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18 May 2024
In the Donetsk region, the number of people who have returned after evacuation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion is already 231,000 persons. In total, about 472,000 people remain in communities.
During the day, the Russian military shelled the border communities of Sumy oblast 44 times. According to preliminary data, no one was injured.
Since the beginning of the day on May 17, 101 combat clashes have taken place at the front, the enemy has launched 15 missile strikes, 70 airstrikes and 452 kamikaze drone strikes, carried out 2,843 attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces.
On the night of Saturday, May 18, the Russians launched several groups of attack drones in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not changed his plans, as he still wants Ukraine and Ukrainians to disappear.
In the Zaporizhzhia sector, Ukrainian National Guard soldiers used drones to hit a camouflaged Russian S-60 anti-aircraft gun.
Over 1,000 people, including 200 children, have been evacuated from border areas in the Sumy region over the past three days of planned evacuation.
17 May 2024
The number of combat engagements in the Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk and Dnipro River sectors has increased, whereas in the Kharkiv sector, Ukrainian defenders are strengthening the defense in the border areas of the region and conducting reconnaissance.
Ukraine's air defense units shot down three Russian Kh-59 guided air missiles in the Odesa region on Friday, May 17.
Serhii Peretiatko, head of the Novotroitske village military administration in the Kherson region, has been wounded in an enemy drone attack.
Russia's operation in the Kharkiv region is aimed at weakening Ukrainian forces and strengthening their propaganda.
The number of those killed and wounded in a Russian attack on Kharkiv on Friday has increased.
The situation on the front line near Kharkiv is difficult, but it is under control.
The Russian military attacked people in the village of Vesele, Kherson region, using a drone.
The number of people wounded in today's shelling of Kharkiv by guided aerial bombs has increased to 25.
Lithuania has actively joined the German initiative to strengthen Ukraine's air defence by announcing its intention to transfer 6 AMBER 1800 radar systems to Ukraine.
Three people were injured in Odesa as a result of a Russian attack.
Four children have been evacuated from the temporarily occupied community of the Kherson region thanks to the cooperation of their parents with the Save Ukraine organization.
The Russian forces have attacked Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs. Two civilians were killed.
More than 9,300 people have been evacuated from seven communities in the Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, and Bohodukhiv districts in the Kharkiv region that are under Russian shelling.
Ukraine’s international partners are afraid of the Russian Federation losing the war. They would like Ukraine to win so that Russia does not lose.
In the Kharkiv sector, Ukrainian troops are equipping the regained positions and strengthening defense in the region’s border area.
For the first time since Russian invasion, none of the brigades complains that they are short on munitions. This has been the case over the past two months.
The appointment of Andrey Belousov as Russian Defence Minister instead of former head of the ministry Sergei Shoigu is unlikely to have a direct impact on the course of the Russian war in Ukraine.
Ukraine's SBU State Security Service and HUR military intelligence agency attacked important Russian military logistics targets in Crimea and on the Russian Black Sea coast on the night of May 16 to 17.
Lithuania has transferred ammunition, anti-drone systems, UAVs, generators and folding beds to the Ukrainian army as part of uninterrupted military support for Ukraine.
In Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, Russian invaders have expanded the area of active hostilities by almost 70 kilometers and concentrated their main efforts on the Strilecha-Lyptsi sector, attempting to take Vovchansk and launch an offensive on the rear of Ukrainian forces.
New satellite imagery showing the aftermath of an attack on the Belbek Air Base in occupied Crimea has confirmed the destruction of three Russian fighter jets and damage to one warplane.
On Friday morning, May 17, the Russian military shelled Tiahynka in the Kherson region, wounding a 56-year-old man.
Near Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian border guards destroyed an enemy infantry fighting vehicle.