[Korrespondent] 22:33 In order to maintain the maximum attention of the world to Ukraine, Zelensky will talk with American students next week, the president said in an evening address. An address to the Forum participants in Davos is also scheduled for May 23. "I will definitely continue to appeal to the parliaments of the European partner states of Ukraine. We are also working to expand the geography of such special speeches in parliaments to the countries of Africa and Asia," Zelensky said.
22:29 NATO will increase its presence in the Baltic region for the security of Sweden and Finland for the period before these countries join NATO, Stoltenberg said.
22:26 To save the defenders of Azovstal, all possible international organizations and almost all world leaders are involved, but Putin does not give consent, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister.
22:09 Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko said that Western sanctions blocked exports from the republic to the EU and North America in the amount of 16-18 billion dollars a year.
21:48 NATO states will provide Ukraine with military assistance as long as it needs it for self-defense, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said following an informal meeting of foreign ministers of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance in Berlin.
"We are unanimous in that we have no right to weaken - and will not weaken - our national efforts, primarily in military support ... We all realize that this war will not end so quickly," the German Foreign Minister stressed.
21:31 Podolyak: "Ryazan, Nizhnevartovsk, Mordovia, Ivanovo region - military registration and enlistment offices have been spontaneously combusting in Russia lately. Burning with shame? Russia continues a special operation to demilitarize ... its own army. Is everything still going according to plan or can we help speed it up?"
21:08 Ukrainian blogger Vladimir Zolkin, who regularly publishes interviews with Russian prisoners of war, explained why so far it has not been possible to take a single interview with the Kadyrovites: "In fact, we cannot communicate with the Kadyrovites simply because Russia instantly gives a request for any Kadyrovite who has been taken prisoner, and extradite any Ukrainian instead of him at our request."
21:03 Russia will strengthen the grouping of troops on the Finnish border if Finland joins NATO, said Viktor Bondarev, head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security.
20:57 US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell expects the Senate to vote on $40 billion in aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, May 18, following a procedural vote on Monday.
20:53 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said that Kiev's application to join NATO should be considered as quickly as the current applications of Sweden and Finland: "NATO has drawn conclusions from its political mistakes made in 2008 when there were promises of membership and further cooperation, but no practical solutions in this direction.In the end, this led to three wars, two of which are now on the territory of Ukraine.We hope that when it comes to considering the Ukrainian application, decisions will be made even faster."
20:48 In Donetsk, relatives of the mobilized are showing such dissatisfaction that from tomorrow the "DPR" establishes separate days for the meeting of relatives with the mobilized, besides, it introduces a "megabureaucratic procedure," said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
20:25 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock explained why Sweden and Finland can quickly be accepted into NATO. According to her, "they are already members of NATO without formal membership." Since 2014, Finland and Sweden have been participating in the NATO Interoperability Initiative of partner countries, are involved in exercises and some operations of the alliance, and participate in the NATO Response Force (NRF). Helsinki also has a memorandum allowing it to provide logistical support to Allied forces "during exercises or in times of crisis."
20:11 In the Luhansk region, Ukrainian forces, in order to stop the Russian offensive in the direction of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, destroyed railway bridges captured by the enemy in a key message between Rubizhne and Severodonetsk, Anton Gerashchenko said.
20:04 Serhiy Gaidai reports that 10% of the territory of the Lugansk region remains under the control of Ukraine - these are the neighborhoods of Rubizhne, Lysichansk, Severodonetsk (plus villages and UTC), Gorskaya community and the territory along the Lysichansk-Bakhmut road to the border with Donetsk region.
19:40 Zelensky received the Coat of Arms of Tallinn - an award that is presented as a sign of special respect. According to the mayor of Tallinn, Yevgeny Osinovsky, this difference demonstrates the solidarity of the Estonian capital and its inhabitants with the people of Ukraine and support in the heroic struggle against Russian aggression.
19:33 The Russians are suffering significant losses in manpower and equipment: in some areas, the staffing of units based on the results of hostilities is less than 20%, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In the Popasnyansky direction, due to huge losses and the inability to act without outside help, units of the airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces are uniting with representatives of private military companies for further operations as part of consolidated units.
