[Korrespondent] 23:13 Finnish President Sauli Niinostiio said that Finland's possible entry into NATO would not pose a threat to Russia, and Moscow should understand that they themselves pushed Helsinki to such a decision after decades of neutrality.
23:09 The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, commenting on the reports of the occupying "power" about the intention to become part of Russia, said that "Kherson residents see themselves exclusively as part of Ukraine." In this regard, he demanded "an official statement from the Ukrainian authorities that Ukraine is fighting for its Ukrainian Kherson and appreciates each of its inhabitants who did not leave the city to be torn to pieces."
23:04 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine approached the borders of Russia in the Kharkov direction, and in some places even reached it. And although this is not a guarantee of the cessation of firing in this direction, Kharkov has been largely secured - now only the MLRS reaches it. Currently, troops from near Kharkov, according to him, are being transferred to the Luhansk region.
22:43 Servicemen of the 126th separate brigade of the Odessa Terrorist Defense Forces found ancient amphoras during fortification works - the finds are dated to around 4-5 century BC. The artifacts were handed over to the staff of the Odessa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who promised to add them to the museum's collection.
22:28 The damage to Ukraine as a result of a full-scale invasion of Russia is 92.3 billion dollars. This calculation was made by specialists of the Department of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis of the National Bank.
Real estate ($32.649 billion) and infrastructure ($31.645 billion) suffered the biggest losses. Almost $12 billion of damage falls on mining and processing facilities, and more than $8.5 billion on social facilities.
22:23 As a result of the rocket attack of the Russians on the Lozova community of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed, Lozova Mayor Sergei Zelensky said.
22:19 Andryushchenko posted a video from the center of Mariupol:
22:16 The IAEA denied Russian fakes that Ukraine is developing nuclear weapons: "Of course, the IAEA firmly denies this ... We do this on the basis of facts, since it is possible to conduct inspections and objectively confirm that nuclear materials are not modified."
22:14 The Times, citing representatives of the space forces of Western countries, reports that Russia is attacking satellites in Earth orbit - this can jam the GPS signals used by planes, ships, cars and ordinary smartphones. American intelligence noticed significant glitches in GPS signals when the Russians deployed their equipment around Chernihiv.
21:59 In the Luhansk region, the Russians have become more active, they are trying to break into Severodonetsk, capture Rubizhne, cut off the Luhansk region from the "mainland", taking control of the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. The shelling is super-powerful, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
According to him, Bialogorivka is now an "outpost of the Luhansk region", where the occupiers are trying to cross the river, "but they only feed the fish themselves." The humanitarian situation is on the brink, evacuation is not yet possible.
Gaidai also confirmed that the Russians pumped out gas at the distribution station in Novopskov, turned off the taps - in a few days the entire region would be left without gas.
21:56 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that today, near the village of Dolgenkoye, Kharkiv region, "in order to accuse the Russian army of using chemical weapons, nationalists blew up a tank with fertilizers, presumably with ammonium nitrate." As a result, a cloud of orange smoke was formed, which dissipated after a while.
21:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in densely populated areas of the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration, "Ukrainian militants have placed heavy weapons and equipment, residents are kept in basements; in residential areas and more than 10 enterprises of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, nationalists are holding over 90 thousand residents, using them like a living shield." Also in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk allegedly "there is a real threat of a humanitarian catastrophe, the Russian Federation calls on the UN, OSCE, ICRC to take measures to evacuate residents."
21:50 The head of the Poltava OVA, Dmitry Lunin, announced a missile strike in the Karlovskaya community on an infrastructure facility. Rescuers extinguish the fire, information about the victims and damage is being specified.
21:48 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that the German gas company VNG has already transferred euros to Gazprombank for conversion into rubles and subsequent payment for gas, writes Newsunrolled. "No one has ever said whether the ruble payments violate the sanctions. This is such a gray area. Germany, the largest gas importer, has already paid in rubles, and most importers have opened accounts in rubles," Draghi said.
21:46 Zelensky said that he had spoken with Scholz: "We talked about defense assistance, cooperation in the energy sector, increased sanctions pressure on the Russian aggressor. We appreciate the high level of dialogue with Germany and support in our struggle."
21:44 Russia's attack on Ukraine put an end to the post-Cold War period, Johnson said during a visit to Finland. He added that Russian aggression "rewrote our reality" and "reformatted our future" - a new section of history began.
