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In today’s summary:
In the Kubyan direction, the Russian military announced the capture of Borovoy with the help of a falsified video
In the Liman direction, Valery Gerasimov “established control” over 85% of the urban development of Liman
In the southern Donetsk direction, the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is trying to restore the situation in the zone of Ukrainian counterattacks
Zelensky - more than 3 170 drones, more than 1,300 bombs and 74 missiles were fired at the territory of Ukraine in a week
Massive UAV raid on Moscow and Moscow region - three people were killed, another 18 people were injured
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the interception per day of 1 054 drones, eight guided bombs and two missiles
Another exchange of bodies of the dead: 528 bodies were transferred to Ukraine, 41 bodies are transferred to Russia
In Ukraine, completed tests of a guided bomb of its own developmentThe situation at the front
In the Sumy direction, Russian troops are attacking north and east of Sumy.
“Voenkor” Yuri Kotenok reports that the Russian Armed Forces continue to advance to the north and east of Sumy. In particular, according to him, on the northern section of the front, the Russian military is fighting for Kondratovka and Novaya Sich, and on the eastern section – in the Western and Ryasny.
In the Kharkiv direction – published attacks on the Ukrainian military in the declared Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “liberated” settlements.
The Z-channel “HISE WAR” published a video of strikes on the Ukrainian military, reportedly filmed in the period from 5 to 19 April. As installed Telegram-channel “Single ↓ Belgorod”, videos were shot in the settlements of Liman (until 2016 – Zhovtneve) and Grafskoye (until 2016 – Radyansk), the seizure of which was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in December 2025 and February 2026, respectively.
In the Kubyan direction, the Russian military announced the capture of Borovoy with the help of a falsified video.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Commander OHS Valery Gerasimov during a visit to the command post of the group of troops “West” reported about the “liberation” of Kutkovka and Borovaya of the Kharkiv region. According to Map Deep State. Kutkovka is fully controlled SOU and is more than 2 km from LBS. As for Borovoy, in the Z-channel “Military Whistleblower” brought a number of current maps of Russian cartographic projects, according to which the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation not only did not capture Borovaya, but do not even have a stable presence in the village. Ukrainian military observer Bogdan Miroshnikov also rejects Gerasimov’s statements. In his opinion, the Russian military reports to the command “shiza”, which contributes to the adoption of incorrect decisions and ultimately plays into the hands of Ukraine.
In the Z-channel “Operative space” Published Video with allegedly captured Borovaya. In a number of frames, the video does show Borovaya from the altitude of the Russian reconnaissance drone, as the Insider was convinced, but independent researchers have established ( (1, 2), that the footage with the Russian military, shot more closely on the ground, is actually filmed in Kolomychikha in the Luhansk region, 25 km from Borovaya. How Notes Ukrainian OSINTThe resource In Factum, Kolomychikha has been under occupation since 2022. At the same time, the pro-Russian OSINT-channel “Creaming Whirlwind” Notesthat one of the shots on video is really shot in Borovoy – on the easternmost outskirts of the village.
Russian military enbergizer Anatoly Radov claims that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took full control of the village of Petropavlovka to the east of Kupyansk, and the SOU withdrew from the opposition north of Kupyansk-Uzlovyoy.
In the lymansk direction, Valery Gerasimov “established control” over 85% of the urban development of Liman (until 2016 – Red Liman).
In the already mentioned above performance Valery Gerasimov stated, that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation “control” 85% of the city of Liman and “destroy the enemy formations” in Svyatogorsk on the left bank of the Seversky Donets. According to DeepState, the SOU is fully controlled Svyatogorsk and almost completely – Lymanwhere only the eastern edge is in “Grey Zone”. Pro-Russian Voenblogger Kirill Fedorov publishes a map of one of the Russian cartographic projects, according to which the Russian military entrenched itself in the north-eastern and southeastern outskirts of Lyman.
