Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡12.05.2022

20:14 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

On May 12, 4 people died in the Donetsk region as a result of shelling by the Russian army.

17:26 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister 

Ukraine is in “tough negotiations” to evacuate severely wounded defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal steelworks, in exchange for captured Russians, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said on Telegram messenger on May 12.

17:29 Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration 

The Russian occupiers have once again bombed the Kremenchuk refinery. According to local authorities, 4 shells arrived.

15:54 CNN

Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. CNN has obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime by Ukrainian prosecutors

15:03 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Since the beginning of the war, Russian aggressors have forcibly deported almost 2 million Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and the Donetsk regions to the Russian Federation 

11:02 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration 

On 12 May, at about 10:00,  Russian troops launched a cruise missile at Zaporizhzhia. A residential building is reportedly on fire.

10:00 Kyiv School of Economics

As of May 10,  the total amount of direct documented infrastructure damages in Ukraine, based only on public sources, is >$94 billion. Over the past week, the direct losses of the economy due to the destruction and damage to infrastructure increased by >$2.4 billion.

9:15 Novoye Vremya

Almost all ships with missile weapons on board were brought to sea from the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol – Crimea.Realities’ correspondent, NV reports

8:53 Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 26 attacks on towns and villages of the Luhansk region, damaging at least 24 houses.

7:50 Novoye Vremya

According to the military administration in occupied Popasna, the Russians are inspecting every building in the city. They are deporting locals to Pervomaisk, which has been occupied since 2014 

7:48 Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops have once again shelled the Zelenodolsk Amalgamated Territorial Community (hromada) in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing one person and injuring another.

7:34 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, Russian enemy units are trying to develop offensive operations in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Kurakhove directions. The main task remains to establish full control over Rubizhne, capture Lyman and Severodonetsk.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy crossed the Siverskyi Donets River to enter the main forces and conduct an offensive. In the direction of Siversk, it leads the offensive in the direction of Zelena Dolyna and Novoselivka. Fighting continues. 

7:13 Vyacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration 

On the night of May 12, Russian aircraft struck Novhorod-Siversky in the Chernihiv region. Schools, administrative buildings, and private houses were damaged. The attacks killed and injured several people.

3 people died and 12 were injured in an air strike. This was reported to Suspilne at the press service of the State Emergency Service of the region

4:33 Operational Command South 

On May 11, 23 occupiers and four units of equipment were eliminated in the southern direction. An enemy ammunition depot was also destroyed in the Kherson region

1:34 Oleksandr Starukh, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian occupiers have kidnapped 271 Ukrainian civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region