Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 17 May 2024

  • Politico: The White House is not happy that Russia was invited to the anniversary of the Normandy landings
  • The White House has not changed its position on US military strikes against Russia
  • The Armed Forces neutralized more than 1,200 occupiers during the day
  • Reuters: Russia's Tuapsin refinery shut down after drone attack
  • Russian troops attacked twice in a day in the Kharkiv direction
  • The Russian army attacked Odesa with three ballistic missiles and three air missiles per day
  • An explosion rang out at the Communications Academy in St. Petersburg
  • Moldova condemned the intentions of the Russians to conduct training in Transnistria
  • In the Pokrovsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 21 Russian attacks
  • Reuters: The US is reviewing the G7 ban on Russian diamonds after protests from a number of countries
  • The Russians dropped explosives from a drone on two residents of the Kherson region
  • The Russian army dropped three aerial bombs on Kupyansk-Vuzlovy, wounding a woman
  • The Russians shelled Kharkiv once again, fires broke out, and more than a dozen people were killed and injured
  • Estonian intelligence believes that the actions of Russian troops do not indicate intentions to capture Kharkiv
  • Russia hit Odesa with missiles, there are wounded
  • Russian troops operate most actively in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions
  • Putin on potential negotiations: the Russian Federation must understand who it can do business with and who it can trust
  • Ukraine in certain hours reached a physical maximum in the import of electricity
  • Syrskyi: Russians in Kharkiv region expanded the combat zone by 70 km
  • Zelensky explained the breach of the border in Kharkiv Oblast by the lack of air defense
  • Austria is creating a EUR 500 million fund to support investments in Ukraine
  • A representative of the Russian Federation was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania due to a wanted list of a number of Lithuanian politicians
  • In the north of Vovchansk ZSU, they are cleaning
  • Pentagon: Ukraine can use weapons from the US only within its territory
  • Defense forces destroyed 2 Russian planes and a helicopter
  • Air defense destroyed all 20 Russian Shaheds at night
  • Drones in Tuapse attacked the refinery, a fire broke out
  • In the Belgorod region, a gas station caught fire due to a drone attack
  • In Novorossiysk, drones and missiles attacked the port and the oil depot

  • 16 May 2024

  • ISW: Russian reconnaissance drones can fly deep into the Ukrainian rear
  • The Russian authorities announced an attack by UAVs and naval drones in Sevastopol
  • In the evening, Kharkiv was attacked by UAVs and missiles
  • Sri Lanka wants to return mercenaries fighting on the side of Russia against Ukraine
  • In the Kharkiv direction, the number of attacks increased in the evening
  • NATO does not know whether Russia has already started its summer offensive
  • 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
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