Also, the command of the RF Armed Forces is trying to recruit and make up for the losses of its troops at the expense of reservists. 2,500 reservists are being trained at the training grounds of the Voronezh, Belgorod and Rostov regions - they are planned to be sent to Ukraine.
19:18 In all settlements of the Kiev region, water supply has been resumed, the OVA reported. Only individual houses in the village of Gostomel remain without centralized water supply due to lack of electricity, work continues.
19:13 In Luhansk, women are being secretly mobilized, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said. Thus, the occupiers informed the management of enterprises that it was necessary to "reconcile the data" of women aged 18 to 45 who have specialties: an accountant, a cook, a nurse, a laboratory assistant, a driver, a machinist, a cleaner.
19:09 Sweden's ruling party said that after joining NATO, the country will oppose the deployment of nuclear weapons and military bases on its territory.
19:00 At a closed meeting, the European Commission actually approved the payment scheme proposed by Putin for Russian gas, Bloomberg reports. Thus, companies will be allowed to open accounts in Gazprombank in euros or dollars, then this money will be automatically converted to the companies' ruble account - as Gazprom suggested. The EU hopes to create a scheme where opening a ruble account does not violate anti-Russian sanctions.
18:36 Director of Ukrposhta Igor Smelyansky announced plans to issue a stamp in honor of Ukraine's victory at Eurovision. The design of the brand will be agreed with the organizers of the song contest, but one of the options is already available:
18:21 Sweden has officially decided to apply for NATO membership , the ruling Social Democratic Party said.
18:19 Ukraine can now import gas in four directions from Europe. According to the head of the GTS Operator of Ukraine, Serhiy Makogon, we are talking about LNG terminals in Greece, Croatia, Poland and Lithuania.
He also said that Ukraine remains a reliable transit partner for European customers and is becoming an important transport gas hub for the countries of Eastern and Southern Europe. Currently, the volume of gas transit from Poland to Hungary through the Ukrainian GTS exceeds 1 million cubic meters per day.
17:56 If Russia refuses to pay reparations for the damage caused as a result of the war, Ukraine will seize and sell all Russian property, Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said.
17:53 The "DPR" issued a "decree", according to which all movable and immovable property and valuables in the field of railway transport, electricity and water supply will be "nationalized". The next step will be the transfer of "nationalized" property to the ownership of Russia, said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko. Moreover, according to him, we are talking not only about state or communal property, but also about the property of individuals and legal entities.
17:49 The head of the European People's Party, the leading faction of the European Parliament, Manfred Weber warned that Turkey could expect isolation in NATO if it blocks the entry of Finland and Sweden into the alliance: "Anyone who calls into question the cohesion in NATO will be isolated within the community. If both countries themselves want [to join the alliance], then Finland and Sweden are part of it, there is no question. There is no reason to slow it down or block it."
17:46 Podolyak urged the people of Kiev and Lvov to be more mobilized in the current situation, since the war is far from over, and Russia is accumulating strength for future strikes: "No, friends, the war is not over, the war requires the mobilization of the entire society. I want this understood both in Lvov and in Kiev."
17:41 Finnish President Sauli Niinostiio does not believe that Russia can attack his country now or in the future, writes CNN. He said Putin was "calm and cool" when Finland informed him of its decision to apply for NATO membership. At the same time, Niinostiio realizes that he needs to "be ready" with Putin.
17:30 Ten people, including four children, were taken out of Severodonetsk, Luhansk region today, but along the way the car came under fire from Russian troops. “Fortunately, without any casualties, they quickly slipped through. Severodonetsk residents are already safe,” said Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA.
16:59 The Russian military blocked access to Azovstal and representatives of the Ukrainian authorities, and the UN, and the Red Cross, who helped with the evacuation of civilians. As the wives of the Ukrainian defenders said, because of this, the military at the plant was engaged in the evacuation of civilians from beginning to end. At the same time, the invaders shot at the evacuation bus, then three fighters died, six more were injured.
16:50 In Kharkiv, they plan to launch a metro in the next two weeks, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. According to him, people who still live in the metro, the mayor's office will begin to relocate to hostels, they will be provided with all the necessary conditions.
