[NewsFrontInfo] 21:29 US Secretary of Defense says 20 countries have announced new security assistance packages for Ukraine
Czech Republic hands over fire support helicopters, tanks, missile systems to Ukraine - Pentagon
Denmark to give Ukraine anti-ship missiles "Harpoon" and launchers for them - Pentagon.
20:22 A Ukrainian UAV was shot down over the Verkhnedonsky district of the Rostov region today. The wreckage of the apparatus was found three kilometers from the Kazansko-Lopatinsky farm.
20:16 Rockets struck targets in Pavlograd: black smoke over the city (Dnipropetrovsk region).
20:15 The United States will not set Ukraine its tasks in hostilities, Kyiv must make such decisions itself - Pentagon.
20:13 It is reported that during the battles for Krasny Liman, up to 500 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered.
19:14 RF Armed Forcesdestroyed foreign weapons and military equipment of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region.
19:12 APU made an unsuccessful attempt to undermining dams of the Uglegorsk TPP. Residents of the surrounding settlements - Svetlodarsk, Lugansk, Mironovsky - reported a powerful explosion, the shock wave from which knocked out windows in some areas.
17:44 In Kamyshevakh on the Lisichansk direction, confrontation of fighters of the special purpose regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov and Ukrainian nationalists.
17:04 Western states should step up military assistance to Ukraine, as well as prepare plans in connection with the upcoming challenges.
17:03 The Ukrainian party "European Solidarity" of ex-president Petro Poroshenko called the testimony of politician Viktor Medvedchuk against his leader an order backed by the SBU
16:01 Started full-fledged battles for Liman. At the moment, the RF Armed Forces have occupied several streets in the northern part of the city (Podstepnaya, Yubileinaya and Kazatskaya).
16:01 Artillery is actively working in the Krasny Liman area. There are reports of continued fighting in the city, as well as shelling of the northern quarters by Ukrainian artillery - they are trying to prevent the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the southern part of the city.
15:36 Successful offensive development to Lisichansk. Russian units occupied the entrance to the city of Zolote in the LPR, the enemy was driven out of a powerful stronghold. The occupation of Zolote will be a key moment in the destruction of a large grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
15:36 The Russian army broke into Liman with battles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were driven out of a large part of the city.
Ukrainian militants are retreating, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is hitting the lost city blocks, trying to slow down the advance of the allied forces of Russia and Donbass. Local authorities report a halt to the evacuation due to the loss of the northern part of the city.
15:35 A document that will determine how the tribunal will take place over Ukrainian nationalists who left the Azovstal Mariupol plant may appear within a month, said Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.
15:34 Captured servicemen of the Russian side must be saved at any cost, said the head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, a member of the negotiating group with Ukraine, Leonid Slutsky.
“For us, the lives of our prisoners, Russian ones, are very valuable. They must be saved at any cost, ”the politician said during a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party with war veterans. Prisoner exchanges are underway, he added. According to Slutsky, "Russian prisoners of war in captivity have an extremely difficult time."
15:34 In the Kherson region, liberated from Ukrainian occupation, a ruble zone is officially introduced from May 23 - while the Russian currency will go on a par with the hryvnia, but later it will completely replace it.
14:34 The Ukrainians will still have to ask Minsk and Moscow to prevent the "separation" of western Ukraine-Lukashenko.
14:34 Heroes of Donbass Avenue appeared in Nizhny Novgorod. The decision to perpetuate the memory of the heroes of Donbass in the name of one of the streets of the city was made by the city administration in April. At the same time, a place was chosen - a prospect under construction in the Sovetsky district, between Academician Sakharov Street and General Ivliev Street.
It should be noted that the official opening of the avenue has not yet been - however, the avenue has already been marked on Yandex.Maps. At Google. The maps of this update have not yet appeared.
14:33 Lukashenko said that the West is taking steps to dismember Ukraine.
14:32 SBU stated that Medvedchuk gives "important information" for the continuation of the investigation on the coal trade with the DPR and LPR, "confirms" Poroshenko's key role in this
There was trade in coal, and it didn't set too well with the Cossack contingent fighting for Lugansk.
