🔵16.05.2022
21:29 Radio Liberty
Sweden has joined Finland in deciding to apply to join the NATO military alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will “certainly” react to the alliance’s expected enlargement into the two Nordic countries.
20:22 Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD)
After dismantling the ruins in Mariupol to find all of the dead, Russia is now planning to produce fake news about the situation in the city
18:14 Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
Russian troops have shelled a hospital and residential houses in Sievierodonetsk, killing at least 10 civilians. Over the past day, Russian troops have been purposefully firing on the city.
16:26 Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova
As of May 16, more than 37,000 Ukrainians had gone through “filtration.” At the moment, people deported to Russia are also undergoing this procedure. According to Denisova, Ukrainians are being examined, humiliated and tortured
14:54 Mariupol city counsil
Fifteen young women – military and health workers – died at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol
14:51 Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration
Russian troops had struck an ammonia nitrate warehouse in Kharkiv Oblast; there is no threat to the residents of the adjacent areas.
14:43 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Hlukhiv city counsil
On 16 May, border guard Oleksandr Popovchenko was killed in a battle with a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Russian soldiers, which attempted to cross the state border of Ukraine in the Sumy region:
14:26 Novoye Vremya
Six civilians were killed and another 12 injured after Russia launched missile strikes on 10 settlements in Donetsk Oblast on May 15, the regional office of Ukraine’s National Police has reported
11:32 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of Sumy Regional Military Administration
Russia has launched missiles at the bridge across the Kleven River in Shostka district of Sumy Oblast, destroying it.
In the morning, Russian troops tried to break through the state border in the Sumy region, according to Zhyvytskyi. The fire was opened from mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and submachine guns.
10:12 Suspilne
On May 16, Russia launched a missile strike on the Odesa region from strategic aviation. As a result of the explosion, three people were injured and tourist infrastructure was damaged – head of the press center of the South Defense and Security Forces Humeniuk, Suspilne reports.
8:57 Office of the Prosecutor General of UkraineIn Ukraine, 229 children have been killed and another 421 have been injured as a result of Russian full-scale armed aggression.
8:50 State Emergency Service of Mykolaiv region
On the morning of May 16, Russia shelled the Ingulsky area of Mykolaiv. A fire broke out in a furniture store and a car parked nearby. Remains of a cluster warhead of an MRL missile were found near the site of the explosion.
6:16 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian defenders of one of the Territorial Defense battalions pushed back the Russian military and reached a section of Ukraine–Russia state border.
3:04 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol
Russian occupiers have deported more than 3,000 civilians from Mariupol to a filtration prison in the village of Olenivka in the Donetsk region
