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2024-05-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 13, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:21 In the Khar'kov region, the Russian army changed the tactics of massive offensives, as it was at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, to advancing in small groups. Russians move through forest belts, plantings, and bushes, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. He also said that up to 200 people remained in Volchansk and called for evacuation.
As for fortifications, Sinegubov today instructed the relevant deputy to gather all participants in the process of constructing fortifications. Each contractor must report on the work performed, added the head of the OVA.
22:17 The United States will announce a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the coming days, said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
22:02 The draft bilateral security agreement between the EU and Ukraine sets out the forms of security and defense assistance that the bloc will continue to provide to Kiev, as well as a consultation mechanism in the event of impending aggression, writes Reuters. The document, which is currently being discussed between the EU and Ukraine, stipulates that in the event of “future aggression” Kyiv and Brussels will hold consultations within 24 hours and “quickly determine” further steps in accordance with the obligations.
The draft agreement also lists nine forms of security assistance the EU will continue to provide to Ukraine, including arms supplies, military training, defense industry cooperation and mine clearance assistance.
21:44 F-16 fighters from Denmark will be in Ukraine within a month, said Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen.
21:29 In Germany, weapons will be produced to the caliber of the Kalashnikov assault rifle for Ukraine, writes Die Welt with reference to a representative of the defense concern Heckler & Koch.
20:45 National Security Advisor to the President of Estonia Madis Roll said that the country is discussing the possibility of sending troops to western Ukraine, which would take over the indirect combat and logistical functions of the Ukrainian military in order to free them up to fight at the front. According to him, the executive branch is currently analyzing such a possible step. And although “Estonia would prefer to act in this way within the framework of the full NATO mission,” he did not rule out the possibility that Tallinn would act as part of a smaller coalition. "Discussions are ongoing. We must consider all possibilities. We must not limit ourselves in what we can do," Roll stressed.
20:27 Shoigu will be the curator of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, but not its immediate leader, Peskov said.
20:01 Counterstrike actions of the Defense Forces continue in the Khar'kov region, the direction has been strengthened, in particular Volchansk and border areas, Zelensky said in an evening video message. According to him, Brigadier General Mikhail Drapaty is responsible for this area right on the spot.
“Now our results are becoming more and more visible - we are destroying the occupier’s infantry and equipment. At the same time, we understand how the enemy operates, and we see a plan to draw back our forces. Of course, we do not leave the Donetsk directions without the necessary support and support, namely Kramatorsk direction, Pokrovskoye. Constant attention to the Kupyansk direction. We are also recording enemy activity against the Sumy and Chernihiv regions - sabotage groups, shelling. Our task is absolutely clear - to disrupt the Russian attempt to expand the war," the president noted.
19:38 Another IRIS-T air defense system from Germany will arrive in Ukraine in May, said German Ambassador Martin Jäger. “In addition, we promised Ukraine that we will supply more such systems this year, next and in 2026. That is, we are consistently working on expanding air defense,” he added.
19:24 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced a direct hit on an energy facility. According to him, an air defense system was activated over Belgorod and the Belgorod region, several air targets were shot down, and seven people were initially injured.
19:12 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - they discussed the Peace Summit, the current situation on the battlefield and continued defense support for Ukraine.
18:53 The new Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation will be Andrei Belousov, who has nothing to do with the army and previously served as First Deputy Prime Minister. Sergei Shoigu, who held this post for 12 years, will move to the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. This post has been held by Nikolai Patrushev since 2008 - his new position in the Kremlin was promised to be announced in the next few days. About what such large-scale changes in the military bloc of the aggressor mean, see the article Replacement of Shoigu.
18:29 Units of the Defense Forces have pushed back the Russian army and are conducting a clean-up operation on the northern outskirts of Volchansk, Kharkov region, the General Staff reported. As of 17:00, fighting continues in the Kharkov direction, the number of military clashes has increased to 12. A military clash also began in the area of the village of Staritsa.
In the Limansky direction the number of military clashes increased to seven, in the Seversky direction - to 14, in Kramatorsk - to 31, in Pokrovsky - to 31. In Toretsky, Kupyansky, Kurakhovsky, Vremevsky, Gulyaipolsky, Orekhovsky, Pridneprovsky the situation is unchanged, controlled by Ukrainian units. In the Donetsk region, units of the Defense Forces shot down an enemy Su-25.
