During their meeting on Sunday 18 May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with a unique icon painted on part of a box that had been used to store heavy artillery munitions and was brought from the Izium area in Kharkiv Oblas…
The Russians have dropped an explosive device from a drone on a 76-year-old local resident in the village of Vesele in Kherson Oblast, killing him on the spot.
Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration
Quote: “Russia ha…
Russia carried out an airstrike on a residential area in the city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast on the morning of Sunday 18 May, injuring three civilians.
Source: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office
Details: The explosion is reported to have occurred ne…
Latvian military volunteer Ņikita Tarenovs, who went by the alias Latviiets (“Latvian”), has been killed in action while fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Source: Latvia’s public broadcaster LSM; European Pravda
Details: Tarenovs’ death was c…
Lieutenant Kateryna is the only female combat pilot in the Ukrainian defence forces, serving at a frontline helicopter base alongside dozens of male colleagues. In 2023, she joined the 18th Army Aviation Brigade. Since then, she has completed over 30 c…
Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 62 strike drones on the night of 16-17 May. A total of 36 drones have been shot down and another six have disappeared from radar.
Source: Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram
Details: The Air Force confirmed that drones …
Russian attacks killed two people in Donetsk Oblast and one in Kharkiv Oblast on 16 May.
Source: Donetsk Oblast Military Administration; Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration
Details: Two people were killed in the town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Obl…
US President Donald Trump has stated in a new interview that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been seeking a deal and named not him but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s lack of “cards” as the main obstacle to peace.
Source: Trump in an interv…
Russian representatives have voiced several demands to the Ukrainian delegation during a closed meeting in Istanbul on 16 May, setting out the conditions under which Moscow is ready to cease fire. Among them are Ukraine’s renunciation of territories an…
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation in Istanbul, has said during the talks that Russia was ready for an endless war against Ukraine and threatened to seize Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.
Source: The Economist columnist Oliver Carroll on X …