However, Bogdan Miroshnikov Characterizes the situation on the direction as complex and unpredictable: according to him, the Russian military does not stop attacks and “Springing”As a result, for example, in the area of Dibrov and Lake (until 2016 – Ilyichevka) to the south-east of Liman it is difficult to determine who controls one or another section of the area.
In the Konstantin direction, Russian attack aircraft are increasingly entering the center of Konstantinovka.
The researcher under the nickname Playra specified on the map the routes of Russian “sliding” to Konstantinovka. According to him, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are increasingly entering the city center from the surrounding villages adjacent to it, using dense buildings – the researcher compares this with the penetration of the Russian military in Pokrovsk (until 2016 – Krasnoarmeysk). He also reports that Konstantinovka is subjected to constant strikes of Russian drones and planning bombs.
On-site battles continue in several areas at once.
Kotenok утверждаетclaims that the Russian Armed Forces are attacking in the direction of Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Dobropollya, in particular, fighting for Vasilyevka and Mirnoye, while the SCS was successfully counterattacked in the area of Belitsky and Novy Donbass.
In the south-Donetsk direction, the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is trying to restore the situation in the zone of Ukrainian counterattacks.
Anatoly Radov reports that the Russian Armed Forces took control of Vozdvizhevka to the north-west of Gulyaipol. Ukrainian military observer Konstantin Mashovets, in turn, says 1(1, 22) that Russian troops seek to restore the situation after the Ukrainian counteroffensive, while the SOU seeks to gain a foothold on the reached borders. In particular, according to him, Russian forces reached the eastern outskirts of Alexandrograd, managed to advance 1.8 km south of Stepovoy and restore communication with Russian small groups south of Verbovoye, but they could not force SOU to move away from Novonikolaevka and Kalinovsky. In addition, the Russian Armed Forces were able to advance 1.5 km towards Privol and 3-3.2 km towards the New Zaporozhye. Mashovets characterizes what is happening as counter-battles of small infantry groups and predicts that the Russian command will soon introduce reserves in this direction.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian military advanced in Malaya Tokmachka.
According to Radov, the Russian Armed Forces left Novodanilovka to the south of Orekhov, but at the same time somewhat advanced in Malaya Tokmachka. In the area of Gulyaipol, the Russian offensive slowed down, writes Konstantin Mashovets, although advanced assault groups are moving 3-4 km in 2-3 weeks and recently reached the outskirts of Vozdvievka, while advanced Ukrainian groups continue to hold positions in the depths of the Russian combat orders up to the western outskirts of Gulyapoli. As for the situation in Charivne, the seizure of which was previously reported to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, then, according to Mashovets, Russian small groups were entrenched only on the southern outskirts of the village.
Yuri Kotenok, in turn, reports that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation entered Gulyaipolskoye (until 2016 – Komsomolskoye) and conduct counter-batty-fights in the area of Upper Tersa, Vozdvizhevka and Tsvetkovoy. According to him, SCS are moving reserves, trying to stop the Russian offensive.
In the 65 OMBR showed video with captured by the Russian military, who tried to get into the Ukrainian rear on the Orekhovsky section of the front along the gas pipe.
V GURPublished personnel of the actions of the special unit “Artan” to eliminate Russian small groups that “stark” into the territory of Stepnogorsk.