21:42 The Belgorod governor said that as a result of shelling from Ukraine, one person was killed, three were injured.
21:39 The occupying "authorities" of the Kherson region claim that they will appeal to the President of Russia with a request to include the region in the Russian Federation. Read more in the material Without a referendum .
21:17 The Pentagon believes that Putin does not want to fight NATO, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said: "When you look at Putin's calculations ... My opinion is that Russia does not want to enter into conflict with the NATO alliance." Austin sees signs of this in the fact that the Russian Federation is struggling to achieve at least some goals in Ukraine.
21:12 Vereshchuk said that the Ukrainian side offered Russia a format for the release of Ukrainian defenders from Azovstal: "We are taking out our seriously wounded guys along the humanitarian corridor, at the same time we are returning captured Russians according to the standard rules for the exchange of prisoners of war." According to the minister, there is no agreement yet, negotiations are ongoing.
21:04 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling, two civilians were wounded today - in New York and Novoselovka of the Limansky district, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
20:58 A missile strike from a Russian aircraft was carried out in the Poltava region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
20:44 The Russian army launched at least 18 missile attacks on the private sector of the village of Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region. As the head of the community, Yuri Karapetyan, noted, as a result of the shelling, one person was killed, three were injured, and about 60 houses were damaged, Suspіlne reports.
20:25 The Kiev Metro intends to get rid of Russian-made cars. According to Segodnya, modernization and replacement of Russian-made cars used by the metropolitan metro is already planned, and the International Public Transport Association promises to help with this. In total, 821 carriages are currently operated on the lines of the Kyiv metro, 726 of them were manufactured at the plants of the Russian Federation in different years.
20:14 The use of supersonic missiles by the Russians to hit targets in Ukraine did not play a significant role in the course of the war, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. He confirmed that the Pentagon considers these Russian attacks to be the first ever use of supersonic missiles in combat.
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin agreed with Milley's assessment and added that Putin wants to show that he has an advantage in weapons over the rest of the world by using such weapons in combat. However, according to Austin, it is unlikely that Putin is ready to decide on the use of nuclear warheads in the near future.
20:09 Normalization of relations with Putin after the invasion of Ukraine is impossible, Johnson said during a visit to Sweden. His opinion was shared by the head of the Swedish government, Magdalena Andersson. The two leaders agreed that the aftermath of Putin's invasion "has fundamentally changed the architecture of international security."
19:51 Residents of the Kiev region, who lost their homes as a result of hostilities, can get new apartments, said the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksandr Pavlyuk: "Currently, we are considering two solutions - buying apartments in already built houses and building two microdistricts on the territory of Borodyanka and Irpen". At the same time, he stressed that it is necessary to communicate with each family that has lost their housing individually in order to understand their needs.
19:29 Kiev boxing champion Artem Mosha died at Azovstal, his mother said.
19:27 Poland and Slovakia are planning to work together to convince those countries of the bloc that are now hesitant on this issue to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership. This was stated by the presidents of the countries Andrzej Duda and Zuzanna Chaputova.
19:16 Scholz admitted that Ukraine may need about a century to overcome the consequences of the war, in particular, because of the threats from unexploded ordnance and mines: "Those who live in Germany know that we still find bombs that fell during World War II... Ukraine will have to deal with the consequences of this war for another hundred years. Such wars have long-term consequences - all the shells launched now can remain in the ground for years."
19:14 Ukraine will need from 500 to 600 billion euros for the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the Russian war, said the Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis. He assured that the EU "will provide great and very meaningful support for these reconstruction needs."
19:10 Ukraine won the first phase of the war with Russia, but this victory is far from final, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. She recalled that the key task of the Russian Federation was to capture Kyiv in a few days and take full control of the entire state. This plan failed, and Russia suffered heavy losses. After that, the enemy changed tactics and strategy in the war.
"Ahead of us is a difficult and lengthy stage of struggle with the complete cleansing of our country and the establishment of sovereignty within state borders. Because Russia still has many resources that it can use in the near future," Malyar explained. She also stressed that Ukraine will receive a lot of assistance from foreign partners, but until this assistance arrives, we will have a difficult period that will last several weeks or even months.
