Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21.19 It is currently impossible to determine the real number of people killed in Mariupol, but according to information, the Russians killed about 20,000 people in the city. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Italian journalist Cecilia Salli.
According to the head of state, the Russians have taken thousands of people captive. Ukraine has managed to return 4,000, but thousands of people remain in Russian captivity.
20.25 American leader Donald Trump can end Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine faster than anyone else, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
19:55 Passport control has been introduced on the Crimean Bridge. Everyone leaving for the temporarily occupied peninsula is being checked.
17:47 Since the beginning of the day, the total number of combat clashes along the entire front line has increased to 123. In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy attacked the positions of the Ukrainian military 32 times.
17.30 Russian drones attacked Kharkov for the fourth time. The facade of a multi-storey building was damaged, several cars were damaged.
16.55 As a result of a UAV strike carried out by Russian military on the Kholodnogorsk district of Kharkiv, three people were injured. Two women and one man received medical assistance on the spot.
16.22 SBU special forces played the Squid Game with the occupiers. The video of the liquidation of Russian soldiers was published by the SBU press service.
"The operators of the strike drones of the Special Operations Center A of the SBU have established simple rules: whoever gets into the sights of their drone loses. Thus, 468 occupiers "dropped out" of this game in a week," the description under the video says.
14.46 US military aid to Ukraine has not been stopped. And it is too early to comment on the US State Department's decision on other aid. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky at a briefing in Kyiv.
14.24 Russian aggressors have carried out three drone strikes on Kharkiv. There are known casualties. The city may experience power and water shortages, warned Mayor Igor Terekhov.
13.33 MegaFon, one of Russia's largest mobile and Internet operators, has been subjected to a powerful cyberattack by cyber specialists from the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Ukrinform reported , citing sources. Residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and many central regions of the Russian Federation complained of interruptions in mobile communications, the Internet, and the poor performance of many mobile services and applications.
13.05 In the Kiev region, as a result of an attack by Russian drones, a 5-year-old child was injured and hospitalized. In two districts of the region, damage was recorded to three multi-story buildings, including 18 apartments. Also, 13 cars were damaged.
12:41 Russian invaders have fired artillery at the city of Nikopol. Two civilians were wounded, the Dnipropetrovsk OVA reported. Several multi-story buildings, a private house, and a car were damaged in the city. The area is still being surveyed.
12:12 The US State Department's orders to suspend foreign aid do not apply to military support for Ukraine. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council. The two main programs - PDA and USAI, through which weapons are produced and supplied to Ukraine, continue to function without changes.
10.25 A fire after a drone attack has been extinguished in Cherkasy, but power outages continue. An operational headquarters has been set up in the region. And in Cherkasy, points of invincibility are in effect.
10.02 On Saturday night, Russian aggressors launched two Kh-59/69 guided missiles and 61 drones of different types at Ukraine. Most of the targets were destroyed, the rest were affected by electronic warfare, the Ukrainian Air Force reported . The downed enemy UAVs caused damage in the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Khmelnytsky regions.
09.05 Russian aggressors attempted to launch a missile attack on the port of Yuzhny in the Odessa region, but Ukrainian sailors intercepted the enemy Kh-59 missile. It was launched by a fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft, the Ukrainian Navy reported.
08.46 Over the past 24 hours, 211 combat clashes occurred on the front. Russian troops attacked most of all in the Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report.
08.21 Five civilians have been rescued from a house damaged by an attack by enemy drones in the Kiev region. This was reported by the State Emergency Service . It was indicated that due to the attack by enemy drones in the city of Vyshneve near Kiev, balconies of a residential building from the 5th to the 9th floors were destroyed.
07.58 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army lost 1,650 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning report . Ukrainian troops destroyed about 200 units of Russian equipment, including seven tanks and almost 40 armored vehicles.
07.22 Cherkasy region and the city of Cherkasy were attacked by Russian drones on Saturday night. There is a partial power outage in the regional center, said the head of the Cherkasy OVA Igor Taburets. All necessary services are working on site.
04.22 In the Kiev region, as a result of an enemy attack in one of the settlements of the region, a 9-story residential building was damaged. The balconies of the 4th-8th floors were destroyed. Information about victims was not received. Also in another area, as a result of falling debris from a shot down target, a production facility caught fire on an area of ​​600 sq. m. The fire was extinguished.
00.20 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has issued new instructions to pause spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. Politico, citing a current State Department official and two former Biden administration officials, wrote that the 90-day pause would likely halt aid to key allies such as Ukraine, Jordan, and Taiwan. However, a Voice of America journalist, citing Pentagon sources, denied Politico's information about a pause in aid to Ukraine. According to him, the order does not apply to military support.