Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 18 May 2023

  • 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
  • India imported a record amount of Russian oil in April
  • In Russia, three developers of hypersonic missiles were arrested for "treason".
  • Bakhmut and Maryinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities
  • The special envoy of China, who was the ambassador to the Russian Federation, visited Ukraine
  • The Council of Europe summit supported Zelenskyi's "peace formula".
  • CNN: Patriot air defense system near Kyiv has "minor" damage, US inspectors examined it
  • Erdogan: "grain agreement" extended for two months
  • The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands on the "coalition of fighter jets": there is no progress yet
  • Britain offers help to countries that are ready to supply fighter jets to Ukraine
  • The Ukrainians won another half a kilometer in the direction of Bakhmut
  • The EU wants to make it easier for European companies to exit the Russian market by easing sanctions
  • There are already more Russian military personnel than personnel at the ZNPP
  • Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Serbia and Turkey refused the agreement on the registry of crimes of the Russian Federation
  • Scholz has no intention of participating in the "coalition of fighter jets" for Ukraine
  • Poland cannot provide Ukraine with F-16 fighters, but is ready to transfer MiG-29
  • Russia has frozen the accounts of diplomatic missions of Finland
  • Hungary declared that the EU and NATO became a de facto party to the war in Ukraine
  • In the morning, the enemy targeted a hospital in Beryslav and a high-rise building in Kherson
  • Belarus assures that no nuclear weapons were brought to them from the Russian Federation
  • A drone crashed and exploded in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation
  • The Russians are intensifying terrorist attacks on the population of Kharkiv region
  • The US House of Representatives supported a resolution on a special tribunal for Russia
  • The White House does not plan to request additional funding for Ukraine. The necessary resources are available

  • 16 May 2023

  • Russia's losses in the war against Ukraine exceeded 200 thousand killed
  • Consequences of shelling of Mykolaiv: car dealership, shopping center, industrial and private buildings were damaged
  • 55 combat clashes took place between the Defense Forces and the occupiers during the day
  • Strike on Mykolaiv: the enemy fired 2 Kalibr missiles at the city
  • The Russian Federation is trying to intensify offensive operations in the Bakhmut area
  • A large-scale air alert was announced in Ukraine: fires broke out in Mykolaiv after the explosions
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