16:47 Out of 90 American M-777 howitzers, 89 are in Ukraine, many are already working on the front line, the US Embassy reported.
16:45 In Estonia, from May 16 to June 3, large-scale exercises Ezh-2022 will be held with the participation of 15 thousand military personnel from NATO countries and partners. The maneuvers involve the US Navy's Wasp Kearsarge-class landing craft.
16:38 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Turkey does not intend to block the membership of Finland and Sweden in the alliance, and controversial issues will be resolved.
He also called on NATO countries to help Ukraine survive in the war with Russia. Stoltenberg is convinced that Ukraine can win: "Russia's war is not going the way Moscow planned. She failed to take Kyiv. They are retreating from Kharkov, their big offensive in the Donbass has stopped. Russia is not achieving its strategic goals."
16:33 Russian invaders fired at a hospital in Severodonetsk on May 14, as a result of which nine people were injured, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
16:07 The wives of the defenders of Mariupol urge the world community to seek liberation through the extraction of the entire garrison located at Azovstal, and not just the seriously wounded, since there is almost no water, food and medicine left at the plant.
“They are now amputating limbs even with small injuries and without painkillers, they are simply cut alive ... They don’t have any medicine. They have a glass of water for everyone - they take a sip every 5-6 hours ... In a room in which the hospital has been equipped, it is very hot, there is little opportunity to transfer food and water there. People develop sepsis,” say the wives of Ukrainian soldiers.
15:52 On May 16, a camera for fixing traffic violations will resume operation in Ukraine, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. According to him, the cameras will not work in the temporarily occupied territories. He also said that the units of the National Police, which were involved in repelling the armed aggression of Russia, in those regions where it is possible, are already returning to their police functions, including patrolling.
15:44 Residents of Mariupol report an atypical mortality rate for civilian life. Many middle-aged people die, the mortality rate is such that new graves immediately appear in the yards in place of the exhumed graves. As the adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko reports, people are no longer dying from shelling, but from the consequences of the occupation: nervous breakdowns, lack of medical care, unsanitary conditions and weakened immunity due to hunger.
15:31 NATO countries are ready to ratify applications for membership from Finland and Sweden as quickly as possible - the entry of the Scandinavian countries into the alliance may take only "several weeks", foreign ministers said today in Berlin.
15:15 Kuleba is convinced that Ukraine will become a member of the EU and will receive candidate status in the near future, and the only question is what Germany's role will be in this process: "The choice before the German elites is very simple: either lead this process and enter your names in the history of Europe, or it will happen anyway, but without your leadership."
15:06 The flow to enter Ukraine through the western border after May 9 exceeds the flow to exit for the fifth day in a row. The total net inflow to Ukraine over these days amounted to 31,000 people - these are record figures since the beginning of the war, border guards said.
14:51 Finland and Sweden have declared their readiness to work with Turkey to eliminate issues that concern Ankara in connection with their membership in NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
14:47 NATO in the new strategy, which will be adopted in June, may designate the Russian Federation as an "immediate threat", Bloomberg writes, citing its sources in the alliance.
14:29 The wives of the defenders of Azovstal flew to Istanbul to personally thank Erdogan for his efforts to rescue the Ukrainian military in Mariupol, and also ask them to make every effort to unite with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free the defenders.
14:12 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Russian positions in Chernobaevka for the 20th time. According to him, the blow was struck at 12:00, the detonation is still ongoing. Previously, the propaganda media reported on explosions near Kherson and noted that Russian air defense was probably working.
13:57 After the loss of Azovstal and the plant named after Ilyich in Mariupol, Ukraine has lost half of its steel and pig iron export opportunities, Deputy Finance Minister Alexander Kava told Ukraine Channel 24. In addition, according to him, Ukraine has lost the ability to process iron ore, because of which it will have to be exported in its unprocessed form, earning less profit.
In general, as the deputy minister noted, Ukrainian metallurgy suffered greatly from the war, and it will take years and billions of dollars to restore it.