19:03 Among all the ammunition that Ukrainian pyrotechnicians find during demining, 10% are classified as prohibited, said Oleg Bondar, head of the department for the organization of pyrotechnic work and humanitarian demining of the State Emergency Service. These are, in particular, cassette elements and remote mining systems. According to Bondar, such ammunition is found in all territories visited by the Russian invaders.
18:59 There are currently about a million servicemen in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Troop, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. She also said that manufacturers are loaded with military orders until the end of the year.
18:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Nursery in the Kharkiv region, the General Staff reports.
18:44 The meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels on the embargo on Russian oil again ended without results today - attempts to approve the ban ran into fierce resistance from Hungary, writes The New York Times.
18:39 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, showed what is happening right now at Azovstal. Earlier today, Pushilin said that there were no civilians left on the territory of the plant, so "we now have a free hand."
18:37 Training of the Ukrainian military on Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers has started in Germany, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. Germany and the Netherlands plan to jointly train up to 18 Ukrainian crews to use these self-propelled howitzers.
18:35 The Czech Senate recognized the crimes committed by the Russian army in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
18:27 Russia has not abandoned plans to capture Kiev, create a new state entity and include it in the Russian Federation, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov.
According to him, the occupiers' plans include: taking control of the territory of Odessa, Nikolaev and partially Zaporozhye regions, creating a land corridor in Transnistria, seizing the territory of central Ukraine, capturing Kyiv, staging re-elections to the legislative and executive bodies of pro-Russian forces, creating a new state formation and its inclusion in Russia. Gromov believes that the Russians will try to achieve these goals, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine will oppose this.
18:13 In Mariupol, everyone who has not passed the filtration and who is recognized as "unreliable" in the filtration camps is taken to the former premises of correctional colony No. 52 in the village. Olenevka, Donetsk region, or to the famous Izolyatsia prison in Donetsk, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor.
The minimum term of imprisonment is 36 days (the filtration procedure takes the same amount). The conditions are inhuman, people can't even lie down, they don't get food every day. All this is accompanied by constant interrogations, torture, death penalty threats and coercion to cooperate.
17:59 Slovakia insists on granting it a three-year transitional period to join the embargo on Russian oil, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Richard Sulik said.
17:54 With each new crime, Russia loses the desire and ability to negotiate, as well as the possibility of resolving this issue through diplomacy, Zelensky said during a speech to students of the French University of Sciences Po. However, he assured that Kyiv is still ready for negotiations with Moscow.
17:52 The extradition process of Shariy can take up to a year, Venediktova said. According to her, this is always a very long process, and "under the most positive" scenario, it can take 3-6 months. "It is important for us to go to the end," the Prosecutor General stressed.
17:50 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, almost 5 million people have lost their jobs, the International Labor Organization said. The organization estimates that if the fighting escalates, job losses will rise to 7 million people.
17:41 At the summit in Madrid on June 29-30, NATO leaders will approve a new strategic concept, approve a new quality of military presence on the eastern flank, and invite Zelensky and the leaders of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region to the meeting.
17:33 Finnish President and Prime Minister will announce their position on NATO tomorrow at 10:00, according to local media.
17:26 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation accused the US Democratic Party of "military biological activities" in Ukraine, which was allegedly financed, among other things, by the Clinton, Rockefeller, Soros, Biden foundations. According to Moscow, such large pharmaceutical companies as Pfizer, Moderna, Merck, Gilead are involved in this "scheme".
The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that "military biological projects" in Ukraine are being implemented "not only by the United States, but also by other NATO countries, such as Germany and Poland."
Mariupol, according to the "data" of the Russian Defense Ministry, "under Ukrainian control, in cooperation with the US military department, was used as a regional center for the collection and certification of the cholera pathogen." And in 2020, Ukrainians "deliberately infected the inhabitants of the Slavyanoserbsky district of the 'LPR' with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis."
17:04 For the first time, the losses in the war were announced in the National Guard of Ukraine: 501 NSU servicemen were killed, 1,697 servicemen were injured and injured.
16:51 British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons announced that she visited Irpin: "I visited Irpin today. The city center is a story of horrific destruction inflicted by Russia. Houses, schools, kindergartens, clinics and shopping centers were destroyed. I met residents who live in dark, cold basements."
16:39 The Washington Post opens a bureau in Ukraine. The new division, which will be headquartered in Kyiv, will be headed by Isabel Khurshudyan, with Max Berak as the chief correspondent.
