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Chronology of the Russian war against Ukraine: Thursday, May 11
2023-05-12
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[VESTI] May 11 is the 442nd day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .

07:00 . Zaporozhye region. On May 10, at 22:05, the Russians fired cluster and phosphorus shells at a village near Zaporozhye . Five residential buildings caught fire, six more were damaged. Fieve people were injured, including two ambulance workers. Two ambulances were damaged.

After 70 attacks, more than three dozen destructions were recorded in 20 settlements. 60 times the enemy hit from artillery, five from MLRS, delivered three air strikes and one missile strike, made one attack from an UAV. Private houses, cars, social institutions and utility networks were damaged.

Donetsk region. On May 10, the Russians killed three people: two in the town of Chasov Yar and one in Novokalinovo. Two more people in the area were injured.

08:00 . Kherson region. Russia fired 90 times at the peaceful settlements of the region, firing 461 shells from artillery, MLRS, mortars, tanks, drones and aviation. During the day, due to shelling, one person died, one was injured.

Kharkov region. During the day, Russia from artillery, mortars and using aircraft fired at the settlements of Kharkov, Chuguevsky and Kupyansky districts of the region. A 67-year-old man died in Volchansk, at least 5 private houses were damaged. In the village of Figolevka, a 49-year-old man was injured during a mortar shelling and was hospitalized.

09:00 . Dnipropetrovsk region. On the evening of May 10 and late at night, the Russians hit Nikopol from heavy artillery : Three private residential buildings, outbuildings were broken in the city, power lines and cars were damaged. No casualties.

10:00 a.m. RF. The governor of the Bryansk region said that a Ukrainian drone attacked an oil depot in Klintsy near the Ukrainian-Russian border. According to him, the oil storage tank was damaged.

Kherson region. In Kherson, the curfew is reduced by 2 hours . From May 16, it will last from 21:00 to 05:00 (now from 20:00 to 06:00). The deadline for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the city has also been extended until June 15.

11:00 am . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the BBC, said that Ukraine needs more time to prepare for a counteroffensive in order to receive the promised help from partners: "With what we have, we can go forward and be successful. But we will lose a lot of people. We need wait."

Donetsk region. Russia shelled Slovyansk with S-300 missiles: a woman was killed, her daughter was wounded. As a result of the shelling, a private house caught fire, and several others were damaged.

13:00 . Britain has sent long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities assured that these missiles would be used only within the sovereign territory of Ukraine. Storm Shadow is an aviation cruise missile with a range of more than 250 km and a height of 30-40 m. It is designed to destroy stationary targets well protected by air defense.

Kyiv. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson arrived in Ukraine . She has already met with Ukraine's Interior Minister Igor Klymenko and said he is "achieving excellent results."

14:30 . Kharkov region. Russia fired on the village of Veliky Burluk : a 16-year-old girl and a 43-year-old woman received explosive and shrapnel wounds. Both victims were hospitalized. According to preliminary data, the settlement was fired from the Tornado MLRS. Houses and cars of residents of the village were also damaged.

15:00 . Zaporozhye region. The Russians launched 4 air strikes on the Preobrazhenskaya community: houses and cars were damaged. Information about the victims is being specified.

Dnipropetrovsk region. The National Guardsmen landed a Russian reconnaissance UAV with explosives.

16:00 . Donetsk region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already launched a counter-offensive in the Bakhmut direction, successfully pushing through the flanks, says the owner of the Wagner military complex Yevgeny Prigozhin. He also said that Volodymyr Zelensky is "disingenuous" when he says that the counteroffensive has been postponed. According to Prigozhin, the Armed Forces of Ukraine want to surround the "Wagnerites" in Bakhmut in order to go to the part of the Zaporozhye region, which is not controlled by Ukraine, the Bryansk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation.

17:00 . Donetsk region. Six people were injured in a missile attack on Toretsk . Doctors provide all necessary assistance to the victims.

18:00 . During the day, the enemy launched 6 missile attacks on the cities of Slavyansk, Konstantinovka and Zaporozhye. K 46 air strikes and 69 attacks from MLRS on settlements were recorded, there were casualties among the civilian population, residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00.

18:41 . The occupiers hit Kherson again - they got into the territory of the municipal transport enterprise. Due to shelling, the roof of the building and the trolleybus were damaged. According to preliminary data, civilians were not injured.

19:10 . Aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 13 strikes per day on the areas of concentration of enemy personnel and equipment. Also, our defenders destroyed seven enemy UAVs of various types. The rocket and artillery units hit eight command posts, 13 manpower concentration areas, an ammunition depot, a fuel depot, five artillery units in firing positions, one air defense system and two more important enemy targets.

19:46 . There are already nine wounded in Toretsk as a result of today's shelling. This was reported by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.

20:11 . Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said that the SBU should deal with calls to return the Russian language. He was probably referring to Arestovich's recent statements, in which he criticized the policy of eradicating the Russian language in Ukraine and calls for discrimination against Russian-speaking citizens.

20:44 . Poland transferred 14 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. This was announced by the Permanent Mission of Poland to the European Union

In the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv, a gardener accidentally found mortar shells. But not today's war, but during the Second World War. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after surveying the territory, experts found another 12 unexploded mines.

21:03 . The SBU has completed its investigation and submitted to court cases against 59 State Duma deputies who are accused of encroaching on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine. The defendants face up to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment.

21:31 . The enemy continues to concentrate his main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. During the day, the enemy made more than 30 attacks on the indicated sectors of the front. The fiercest fighting continues in the cities of Bakhmut and Marinka

21:58 . In the Limansky direction, the enemy conducted offensive operations in the area of ​​the Serebryansky forestry during the day, but had no success. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Stupochki. In the Shakhtyorsk direction, the enemy conducted offensive operations in the Novomikhailovka area during the day, but had no success. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00.

22:22 . Soldiers of the 96th Operational Regiment of the Russian Guard set off from Grozny to Ukraine, said the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

22:45 . There is a serious risk of encirclement of PMC "Wagner" in Bakhmut as a result of the failure of the flanks - Prigozhin. According to him, due to the reduction in personnel, the PMC was forced to transfer the flanks to other military units.

23:04 . Pentagon chief Austin said the United States is doing everything possible to expedite the delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine. According to him, Washington expects to hand over the tanks to the Ukrainian army in early autumn.

23:41 . Russia wants to produce Iranian kamikaze drones in Belarus. It is reported by the Center for National Resistance.

23:58 . In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations during the day. In the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions, the enemy continues to conduct defensive operations. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00.

$1 billion worth of European sanctioned goods disappeared while in transit through Russia, reports the Financial Times.

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