14:32 RIA Novosti correspondent found on the border of Kharkiv and the north of the Donetsk region near Rubtsy, abandoned burnt Ukrainian military pickups with German numbers.
Retreating, the militants were forced to abandon their cars and burn them. At the same time, judging by the found things and weapons, cars with Brandenburg numbers were left in a hurry. As the fighters of the People's Army of the LPR said, these could be foreign mercenaries.
13:33 Zelensky announced the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed as a result of a Russian strike on the Desna training center in the Chernihiv region.
"Today we have finished work in Desna. Unfortunately, 87 victims were found under the rubble there. 87 killed," Zelensky said during a speech in Davos.
13:31 The Verkhovna Rada allowed foreign troops to enter Ukraine for joint military exercises in 2022. A total of 318 people's deputies voted for the corresponding presidential bill. Thus, about 11,500 NATO servicemen with their equipment will visit Ukraine in 2022 for joint military exercises.
12:29 The head of the Sumy region complains that Russian artillery and aviation were working all night in the vicinity of the Belopolye settlement.
12:28 Russia does not prevent the export of Ukrainian grain through Poland.
12:27 Volodymyr Zelensky's parents received Israeli citizenship and became the owners of a country house in the city of Rishpon worth $8 million. The area of the house is 950 square meters, a small pool for 9 tons of sea water and a 120-meter house for security.
Four ex-SAS bodyguards guard the elderly Zelensky couple at a security company's monthly cost of £12,000 plus upkeep of two armored Lexus LX's. The relatives of Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov became neighbors of the parents of the President of Ukraine, and Mikhail Prokhorov settled in 10 minutes on foot.
12:26 Moscow is ready to return to the negotiating table with the constructive position of Kyiv - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.
12:25 A new catastrophe for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. If the personnel of the regime formations do not leave the Severodonetsk bag in the near future, then the grouping will be destroyed or captured.
American military experts are already hinting at this to the Kyiv regime. The enemy has one, logical way out, to leave the city and retreat to Slavyansk. Otherwise - "evacuation 2.0".
12:24 The Kremlin does not see the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk for those who surrendered from Azovstal.
12:23 Ukrainian sources report that in the Zaporozhye region, 9 commandos of the Kord special forces unit from Vinnitsa were liquidated by a missile attack. The Korda personnel were trained in the USA through the FBI and the DEA.
11:10 VKS of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 230 nationalists.
11:10 Russian air defense shot down three Su-25 aircraft and two Tochka-U missiles today.
11:10 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces struck 39 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, more than 230 nationalists were destroyed.
11:09 Russian air defense systems intercepted two Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles and eight Smerch MLRS shells in the Kherson region in the Kherson region.
11:08 Rocketeers and artillerymen hit over 680 targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.
11:07 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the weapons and military equipment of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred to the Donbass in the Zhytomyr region.
10:42 Artillery duels continue between Nikolayev and Kherson.
10:41 In Zaporizhia, a strike was made on the base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:41 In the north of the Kharkiv region, fighting continues in the region of Liptsy and Rubizhne.
10:40 The military administration of the Odessa region reported that the Russian cruiser "Admiral Makarov" entered the water area. According to OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk, in the Black Sea "the enemy is trying to gain a foothold on Zmeiny Island", pulling air defense systems there.
Also in this area there is a regrouping of the forces of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. They were joined by "Admiral Makarov". This ship can become the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet instead of the Moskva missile cruiser.
10:38 Battery of self-propelled guns "Hyacinth-S" destroy Ukrainian unit of American M-777 howitzers.
10:38 The air defense forces of the Russian Federation did not allow a provocation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at night in the Rylsky district of the Kursk region - the head of the district Andrey Lisman.
10:37 Zelensky signed a law on the confiscation of assets of Ukrainians who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine - Office of the President of Ukraine.
08:23 Medics of the Russian Guard delivered medicines to the village of Borovaya, Kharkiv region. The footage shows the military unloading several large boxes of medical aid. Senior paramedic Irina thanked the staff of the Russian Guard for their support.