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Starting 2014, Russia has been openly encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It all started with the illegal annexation of Crimea.
12 May 2023
Starting 2014, Russia has been openly encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It all started with the illegal annexation of Crimea.
The Russian invasion forces continue to focus their main efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Marinka directions where 44 attacks were repulsed. The fiercest battles continue for the towns of Bakhmut and Marinka.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was barred from publicly addressing the Eurovision audience due to the position of the event’s organizer - the European Broadcasting Union - which claimed the speech could lead to the politicization of the song contest.
11 May 2023
Russia has put the economy on a war footing and actually rebuilt it for a long-term war
Throughout the day, Ukraine’s Air Force carried out 13 strikes targeting Russian manpower and equipment clusters.
Ukraine’s Air Force 13 times strikes Russian positions on Wed
In Bakhmut, Donetsk region, units of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service repelled yet another wave of Russian attacks, shooting down four enemy unmanned aerial vehicles using anti-drone guns.
In the past 24 hours, fifteen military clashes have occurred in the Bakhmut direction, and Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated 165 Russian invaders.
The invaders are feeling restless in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and, not understanding where to expect the main attack, are scattering their efforts in several directions.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has included 25 big companies in the list of international sponsors of war.
Over the past day, Russian forces attacked positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdiivka and Maryinka sectors 22 times. The Ukrainian defenders destroyed and damaged 10 units of Russian weapons and military equipment and eliminated more than a company of invaders.
Russia has already lost about 196,920 troops in Ukraine (+610 over the past day).
Russian troops continue focusing efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions.
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10 May 2023
During the day, Russian troops launched more than 30 attacks in Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, and Marinka directions. The fiercest battles continue for the cities of Bakhmut and Marinka.
Over the past 24 hours, 28 engagements and 524 enemy strikes were recorded in Bakhmut direction. The Ukrainian troops decimated 203 invaders, wounded 216 more, and captured five.
On May 9, 2023, Ukrainian forces took a Russian soldier prisoner near the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut, using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Russia has already lost about 196,310 troops in Ukraine (+690 over the past day).
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s missile and artillery units have struck one Russian command post, two artillery units in firing position, and one electronic warfare system. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two enemy air defense missile systems.
09 May 2023
Ukrainian defenders have used aerial reconnaissance to destroy an electronic warfare system of the Russian troops in the Donetsk region.
In the Tavria direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Ukrainian defense forces 22 times without no results.
Russian troops carried out almost 30 attacks in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions during the day, with the fiercest fighting going on for the cities of Bakhmut and Marinka.
On Luhansk axis of the front, 55 occupiers were killed, 111 were wounded, and two more were captured.
Over the past day, the Russian occupation forces shelled the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the area of Bakhmut city in Donetsk region 375 times. The Ukrainian troops eliminated 166 occupiers and wounded 206 more.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres believes peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow are currently impossible.
On the night of May 8-9, Russian troops fired 25 Kalibr and Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles at Ukraine. The air defense units destroyed 23 missiles.
Over the past day, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched 16 strikes on enemy personnel and military equipment clusters.
Ukraine’s Air Force launches 16 strikes on enemy positions
The enemy has intensified attacks on Bakhmut and increased the number of soldiers, continues to launch rocket attacks and shell the positions of Ukrainian defenders with various types of weapons.
08 May 2023
The Russian invaders are conducting offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Maryinka directions - about 30 enemy attacks have been recorded here today. Fierce battles for Bakhmut and Maryinka are ongoing.