Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🔵11.05.2022

21:58 Ukrainska Pravda

A civilian has been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Lozova community, Kharkiv Oblast

21:47 Ukrainska Pravda

Ukrainian soldiers have destroyed Russian troops’ pontoon crossings across the Siverskyi Donets river near the village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast.

21:11 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister 

The Ukrainian side offers the Russians to exchange the severely wounded Ukrainian servicemen who remain at Azovstal for the captured servicemen of the Russian Federation. There is no agreement yet. Negotiations are ongoing.

20:11 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration

On Wednesday, Russian troops again launched a missile strike on the Odesa Region, with no casualties or damage. “The enemy is trying to destroy our infrastructure to prevent its further use,” the region’s military governor said

18:39 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated the settlement of Pytomnyk in the Kharkiv region 

12:11 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The first Russian military will appear before the court for killing a civilian in the Sumy region

11:23 Oleksandr Striuk, Head of the Sievierodonetsk City Military Administration

About 70% of residential buildings in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, have been damaged due to the shellings by Russian troops 

9:30 War.Ukraine.ua referring to the New Zealand Government

New Zealand has imposed new sanctions against Russia. They include 8 Russian individuals and legal entities. In particular, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman and the company “Internet Research Agency” are among them

9:29 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

The enemy fired a missile at Zaporizhzhia, but the missile was shot down by the Ukrainian military. The missile exploded over an infrastructure facility in a settlement outside the regional center

9:28 Vadim Boichenko, mayor of Mariupol

By the end of the year in the devastated city of Mariupol more than 10 thousand people may die from diseases and unbearable conditions; the city currently has 150-170 thousand inhabitants.

8:58 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian occupiers fired on humanitarian vehicles on the “road of life” on the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway. The truck with only a driver inside was already returning from Lysychansk, where it was delivering food to residents

8:40 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian military fired on a boarding school for children with special needs in Luhansk region

8:16 Prosecutor General’s Office

226 children were killed and 417 were injured in Ukraine in a full-scale invasion unleashed by the Russian Federation. Among the recently reported cases – on May 9, a boy, 13, was wounded in Russian shelling of a household in Lysychansk, Luhansk region

7:13 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on continuing the offensive to take complete control of the city of Rubizhne, capture the settlements of Lyman and Sievierodonetsk 

5:13 Novoye Vremya referring to the Prosecutor General’s Office

The Russian occupiers stole historical and cultural valuables, Scythian gold – among them, that were stored in the Melitopol Museum of Regional Ethnography

4:52 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Russia continues shelling the Ukrainian positions along the entire contact line and in the depths of Ukraine’s defense in the Zaporizhzhia direction. The greatest activity of the enemy is near Polohy, Orikhiv and Huliaipole

3:55 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military AdministrationRussian invaders smuggle grain and vegetables out of the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Region to Crimea