16:23 Czech President Milos Zeman allowed 103 Czechs to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia. Now the decision must be signed by Prime Minister Peter Fiala.
16:10 Anonymous hackers claimed responsibility for hacking the Rutube video service. On Twitter, the group reported that "nearly 75% of the databases and infrastructure of the main version, 90% of the backup and database recovery cluster were heavily affected." According to the hackers, this means that "Rutube is probably gone forever."
15:49 In Ternopil, the organizers of a charitable foundation were detained, who appropriated half of all donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the "work" the fund appropriated 13 million hryvnia, the National Police reported.
15:38 Great Britain signed an agreement with Sweden on mutual security guarantees, a similar declaration will be signed today with Finland, the British government said.
Johnson said that in the event of an attack on Sweden, Britain would be ready to provide any assistance requested.
15:36 NATO foreign ministers will hold an informal meeting in Berlin on May 14-15, the ministers of Sweden and Finland have been invited, the German Foreign Ministry said.
15:34 In the Kherson region, a referendum will not be held due to ignoring by the world community the results of the "absolutely legal" will of the Crimeans in 2014, said the "deputy head of the military-civilian administration" Kirill Stremousov.
15:30 The GTS operator of Ukraine announced the facts of the theft of natural gas in the occupied territories from transit flows. Thus, an unauthorized withdrawal of transit gas from the Soyuz gas pipeline to gas pipelines to the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions not controlled by Ukraine was recorded.
The operator emphasizes that in fact we are talking about the theft of gas and the inability of the company to bear responsibility for maintaining transit volumes. As a result of the facts of direct intervention of the occupiers in the operation of the Ukrainian GTS, the operator was forced to declare force majeure at the Sohranivka point, the press service explained.
15:27 Vereshchuk called on the international community to help in a new special operation on Azovstai. According to her, the defenders of Mariupol remained at the plant, half of them were seriously injured, they need urgent medical care. According to the minister, there may be about a thousand fighters on the territory of the plant, fierce battles are constantly going on there. "We need a new special operation that will help evacuate the wounded soldiers from Azovstal," Vereshchuk stressed.
15:25 In the areas of Kharkiv and Izyum, as well as in the Kherson and Melitopol directions, Russian troops went on the defensive, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov. According to him, the hottest situation is now in the Liman direction.
"In the Kharkov region, the enemy, after an unsuccessful assault, went on the defensive. In the Kharkov direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have some success and liberate settlements. In the Izyum direction, the enemy also went on the defensive and is conducting containment actions," Gromov said.
15:22 Communication with the military at Azovstal is maintained, ammunition and assistance were repeatedly delivered there, but this was possible only until the moment it became known to the general public. After that, the enemy launched airstrikes and made it impossible to help the defenders, said Alexei Gromov, Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:18 Bulgaria has agreed with the United States on the supply of liquefied gas and will buy it at a lower price than from Gazprom, writes the Bulgarian edition of BGNES. Deliveries should begin in June.
15:16 In Trostyanets, Sumy region, SBI investigators found important documents of the Russian military, containing the plans of the Russian Federation to seize the entire territory of Ukraine, the department said, but did not provide details.
15:14 The volume of gas supplied to Germany through Ukraine has decreased by almost 25% compared to yesterday, the German regulator said.
15:12 Near Izyum, the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian Ka-52 helicopter, officer Yuri Kochevenko said. The helicopter was hit by Perun MANPADS.
15:11 Ukraine has restored control over a section of the border 1,200 km long, two-thirds of which is the border with the Russian Federation, said Leonid Baran, director of the state border protection department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
15:10 In the Kherson region, the invaders are setting up a drug business: in the Genichesk community, they started organizing the cultivation of hemp, promising local "agrarians" protection, a percentage of profits and positions in their "regional administrations," said Yury Sobolevsky, deputy head of the regional council.
15:05 The invaders launched another missile attack on the Odessa region - the Russians fired a cruise missile from an aircraft, which the air defense forces shot down over the sea, OK Pivden reported.
15:01 The OP promises that the problem with the shortage of gasoline in Ukraine will be resolved in the near future. Delays in deliveries are related to the unavailability of the European infrastructure to provide the required amount of fuel. However, the volume of imports has already increased five times compared to a month and a half ago.
