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17 May 2022
Russian occupiers have launched an air strike on the Knauf Ukraine plant, operated by a leading manufacturer of construction and finishing materials. Rescuers have deployed to the scene to put out the fire.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has intercepted a phone call of a Russian serviceman boasting to his father about torturing the Ukrainian POWs and shelling peaceful settlements in Kharkiv region.
The invaders have mortared the area in Chernihiv region close to the border with Russia.
In the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, Russian forces have launched forcible draft of the local population. For refusing to fight against Ukraine, the invaders threaten to execute male residents.
Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been shot down over Dnipropetrovsk Region today.
A briefing on "Operational information on the Russian invasion of Ukraine" will be held on May 18 at 3:30 p.m.
One person has been killed in Russia’s missile strike on a five-storey apartment block in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region.
A total of 73 civilians have been evacuated from Luhansk Region today, although one of evacuation buses has come under enemy fire.
On the night of May 17, 2022, the Russian military launched two cruise missiles on a bridge over the Dniester Estuary in Odesa Region, which had already been damaged.
Russian invaders have not broken through the state border in Shostka District, Sumy Region, but continue provocative shelling from the territory of Russia.
Donetsk Region is now under extensive enemy fire all over the front line, from Vuhledar to Bakhmut.
Mariupol City Council has shared a video, depicting the evacuation of Ukrainian defenders from the Mariupol-based Azovstal plant on May 16, 2022.
In Shostka district of Sumy region, Russian invaders are trying to break through the land border. Fighting is ongoing.
To date, Luhansk region is the main outpost for deterring the Russian armada, so the fierce fighting is ongoing here.
The heroism of the defenders of Mariupol made it possible to push back Russian troops around Kyiv and stop the offensive on Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
Ukraine is working on the next stages of the humanitarian operation at Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
In the morning, Russian troops again fired on the border localities of Sumy region, northern Ukraine.
Over the past 24 hours, 48 populated localities in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine came under enemy fire.
Total sanctions, international contempt and the isolation of the Russian Federation will only intensify.
Russian troops launched a missile strike on the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region early on Tuesday, injuring at least five people.
The Russian army has resorted to an increasing reliance on indiscriminate artillery bombardment in Ukraine due to an unwillingness to risk flying combat aircraft.
A unit of anti-aircraft missile forces of Ukraine's Air Command South has shot down a Russian cruise missile over the Mykolaiv region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have already killed about 27,900 Russian soldiers since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
The Chernihiv region came under a missile attack this morning, with casualties reported.
In the area of Bilokopytove, Sumy region, the units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine came under enemy mortar fire.
The United States has already supplied Ukraine with more than 130,000 155-mm shells for the M777 howitzers, which is almost two-thirds of the intended number.
Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive, President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasizes, noting that this is the country’s main principle.
In the southern part of Ukraine, the country’s defenders launched over 100 strikes targeting enemy positions, having eliminated 29 Russian servicemen and destroyed a surface-to-air missile system and other military equipment.
The enemy’s main objective at the moment is to seize Sievierodonetsk and other cities across Donetsk region, while the Ukrainian Army continues to hold the Russians back in the area.
In addition to Lviv, explosions were heard in Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, overnight Friday. According to tentative reports, the enemy hit a military infrastructure facility in Yavoriv district.