Mutual shelling and sabotage
Air forces of the APU reported on the repelling of the following air attacks:
On the night of May 16, it was Launched 294 Type Drones "Shahed" (including reactive) and UAV- the simulator (269 UAVs - 91.50% - were shot down or suppressed). Recorded hits of 20 UAVs in 15 locations, as well as the fall of the wreckage in nine locations
On the night of May 17, запущено287 Shahed-type drones (including jet) and UAVs-simulators (279 UAVs — 97.21% — were shot down or suppressed). Eight UAVs hit in seven locations, as well as falling debris in seven locations
On the night of May 18, 546 air attack vehicles were launched: 524 Shahed-type UAVs and UAVs (503 UAVs - 95.99% - were shot down or suppressed), as well as 14 Iskander-M / S-400 ballistic missiles (there was not reported) and eight Iskander-K cruise missiles (four were shot down). Recorded hits of 18 missiles and 16 UAVs in 34 locations, as well as the fall of debris in 11 locationsThe Telegram channel “From Mariupol to the Carpathians” linked to the Russian military posted выложилa video of the attack on the UN convoy of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, committed on May 14 in the Ship’s area of Kherson. The video was accompanied by the statement that the UN humanitarian mission did not agree on movement with the Russian side. The authors of the channel said that “in the zone of active hostilities, such transport automatically becomes a target”, and also accused the Ukrainian military of using humanitarian vehicles to transport ammunition and evacuate the wounded. The video was later deleted, but remained on the network. The UN condemned the strikes and expressed concern, not calling the responsible side.
Three people were injured in the UAV raid on Zaporozhye on May 15, reported the Head of Zaporozhye OVA Ivan Fedorov. Private homes were damaged. Z-channels Confirmation, which hit the tanks GSM on the territory of the plant “SP Yukomil” in Zaporozhye.
During the day from 15 to 16 may in the Kherson region from the attacks killed, another 23 were injured, said the head of the local OVA Alexander Prokudin. Five apartment buildings and 19 private houses were damaged.
On the night of May 16, the port infrastructure in the south of the Odessa region was again struck. One UAV hit a five-storey residential building, damaging the facade and knocking out the windows, follows from the message of the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. A one-storey residential building was also hit, two people were injured there.
According to the head of the Chernihiv OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, as a result of the UAV raid on two districts of the region, a woman was injured and at least five private houses were damaged. Z-channels пишутwrite that in the village of Gnedinsk, the Gneda gas processing plant and the tank park came under attack.
Two people were injured in the attacks on Kharkov and the suburbs on the evening of May 15. reported in SSES. There were fires at the site of the attack. The largest fire occurred at a civil enterprise in the village of Kotlyany of the Kharkiv district – a warehouse building burned. Po Information the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov, for the day from 15 to 16 may in the region suffered a total of five people: four in Kharkov, another in Kotlya.
Three people were injured due to a drone strike in the Kiev district of Kharkov on the afternoon of May 16, Sinegubov said. The garage was damaged. In total, seven people were injured from attacks on Kharkiv and 14 settlements of the region during the day.
As of the morning of May 17, it was known about one of the dead near Kramatorsk as a result of shelling, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin.
Eight people were injured because of UAV attacks in four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote the head of the local OVA Alexander Ganzha. Z-channels claim 1(1, 22) that the 110 kV power substation near the Southern Mining and Processing Plant in Krivoy Rog came under attack.
For the day from 16 to 17 may in the Zaporozhye region from UAV strikes, MLRS and an air bomb was killed, another 21 were injured, reported Head of OVA. Z-channels writethat the gas station in Zaporozhye hit.
During the day on May 17, as a result of attacks on four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people were killed, five were injured, the SSES reported.
According to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine on May 18, as a result of hostilities and shelling of energy facilities, part of consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions were temporarily left without electricity supply.
As a result of the attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region on the night of May 18, 31 people were injured (including three children), including 23 people in the Dnieper (until 2016 – Dnepropetrovsk), reported (1, 22, 33) local authorities. In the Dnieper, multi-apartment and private houses, a university, an enterprise and other buildings were damaged. In Krivoy Rog, the enterprise and infrastructure were damaged. In the Samarovsky district burned house, an administrative building, cars, damaged agro-firm, in a number of other areas of the region also recorded damage. It is reported about the delay of trains in this direction for 9 hours or more.
In Odessa, as a result of a drone attack on the night of May 18, two people were injured, including a child, local 12authorities reported (1, 2). In the Primorsky and Kiev districts, several houses were damaged, including historic buildings in the city center.
It is also reported about the attacks on the Chernihiv region (there are two injured) and on the Sumy region (for a day there are two dead and four injured).