17:35 Russian military attacked a farm in Korotichi, Khar'kov region - one person was killed, three were wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Another person was injured as a result of an enemy attack on Liptsy.
Sinegubov also said that today a decision was made on the forced evacuation of orphans and children deprived of parental care. We are talking about 113 children from the border communities of Bogodukhovsky, Kupyansky and Izyumsky districts. Only nine children with their guardians from the Volchansk community left of their own free will.
17:14 Due to constant shelling, Volchansk is turning into Bakhmut or Maryinka, said Vladimir Timoshko, chief of police of the Kharkov region. According to him, the Russians use a large number of guided bombs to attack the city: “This is a bomb weighing 250, or even 500 kg, which can demolish a multi-story building. In a sense, Volchansk is turning into Bakhmut or Marinka.”
17:03 The Russians fired at the village of Kizomys, Belozersk community, Kherson region - as a result of a hit on a residential building, two people were killed, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
16:26 In the Khar'kov direction, as of 14:00, the enemy carried out 11 attacks, two military clashes continue, the General Staff reported. The Russian Army is trying to oust units of the Defense Forces from their positions, and had partial success in the area of the village of Lukyantsy. The enemy's advance has been stopped and the Defense Forces are counterattacking. To strengthen the troops, pre-created reserves have been moved to the Khar'kov direction; depending on the development of the situation, the build-up of the group will continue. The troops are provided with the necessary weapons, the General Staff assured.
In the Kupyansk direction, 19 military clashes took place in the areas of Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Berestovo, Stelmakhovka, Novoigorevka, Makeevka. One military clash took place in the Liman direction; on Seversky - 12 military clashes in the areas of Belogorovka, Verkhnekamensky, Sporny, Vyemka, Razdolovka; in Kramatorsk - 27 military clashes in the areas of Grigoryevka, Novy, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Toretsk direction. There were 24 military clashes in the Pokrovsky direction; on Kurakhovsky - five military clashes in the areas of Krasnogorovka and Novomikhailovka. In the Vremevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled attacks in the Vodyanoy, Urozhaynoy, Staromayorsky districts of the Donetsk region. The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction. In the Orekhovsky direction, eight military clashes took place in the Staromayorsky area, one clash continues in the Rabotino area. In the Dnieper direction, two military clashes took place in the area of the village of Krynki, one continues.
15:27 In the Volchansk community of the Khar'kov region, the Russian military has been forcibly holding local residents in the basement since May 11. As the prosecutor's office reported, citing eyewitnesses, on May 13, some of them managed to escape and get to the volunteers; now the people are safe. The victims said that while they were in the basement, they heard Russian servicemen talking about how the civilian population should be shot. People were also forced to provide medical assistance to Russians.
15:18 Spain is preparing a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, including Leopard 2, writes El País. According to the newspaper, preparation of the package can be completed before June 30. It will include, in particular, the first ten battle tanks from a batch of 19 restored Leopard 2 A4; large caliber artillery ammunition; light and heavy machine guns; anti-tank weapons and field artillery shells; armored infantry vehicles, etc.
15:14 As a result of the Ukrainian strike on the occupied Sorokino, Lugansk region, a strong fire started, said the leader of the “LPR” Leonid Pasechnik. According to him, the strike was allegedly carried out on an “industrial zone”; three people were killed and four injured.
15:09 Early in the morning of May 13, Ukraine attacked a Russian military air defense base on Mount Ai-Petri in Crimea, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. According to the publication's sources in the emergency services of the annexed region, military unit 85683 was attacked by several missiles (presumably Storm Shadow). On Mount Ai-Petri there is a “secret” military air defense base of the 3rd radio technical regiment of the Russian Armed Forces. As a result of the strike, the territory of the military unit was damaged, the commander of military unit 85683, Alexander Kulakov, and another serviceman were killed. There are also wounded, their number is being determined.
15:03 Zelensky said that he had telephone conversations with the Prime Ministers of Sweden and Luxembourg Ulf Kristersson and Luke Frieden - they discussed defense assistance for Ukraine, the urgent needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, especially in air defense systems.
