Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 16 May 2024

  • Austria is creating a fund with a plan to allocate more than €500 million for investments in Ukraine
  • NATO does not believe that Russia will be able to make a strategic breakthrough in the Kharkiv region
  • The US imposed sanctions on Russians who helped Moscow get weapons from North Korea
  • In Nikopol region, the Russians damaged infrastructural facilities, including energy facilities
  • Russian troops shelled Kherson, two people were injured
  • NHK: The export of a key component for gunpowder from China to the Russian Federation increased sharply after the start of the great war in Ukraine
  • The greatest activity of the Russian troops is observed in the Pokrovsky direction
  • Denmark provides a new €750 million military aid package to Ukraine, including air defense and artillery
  • Vuchich doubts that the Balkan countries will join the EU before Ukraine
  • The Russians shelled the Vovchan community with cluster munitions
  • In the Kherson region, one person died and 4 others were injured due to a Russian airstrike
  • In Ukraine, there is a historic gap between exports and imports, but the situation is better than a year ago
  • In all regions of Ukraine, lights are turned off according to schedules
  • Xi Jinping: China and Russia insist on a political solution to the war in Ukraine
  • Generation and import of electricity in Ukraine is chronically lacking
  • Bloomberg: ECB urges banks to accelerate exit from Russia to avoid US sanctions
  • Politico: Russia makes billions selling oil to the EU through Turkey
  • New Zealand expands sanctions against the Russian Federation
  • The Russians damaged the university in Kharkiv with an airstrike

  • 15 May 2024

  • During the day in the Kharkiv region, the Russian army lost 260 soldiers and 40 pieces of equipment
  • The Armed Forces destroyed more than 1,500 invaders and 19 tanks
  • ISW: The Russians advanced no more than 8 km from the border in the north of Kharkiv Oblast
  • The White House considers it unacceptable that China is helping the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine
  • Putin flew to China
  • In Sevastopol, explosions and air defense operations were reported in the evening
  • In the Sumy Oblast, 37 shellings were recorded during the day, and it is known about the dead and the injured
  • Two railway workers were killed in the shelling in Dnipropetrovsk region
  • Fragments of a Russian rocket fell on the yard of a house in Poltava Oblast
  • The Slovakian government said that Fico was still being operated on, and that the attack was politically motivated
  • The Polish Seimas approved changes to the rules for assistance to Ukrainian refugees
  • In the Kharkiv direction, the intensity of hostilities increased
  • The Russians hit a densely populated district of Kharkiv: there are casualties, a 5-story building is damaged
  • Schedules of hourly blackouts have been introduced throughout Ukraine
  • Emergency power outages have been applied in Kyiv and a number of regions
  • The Russians shelled a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, there are casualties
  • The EBRD predicts that Ukraine's GDP will grow by 3% this year and 6% next year
  • Rheinmetall plans to build an enterprise for the production of air defense systems in Ukraine
  • 50 countries and organizations have announced that they will participate in the Swiss Peace Summit in June
  • Zelensky strongly condemned the attempt on Fico and wished him a speedy recovery
  • The President of the Czech Republic called Ukraine's hopes of recapturing captured territories naive
  • Prime Minister of Slovakia Fico was shot, his condition is serious
  • In Ukraine, 25% of fixed networks and thousands of mobile communication stations were damaged
  • Blinken: Ukraine must win the war
  • Blinken in Kyiv announced $2 billion for the Ukrainian defense industry
  • Russia hit the Dnipro infrastructure, there are dead and wounded
  • The Netherlands and France are promoting sanctions in the EU against banks that help the Russian Federation supply military equipment
  • As a result of the Russian missile attack on Mykolaiv, 6 people were injured
  • Ukrainian officials are trying to get Biden's permission to hit the Russian Federation with US weapons
  • The USA threatened to limit Raiffeisen's access to the American financial system due to its work in the Russian Federation
  • Evacuation from Kharkiv is not planned
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