Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 17 May 2024

  • 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
  • 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
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