🟡17.05.2022
16:50 Radio Liberty
Belarusian military personnel intensified their activities on the border between Belarus and Ukraine: these actions are aimed at “protection from Ukrainians and NATO troops,” according to the leadership of the Belarusian Armed Forces.
16:21 State Emergency Service
One person has been killed in Russia’s missile strike on a five-storey apartment block in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region. A child born in 2013 was rescued from under the rubble in moderately grave condition.
15:27 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine
The operation to rescue the Ukrainian military from Azovstal will continue until their full return home from uncontrolled territory. Ukraine was forced to exchange wounded Ukrainian servicemen in Mariupol for Russian POWs, as there was no other way to save them.
15:00 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration
In the Shostka district of the Sumy region, Russian invaders are trying to break through the land border. Fighting is ongoing.
14:39 Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation are currently suspended due to several reasons
12:54 State Emergency Service of the Chernihiv region
As a result of the Russian troops’ air strike on the settlement of Desna in the Chernihiv region, eight people were killed, 12 more were injured
10:17 Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration
As a result of missile strikes by Russian occupation forces in the Lviv region, the railway infrastructure was damaged
10:14 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
Russian occupiers fire on the Hirske community of the Luhansk region, the whole streets of houses are burning
9:34 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration
At dawn today, Russian troops launched a missile strike on the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region. At least five people have been injured.
9:20 Ukrainian Air Force Command
A unit of anti-aircraft missile forces of Ukraine’s Air Command South has shot down a Russian cruise missile over the Mykolaiv region. The missile was flying toward the western regions of Ukraine
8:18 Viacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration
In the morning of 17 May, the village of Desna in Chernihiv Oblast was hit by a missile strike, as a result of which there are dead and wounded
8:08 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Russian military has once again shelled the only functioning hospital in Sievierodonetsk, where two more buildings are now damaged. They also carried out air strikes in the Popasna area
6:20 Ukrinform
Explosions were heard in Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, overnight Friday. According to tentative reports, the enemy hit a military infrastructure facility in Yavoriv district.l
6:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Commanders of units defending the Azovstal steelworks, Ukraine’s last stronghold in Mariupol, received an order from the highest military command “to save the lives of personnel.”
0:54 Andrii Niebytov, Kyiv regional police chief
Another mass grave with 4 dead civilian victims of Russian occupiers with gunshot wounds has been found in the Kyiv region.
0:24 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine
UA forces started a rescue operation from Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, the last Ukrainian stronghold. 53 heavily wounded soldiers were taken to Novoazovsk, another 200 soldiers were taken to Olenivka, both occupied settlements in Donetsk Oblast
0:10 Radio Liberty
Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and French carmaker Renault have become the latest major corporations to announce their exit from Russia, joining dozens of others in an exodus over Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
0:05 The GuardianVladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the war against Ukraine that he is making operational and tactical decisions “at the level of a colonel or brigadier”, according to western military sources
