Two volunteers missing in Vovchansk as reports say they were “shot at” by Russian troops
Two volunteers went missing in the town of Vovchansk, Kharkiv region. According to witnesses, they were shot atby the Russian military.
14 May 2024
Two volunteers went missing in the town of Vovchansk, Kharkiv region. According to witnesses, they were shot atby the Russian military.
Seventy-three combat engagements occurred between Ukrainian and Russian forces on Tuesday, with Russian invaders being most active in the Kharkiv, Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk sectors.
The Russian army attacked a fire station and a gas distribution point in the Novhorod-Siverskyi district of the Chernihiv region.
The enemy is trying to break through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia direction, but is failing.
Russian forces have shelled the Vovchansk community in the Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region, killing an 80-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man.
Over the past few days, 22 unexploded ordnance have been dropped on the city of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region.
The situation with Russia's invasion of the Kharkiv region has stabilized.
The U.S. Army has a lot to learn from the Ukrainian military in using unmanned systems, given the experience that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have gained since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine emphasized that Ukraine has deployed two Patriot air defense systems to protect Kharkiv region.
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the HUR, Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency, believes Russian assaults in Kharkiv region will continue for another three to four days, after which the invasion forces troops are expected to make a decisive offensive toward the city of Sumy.
This morning, the Russian invasion forces stormed the settlements of Staromaiorske, Krynky, and Robotyne but Ukraine’s troops are firmly holding their ground.
Russian forces appear to be prioritizing the rapid establishment of a "buffer zone" along the international border over pursuing a further advance.
At least one unmanned aerial vehicle attacked a cargo train carrying fuel in Russia’s Volgograd region overnight Tuesday.
There were no Russian warships in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov as of 07:00 on Tuesday, May 14.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to May 14, 2024 amount to about 485,430 invaders, including another 1,400 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Russian troops hit Kharkiv with two guided aerial bombs, injuring two people and causing damage.
In the past day, the Russian occupiers attacked Zaporizhzhia region 462 times, 208 of them using UAVs.
The Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed all 18 Shahed-131/136 combat drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine on the night of May 14.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to show U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, which suffers massive Russian attacks.
The soldiers from the 63rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 10 units of enemy equipment at once.
FPV drones, unmanned aerial vehicles and copters, anti-drone rifles, electronic warfare, and communications equipment were transferred from Zaporizhzhia to the military defending the Kharkiv region.
The Russian invasion army shelled the Snovsk community in Chernihiv region, employing cluster munitions.
Operatives and analysts with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) have identified the personnel of the management and command of the units of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian Aerospace Forces (military unit 06987, Engels airfield, Saratov region) involved in launching missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.
13 May 2024
The Russian invasion forces installed floating barriers across the Sevastopol Bay to protect the remaining fleet against Ukrainian sea drones.
NATO member states will participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine and the development of its security and defense institutions, but for now the most urgent task is to support Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression.
Washington officials assume the Russian forces will try to make more advances, in particular on the Kharkiv axis, but no major breakthroughs are expected.
Nearly 140 combat clashes took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invasion troops since day-start as the number of firefights increased, including in the Kharkiv direction.
The main task now is to thwart Russia's attempt to expand the war, and it depends on everyone who is now on the ground.
A missile attack by Russian troops on a civilian enterprise in the village of Korotych, Kharkiv region, killed one person and injured four others.
In the Kharkiv region, the Russian army fired on a police car that was on its way to evacuate residents of Vovchansk.