[NewsFrontInfo] 23:38 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the Kursk region, the villages of Alekseevka and Dronovka were hit, Governor Roman Starovoit said.
23:01 The Russian Federation delivered 245 tons of humanitarian aid to the Donetsk People's Republic and Kharkiv region.
22:29 Over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 17,693 people, including 2,371 children, have been evacuated from dangerous areas of the republics of Donbass and Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation.
21:37 WHO did not give an adequate assessment of the use of medical institutions by Ukrainian nationalists as strongholds and firing points.
21:37 The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the defense battalions equipped firing positions in preschool and educational institutions in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhovka.
21:37 The Kyiv regime is preparing a provocation in the Sumy region to accuse the RF Armed Forces of indiscriminate strikes against civilians.
21:37 The militants are planning to fire at the border area of the Russian Federation from areas of private households to call back fire on residential buildings.
21:36 Head of the Kherson Provisional State Administration Volodymyr Saldospentthe first meeting with the heads of districts of the region. The balance announced that the Kherson region would return to Russia. The new budget of the region has already been approved in rubles. Salaries and pensions in the Kherson region will also be paid in rubles from May.
21:34 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports that the Kyiv regime is preparing another provocation using the so-called "wandering mortars" - the militants plan to fire at the border territory of the Russian Federation from areas of private houses in the Sumy region in order to cause return fire on residential buildings.
Also, Ukrainian troops equipped strongholds, placed heavy weapons in schools and kindergartens in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhkovka in the DPR. Firing positions and sniper points are equipped by militants on the upper floors of apartment buildings in Bakhmut in the DPR, the approaches to the houses are mined, but the local population is deliberately not notified about this. All such facts are still cynically ignored by the world community and the "civilized" West, as well as "human rights activists" and politicians,
20:36 Reuters: The United States is working on organizing the supply of long-range anti-ship missiles to Ukraine to lift the blockade of the Black Sea.
20:36 APU blew up another bridge - Shestovitsky bridge across the Desna River on the way to Chernigov.
20:30 Ukrainian sources report that the leaders of Azov do not want to go out with their hands up until they receive guarantees from Zelensky’s office that they will definitely be included in the exchange list.
19:43 As a result of shelling today in Chernobaevka, a man was killed and a woman was wounded. They worked in the garden. Dill shell Chernobaevka every day at the same time.
18:54 Failed attemptsUkrainian infantry destroy a Russian tank from an RPG. During the battle, Russian tankers correctly determined the direction of arrivals and returned shots. In the end, the Russian infantry occupied the Ukrainian trenches and the tank covered them with fire.
18:53 Belarus bought a sufficient number of Iskander missile systems and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia, Lukashenka said.
18:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of a fortified position left by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. On the personnel it can be seen that the infantry battalion could be in abandoned positions, there are also trenches for heavy military equipment, where a tank or lightly armored vehicles can be placed.
“These fortifications have been prepared very well and quite a long time ago, because the boards have already begun to rot, and everything has already begun to overgrow. The length is about 10 kilometers of all passages, ceilings, trenches. Lots of concrete shelters. Prepared for year-round service, ”said Roman, a serviceman of the RF Armed Forces.
17:44 At the Ministry of Defense declared that the letters Z and V are not official military symbols.
17:43 “The special operation is unlikely to end by autumn,” Arestovich. He considers Zelensky's proposal to extend martial law for 90 days fair. According to him, “every time” to continue martial law for 30 days is to give false hopes to Ukrainians.
17:43 The Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation took patronage over Makeevka. The city will be restored by joint efforts. The head of the administration of Makeevka said that there is a program designed for 2022-2025.
17:43 The situation in the north of the Kharkiv region by 1600 hrs on May 19, 2022.
▪️At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are strengthening the front line near Stary Saltov and Zolochev. Additional command posts were deployed in Chernoglazovka and Peschanoe.
▪️In the vicinity of the Thorn fight. At night, units of the RF Armed Forces reached the northwestern outskirts of the settlement, blocking the exits to the state border. According to unconfirmed reports, at the moment the settlement is again in the "gray zone".
▪️To the west of Kazachya Lopan, Ukrainian units are expanding their zone of control, digging in villages in the "gray zone". Units of the Ternopil 105 Territorial Defense Brigade entered Guryev Kazachok and Baranovka.
▪️American M777 howitzers were supposedly transferred to Zolochiv and Shestakovo. Artillery units of 14 Ombr and 10 Ogshbr were transferred to Tsirkuny. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to fire at Zolochev.
