Russia\u2019s losses in Ukraine reach 200,000 troops. China\u2019s envoy who served as ambassador to Russia, visits Ukraine. A Russian artillery strike on Kherson region kills three, including a five-year-old boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three civilians, including a child, were killed, and two others injured as Russian forces fired on Zelenivka village in Kherson region in the afternoon of May 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Head of the Kherson regional military administration Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram: \u201cA country of terrorists, aggressors, and war criminals that will face shame and a tribunal at the end of its path, has claimed today the lives of a young Kherson resident and two adults.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the afternoon, Russian forces fired on Zelenivka. Five people on their way to a grocery store, suffered the attack,\u201d Prokudin added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, Russia launched an attack at 4 p.m. One of the shells hit near a store where local residents were staying. A five-year-old boy and two men sustained injuries incompatible with life. Another man and a 16-year-old boy were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The infant was rushed to hospital, but died before reaching the facility, Prokudin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teenager is in grave condition, he was being operated. The 24-year-old man is in fair condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Li Hui, China\u2019s special representative for Eurasian affairs, who served as the Chinese ambassador to Russia for ten years, visited Ukraine on May 16 and May 17. His visit was agreed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a telephone conversation on April 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Li met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They discussed Ukraine-China bilateral relations, and interactions through multilateral institutions. They also spoke of ways to stop Russia\u2019s aggression, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kuleba briefed the Chinese envoy \u201cabout the principles of restoring a stable and just peace based on respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.\u201d He emphasized that Ukraine would not accept any proposals to end the war with Russia that involved it losing territory or freezing the conflict, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kuleba stressed \u201cthe importance of China’s participation in the implementation of the President\u2019s Peace Formula, the Black Sea Grain Initiative, nuclear safety and other important international efforts,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia has lost more than 200,000 troops in Ukraine since the invasion, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a daily update on May 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia\u2019s losses in Ukraine exceed the ones in all of its wars throughout the 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> centuries, except the two world wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The USSR lost at least 127,000 troops in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 and around 15,000 troops during its 10-year war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989. Western experts say that Soviet losses in Afghanistan were 26,000. Russia suffered more than 20,000 soldiers killed in the two Chechen wars \u2014 meaning the numbers killed in Ukraine are already 10 times greater than those killed in Chechnya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recently released interview with Ukrainian blogger Dmytro Komarov, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said that such high losses would have held back any country from continuing to wage a war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere is just one conclusion: the cheapest in this country [Russia] is human life. That\u2019s the cheapest thing there is. For us, it is the opposite \u2014 that\u2019s what we value most,\u201d Zaluzhnyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUkraine \u2013 Azerbaijan: important cooperation in challenging conditions. Ukraine in Flames #433<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n