13:34 Scholz on the prospects for Ukraine's accession to the EU: "There are clear criteria for EU accession - a stable democracy, the rule of law and a functioning social market economy. By the way, we promised the countries of the Western Balkans that they will soon be able to become EU members. Many of them have been working hard to achieve this goal for many years and have been disappointed so far. The sooner we can fulfill our longstanding promises to the countries of the Western Balkans, the more reliable we, as the EU, will treat all applicants for accession."
13:11 Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War note that Russian troops make tactical mistakes in eastern Ukraine, and in the south they cannot decide on the date of the so-called "referendum", which may indicate their uncertainty about their result in the Kherson region.
13:10 The US will help Finland and Sweden if they are attacked before joining NATO, the Pentagon said.
13:08 Kuleba said that he met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: "More weapons and other support are sent to Ukraine. We agreed to work together to ensure that Ukrainian food exports reach consumers in Africa and Asia."
13:06 The Government of Finland announced that the country has made a formal decision to join NATO.
12:54 Ukraine can win the war with Russia, NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoane said during an informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Berlin: "Today we will focus on the latest developments in Ukraine. Dirty Russian aggression is losing its pace. We know that with significant support from allies and partners, billions of dollars and military, financial, humanitarian assistance, thanks to the courage of the people of Ukraine and the Ukrainian army, and with our help, Ukraine can win this war."
12:32 The Russian military directly declare that they use in Ukraine almost all the ammunition prohibited by international conventions, the SBU reported, citing the interception of the occupiers' conversations.
12:13 42 investigators from the International Criminal Court will arrive in Ukraine next week to collect evidence of Russian war crimes, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan told Le Monde. According to him, this is the largest number of investigators that the court has ever sent. Among them are 30 representatives of the Netherlands, including forensic experts and analysts.
12:11 Latvia has decided to stop the rail transit of Belarusian military cargo through the country to its seaports in the Baltic.
12:08 Italian police reported that they repelled several hacker attacks by pro-Russian groups during the semi-final and final of Eurovision. The hacker group Killnet and its Legion branch have been identified as the organizer of the attacks.
12:06 Sergei Gaidai said that the Russians are throwing all their forces into the Luhansk direction, their main goal is to encircle the region. According to him, there are fights near Severodonetsk in the villages of Shchedrishchevo and Voronovo, a cluster of Russian equipment near Popasnaya. Russia has not given up on the idea of cutting off the Luhansk region by capturing the Lisichansk-Bakhmut road, thereby encircling Ukrainian troops in Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and Lysichansk.
11:58 The leader of the Italian League party, which is part of the ruling coalition, Matteo Salvini said that it is necessary to wait with the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, because now is not the time to expand the alliance.
Salvini was previously considered a friend of Putin, but after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he denounced the Kremlin's policies.
11:55 Podolyak on the prospects for war: "Ukraine is not interested in a protracted war with Russia, like anyone in the world. We cannot end the war this month, but we can this year. The recipe for victory is simple: a real oil embargo + tanks, planes and artillery. Let's end this together."
11:52 Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy confirmed the information about the destruction of a military facility in the Yavoriv district and added that the target was 15 kilometers from the border with Poland, the EU and NATO. Four rockets hit a military facility, there were no casualties. Air defense forces shot down two more missiles.
"The range of the launched missiles is 1.5 thousand kilometers. Now the propagandists' talk about the need to denazify Poland does not look like just drunken cries," Sadovyi wrote.
11:49 The head of the "rescuers" detachment in Mariupol from the invaders - the head of the Tula detachment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, Colonel Yevgeny Orlov, who leads the analysis of the rubble and the extraction of the bodies of the dead, said that 25 bodies of the dead were found in the city in three months. According to the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, it was Orlov who was involved and controlled the work of Mariupol residents on the rubble for food, commanded the preparation of mass graves and the dumping of corpses of Mariupol residents.
Mrazota officially publicly claims that he has been in the city for three months. Which means that he arrived along with the military occupiers. Reports. what was found during this period ... They lie as they breathe. Even here they are trying by all means to hide the extent of Russia's war crime.
11:41 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 15. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdeevsky and Kurakhovsky directions.