14:54 Pope Francis met today in Rome with the spouses of the defenders of Mariupol - Denys Prokopenko and Arseniy Fedosyuk - who are at Azovstal. They gave the pontiff two letters - from themselves and from the head of the UOC-MP Onufry, as well as the latest photographs from Azovstal.
14:45 The European Union intends to offer limited investment in the infrastructure of member countries that are most dependent on Russian oil. The funds are to be included in the RePowerEU package, a $205 billion plan aimed at freeing the EU from Russian energy supplies by 2027, according to Bloomberg.
14:33 The negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia continues, despite the "deterioration of the situation on the ground," the Turkish state television channel TRT reported, citing its diplomatic sources. According to them, in the coming days, a meeting may be held with the participation of representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN, dedicated to humanitarian issues.
14:29 Podolyak on the appeal of the "authorities" of the Kherson region to Russia: "The only appeal that the Gauleiters of the Kherson region can prepare is a petition for pardon after a court verdict. The invaders can ask to join at least the composition of Mars, at least to Jupiter. Ukrainian army will liberate Kherson, no matter what puns the occupiers come up with."
14:23 Three employees of the Zaporozhye NPP were fired for participating in the Immortal Regiment action, which was organized by the Russians, Energoatom reported.
14:22 The liberation of the Kharkiv region from the Russian invaders is moving forward, but it is not worth returning to the newly de-occupied cities and villages, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said. According to him, the enemy mined "absolutely everything", including schools, kindergartens and private houses. Two women have already blown themselves up in their own yard. Therefore, residents of the region are asked to wait for permission to return.
Currently, the region is undergoing the restoration of critical infrastructure, primarily gas and electricity supply. Partially in the districts of Kharkov, power supply has already been resumed. Also, experts collect evidence of war crimes of the occupiers.
14:10 Peskov said that the issue of joining Russia should be decided by the residents of the Kherson region. In addition, according to him, this issue “should be clearly and carefully verified and evaluated by lawyers and lawyers, because such fateful decisions must have an absolutely clear legal background, legal justification, and be absolutely legitimate, as was the case with Crimea.”
14:04 In two weeks, the European Commission will propose to recognize the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions as a crime in the EU, Politico writes, citing its sources. According to them, this will make it easier for EU members to confiscate assets as part of anti-Russian measures.
14:02 The deblockade of Mariupol by military means is not yet possible, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "We must understand that this topic is very sensitive, every word can be used by the enemy and harm our defenders." Malyar noted that Mariupol is protected by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards, National Guardsmen and National Police forces.
13:58 In the Kramatorsk region, the invaders got into a warehouse with ammonium nitrate. The military administration of Slovyansk reports that there is no threat to life, however, residents are asked to limit their stay in the open air and close windows for a day.
13:55 In the operation to liberate Kherson, there is a question about the price of this offensive, Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, told Channel 24: "The better we prepare him, the fewer victims there will be. There is this work, and not only in the direction of Kherson. I think in the near future, the Russians will be shocked at the location of the strike that our Armed Forces will deliver. The situation will change depending on how we are reinforced by Western weapons."
Andrusiv also said that now the invaders are advancing at the cost of destroying settlements, when Ukrainian soldiers have nowhere to defend themselves. It takes the Russians weeks, and physically they won't be able to fight like that for long. Therefore, the adviser believes that in a week or ten days they will change their tactics.
According to Andrusiv, the Russians have definitely given up any seizures of Ukraine. He is also convinced that in the near future they will give up the land corridor in Transnistria and by the end of May they will concentrate on those lines that they have already captured, presenting this as their victory.
13:42 Gazprom has cut off gas transportation to the Sokhranivka point, the GTS Operator of Ukraine said. In addition, in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the valves of the Shebelinka-Novopskov gas pipeline were blocked without authorization, through which gas was transported to the gas pipelines of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In fact, Russia has deprived Ukraine of the possibility of transporting gas to consumers in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the report says.
13:37 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports that the slippage of the "special military operation" has become a catalyst for intensifying the hidden confrontation within the Russian generals, in particular, in the General Staff. Differences and covert competition between groups in the General Staff existed long before the start of the war, but recent failures and attempts by other centers of power in the Russian establishment to lay full responsibility for the failures on the military led to a sharp escalation of the confrontation.
13:33 Ukrainian military intelligence sees no signs that the Kremlin intends to end the war in Ukraine in the near future. Instead, covert mobilization is in full swing, and graduates and cadets of military schools are also sent to the combat zone. In particular, from the graduation of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, scheduled for June 25th. Margelov most of the graduates are scheduled to be immediately sent to Ukraine.
