Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 19 May 2023

  • Australia announced new sanctions against the Russian Federation: the list includes Rosneft, branches of Rosatom and Severstal
  • G7 leaders announced new restrictions against Russian diamonds
  • In Estonia, the leader of the pro-Kremlin party Koos fled to Russia
  • Statement of G7 leaders in Japan: Support for Ukraine will not waver
  • Ukraine added the Indian CK Birla to the list of war sponsors
  • The first direct flight from the Russian Federation in 4 years landed in Tbilisi
  • According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians can produce 67 missiles per month
  • Zelensky flew to the summit of Arab states in Saudi Arabia
  • The British Prime Minister appealed to Putin regarding support for Ukraine: We will not go anywhere
  • Georgia allowed the flights of the Russian Airline, which operated flights to Crimea
  • Elite units of Russia arrived in the Kursk region to carry out sabotage
  • Britain bans the import of Russian diamonds, copper and aluminum in new sanctions
  • Britain announced sanctions against the Russian Federation: there are companies from the orbit of "Rosatom" and the occupying "director" of the ZNPP
  • The Air Force destroyed 16 drones and three cruise missiles during the night attack
  • Attack on Kryvyi Rih: the enterprise and administration building were damaged, 2 people were injured
  • Lviv region was attacked by Russian drones, air defense was working
  • ISW: Ukraine seized the tactical initiative in the Bakhmut area
  • An air alert was announced all over Ukraine, air defense was working
  • Air defense destroyed all air targets that attacked Kyiv at night
  • Explosions rang out in Kryvyi Rih

  • 18 May 2023

  • The defenders eliminated more than 600 occupants and the enemy air defense system in a day
  • 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
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