- personnel - about 27,400 (+200) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1220 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 2958 (+24),
- artillery systems - 555 (+4),
- MLRS - 195 (+0),
- air defense systems - 89 (+1),
- aircraft - 200 (+0),
- helicopters - 164 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 416 (+5),
- cruise missiles - 95 (+0),
- ships/boats - 13 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2087 (+28),
- special equipment - 42 (+0).
11:34 Operational Command Pivden of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine released an audio recording of a request for help from the sinking Russian cruiser Moskva. On the recording, you can hear how the ship confirms two hits, the roll of the ship and declares the need to save the crew.
11:32 Kalush Orchestra released a video for the song Stefania, with which they won Eurovision. The clip was filmed in the cities destroyed by the Russian army - Bucha, Irpen and Gostomel.
11:06 In the Kharkiv region, the invaders are constantly trying to attack the liberated settlements. Civilian vehicles are being especially targeted - people who are trying to either leave or return, said the head of the OVA, Oleg Sinegubov. The hottest point, according to him, remains the Izyum direction.
At Barvenkovo, the enemy is constantly trying to break through the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but has no success and again suffered heavy losses of manpower and equipment.
10:58 About 2,500 militants from the Chechen Republic took part in the military invasion of Ukraine. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Kadyrovites began to enter the territory of Ukraine in the first days of the invasion, their main task was to intimidate and genocide Ukrainians. Being in the second echelon of the offensive, they were engaged in searches of dwellings, mockery of hostages and civilians, robbery and robbery.
After the Russian troops began to suffer the first large-scale losses, the Kadyrovites were ordered to stop the retreating units of the occupiers and demonstratively shoot those who refused to fight. Shamefully thrown back by the Ukrainian military from Kyiv and Chernigov, Kadyrov's mercenaries moved to the Lugansk and Mariupol directions, where they continued to rob and shoot videos about their exploits for TikTok.
It is significant that despite the feigned training, fighting spirit and equipment of Kadyrov's "warriors", even outside the zone of active hostilities, out of 2.5 thousand mercenaries, about 100 were killed, about 300 were injured and more than 60 fled Ukraine, abandoning their weapons and ammunition. The military intelligence of Ukraine on its website published a list of Kadyrov's militants who participated in Russian aggression in March-May.
10:52 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, confirmed the information that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region are pushing Russian troops to the border with Russia, but he did not name the settlements, "because there are active hostilities, a military operation."
10:49 In the Nikolaev and Kherson regions, the invaders equip their positions with the use of reinforced concrete structures, they do not conduct active offensive operations, OK Pivden reported.
On the Nikolaev area the rocket blow has again been struck - the enemy continues attempts of destruction of an industrial infrastructure. There are no casualties among the local population. In the Black Sea, there are still two Russian ships - carriers of cruise missiles - and five large landing ships.
10:46 Train No. 43 Kiev - Ivano-Frankivsk in the schedule of this year will officially become Stephanie Express . Stations in Kiev, Kalush and Ivano-Frankivsk will greet this train with the song Stephany , said the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Alexander Kamyshin. It will be the first train in the world named after a mother.
10:43 Russian servicemen are actively turning to the hospital of the occupied Melitopol, who complain about "infringement of the spine." After treatment, they ask to be transferred to the reserve, the press service of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military District reports.
"The Russians explain that they got such a problem (infringement of the spine) as a result of wearing bulletproof vests, and ask to be commissioned after the treatment provided," the report says.
It is also reported that yesterday 40 occupiers with gunshot wounds of the limbs were admitted to the hospital. One of the possible versions is a crossbow.
10:29 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, specified that four enemy missiles hit a military infrastructure facility in the Yavoriv district, not far from the border with Poland. The object is completely destroyed.
10:00 The Embassy of India announced that it will resume work in Kiev on May 17.
09:51 This morning, the Russians launched several missile attacks on the Lviv region in order to destroy critical infrastructure. The launch of cruise missiles was carried out presumably from submarines, according to the Zakhid air command. At the same time, the units of the anti-aircraft missile forces destroyed two cruise missiles of the invaders.
