[NewsFrontInfo] 23:33 Channel One military commander Irina Kuksenkova reports on the current situation around Azovstal:
“Today everything is over - the wounded who were taken from Azov were under guard in the hospital in Novoazovsk, the rest were taken to Yelenovka, the interrogation will begin in the morning.
Tomorrow, from four in the morning, ours will again continue to take prisoner the rest of the inmates from Azovstal. In total, as I was told, 2,227 people are blocked there. There are even pregnant servicemen (women). The intrigue of tomorrow is the fate of Kalina and Volyn ... "
22:38 According to preliminary information, about 300 militants left Azovstal. About 50 of them were wounded. They are now being taken to the Central Regional Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will be provided with the necessary medical care. The rest were taken away by buses in the direction of Yelenovka.
17:40 The curfew has been reduced in Melitopol. Now it starts at 21:00 pm and ends at 5:00 am.
17:25 Putin informed his colleagues in the CSTO in detail about the course of the special operation in Ukraine, the issue of using the CSTO forces in Ukraine was not raised at the summit, the Secretary General said.
17:02 During the shelling of the outskirts of Kherson from the Smerch MLRS, an 84-year-old local resident was killed. The shelling was carried out from the side of the Nikolaev region, they hit with cluster munitions.
Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again signaled that they do not consider Kherson a part of Ukraine; that for them it is an enemy city with a hostile population, to which they will take revenge for the fact that they failed to arrange a “second Mariupol” there.
13:19 In Odessa, a former camp site was destroyed by a missile strike. Most likely, the Ukrainian servicemen converted it into a barracks.
11:35 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published personnel combat work of Russian mortars. Crews reconnoiter enemy positions using drones, after which they open fire almost immediately. 120mm ammunition allows you to destroy firing positions and strongholds at a distance of more than seven kilometers.
11:31 Another Belarusian Nazi named Pavel “Volat”, who arrived in Ukraine to kill Russians, was destroyed.
11:12 Washington deliberately "clouds" its military-biological activities in Ukraine - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
11:04 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/16/2022) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
During the day, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit two command posts, including the command post of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade in the Tsapovka region of the Kharkov region, 16 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, eight long-term firing points and five warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons in areas of the settlements Krasny Liman of the Kharkiv region, Vladimirovka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Berestovoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
As a result of the strikes, more than 360 nationalists were killed, 78 units of military equipment were disabled.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit three command posts, 104 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, as well as two fuel depots.
Rocket troops and artillery hit 325 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 14 command posts and 24 artillery batteries in firing positions.
Russian air defense systems in the areas of the settlements of Evgenovka, Mykolaiv region and Velyka Kamyshevakha, shot down two Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.
In addition, one Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft was shot down near Zmeiny Island. Ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the settlements of Novosvetlovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Dementievka, Izyum and Malye Prohody in the Kharkiv region, Donetsk, Vysokoye and Kalinovskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, including two Soviet-made Tu-143 Reis jet aircraft.
In addition, in the areas of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Snezhkovka, Shpakovka, Ivanovka, Kharkiv region and Chernobaevka, Kherson region, 18 rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 168 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 889 unmanned aerial vehicles, 307 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,108 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 381 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,529 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,949 units of special military vehicles.
11:00 In Rubezhnoye, seven Americans who participated in the battles on the side of Kyiv were killed, Alaudinov, assistant to the head of Chechnya, said.
10:52 Air defense went off in Kherson. Seven missiles "Hurricane" were shot down.
10:04 Departure (loading on S-17) from the USA of the next batch of 155mm / 39 light towed howitzers M-777 of the BAE Systems company to Ukraine.
09:38 The Russian Armed Forces delivered another blow near Zatoka in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region. According to local residents, another tourist center favored by foreign "tourists" has been calibrated.
09:30 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for May 15, 2022:
The Russian Armed Forces attacked a warehouse with foreign weapons near Lvov.
The offensive near Izyum continues from the side of Pashkovka to Gusarovka, battles are being waged for the Slavyansk-Barvenkovo road.
Under Severodonetsk, the zone of control is expanding, the battles for Voronovo have begun.
The cleansing of Toshkovka continues, as well as the attack on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the New York area. In Avdeevka, Novobakhmutovka, Sands and Novomikhailovka positional battles.
A counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was thwarted in the Gulyai-Pole area.
09:15 In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces struck near Ochakov: one of the barges that blocked the entrance to the Dnieper estuary in the section Ochakov - Pervomaisky Island - Kinburn Spit was hit. The last time the barges were hit was on May 10.
09:05 Economic convoys for sending goods began to form in the Kherson region. - Deputy head of the military-civilian administration Kirill Stremousov.
08:31 TASS: in Ukraine, they began to initiate criminal cases against Kherson doctors and teachers, who continued to work after the region was liberated by the Russian Armed Forces.
08:22 Kherson region has tuned in to full-fledged cooperation with the regions of the Russian Federation on agricultural products.