14:50 The house in Belgorod, where 15 people died, was most likely hit by Russian ammunition, not Ukrainian, according to Conflict Intelligence Team analysts. They note that the attack on the house came from the northeast, so it could have been an anti-aircraft guided missile from a Russian air defense system or an emergency convergence of the FAB. “The version that a missile from the Ukrainian Tochka-U could change its trajectory under the influence of an air defense missile in such a way as to strike from this side of the building seems unlikely to us,” noted investigator Ruslan Leviev.
14:36 The Russians launched a massive strike with cluster munitions on the Snovskaya community of the Chernihiv region - according to preliminary information, three people were wounded. Houses, cars, and civil infrastructure were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus.
14:15 Russian troops in the Khar'kov region are trying to stretch the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov: “Recently, about 15 enemy attacks have been repelled. The situation is quite difficult, but absolutely all enemy attacks are repulsed. There is an increase in the gray zone, an increase in the front line, because that the enemy is trying to deliberately stretch them, attacking in small groups in new directions.”
13:33 The SBU reported that it prevented four terrorist attacks in Kiev, which were supposed to take place on May 9. Agents of the Russian GRU, who installed explosive devices in construction hypermarkets of a well-known chain and near one of the cafes, were caught red-handed. According to the Russian intelligence service, the explosives were supposed to detonate during peak traffic hours. In this way, the GRU wanted to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, and also send a signal on the symbolic day for them, May 9, about the alleged presence of a Russian underground in Kyiv, the SBU reported. The security service established the entire chain of this network, including intelligence and combat groups, smugglers who delivered explosives from the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as the direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack. Those detained face life imprisonment.
13:18 In March, April and May alone, the Russian Aerospace Forces dropped at least 32 FABs on Russian and occupied Ukrainian regions, the opposition Russian publication Astra calculated. Thus, on May 10, the Russian Aerospace Forces dropped four FABs on the Belgorod region.
12:41 Mikhail Drapaty was appointed commander of the operational-tactical group of troops in Khar'kov instead of Yuri Galushkin, RBC-Ukraine was informed in the operational-strategic group of troops Khortytsia. At the same time, Drapaty also remains in the position of Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:19 Soldiers of the 47th separate mechanized brigade reported that they shot down a Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopter.
12:16 Lavrov once again stated that Moscow is “ready for negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, but taking into account the current reality.” At the same time, Switzerland, according to him, “is no longer suitable” as a venue for negotiations. At the same time, Lavrov added that “if the West wants to fight on the battlefield in the situation around Ukraine, then Moscow is ready for this.”
11:48 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a Russian military ammunition warehouse in the occupied Sorokino, Luhansk region. Local public pages write about a powerful detonation.
11:37 At night, SBU drones attacked the Oskolneftesnab oil depot near the village of Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region and the Eletskaya substation with a capacity of 500 kV in the Lipetsk region, Ukrainian media write, citing sources. The Eletskaya substation supplies traction substations of Russian Railways, the Stanovaya oil pumping station and provides transit between the Lipetsk, Oryol and Bryansk energy systems.
11:09 The Russians fired artillery at the civilian infrastructure of the Krasnopolsky community of the Sumy region - one person was killed, two were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
11:04 Against the backdrop of the offensive of Russian troops in the Khar'kov region, representatives of local authorities are accused of not building enough fortifications. The deputy head of the Khar'kov Regional Military District, Roman Semenukha, in response called for not spreading “disinformation” - according to him, the Defense Forces are now occupying fortifications built by the regional administration. And the head of the city military administration of Volchansk, Tamaz Gambarashvili, claims that there were fortifications around the city, but “perhaps not so dense,” since Volchansk, after de-occupation, has been under constant shelling for a year and a half.
The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council, Andrei Kovalenko, said that the construction of defensive lines on the border of the Khar'kov region is impossible: “It would be impossible to build defensive lines directly on the border strip with the enemy. Because all the equipment and all the engineers would simply be destroyed by the enemy - his drones, his artillery." At the same time, he assured that there are defense lines in the Khar'kov region. “And they will tell you more about them very soon. And these are several lines of defense, very reliable. Therefore, friends, let’s not confuse the border region and Khar'kov. The defense operation continues,” Kovalenko added.
