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[Korrespondent] 20:36 Soldiers of the 110th separate mechanized brigade reported that they shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Donetsk region. In two weeks, this is already the fourth Su-25 shot down by the 110th Brigade.
18:57 On Sunday, May 19, emergency outages of household and industrial consumers in the Poltava and Kharkov regions are possible during the day, Ukrenergo reported. The reason is emergency restoration work at power facilities after drone strikes on May 18. No outages are forecast for other areas.
17:49 The next meeting in the Ramstein format will be held on Monday, May 20, online, chaired by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and US Chief of Joint Staff Charles Brown, the Pentagon said. Before the start of the meeting, Austin will make a statement at 15:00 Kyiv time.
16:35 The Russians once again shelled Volchansk - one person was killed, four were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported. Another person was injured as a result of shelling. Ukrainian Volchansk community.
16:11 The Russians hit Kharkov again - there is destruction of housing infrastructure, five people were injured, including two teenagers 13 and 16 years old, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. He also said that the number of deaths as a result of yesterday's attack in the city had increased to four - one of the wounded died in the hospital. 16 people remain in hospital, two of them are in serious condition. Sinegubov also said that about 100 people remain in Volchansk, “even fewer” in settlements along the Lipetsk direction, and the evacuation continues.
15:48 The Ministry of Defense announced the start of testing a new service - an electronic queue at the TCC. Pre-registration is already possible at 19 TCCs - testing is taking place in separate centers in Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa, Dnepr, Sumy, Vinnitsa, Kropyvnytskyi. They promise to connect “much more” soon.
14:40 A car with civilians came under enemy fire in Volchansk, Kharkov region, the prosecutor’s office reported. According to the investigation, on May 16, four civilians tried to leave Volchansk by car, but on the way to the city they came under Russian fire. Two people were killed and two were injured.
12:59 In the Kharkov direction, the Russians are trying to attack in the direction of the settlements of Liptsy and Volchansk, but they are not successful. Defense forces are trying to push the enemy in the direction of Glubokoe, the General Staff said. In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces continue assault operations in the Sinkovka and Ternov areas, and have partial success in certain areas.
11:57 Ukraine recently sent a request to the United States asking for help in identifying targets in the Russian Federation that Kiev could hit with its own weapons. Ukraine is also asking to lift the restriction on US strikes on Russian territory, The Wall Street Journal writes. Previous similar requests, as well as the request to allow the United States to use weapons, were invariably rejected by Washington, the newspaper notes.
10:54 The Ministry of Defense reported that as of now, 150 thousand Ukrainians have successfully logged into the Reserve+ application, and hundreds of thousands more requests are in the queue. The department notes that the application is protected from DDOS attacks and enemy attempts to hack it, so the authorization function may not work for everyone at the same time.
09:31 In the Donetsk region on May 17, three people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - two in Krasnohorivka and one in Chasovoy Yar. Five more people in the region were injured during the day, said the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
09:27 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's attacks on the Shevchenko district of Kharkov increased to 31, three people were killed, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. One person was also wounded as a result of enemy shelling. Liptsy, Kharkov district, another one - in the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovoy.
09:23 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, five people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. In particular, two high-rise buildings and 14 private houses, an educational institution, agricultural enterprises, a store and gas pipelines were damaged.
09:20 Ukraine and Western allies often have “different views” on what the end of the war might look like, Zelensky said in an interview with AFP: “We want the war to end with a just peace for us... The West wants the war to end. Period. As soon as possible. And for them this is a fair world... We are in an absurd situation where the West fears that Russia will lose the war and does not want Ukraine to lose it."
At the same time, the president emphasized that “no one is going to give up.” “We must be sober and understand that they are going deeper into our territory,” he said. According to Zelensky, in the Kharkov region the situation is controlled, but not stabilized. The Russians want to attack Kharkov, but they understand that it will be difficult. The President believes that the Russian offensive “may consist of several waves”; in the Kharkov region “there was the first wave.” As for Kyiv, according to the head of state, the Russians do not have enough forces for a large-scale offensive.
Zelensky also said that Ukraine has only about 25% of the required amount of air defense systems. In addition, Ukraine needs 120-130 modern F-16 combat aircraft.
08:43 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 18:
- personnel - about 491,080 (+1210) people,
- tanks - 7560 (+13),
- armored combat vehicles - 14,595 (+43),
- artillery systems - 12,639 (+36),
- MLRS - 1071 (+0),
- air defense systems - 801 (+1),
- aircraft - 354 (+1),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 10 108 (+35),
- cruise missiles - 2203 (+3),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 17,169 (+65),
- special equipment - 2075 (+6).
08:29 At night, enemy UAVs damaged the energy infrastructure in one of the districts of the Poltava region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin. Ukrenergo noted that at night Russian drones attacked two energy infrastructure facilities in the eastern and central regions; consumers did not lose power.
07:18 Air defense at night destroyed all 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, the Air Force reported. Drones were destroyed in Kharkov, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
00:37 In the Kharkov direction, the Russians tried to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Glubokoe-Liptsy, Bugrovatka-Staritsa directions, the situation is under control, the General Staff reported. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting assault operations in certain areas in order to improve the tactical situation, and are also combing the area. In the Volchansk area, Ukrainian units are strengthening their defenses in order to improve the tactical situation.