▪️On the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets, DRGs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to operate. Khotomlya is under the conditional control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukrainian units are operating in the vicinity.
▪️The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has not yet begun: the primary task of the Ukrainian side is to stabilize the front near Ternova and Rubizhne, as well as to suppress firing positions in Kazachya Lopan and Tsupovka.
16:48 Kherson region will return to Russia. The new budget of the region has already been approved in rubles. Salaries and pensions in the Kherson region since May have already been in rubles - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
15:41 Scholz trampled Ukraine's hopes for a quick entry into the EU: Europe will not go to such expenses.
“Restoring the destroyed infrastructure and revitalizing the Ukrainian economy will cost billions. The EU must start laying the groundwork for a solidarity fund funded by contributions from its members and partners,” said the German Chancellor.
The verdict was the final phrase: "there are no short cuts on the way to the EU."
15:39 The supply of the Nazi group in Severodonetsk has been interrupted, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asks for permission to withdraw troops. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the beginning of street fighting in the next few days in Severodonetsk and asked the president to give the green light to the withdrawal of troops from the city so as not to repeat the fate of Azovstal.
14:31 Peskov on the future of the territories liberated in Ukraine: nothing can be done without the expression of the will of their inhabitants.
14:30 The deputy commander of one of the units of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Aidar" Denis Muryga tried to enter the Rostov region under the guise of a refugee and was detained, a source in the region's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
13:18 Rodion Miroshnik: The situation in the "triangle" is inexorably moving towards a denouement! Active street fighting is going on in Severodonetsk. A number of microdistricts of the city are controlled by allied forces. Accurate information is delayed due to lack of communication. Several transmitters of mobile operators are still working only on the outskirts of Lisichansk.
The Lisichansk-Artyomovsk road is being shot through by our troops. All attempts to break in or out of the "triangle" are stopped. There are many burnt military vehicles along the road. On the approaches to Lisichansk, a new pot was formed - Gorskoe and Zolote - there, according to observers, up to 2-2,500 Ukrainian militants were closed. They have options, either lay down their arms and survive, or continue to resist and die. Most of the settlements on the way are controlled by allied forces. Shchedrishchev allied troops have already passed, there is a cleansing of the Nazis who have huddled in the cracks. This is a second tier business. All over the "triangle" are offensive battles. There is panic in the ranks of the terbats. Many eyes are fixed on Azovstal.
13:17 It is reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation recaptured the village of Ternovoe near the border with the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv direction from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine last week.
13:16 Russia is ready to return to negotiations with Ukraine when Kyiv expresses readiness for this - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Rudenko.
12:09 Russian artillery strikes at the enemy. Destruction of the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forest.
12:06 Explosions in Kharkiv! A pillar rises above the city smoke.
11:10 Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the Ukrainian division of the S-300 in the Nikolaev region and the division of the Buk-M1 complex in the DPR with high-precision missiles.
11:10 Russian aviation struck 58 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, destroyed more than 340 nationalists.
11:10 Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones in a day, including one Bayraktar-Tb2.
10:52 Today in Rostov-on-Donwill take place the first trial of a Ukrainian war criminal - a militant from "Aidar" Denis Nuryga. He is accused of war crimes committed in 2019 on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. Nuryga stated that he voluntarily surrendered to the Russian military and went over to the Russian side because of his desire to speak Russian.
10:46 In Kharkov on Saltovk demolished a monument to Alexander Nevsky. The only war in which the Ukrainian authorities are still winning is the war with monuments.
10:44 Russian military delivered humanitarian aid to the village of Velikaya Belozerka. Food parcels were distributed to the villagers.
10:44 Russian military doctors helped a four-year-old boy and his mother to get from the territory of the Kherson region to the Republic of Crimea, where the child will undergo an emergency operation. The boy was diagnosed with a serious illness, for the treatment of which surgical intervention and qualified medical assistance from specialized specialists are vital. Due to the fact that there are not enough specialists in the medical institutions of the Kherson region, the family of little Mark turned to the military doctors of the medical service of the Russian Armed Forces for help.
09:40 Tinkoff Bank banned transfers with comments related to Ukraine. The bank did not officially announce the changes. At least Zelensky, Glory to Ukraine, Ukraina and APU were banned.
09:14 Ukraine will receive emergency food assistance in the amount of $215 million, and more assistance is expected in the future, - US Secretary of State Blinken.