Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡15.05.2022

14:33 Ukrinform

The relatives of the Azov Regiment fighters have left for Turkey to thank President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his readiness to help rescue the defenders of Mariupol.

Previously, Turkey proposed carrying out a sea evacuation of wounded fighters holed up in a steel works in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Saturday

11:38 Suspilne

In the morning, the forces of Ukraine’s air defense shot down a missile in the Oleksandriia district flying in the direction of Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad region – head of the regional military administration Raikovych 

9:39 Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

In Kharkiv, a relative silence has been observed for several days, but the threat of shelling by the invaders remains. The enemy continues to attack the settlements of Kharkiv region. Four people were injured in the region, among them a child

During demining efforts in one of the liberated settlements in Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian bomb squad found an IED planted in a baby crib.

8:37 Petro Andriushchenko, Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol

Russian troops have deployed either phosphorous or incendiary ammunition on Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

8:02 Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration 

Russian troops have launched a missile strike on a military infrastructure facility in the Lviv region.

7:55 Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

Last night Russian troops shelled the Shyroke territorial community in Dnipropetrovsk Region with the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).

6:55 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Twelve enemy attacks were repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions over the past 24 hours, eight tanks, five artillery systems, nine units of armoured combat vehicles and five enemy vehicles were destroyed. Russian occupiers have losses in other areas as well

6:16 Oleksii Arestovych, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office  

Ukrainian defenders in the Kherson region struck at a Russian command post of a major level

4:08 ICC Prosecutor Karim Han to Le Monde

42 investigators of the International Criminal Court will come to Ukraine next week to investigate Russia’s crimes

1:39 Reuters

A large convoy of cars and vans carrying refugees from the ruins of Mariupol arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday after waiting days for Russian troops to allow them to leave

1:36 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops were preparing for crossing the Siverskyi Donets river and conducting the offensive on Sievierodonetsk 

0:05 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military AdministrationThe Russians in Zaporizhzhia Oblast are burning the bodies of their dead soldiers in a poultry shed, and they have set up a prison in the school for those who refuse to fight