10:46 The Wall Street Journal estimates that Ukraine has become much less likely to shoot down Russian missiles. Thus, the kill rate over the past six months has fallen to 46% compared to 73% in the previous six months. And in April this figure dropped to 30%. At the same time, the figure for drones remained almost unchanged and remained at 80%. Analysts attribute this to the fact that the Russian Federation has stepped up attacks with drones and missiles, especially ballistic ones, while Kyiv is running out of ammunition for Patriot systems. Over the past six months, the Russian Federation has fired approximately 45% more suicide bombs and missiles than in the previous six months.
10:38 Astrakhan deputy Denis Kharitonov reported that his car was blown up in the occupied territory of Ukraine, “in the Northwestern Military District zone.” He was in the car at the time of the explosion, but was not injured.
10:34 Zelensky will visit Madrid in the coming days, where he will sign a bilateral security agreement with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, writes El País.
09:58 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Dubrovo and Ivanovka. Two more people in the region were injured over the past 24 hours, said the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
09:25 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russian offensive on Volchansk is largely a consequence of the West's tacit policy that Ukrainian forces cannot use Western-provided systems to strike legitimate military targets on Russian territory. According to analysts, permission from Great Britain to use their weapons to strike the Russian Federation is not enough.
ISW also suggests that the nomination of Andrei Belousov as a candidate for the position of the new Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation is associated with a high level of corruption in the Russian Defense Ministry and indicates preparation for a protracted war with Ukraine. Experts recalled that Belousov served as Minister of Economy for about ten years, and during this time he participated in the management of various innovative projects in the field of the defense industrial complex and drones. Belousov has a reputation as an efficient technocrat, and insider sources say he has a good relationship with Putin.
09:16 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that during the night, air defense systems allegedly destroyed 12 Vilkha MLRS rockets and 12 UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region, eight UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region, four Storm Shadow missiles and seven UAVs over the territory of Crimea, four more UAVs were intercepted over the territory of the Lipetsk region. Meanwhile, the governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, reported a fire at an electrical substation as a result of a UAV attack. According to him, the drones were allegedly suppressed in the territory of the Stanovlyansky district, there were no casualties.
08:53 On May 12, as a result of a series of massive shelling of the city of Volchansk, Khar'kov region, seven people were injured from various types of weapons, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. One more person was wounded in the town of Dvurechnaya and in the town of Izyum.
08:37 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 13:
- personnel - about 484,030 (+1740) people,
- tanks - 7485 (+31),
- armored combat vehicles - 14,417 (+42),
- artillery systems - 12,487 (+15),
- MLRS - 1070 (+4),
- air defense systems - 797 (+0),
- aircraft - 350 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 9936 (+26),
- cruise missiles - 2197 (+3),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,878 (+59),
- special equipment - 2048 (+6).
08:19 In Belogorod, a search and rescue operation at the site of a house collapse has been completed, 15 people are known to have died, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that in total yesterday, 19 people were killed and 27 were injured as a result of alleged shelling.
02:21 In the Khar'kov direction, the operational situation remains complex and is changing dynamically, combat operations are underway in the Dusty - Lukyantsy, Dusty - Glubokoe, Dusty - Oleynikovo, Murom - Bugrovatka directions, the General Staff reported. In addition, the enemy is carrying out assault operations in the directions Streleche - Glubokoe, Oleynikovo - Glubokoe, Oleynikovo - Lukyantsy, Murom - Staritsa, Pletenevka - Tikhoe. During the day, the enemy carried out 22 assault operations in these directions, 14 of which are still ongoing.
There are also battles for the border town of Volchansk - the enemy has deployed significant forces to attack the city, consisting of up to five battalions. The enemy is currently enjoying tactical success. The Ukrainian side continues to deploy reserves to stabilize the situation. When determining tasks for troops, one of the main priorities is preserving the lives of military personnel, the General Staff emphasized.
01:30 In the Khar'kov region, the Russian army occupied the settlements of Morokhovets, Oleynikovo and Zelenoe and continues to move towards the village of Liptsy, reports the analytical project DeepState. There are active battles for Lukyantsy, which the enemy has almost completely occupied. The Russians are also trying to gain a foothold in Glubokoye. The enemy continues to approach Volchansk, gaining a foothold in the surrounding area for further entry into the city. The city is under heavy fire and the evacuation of the population continues. Information about the enemy's occupation of the settlement of Gatishche requires clarification.
In addition, the enemy advanced near Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region, in Krasnogorovka, in Netaylovo, west of Semenovka, east of Novopokrovsky, Donetsk region.
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