18 May 2022 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• The State Department sees no reason to talk to Lavrov
• Melitopol: Guerrillas killed high-ranking Russian servicemen
• The enemy focused on holding positions, but in the Donbass is advancing
• Dnipro: The Russians fired two missiles, one was shot down by air defense, but there is a victim
• Canada bans thousands of Russian sanctions, including Putin and Lavrov
• The Baltic states and Poland are asking NATO to strengthen
• The Russians fired on Nikolaev
• Finland and Sweden have applied to join NATO
• Russians fired at Sumy region from "Gradov"
• The occupiers fired on the Odessa region from the Black Sea
• The German Interior Minister called for the expulsion of Schroeder from the ranks of the ruling Social Democrats
• Donetsk region: Russians fired on 12 settlements, there are dead and wounded
• The flow of entry into Ukraine has been breaking records since the beginning of the war
• Ukraine continues to pay its debts
• Putin is assured that he cannot be the first to strike a nuclear strike
• Air defense shot down another Russian plane
• Zelensky: Descendants of tyranny want to deprive the whole Ukrainian people of their homes
• The European Commission has offered Ukraine macro-financial assistance of 9 billion euros
• The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced the expulsion of 34 French diplomats
• Russia is sending 27 Spanish diplomats
• Luhansk region is completely de-energized due to hostilities
• Russia's Russian subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy
• In captured Melitopol, guerrillas blew up the occupiers' train
• Russia says they are fighting in Ukraine with laser weapons
• Turkey has blocked talks on Finland and Sweden joining NATO
• The European Commission has officially proposed to create a mechanism for the reconstruction of Ukraine
• The EU is mobilizing 300 billion euros to give up Russian energy
• The Armed Forces launched an offensive and liberated some more Kharkiv region
• Russia is sending 24 Italian diplomats
• Russians fired from machine guns, grenade launchers and artillery at Sumy and Chernihiv
• Donetsk region: 5 people killed in airstrike in Bakhmut, including a child
• The US Embassy in Kyiv has resumed work
• There will be no breakthrough on the battlefield in the coming weeks, a source in NATO
• Citizens are returning to Kharkiv en masse, but the authorities do not share optimism
• There are differences in the EU over Ukraine's membership, but not over weapons and sanctions
• In the Kherson region, the occupiers fired on a column of people: there are dead and wounded