It is also known that in the war against Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces have already attracted almost 45% of the number of vehicles of logistics teams (2600 out of 6000). The remaining part is sought to be saved for logistical support in case of other emergencies. At present, the occupiers are trying to replenish the fleet of automotive vehicles with cars stolen in Ukraine.
13:28 The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov, said that there is a huge demand in the world for Ukrainian practical experience in countering an aggressor in the first ever cyber war. Thus, the minister spoke via video link at the Cyber Summit in Paris, where he spoke about the practical cases of the Ukrainian IT army:
- the use of crowdsourcing technologies against the occupiers on the example of the єBorog bot;
- carrying out informational counteroffensives and spreading the truth in conditions of total control of the Russian media;
- identification of marauders of the Russian army through the analysis of mail and informing relatives;
- the use of artificial intelligence to recognize the faces of the killed invaders and inform their relatives, etc.
13:21 Austria has extended border controls with Hungary and Slovakia for six months. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, Gerhard Karner, in a letter to the EC, called the reason for this decision "the movement of refugees from Ukraine and the so-called secondary risk potential associated with it."
13:16 Hungary is ready to support the embargo on Russian oil supplies to the EU, but under certain conditions, said Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. In particular, the embargo should apply to offshore oil supplies and some others, but Russian pipeline supplies to Hungary should be exempt from restrictions.
In addition, Budapest is waiting for proposals not only for the reconstruction of its refineries for hundreds of millions of dollars, not only for increasing the capacity of the oil pipeline to Hungary through Croatia for hundreds of millions of dollars, but also for the future of its economy.
13:14 In Kharkiv, the number of attacks has recently decreased after the enemy was pushed back north of the city, but attacks are being made on the Kharkiv region and other settlements, said the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, in the morning the enemy shelled the village of Novy Merchik in the Bogodukhovsky district, one person was wounded.
12:47 "Authorities" of the Kherson region will turn to Putin with a request to include the region in Russia, said "deputy head of the military-civilian administration" Kirill Stremousov. According to him, the Kherson region plans to completely pass under the legislation of the Russian Federation by the end of the year.
12:45 Access to Facebook and Instagram is blocked in the "DPR", Russian media write.
12:19 The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is already comparing the US State Department with the Third Reich. Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said that the US State Department set the task of launching "a campaign to discredit the special operation in Ukraine in Russian society." Allegedly, Washington has prepared a set of slogans designed to sow panic, calling for large-scale protests in the Russian Federation.
In such actions of the US State Department, "there is a lot in common with the traditions of the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich and its head Goebbels, who considered intellectualism the worst enemy of any propaganda and who owns the phrase "Give me the media, and I will make a herd of pigs out of any nation," Naryshkin said. .
11:56 The Azov regiment reported that over the past day, 38 air raids were carried out on the territory of Azovstal, including four sorties of strategic bombers. The enemy continues to make daily assaults with the support of the infantry.
11:53 The soldiers of the Azov regiment are sure that there is a military way to unblock Azovstal and release the military, Ilya Samoylenko, a spokesman for Azov, said in an interview with Sky News: "It is possible by military means, and it is also possible by political means. We can tell you how to do it by military means." way, but, of course, such operations are classified information. Most people who sit in government offices in Ukraine mostly do not understand the situation well, from our point of view, the reality is different."
11:44 The Czech Republic will tighten passport control for refugees arriving from Ukraine. Also, in order to receive humanitarian assistance, the applicant will need to have a stamp on crossing the border of Ukraine in his passport.
11:40 Putin removed the FSB due to intelligence failures in Ukraine, writes the British The Times. According to the publication, the head of the Kremlin replaced Russian spies with heads of military intelligence, including a former special forces officer accused of involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.
Putin blamed the FSB, Russia's main intelligence agency, for the intelligence failures that ruined the invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, responsibility for intelligence activities in Ukraine was transferred to the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (formerly the GRU), the military intelligence service.
The GU GSh, which is a branch of the army and has its own special forces, has been involved in high-profile operations around the world, including attempted coups, assassinations, and sabotage of critical infrastructure. The British authorities named, in particular, two agents - Anatoly Chepigu and Alexander Mishkin.