The death toll of employees of Naftogaz Ukrainy increased to four as a result of an attack on gas infrastructure in the Poltava region on May 5, 2026, the company said. In the hospital died a diner of refrigeration units, who was seriously injured. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 324 employees of the Naftogaz group have died.
Volodymyr Zelensky stated, what for the week on the territory of Ukraine was released more than 3 170 drones, more than 1 300 CAB and 74 missiles of various types, most of which are ballistic. As a result of attacks 52 people were killed, another 346 people were injured, including 22 children.
Russian drone Attacked Chinese ship near Odessa. On the morning of May 18, a KSL Deyang (IMO 9457725). The crew of the ship, which runs under the flag of the Marshall Islands, consists of Chinese citizens, the owner of the ship is also from China.
Sergey “Flesh” Assembles Suspectingthat the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resumed management of the Shaheed from the territory of Belarus after the Ukrainian side “stopped the work” of the control points at the end of winter. According to him, the work of radio modems near the Belarusian border was recorded during the attack on May 13.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the reflection of the following air raids:
during the day of May 15, 78 2drones were intercepted (1, 2) 78 drones over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Smolensk, Pskov, Tver regions, Krasnodar Territory, the Crimean Peninsula, the Moscow region and the waters of the Black and Azov Seas
On the night of May 16, 138 UAVs were destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Orel, Tula, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver regions, Krasnodar Territory, the Crimean Peninsula, the Moscow region and the waters of the Chernoye and Azov Seas
during the day of May 16, intercepted 1(1, 22, 3, 4) 4245 drones over the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kaluga, Orel, Ryazan, Kursk, Bryansk, Vladimir, Smolensk, Rostov, Tula regions, Krasnodar region, the Crimean peninsula, the Moscow region and the waters of the Cherny and Azov Seas were intercepted during the day were intercepted (1, 2, 3, 4).
On the night of May 17, 556 UAVs were destroyed over the Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Orel, Bryansk, Voronezh, Tula, Smolensk, Pskov, Lipetsk, Tver, Rostov regions, Krasnodar Territory, the Crimean Peninsula, the Moscow region and the waters of the Black and Azov Seas
during the day of May 17, they intercepted 1(1, 22, 32, 3) 108 UAVs over Belgorod, Kaluga, Bryansk, Rostov, Smolensk, Kursk, Novgorod, Pskov regions, the Moscow region, the Krasnodar Territory, the Crimean peninsula and the waters of the Black and Azov SeasOne person was killed, eight more were injured in the UAV strike on the House of Culture in Shakhtersk in the occupied part of the Donetsk region on May 15, local 12“authorities” reported (1, 2).
In Belgorod, the drone hit an apartment building, nine people were injured, the 12regional headquarters said (1, 2) the regional headquarters. Several balconies caught fire in the building, windows were knocked out.
On the same day, four people were injured in the village of Soldierskoye district of the Belgorod region from the detonation of the drone.
In the village of Oak, Belgorod district as a result of an “non-staff gathering” FAB On the morning of May 16, a man died. The bomb broke through the roof and several floors, after which it was in the basement, writes (1, 2, 3) “Ac-single ➜ Belgorod”. Regional Headquarters reported about the death of a man in Oak, but did not specify that the cause was the fall of the bomb. After the incident of power Evacuated residents of two neighboring multi-storey buildings. The bomb was pulled out of the basement, with the help of an excavator loaded into a truck and taken to the training ground.
After the attack of drones on Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol Territory on the night of May 16, the chemical plant “Nevinnomyssky Nitrogen” caught fire. The video of the fire was published by the Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova +, and the publication Astra performed a binding to the area. Governor Vladimir Vladimirov said that as a result of the attack of the UAV “there are no casualties and there is no destruction on the ground.” Meanwhile, local residents reported explosions in the area of the plant, and the video shows a strong fire and thick smoke. This is at least the sixth attack on the enterprise since the beginning of a full-scale war. Earlier, Reuters reported that two plants of Eurochem – “Nevinnomyssky Nitrogen” and “Novomoskovsk Azot” – in 2022-2024 delivered at least 38 thousand tons of acetic acid and almost 5 thousand tons of nitric acid to the plant. JOHNY OF JOHN Sverdlova in Dzerzhinsk, where components for artillery ammunition are produced.
