Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🔵13.05.2022

20:57 Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 

Most of the active combat actions will have finished by the end of this year, and Ukraine will regain control over territories occupied by Russia

20:38 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The enemy continues the offensive in the east. At the same time, it focuses its efforts on securing the withdrawal of its units from Kharkiv and preventing the units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces from advancing to the rear of the Russian troops near Izium.

18:18 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Ukrainian military intelligence has data on Russia’s deployment of Pantsir air defense missile system and Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile system on Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea, which are to secure Russia’s short-range air defense.

17:04 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Three people were injured and 8 high-rise buildings were destroyed in Russian shelling of the town of Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on May 12.

14:15 Associated Press

A Russian soldier is scheduled to go on trial on Friday in the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first time since the start of the invasion that a member of the Russian military will be prosecuted for a war crime.

11:59 Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defense 

A new, long-term phase of the war is now beginning after a series of failures of RU troops and the deterrence of Russian troops by Ukrainian defenders, in particular, in Mariupol and the east of Ukraine

10:49 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

On May 12, 2022, two civilians were killed and four injured in Russia’s shelling of Derhachi, Kharkiv Region

10:11 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops are firing at all communities of the Donetsk region without exception, with the fiercest action in the direction of Avdiivka, where the occupiers bomb the coke and chemical plant for the second day

9:40 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

Russian troops try to break into the territory of the Azovstal steelworks, where the Ukrainian fighters of Mariupol garrison hold the defense

9:25 Ukrinform

During the night of May 12 to 13, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Zaporizhzhia and two missile strikes on Sumy region. According to updated information, there are no casualties.

9:12 Suspilne

The Russian occupiers destroyed the House of Culture in Derhachi with a missile strike, where humanitarian aid was being distributed – Derhachi city council

8:32 Office of the Prosecutor General of UkraineThe number of Ukrainian children injured due to Russian aggression rises to 420: As of May 13, 226 children were killed and 420 were injured in Ukraine as a result of the military aggression waged by the Russian Federation.

8:06 Serhii Haidai, head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

The Russians are focusing their efforts on establishing full control over Rubizhne and have destroyed the bridge to Sievierodonetsk

7:13 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Russian enemy is transferring additional artillery units to the border areas of Russia’s Bryansk region to increase provocative shelling of settlements in the Chernihiv region, located near the state border of Ukraine.

In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions alone, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed eighteen enemy attacks, destroyed thirteen tanks, eight artillery systems, twenty-seven units of armoured combat vehicles, two units of special engineering equipment and five enemy vehicles.

5:35 CNNThe Russian military is continuing to use a Ukrainian air base outside the occupied city of Melitopol, satellite images from BlackSky show. At least seven helicopters are seen at the air base in a satellite image taken on May 12