Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡19.05.2022

20:44 Ukrainska Pravda 

The deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, Sviatoslav Palamar, announced that both he and the command are on the territory of the Azovstal plant as of 19 May.

19:18 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, Russian invaders killed 12 people and injured more than 40 on May 19

16:38 Oleksii Hromov, Deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Over the last two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated 23 settlements in the Kharkiv region from Russian occupiers.

14:11 International Committee of the Red CrossA team from the International Committee of the Red Cross says they have registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war this week from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

12:18 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

In the Donetsk region, Russian invaders launched another airstrike on Bakhmut town, hitting a five-story apartment block, a private house, and an administrative building. Rescuers removed six people from the rubble. Their health condition is satisfactory.

9:38 Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office

Russian troops have killed 231 children and injured at least 427 in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion started on February 24.

9:19 Operational Command South

The Ukrainian army hit 90 enemy targets in southern Ukraine on May 18, including two self-propelled howitzers, armored vehicles and manpower.

8:59 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian occupiers continue shelling the settlements of the Luhansk region, the enemy actively used aircraft in the area of Popasna. In Severodonetsk, four people died and three others were injured on May 18. Another person was injured in Lysychansk 

7:52 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

On the night of 18-19 May, Russian forces shelled the village of Velyka Kostromka in Zelenodolsk amalgamated territorial community of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 5 times.

7:37 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

A grenade exploded near the Russian commandant’s office in occupied Melitopol on May 18.

6:15 Operational Command South

The occupiers are preparing a so-called “press tour” for Russian and foreign media from Rostov-on-Don to the captured cities of Ukraine. The occupiers are using classic forms of hybrid warfare

5:32 Dmytro Zhyvytskiy, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

Overnight RU invading forces were shelling Sumy Oblast, a northeast Ukraine region that was liberated from Russian occupiers in April.  After several failed attempts to break the border, the invaders started shelling the region from the Russian territory “like crazy”.

1:51 Yulia Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada 

Canadian Parliament has unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatar People by the Soviet regime as an act of genocide

0:39 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defence Minister 

Ukraine is doing everything possible to save the defenders and heroes of Ukraine who were at Azovstal. Public comments can harm the process

0:05 East Operational and Tactical Group

At least 15 civilians, including two families with children, were killed and seven civilians were injured in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as a result of Russian shelling on Wednesday. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 16 attacks.