The teenager was killed, another 10 civilians were injured in attacks on the occupied part of the Donetsk region on May 16, said the “head” of the region Denis Pushilin.
The Romanian Ministry of Defense reported the discovery of an unexploded rocket near the border with Ukraine on May 16.
On the same day at about 06:30 in the Turkish city of Samsun exploded UAV, Reports IHA News Agency. There were windows in several houses. According to police, the weight of the drone is about 25 kg, the wingspan is 1 m. No casualties were reported. Z-channel “Military Discontractor” Considersthat in Samsun fell Ukrainian bait drone “Maia”, probably deviated from the target in the Crimea or the Krasnodar Territory under the influence EW.
On the night of May 17, Moscow and the Moscow region were subjected to the most massive air attack during the war. During the day on the approach to Moscow was shot down more than 120 drones, said the mayor Sergei Sobyanin. At least 12 people were injured, some of them are builders who were at the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotna in the south-east of the capital. According to the mayor, the technology of the plant is not broken. According to Governor Andrei Vorobyov, three people were killed in the Moscow region, six more were injured. One woman died in Khimki when hit by a private house, one person was injured. Two more (a man and a woman) died when a drone hitting a house under construction in the village of Pogorelki in Mytishchi. A woman and three men were injured in Istra, a woman was injured in Lobna. According to the Embassy of India in Moscow, one Indian citizen was killed in the attack, three more citizens of this country were injured.
In Moscow and the region were damaged residential buildings, including high-rise buildings. One of the houses is located in the capital on Mikhailova Street (there was a blow on the top), another – the building 2038 in Zelenograd (damage recorded on the lower floors), the third – a high-rise building in Krasnogorsk, the fourth – in Khimki, several more houses – in Istret (a multi-apartment in Dedovsk and six private houses in the village of Agrogorgorodok) and one private house in the village of Subbotino. Four private houses were damaged in Sergiev Posad, said the head of the city district Oksana Erokhanova, and in Lobna damaged about five apartment buildings, said the head of the city Anna Krotova. Also in the Lobne, the wreckage of the UAV fell on the territory of the clinic.
In addition, the Angstrem microelectronics plant was attacked, which supplies semiconductors for the Russian military-industrial complex and is under US sanctions, and the Transneft Solnechnosky Bulk Station in the village of Durykino near Zelenograd. The fire also occurred at Sheremetyevo airport on the runway. In connection with the attack, more than 200 flights were canceled or delayed there. Another 75 in Vnukovo. Some of the aircraft were redirected to alternate airfields.
Residents of the Moscow region complained about the unemployed sirens, the lack of notification of the threat of an air attack and the inability to call emergency services.
The SBU confirmed the strikes on Moscow and the region: the Angstrem plant, the Moscow Refinery, the linear production and control stations Transneft “Solnekhorskaya” and “Volodarskaya”. LAPS “Solnechnogorskaya” – part of the ring oil pipeline around Moscow, from where, in particular, the fuel is delivered to the capital’s airports. “Volodarskaya” – a station in the Ramenskoye district, a large node for receiving, storage and transfer of oil, takes oil products for the Moscow and Ryazan refineries.
Ukrainian OSINT-project “Kiber Boroshno” established 1(1, 22, 33) that all four fuel tanks caught fire at Solnechnogorsk station. Initially, the drone hit only one tank, but then the fire spread to the second, and then to the third and fourth tanks, actually completely disabling the station.
