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2023-05-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
In the Cherkasy region, an unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at night, in Kyiv, two private houses were damaged by debris, -
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[LB] Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions were also under enemy fire.

In the Kyiv region , during the air attack, according to preliminary data, debris fell on two private houses. No hits were recorded, and there were no casualties. This is stated in the summary from OVA as of this morning.

Air defense forces destroyed an enemy drone in Cherkasy last night during an air alert. No casualties or damage.

In Sumy this morning, the Russians launched two shellings of the border. In the Shalyginsk community, there was shelling from small arms and a large-caliber machine gun (queues). There was mortar shelling (seven explosions) in Bilopolska. Previously - without losses. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 12 shelling of the border.

A total of 136 explosions were recorded. Bilopolsk, Krasnopilsk, Shalyginsk and Novoslobidsk communities came under fire. A private residential building caught fire in Novoslobidska as a result of shelling. Also, the power line was damaged due to mortar shelling (six explosions).

In Chernihivska, there were three shellings from rocket artillery, mortars, and barrel artillery during the day. Koryukivskyi and Novgorod-Siverskyi districts were under fire. As a result of the shelling, a non-residential building was destroyed and seven private buildings were damaged in the Snovska community of the Koryukiv district. It passed without casualties.

In Zaporizhzhia, the enemy struck 90 attacks on 14 towns and villages in one day. 76 artillery barrages on Zaliznychny, Gulyaipilsk, Olgivskyi, Malynivka, Shcherbaky, 12 from rocket salvo fire systems on Gulyaipol, Novodanilivka, Biloghiri, Stepovoy, Kamianskyi and two aerial ones - on Malya Tokmachka. Fortunately, people survived. The destruction of 24 civilian objects was recorded. The occupiers once again targeted Novoyakovlivka. Enemy "Hradi" worked on peaceful homes of residents of Stepnohirsk. The enemy also struck high-rise buildings, private houses and farm buildings in Orihiv. In addition, the cemetery was damaged.

In Dnipropetrovsk yesterday, the enemy covered the Nikopol district with artillery fire. The Chervonogrigoriv community and Nikopol itself came under attack. Almost three dozen shells hit the city. Four people were injured. Several fires broke out in the city, economic buildings and infrastructure facilities burned. Fourteen five-story buildings and seven private houses were damaged. A farm building was destroyed, eight were gutted, and there was destruction at three private enterprises and a service station.

In Luhansk in the Swativ district, the enemy tried to improve the tactical position near Novoselivskii, but did not succeed. There is not a single local resident left in this settlement, but the Russians do not abandon their intentions to capture it. In Stelmakhivka, the enemy conducts artillery fire almost every day. An elderly man was evacuated from there last night. In addition to Stelmakhivka, the enemy opened fire on Makiivka and Bilogorivka. During the day, the enemy fired 99 rounds (478 shells).

In Kharkivskain the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery attacks on the settlements of Kozacha Lopan, Hoptivka, Lukyantsi, Gatishche, Budarki, Nesterne, Krugle, Zemlianka and Staritsa. In the Kupian direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of ​​Masyutivka. Conducted an airstrike in the Kislivka area. Dvorichanske, Kamianka, Krasne Pershe, Mitrofanivka, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kindrashivka, Kupyansk, Kislivka, Tabaivka, and Berestov came under artillery and mortar fire.

Two people - a man and a woman - died as a result of artillery fire in the Dvorichna Kupyan district, another man received shrapnel wounds and was hospitalized. In the evening, the enemy massively shelled Vovchansk, Chuguyiv district. Hitting near the DSNS unit, shelling damaged three residential buildings and commercial buildings, the building of the Kharkiv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health. Also, a hit was recorded near the building of PrJSC "Vovchansky OEZ". In the village Tyshchenkovka, Kupyan district, as a result of shelling from multiple rocket launchers, at least four residential buildings and commercial buildings were damaged, and fires broke out.

In Donetsk , the enemy carried out 32 attacks per day, using the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, an air strike (the type of missile was not established), the Grad anti-aircraft missile system, and artillery. 17 settlements were shelled: Kostyantynivka, Chasiv Yar, Druzhkivka, Hirnyk, Toretsk, Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Krasnohorivka, Bakhmut, Keramik, Gostre, Karlivka, Novoukrainka, Pervomaiske, Druzhba, Umanske, Kramatorsk.

A total of 15 residential buildings (three of them multi-apartment), two schools, a kindergarten, a hospital, two power lines, a railway track, a company car, a lyceum building, a church, the administration building of the Selydiv correctional colony, a boiler room, five civilian cars, a truck, an administration building were damaged. four garages, utility building, gas pipeline. In Donetsk region in a day: five dead, four wounded. In Mykolaivskatonight, the forces and means of anti-aircraft defense of the "Southern" air command shot down four Russian missiles launched by the invaders from the Black Sea. Yesterday, the enemy fired artillery at the water area of ​​the Ochakiv community. There were no injuries or damage.

In Khersonskaduring the day there were 80 shellings (407 shells), of which 14 shellings (60 shells) were fired at Kherson. The Russians once again shelled the civilian infrastructure. The Korabelny district of Kherson was under fire. As a result of the shelling, housing and commercial buildings were damaged and destroyed. A large-scale fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished by rescuers. The enemy also shelled Beryslav district. Lviv of the Tyagin territorial community came under fire. As a result of the shelling, two men were injured, and now doctors are providing them with the necessary assistance.

A Russian mine blew up a tractor near the village of Tomarine in the Beryslav community. A tractor driver came across explosives during field work. A 53-year-old man was injured, the victim's condition is stable. A 17-year-old boy came across explosives left by the Russian army in the village of Trifonivka of the Veliko Oleksandrivska community. Due to the detonation, he received serious injuries. The injured was hospitalized. On the night of May 16, Kizomys of the Belozersk community was shelled. No casualties. In just one day, five people were injured due to Russian aggression. 95 people were evacuated from the de-occupied territory of the region.

We will remind you that at night the Russians fired missiles at Ukraine from three directions. There were 18 missiles of various types of air, sea and land-based. Air defense shot down six aeroballistic "Daggers". The defenders also shot down nine Kalibr cruise missiles, three surface-based missiles (S-400, Iskander-M) and drones.

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