The bravery of the Ukrainian people, practical and financial assistance from allies and partners, and the immense public support all over Europe and around the world will help Ukraine win the brutal war started by the Russian Federation.
A military infrastructure facility in Lviv region, which was hit by four enemy cruise missiles in the early hours of Sunday, has been wiped out, while no casualties have been reported.
MPs have four alternative locations for holding sessions in the event that the Verkhovna Rada building, located at 5 Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv, is destroyed in a strike.
Russia’s advance in Donbas has lost its pace and fallen significantly behind schedule, Britain’s defense intelligence stated.
Ukraine’s anti-aircraft missile forces of the West Air Command have destroyed two cruise missiles that the Russian invaders had launched at Lviv region.
In Mariupol, Russian invaders started using incendiary shells against Ukrainian servicemen defending their last stronghold in the city, the Azovstal steelworks.
During demining efforts in one of the liberated settlements in Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian bomb squad found an IED planted in a baby crib.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 14, Russian forces launched 11 artillery attacks on the city of Sieiverodonetsk, Luhansk region.
Last night Russian troops shelled the Shyroke territorial community in Dnipropetrovsk Region with the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).
In the morning of May 15, 2022, a military infrastructure facility, which is situated in Lviv Region, was hit with a Russian missile strike.
Russian troops are regrouping to resume an offensive on Barvinkove and Sloviansk and continue to carry out an offensive in the Lyman, Sievierodonetsk, Avdiivka and Kurakhove directions.
Russian troops seek to capture Sievierodonetsk and cut off Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway.
14 May 2022
Attempts by Russian troops to show at least some kind of victory on the 80th day of the full-scale war look insane.
In the area of responsibility of the Joint Forces, Ukrainian defenders destroyed eight Russian tanks and seven unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Russians want to force Popasna residents, who were forcibly deported to previously occupied territories, to fight against Ukraine.
On Saturday, in the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical group "East", the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 80 Russian invaders and destroyed three tanks and four mortars.
US M777 howitzers, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine received as part of US military assistance, are already effectively smashing Russian invaders on the front line.
Velyka Pysarivka territorial community of Sumy region was shelled with mortars from the territory of the Russian Federation. No casualties have been reported.
Most Russian ships have been withdrawn back to bases in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Only two of them are on patrol on the high seas, not diminishing the threat of missile strikes on the regions of Ukraine.
The enemy regroups its troops in three directions and continues the offensive in the east. The Russian troops assault the line of contact in Donetsk region backed by aircraft and artillery.
A huge evacuation convoy of vehicles with residents of the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is heading to Zaporizhzhia.
Russian troops are continuing to fire missiles at civilian infrastructure in the Donetsk, Odesa, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
Ukrainian defenders are quickly learning how to operate foreign weapons and are using them to destroy the enemy.
Russian troops continue to assault the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, bombing and shelling Ukrainian defenders with tanks and heavy artillery.
In the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, which has been temporarily captured by Russian forces, local guerrillas killed more than 100 occupiers and completed over 20 successful resistance operations.
In a joint effort by Ukrinform and Ukraine’s Ground Forces Command, a project has been set up to deliver a video digest covering the Ukrainian Army’s combat operations in the war the Russian invaders unleashed against our country.
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Command is trying to deploy the Pantsir and Tor-M2 air defense systems on Snake Island in order to establish control over the sea trade routes in the northwestern part of the Black Sea and to transfer amphibious groups from there to Transnistria. Therefore, local firefights for this piece of Ukrainian land are turning into a fierce battle.
Russian propaganda is circulating a fake story claiming that 44 residents of Izium, whose bodies were recently removed from under a rubble of an apartment block, were killed in shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Due to the closure of humanitarian corridors, many people, who were waiting for evacuation, now return to Mariupol. Meanwhile, the city is under threat of massive epidemic.