Local deputy Ihor Zinkevich reported that the enemy fired six rockets at Lviv that night.
09:24 British intelligence reports that the Russian offensive in the Donbass has slowed down and is very far behind schedule. Over the past month, the Russian army has not been able to achieve serious success. According to intelligence, the Russian Federation has already lost a third of its forces, which were concentrated around Ukraine on February 24.
Intelligence also notes problems with support, low morale of Russian troops and reduced combat capability. Under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to sharply accelerate the pace of its advance in the next 30 days, analysts say.
09:14 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that Russian troops continue to form forces for the battle for Severodonetsk from the south. Although losses during the crossing near Belogorovka temporarily undermined their efforts in the north.
Ukrainian troops are going to conduct a counteroffensive in the Izyum region, Russian troops continued to withdraw from the northern part of the Kharkov region. But, probably, they will strive to hold the line near Volchansk, through which communications go to Izyum. There, the terrain contributes to the defense.
09:10 In the Sumy region, the enemy inflicted significant damage to the infrastructure of the Shostka region at night with a missile attack from an aircraft, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. In addition, late last night, a missile strike was not carried out on the outskirts of the village of Shpilevka in the Sumy region. Households were affected, there were no human casualties.
08:48 For the first time, the invaders used incendiary or phosphorus bombs against the defenders of Mariupol, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city. The invaders themselves claim that they used 9M22S incendiary shells. The combustion temperature is about 2-2.5 thousand degrees Celsius. The fire is almost impossible to stop.
08:46 The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation said that the village of Sereda, Shebekinsky urban district, was allegedly shelled from the territory of Ukraine, one person received a shrapnel wound.
08:44 US intelligence is conducting a large-scale internal check due to errors in the forecast of the Russian war against Ukraine, CNN reports citing its sources. Thus, the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a secret letter to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense and the CIA, indicating that the agencies generally underestimated how long the Ukrainian military could fight off Russian troops.
In particular, critics say that the United States could arm Ukraine earlier and with heavier weapons if the intelligence community assessed that the Ukrainian army has a chance in confronting the Russian Federation. Only one intelligence unit has been able to provide a more accurate assessment of the performance of the Ukrainian army - the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation.
08:38 In the Luhansk region, the Russians made 11 artillery attacks on Severodonetsk, got into the Azot plant, technical school, high-rise buildings. During the day, four residents of the region were injured, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
08:36 At night, the enemy fired twice from Hurricanes on the Shirokovskaya community in the Kryvyi Rih region, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, they got between the villages, there were no victims.
08:29 Zelensky congratulated the Kalush Orchestra on their victory: "Next year Ukraine will host Eurovision! For the third time in its history. And I believe it will not be the last time. We will do everything so that one day Ukrainian Mariupol will host Eurovision participants and guests. Free, peaceful rebuilt!"
08:23 In the Lvov region tonight, the Russians launched a missile attack on one of the military infrastructure facilities. There is no information about the injured and the dead, data on damage is being specified, said the head of the OVA, Maxim Kozitsky.
07:56 Troops of the Russian Federation, despite the losses, do not stop offensive operations in the Limansky, Severodonetsky, Avdeevsky and Kurakhovsky directions, they are taking measures to regroup their units, according to a summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
In particular, in the Slavyansk direction, Russian troops fired on Ukrainian units of the Defense Forces. The enemy tried to break through the defense of the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - he had no success. The enemy also carried out understaffing and replenishment of losses, continued to regroup troops to resume the offensive in the direction of Barvenkovo and Slavyansk.
05:05 Canada has canceled anti-dumping duties in the amount of 77% on metallurgical products from Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Yulia Kovaliv said.
02:36 The European Broadcasting Union commented on the call of the soloist of the Kalush Orchestra to save Mariupol and Azovstal: "We understand the strong feelings when it comes to Ukraine these days, and we consider the statements of the Kalush Orchestra and other artists in support of the Ukrainian people more as a humanitarian gesture than as political".
02:01 Kalush Orchestra are recognized as the winner of Eurovision 2022.
00:17 The "DPR" issued a resolution on the transfer of property of Ukrainian banks in the occupied territories to state property.