Crimea hit by overnight drone attack, explosions reported
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, Dzhankoy and Krasnogvardeysky districts were attacked at night on May 19, there were hits.
19 May 2025
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, Dzhankoy and Krasnogvardeysky districts were attacked at night on May 19, there were hits.
During the day, from the morning of May 18 to the morning of May 19, the Russian army struck 135 times in Sumy region, causing casualties, two people were wounded.
A total of 175 combat clashes occurred between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the frontline on May 18.
In Kherson region, two people were killed and six others injured over the past day as a result of Russian attacks.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to May 19, 2025, amount to approximately 974,770 personnel, including 1,040 in the past 24 hours.
At approximately 22:30, Russian forces shelled residential neighborhoods in Kherson. One person was killed and three others were injured.
A single Russian Kalibr missile carrier remains in the Mediterranean Sea, while no Russian warships are present in the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov.
A 68-year-old resident of Beryslav, Kherson region, was injured in a Russian drone attack and has sought medical assistance, according to the Kherson Regional Military Administration.
18 May 2025
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 18, Russian troops shelled the building of the railway station and nearby streets in Kherson using artillery.
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.
Rescuers in armored vehicles, together with philanthropists, took ten children from the border of Sumy region whose mothers were on a bus that was hit by a drone on May 17 by Russian troops.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held his first meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Rome, during which they discussed a complete and unconditional ceasefire, pressure on Russia, continued support for Ukraine and Canada's presidency of the G7.
Russian shelling in the Donetsk region killed one civilian and left eight others injured on Saturday, May 17.
Two women, aged 48 and 52, were injured by Russian shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The attacks also caused damage to agricultural enterprises and residential buildings.