Zelensky: Fierce fighting continues in large part of Kharkiv region's border area
Fierce defensive battles continue on a large part of the border area of the Kharkiv region.
12 May 2024
Fierce defensive battles continue on a large part of the border area of the Kharkiv region.
In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, six attacks were recorded per day, a private house, an outbuilding, and a gas pipeline were damaged in Nikopol.
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine knew in advance about Russia's plans to attack the Kharkiv region and informed the military leadership of Ukraine about them.
During the day, Russian troops fired 12 times at settlements in the Donetsk region, damaging high-rise buildings and private homes.
As of today, 20 recruiting centers have been opened in Ukraine, with the most popular positions being drivers, mechanics, and drone operators.
Russian strikes pummeled the city of Kharkiv Sunday afternoon.
There are up to 500 people remaining in the city of Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, which is suffering from systematic enemy shelling. Evacuation is underway.
On May 12, Russian invasion troops launched a missile attack on the outskirts of the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine.
Russian volunteers fighting as part of the Siberian Battalion and Freedom of Russia Legion against Russia’s invasion force called on the Russian military deployed in Kharkiv region to surrender and switch to the side of truth.
Sunday morning, Russian invasion troops shelled Kherson from the temporarily occupied left bank of the Dnipro.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UK, David Cameron, after the unsuccessful attempt by the Russian invasion army to break through the Ukrainian defenses in Kharkiv region, spoke of an "extremely dangerous" moment in the ongoing war.
The Russian occupiers have banned residents of the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) from visiting cemeteries on Memorial Monday.
The published video of the explosion in a residential building in Belgorod does not show the fall of a rocket or bomb, and the nature of the explosion indicates that it occurred inside the building.
The accusations of the Russians of shelling a house in Belgorod by the Ukrainian Defence Forces are not true. It could have been a bombing or a domestic explosion, which the enemy propaganda uses in its own interests.
The situation on the frontline remains tense, with hot fighting continuing in four areas, and the situation is changing rapidly
In the operational zone of the Southern Defence Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army carried out 17 unsuccessful assaults yesterday, and 5 on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region.
More than 4,000 people have already been evacuated from the settlements of the Kharkiv region where the fighting has intensified.
Specialists of the Kyiv explosive service neutralized a Russian FPV drone with an unexploded ordnance in the Kherson region.
On the morning of May 12, Russian occupants attacked residential areas of the city of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region with guided aerial bombs. A woman died under the rubble of a house, and two men were rescued.
At night and in the morning, Russian troops fired 10 times at the border settlements of the Sumy region.
Two people were injured in the Donetsk region yesterday as a result of shelling by Russian troops.
Over the past day, Russian troops attacked 10 settlements in the Kherson region. One person was killed.
Yesterday, air defense units destroyed five Russian reconnaissance drones in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
Ukraine reports 155 combat engagements along the frontlines over the past 24 hours.
Russia’s Orlan reconnaissance drone crashed on Saturday in Dovzhansk, the town in Luhansk region temporarily held by the Russian invasion forces.
In the late hours of Saturday, the Russian invasion army hit the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region, employing artillery.
Russia’s total combat losses on the Ukrainian battlefields as of May 12, 2024, stood at 482,290, according to the estimates from the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
An air raid alert was declared in a number of regions of Ukraine due to the threat of the enemy launching ballistic missiles at the country from the eastern direction.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has emphasized the importance of timely delivery of military aid to Ukraine.
The Russian army attacked Nikopol at night with kamikaze drones, damaging houses and infrastructure.