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Friday, 13 February 2026, 14:35
As part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Bring Kids Back UA action plan, a 15-year-old boy has been returned from temporarily occupied territory to reunite with his father in government-controlled Ukraine.
Over the past nine months, the Russian army has lost 63,172 troops in the Kursk region, including approximately 4,000 DPRK citizens.
On the night of May 19, Russia plans to launch an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile as part of an 'exercise,' aiming to exert pressure and intimidate Ukraine, the European Union, and NATO member states.
On the morning of May 18, a 70-year-old man was killed in Vesele, Kherson region, following a Russian drone attack.
During the night of May 18, Russian forces launched more than 150 drones in an attack on the Kyiv region, marking one of the most massive UAV strikes in the area.
In Kharkiv region, three civilians were injured as a result of a Russian air strike on a private residential sector in the city of Kupiansk.
On the eve of the presidential election in Poland, Russia has intensified its special operation Doppelganger, creating websites and social media pages that imitate real Western media.
On the Day of Struggle for the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that Crimea, like the rest of Ukraine, should be free, and empires always fall.
In the Dnipro region, Russian occupiers attacked three districts yesterday, two women were injured, a high-rise building, private houses, shops, businesses and administrative buildings were damaged.
One person was killed and six more injured by Russian shelling in the Donetsk region on Saturday, May 17.
In the Kyiv region, emergency services are working to eliminate the consequences of a massive overnight drone attack in the Obukhiv and Fastiv districts. One woman was killed, and three others, including a child, were injured.
In Kherson, Russian forces dropped an explosive device from a drone onto a civilian vehicle, injuring two people.
A Russian drone attack has damaged windows in a residential apartment building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 167 combat clashes with Russian invaders on May 17. In the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled 54 enemy assaults.
In Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, soldiers from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo, along with other Ukrainian Armed Forces units, successfully repelled an assault by Russian forces attempting to advance using an armored personnel carrier.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine successfully shot down 88 Russian drones, while 128 enemy UAVs vanished from radar.
On May 17, Russian strikes injured eight people in the Kherson region.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to May 18, 2025 amount to nearly 973,730 invaders, including another 1,130 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Over the past day, Russian forces carried out 343 strikes on 11 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
A nighttime drone attack in the Kyiv region killed a woman and left several others injured, and caused a fire at a local plant.
A volunteer from Latvia, Nikita Tarenov with the call sign “Latvian”, was killed in the battles for Ukraine.
In Novotroitske, Donetsk region, Russian forces have destroyed the wooden Holy Trinity Church, built in the 19th century.
Partisans have reported that Russian invading forces have removed military equipment from a base in Sevastopol, located in temporarily occupied Crimea.
The commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Brigadier General Oleksandr Pivnenko, has demonstrated the use of fiber optics on the routes of Russian drones.
17 May 2025
There have been 131 combat engagements on the front lines today, with 44 attacks carried out by Russian forces in the Pokrovsk sector alone, resulting in 372 enemy casualties.
More than 20,000 Ukrainian service members have undergone advanced military training in Germany.
Russian shelling in the Donetsk region killed one civilian and left eight others injured on Saturday, May 17.
A 19-year-old girl has been returned from temporarily occupied territory as part of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Bring Kids Back UA initiative.