Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🔵18.05.2022

21:49 Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Rescuers have found the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 2-year-old child when dismantling the rubble of a five-storey apartment block, which was hit with a Russian missile in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, on May 17, 2022

18:49 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated the village of Dementiivka in the Kharkiv region. 

17:57 Ukrinform

Vadim Shishimarin has become the first Russian soldier who fully admitted his guilt in court in the murder of a civilian in the Sumy region

16:36 Mariupol City Counsil

There is a threat of complete extinction in the Sea of ​​Azov due to possible damage to the technical facility, which restrains the concentrated hydrogen sulfide solution, amid the Russian bombardment of the Azovstal steelworks.

16:17 Ukrainska Pravda

In captured Melitopol, the Ukrainian resistance movement has managed to blow up a Russian armoured train as it was transporting soldiers and equipment

15:57 Andrii Niebytov, head of the National Police of the Kyiv region

Bodies of 1,288 civilians killed by the occupiers were found in the Kyiv region as of 18 May.

13:02 Oleksii Reznikov, Defense Minister 

Seventeen battalion tactical groups (BTGs) of the enemy have been completely destroyed by the Ukrainian Army in 80 days of the war

11:46 Ukrinform

Russian troops have shelled a column of civilian cars near the village of Davydiv Brid, Kherson Region, with the Grad multiple launch rocket systems, killing at least three people

10:34 South Operational Command

The Russian military have launched a missile strike on Odesa Region from the Black Sea.

10:00 State Border Guard Service

Russian troops continued to fire on the Sumy region on the night of 18 May using Grad multiple rocket launchers.

9:03 Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council

The Russian occupiers again shelled the border areas of the Zelenodolsk and Apostolove communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region. 

8:51 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

On the morning of 18 May, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Mykolaiv, causing destruction and a fire in the residential sector. 1 person is now known to have suffered shrapnel wounds

8:46 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Last night, the Russian occupiers continued shelling the settlements of the Luhansk region. Sievierodonetsk withstood 15 artillery attacks. The enemy opened fire on the Azot chemical plant. Four people have been killed.

8:17 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

Russian invaders launched two missile strikes on the city of Dnipro this morning, injuring a woman and destroying a transport infrastructure object.

08:14 Prosecutor General’s Office

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 229 Ukrainian children have died, 424 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region. 

7:50 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In Bakhmut and Sievierodonetsk directions in Luhansk region, the aggressor amassed up to 15 helicopters to provide air support for the offensive.

3:03 Press service of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian occupiers have kidnapped 280 Ukrainian civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region.