11:16 The Russian military are beginning to realize the defeat of the Russian Federation and, realizing the inevitability of punishment for war crimes against the people of Ukraine, they demand from the command to classify their participation in the invasion. According to Ukrainian intelligence, such appeals have acquired a special scale in parts of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.
The military intelligence of Ukraine, in particular, identified the identities of war criminals - servicemen of the 277th bomber aviation regiment of the 303rd mixed aviation division of the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army (military unit 77983), stationed at the Khurba airfield of the Khabarovsk Territory. Most of them were involved in rocket and bomb strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
The occupiers are trying to avoid responsibility by demanding that the command provide them with false documents about being on medical treatment or on vacation. Some pilots demand documents that at the time of the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war they were no longer serving in the unit.
11:08 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the north of Kharkiv has moved further and approached the border with Russia within 10 km. The counteroffensive to the north of Kharkov was continued, the invaders were pushed back to the border of the Russian Federation, several settlements in the northeast of Kharkov were liberated. At the same time, Russian operations around Izyum "remain at a standstill."
10:50 Germany resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev.
10:48 Elon Musk said that his company Starlink constantly repels cyber attacks from the Russian Federation, but the Russians are stepping up their efforts.
10:41 Despite the transfer of Belarusian troops to the border, the likelihood that Lukashenka will order a ground operation against Ukraine is low, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko believes: "The forces of the Republic of Belarus are conducting exercises, and there were reports that to the borders with Ukraine there are Tornadoes and other installations. But Belarus has one and only training ground where it is possible to conduct the relevant exercises, and it is located relatively close to the Ukrainian border. The situation there is tense, but it is still unlikely to say that there will be an order."
10:38 During the counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, border guards destroyed 30 enemy soldiers, and two were taken prisoner, the State Border Service reports. The prisoners confessed that they were residents of the Krasny Luch (now Khrustalny) Luhansk region.
10:36 The invaders are not ready either physically or mentally to prepare a naval landing operation in Odessa and the region. At the same time, the threat of new missile strikes by the enemy remains high in the region, said Serhiy Bratchuk, speaker of the Odesa OVA. According to him, the night passed without shelling, but with air raid signals in Odessa and the region.
10:09 There are no provocations and movement of equipment or military personnel on the border with Pridnestrovie, Andriy Demchenko, a representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine, said: "Near the border line, we do not record any provocations, movement of equipment or military personnel. At the same time, in operational activities and we, and other structures of the country's defense, take into account all the information that is pumped up around Pridnestrovie in order to act to prevent, if suddenly Russia still tries to use this direction of Pridnestrovie against Ukraine at some point."
10:02 Borrell, in an interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, supported the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and condemned the opponents of such a decision: “I ask these people: does it really matter how this war ends? Do Ukrainians really have to kneel, torn to pieces? want to?"
He recalled that wars end with negotiations, but they need to start from a position of strength: "The task now is to bring Ukrainians to this position."
09:59 The obvious hatred of Putin and his henchmen for Ukrainians will be taken into account when considering the issue of the genocide of Ukrainians during the current war, Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: "There are statements, comments and speeches, Putin and other Russian leaders who show how they they ignore and hate the Ukrainian people, where they talk as if Ukraine does not exist."
Callamard also emphasized that the violence of this war is based on this mindset: "Violence becomes a mode of action, it is turned a blind eye, and sometimes it is even glorified. There is no control, and this creates conditions for violent behavior, this is a regime of impunity."
"We want to show that this war is not only a problem for Ukraine, Europe and NATO. Russian aggression is a problem for the whole world," the human rights activist said after visiting the de-occupied cities of the Kyiv region.
09:51 The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine today may fall by 18% due to the lack of pumping through the Sokhranivka station, the Ukrainian GTS operator said.
09:38 In a village near Zaporozhye, Ukrainian air defense shot down a rocket that exploded over an infrastructure facility. The object received heavy damage, according to the military administration.
09:17 At night, the invaders attacked the Zaporozhye region. According to the OVA, as a result of enemy shelling, reeds and grass caught fire in an open area near the village of Kamyshevakha. In Gulyaipole, as a result of an artillery attack, a warehouse building on an area of 150 square meters was on fire. m.
09:14 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 11. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Novopavlovsky, Kurakhovsky and Severodonetsk directions.
