Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 18 May 2023

  • Occupiers reported loud explosions in the center of Donetsk
  • 29 combat clashes took place between the Defense Forces and the occupiers during the day
  • Shelling of Sumy Oblast: more than 60 explosions from Russian shells per day
  • The head of the IOC wants Russians and Belarusians to take part in the 2024 Olympics
  • The Austrian minister still insists that immediate participation in demining Ukraine violates neutrality
  • The French ambassador visited Raisins
  • Moldova and the USA signed an agreement on "open skies"
  • In the evening, an air raid alarm sounded throughout Ukraine for half an hour
  • Stoltenberg: Ukraine has the means necessary to liberate the occupied territories
  • Russia covered Nikopol with fire: there is destruction
  • Italy will join the training of the Ukrainian military
  • The German Leica supplies the Russian Federation with binoculars and scopes despite the announcement of exit from the market
  • The head of the Ukrainian embassy is leaving Georgia
  • The Armed Forces control the southwestern part of Bakhmut and are advancing in places
  • British Ministry of Defense: We are giving Ukraine Storm Shadow because we cannot give fighters
  • Norway transfers up to eight M270 MLRS to Ukraine and expands Ukrainian participation in training
  • The Armed Forces hit the ammunition warehouse and 7 enemy EW stations
  • In Britain, it was confirmed: Ukraine started using Storm Shadow
  • Gas prices in Europe have dropped to summer 2021 levels for the first time
  • Up to 5,000 Ukrainian military personnel were secretly trained in Sweden
  • Sandu: Moldova wants to join the EU as soon as possible to protect itself from the Russian threat
  • EBRD will increase capital for the third time in history to help Ukraine
  • The NATO Secretary General believes in maintaining support for Ukraine, even if the war drags on
  • The Russians shelled the Kharkiv region during the day: there was an "arrival" in a residential building, a person was killed
  • The Kremlin called the freezing of the accounts of Finnish diplomatic missions a response to unfriendly actions
  • The head of the mission of Ukraine to NATO: there is no need to place all hopes on a single counteroffensive
  • There were hits in Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Odesa, rockets were shot down in a number of regions
  • The night attack of the Russians damaged the power system facilities
  • Moldova is discussing how to become part of the security architecture in the region
  • Japan accepts wounded Ukrainian soldiers for treatment
  • The Chinese envoy met with Zelenskyi and told him that "there is no panacea for the crisis"
  • There was an explosion on the railway in Crimea: several wagons went down
  • Air defense repelled several waves of Russian attacks: 29 out of 30 cruise missiles were destroyed
  • The deputy head of the Pentagon, who opposed the F-16 for Ukraine, is resigning
  • Britain does not plan to transfer Typhoon fighters to Ukraine: it will not be the right choice
  • Rocket attack on Odesa: one person died, two were injured
  • All enemy targets over Kyiv were destroyed
  • Attack on Kyiv: debris fell in several districts

  • 17 May 2023

  • The armed forces in the direction of Bakhmut advanced 150-1700 m during the day
  • ISW: The Russians are losing the initiative in the Bakhmut area
  • State Department: The US will provide Ukraine with new combat systems, taking into account the situation
  • The Ukrainians destroyed 510 occupiers and 32 enemy artillery systems in a day
  • Russians attack Bakhmut, 36 combat clashes took place in 4 directions
  • Borrell proposes to significantly increase the EU fund from which Ukraine is helped with weapons
  • The President of Austria criticized the government: it did not want to immediately join the demining of Ukraine
  • The US confirms that the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine is in working order
  • Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary: Ukraine threatens Hungary's sovereignty because Zelensky wanted to blow up the Druzhba pipeline
  • Russia announced that it destroyed 5 Patriot installations at once with a missile strike
  • The French Senate recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
  • The EU believes that they will overcome Hungary's veto on aid to Ukraine and new sanctions
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