Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:34 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today maximum attention is paid to the situations in those areas where there is currently the greatest risk of Russian offensive actions: “Our defense operations continue in the Kharkiv region, in the area of the villages of Strelechye, Krasnoye, Morokhovets, Oleynikovo, Lukyantsy, Gatishche, Pletenovka. These are border villages. Our troops have been conducting counterattack operations there for the second day, defending Ukrainian territory. The situation in the Donetsk region, in particular, is in Semenovka, Netailovo. There are more than 30 military clashes there every day. Of course, attention to all other areas of our defense actions: Kupyanskoye, Limanskoye, Seversk, Kramatorskoye, Vremevskoye."
18:02 During the day, the Russians released more than 20 cabs in Volchansk and surrounding settlements. The enemy also uses MLRS, artillery, and UAVs. Two people were killed and two more were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
17:37 The Russians launched a missile attack on the infrastructure of the Sumy suburb, one person was killed, OVA reported.
16:40 The UK Ministry of Defense announced the provision of the largest package of military assistance to Ukraine: “Together with £500 million in military funding, the UK is providing vital equipment: 4 million ammunition, more than 1,600 missiles, 400 vehicles, including 160 Husky vehicles ".
15:59 From Belopolye and Vorozhba, Sumy region, a temporary evacuation of the population will be carried out to the regional center with the opportunity to leave from there for free to other regions of Ukraine, said the mayor of Belopolye Yuriy Zarko.
14:38 The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the area of Donetsk, where participants in a motor rally in honor of the 10th anniversary of the “DPR” were gathering, Russian media and telegram channels write. It is noted that the strike was delivered from HIMARS. According to local public reports, the Paradise restaurant was hit - one person was killed and four were injured.
14:26 The enemy is localized in the “gray zone” in the Kharkov region, it is not expanding, said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Khortytsia military group: “By the decision of the command, our defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been strengthened, and it is already being implemented. The enemy is localized in the “gray zone”, it is not is expanding. However, there is a question of completely destroying it and catching it in those forest plantations where it could hide.”
13:57 On the night of May 11, power steering drones attacked the LUKOIL oil refinery - Volgograd Oil Refinery. The primary oil refining units AVT-1 and AVT-6 were damaged, Ukrainian media write, citing intelligence sources. The current state of the installations is being clarified, but it is known that the control cable for the air coolers was damaged, resulting in the shutdown of seven refrigerators. The chimney of the P-1 furnace was also damaged.
10:34 The European Union plans to sign an agreement on security guarantees with Ukraine no later than the beginning of July, writes Welt am Sonntag. However, the document will not be legally binding or contain a clause on sending troops to Ukraine. The agreement "concerns political, military and economic assistance and is intended to apply until Ukraine joins the EU and NATO." According to the publication, the text has already been agreed upon by the EU and is now being discussed with Kiev.
09:27 In the Kherson region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past 24 hours, four people were wounded, said the head of the OBA Alexander Prokudin. Three private houses, an administrative building, and a storage facility were damaged.
09:25 On the evening of May 10, the Russians fired at the village. Liptsy, Kharkov district - two people were wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. As a result of a series of massive shelling of the city of Volchansk from different types of weapons during the day on May 10, two people were killed and four were wounded, and dozens of private houses were damaged.
09:11 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 11:
- personnel - about 481,030 (+1320) people,
- tanks - 7449 (+15),
- armored combat vehicles - 14,353 (+40),
- artillery systems - 12 442 (+55),
- MLRS - 1064 (+2),
- air defense systems - 796 (+1),
- aircraft - 349 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 9868 (+42),
- cruise missiles - 2193 (+1),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,755 (+64),
- special equipment - 2040 (+9).
08:45 Over the past 24 hours, 104 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Slobazhansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled nine attacks in the areas of the settlements of Strelechye, Krasnoye, Morokhovets, Oleynikovo, Lukyantsy, Ogurtsovo, Gatishche, Pletenevka in the Kharkov region.
In the Kupyansk direction, 13 attacks were repelled in the areas of Sinkovka, Berestovo in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk region; in Limansky - 11 attacks in the areas of Makeyevka, Luhansk region and Torsky, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - 18 attacks in the Belogorivka districts of the Luhansk region, as well as Verkhnekamensky, Razdolovka, Grigoryevka, Bogdanovka, Kalinovka, Vyemka, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka of the Donetsk region; on Avdeevsky - 24 attacks in the Kalinovo, Novoaleksandrovka, Sokol, Umansky districts of the Donetsk region; on Novopavlovsky - three attacks in the areas of Krasnohorivka, southwest of Novomikhailovka and Sladkoye, Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - 14 attacks in the area of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - one attack on the left bank of the Dnieper.
08:28 Ukrainian fighters of the Gostri Kartuzi unit from the National Guard report that in the Kharkov region the Russians occupied several villages located almost on the border. They were strategically difficult to hold. The fighters also claim that the defense line has not been broken, and now the fighting is much less active than yesterday. The situation has been completely stabilized.
07:56 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Russian offensive operations along the border in the Kharkov region have a strategic goal of attracting and consolidating Ukrainian forces on this axis in order to enable Russian advances into other areas of eastern Ukraine. According to military analysts, Russian troops have achieved significant tactical successes in the north of the Kharkov region.
Russian forces have now launched two limited operations in the area: one north of Kharkov towards Liptsov, and the other northeast of Kharkov near Volchansk. NASA Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) data from May 10 indicates that there was likely heavy fighting in and near the communities of Strelechye, Krasnoye, Pylnaya and Borisovka.
ISW believes that Russian troops will use their tactical bridgehead in the north of the Kharkov region in the coming days to intensify offensive operations and carry out the initial phase of offensive actions, which are likely aimed at pushing Ukrainian troops back from the border with the Belgorod region and advancing so that they can reach with artillery to Kharkov. However, the limited efforts that Russian forces are currently making do not indicate that they are conducting a large-scale offensive operation to encircle and capture the city of Kharkov, analysts say.
06:09 Australia will transfer to Ukraine a large batch of RBS 70 NG man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems, writes Defense Industry Europe. These Swedish-made complexes are capable of destroying targets at a distance of up to 9 km and at an altitude of up to 5 km.
01:32 The US State Department approved Germany’s proposal for the urgent sale of three HIMARS systems to Ukraine for approximately $30 million. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the emergency required an "immediate sale." The systems will come from US Army stocks.
01:17 Russian forces are likely preparing for a larger offensive on Kharkov, US National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said: “They now appear to be preparing to - at a minimum - use long-range fire to try to break through to Kharkov. And we must assume that you will not do this if you are not thinking about some other larger-scale attack directly on the city."
Kirby also noted that some of the weapons from the previous package of military support have already arrived at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now the Pentagon is working to transfer the remaining weapons from the previous package and from the new one worth $400 million. Kirby called the new package "serious."
00:09 Russia has neither the intention nor the ability to attack NATO countries, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Joane said: “Russia does not intend and does not have the ability to attack any NATO country militarily, but a total hybrid war has been unleashed against the Alliance.”