- personnel - about 26350 (+350) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1187 (+17),
- armored fighting vehicles - 2856 (+48),
- artillery systems - 528 (+9),
- MLRS - 185 (+0),
- air defense systems - 87 (+0),
- aircraft - 199 (+0),
- helicopters - 160 (+2),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 390 (+10),
- cruise missiles - 94 (+0),
- ships/boats - 12 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 1997 (+17),
- special equipment - 41 (+0).
09:00 Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky believes that it is too early to cancel the curfew in any region of Ukraine. According to him, such a measure has fully justified itself and helps to prevent the penetration of saboteurs.
08:55 In Slavyansk, Donetsk region, the invaders launched rocket attacks on two microdistricts of the city, the consequences are being specified, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:53 Canada provides Ukraine with cyber assistance and intelligence about cyber threats, and also condemns the cyber attack of the Russian Federation on the eve of a military invasion, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
08:51 By the end of the year, more than 10,000 people may die in Mariupol from diseases and unbearable conditions. Now there are 150-170 thousand people in the city, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said: “The invaders have turned Mariupol into a medieval ghetto. old people and sick people. Without proper conditions, mortality among vulnerable categories will increase significantly."
Boychenko also said that part of Mariupol residents from nearby villages returned to the city, because they are not allowed to enter the territory of free Ukraine due to a tough filtration system. "But the Russians continue the genocide that they started on February 24. Our people are in mortal danger. Therefore, a complete evacuation of the city is needed," the mayor stressed.
08:49 Russian Foreign Ministry on the negotiation process with Ukraine: "contacts are being made."
08:36 British intelligence reported that fighting continues on Zmeiny Island, Russia is trying to strengthen its poorly protected garrison there. Ukraine hit Russian air defense systems and supply vessels with the help of Bayraktar drones. Russian supply ships have minimal protection in the western Black Sea after the loss of the missile cruiser Moskva.
Russia's attempts to strengthen the garrison on the island "give Ukraine more opportunities to fight Russian troops and destroy equipment." If the Russian Federation strengthens its position on the island with the help of strategic cruise missiles, air defense and coastal defense, it can dominate the northwestern part of the Black Sea, according to intelligence.
08:11 Today, in the morning, the enemy fired at the border with the Kherson region, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. There were no casualties or damage.
08:02 The EU cannot become a mediator in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Borrell said in an interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "The Russians will not accept this, just as we will not accept Russia as a mediator," he explained. According to Borrell, "China is not a good fit either, as it leans towards Russia," but "Turkey is doing a very good job, it has good relations with both sides."
07:35 The enemy grouping does not stop trying to attack in order to take complete control of Rubizhne, capture Liman and Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report .
07:06 The authorities of New Zealand have added five individuals and three organizations of the Russian Federation to the sanctions list. Among them is the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense Konashenkov.
06:55 The US House of Representatives supported the ban on the import of Russian oil, now the document is sent to the Senate. It provides for a review of Russia's role in the World Trade Organization and the re-approval of the Magnitsky Act to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation for human rights violations.
06:12 Portuguese police raided a municipal refugee support center on charges of transferring personal data of Ukrainian refugees to the Russian Federation, writes Reuters. The scandal began with an April 29 publication in the Expresso newspaper alleging that Russian dual-citizen couple Igor Khashin and his wife Yulia had photocopied the refugees' personal documents and interrogated them about the whereabouts of their family members in Ukraine.
05:40 The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the allocation of an additional aid package to Ukraine in the amount of $39.8 billion. Now the document will go to the Senate of Congress.
05:24 Allied countries of Ukraine intend to hold another meeting of heads of defense ministries before the end of May. During the talks, military assistance to the Ukrainian army will be discussed, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
02:27 In the port of Hamburg, the yacht Luna, owned by Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov, was detained.
01:51 The occupiers said that over the past day they have taken 8,787 people out of Ukraine, of which 1,106 are children, Russian media reported.
00:48 The European Commission will consider on Wednesday, May 11, a strategy to facilitate the overland export of Ukrainian food stocks, writes Bloomberg.
00:22 88-year-old Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine in 1991-1994, passed away on May 10, last year he underwent heart surgery in Germany and has not left the clinic since then. About how the first president of Ukraine lived - in the material Between the Droplets .
00:02 Russia used "from 10 to 12" units of hypersonic weapons during the war in Ukraine, one of the senior representatives of the US Department of Defense said.