Satellite image, which was at the disposal of “Radio Liberty”, Confirms Destruction of at least four tanks. Journalists suggest that the fire at the station could be the result of hitting not a drone, but a Russian missile Air Defense – the nearest ZRPK The “Pantsir” on the tower is located less than three kilometers from Durykin.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called назвалthe attack on the Moscow region “an just response to the Russian prolongation of war and strikes on Ukrainian cities” and called for an end to the war. Advisor to the Ukrainian defense minister Sergei Sternenko threatened larger attacks on Russia, including the capital.
In the raid on Moscow and the region were involved drones “Lyuty”, FP-1, a jet kamikaze drone “Bars” and drones-deceptions, summed up the Z-channel “Informant”. Ukrainian drones have overcome three of the four echelons of Moscow air defense, analysts from the OSINT-project DroneBomber+ write.
On the night of May 17, drones attacked the occupied Sevastopol. “Governor” Razvozhaev написалwrote that over the sea and different areas of the city shot down 25 UAVs. According to him, in several apartment buildings, windows were knocked out, private houses and a high-voltage line were damaged (in a number of areas there were power outages). Reports of damage to the Sevastopol TPP Razvozhaev rejected. The SBU announced the defeat in the infrastructure and air defense systems of the Belbek military airfield, including the Pantsir-S2 air defense system, in the annexed Crimea.
Commander of the Forces of Unmanned Systems of the APU Robert “Deadyar” Brovdi reportedthat the same night the units entrusted to him struck at the border guard ship of project 10410 in Kaspiysk in Dagestan, and also hit SAM Tor-M2 in Luhansk region. In “Kiberboroshno” noted, that the AK-630M anti-aircraft artillery installation on board the vessel gave seven queues on a flying drone, but none hit the target. Analysts state that this installation has insufficient accuracy, and the Russian fleet as a whole is poorly adapting to modern challenges.
In addition, “Madyar” shared a video of the use of unguided rockets by the Ukrainian drone during an attack on the node of strategically protected communications of the Black Sea Fleet and a mobile firing group on the territory of the Crimea.
On the afternoon of May 17, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that during the day Russian air defense shot down 1 054 UAVs, eight guided aerial bombs and two missiles: a long-range Flamingo cruise missile and a long-range guided missile Neptune-MD.передает Meanwhile, on that day, the Ukrainian side did not report the use of these missiles.
The national armed forces of Latvia said that on the night of May 17, a drone entered the airspace of the country, Delfi writes. After some time, the UAV left the sky of Latvia. The alarm, announced for residents of the eastern border regions, lasted about two hours. NATO fighters were raised in the sky.
On the same day, the wreckage of the drone was found in the northeast of Lithuania, said the head of the National Center for Crisis Management Wilmantas Vitkauskas. According to preliminary information, the drone was Ukrainian.
The Finnish edition of Iltalehti, citing NATO sources, claims that the Russian side has the ability to change the trajectory of Ukrainian drones and deliberately redirects them towards Finland and the Baltic countries.
As a result of the strike on the occupied part of the Kherson region in the period from 15 to 17 may, three people were killed, the “head” of the Skadov district Alexander Dudka was injured, сообщилsaid “governor” Vladimir Saldo.
In the village of Borisovka in the Belgorod region during the attack of the drone on the morning of May 18, two people were killed, two more were injured, the regional headquarters reported.
The patrol ship of the project 22460 “Hunter” of the coast guard of the FSB was equipped with anti-drone networks. The corresponding photos were published by the Z-channel “Two Majors”. It is reported that the “mangalization” of the ship was carried out at the expense of volunteers. “Should I say that this approach is a creation of a proverb about cancer and fishless and looks rather a half-meat created against the background of the absence of any ideas and the technology of real struggle with enemy drones,” the Z-Channel “Objector” laments. “It is not clear why instead of a long-overdue search for a centralized solution, once again has to collectively go to kolkhoz to the nets, then tyres,” the Military Whistleblower echoes him.
After analyzing the satellite image of the Ryazan Refinery, attacked on the night of May 15, 2026, and comparing it with the footage of eyewitnesses, Radio Liberty established three main fires: one near the neighboring plant of the Novo-Ryazan CHP, the other on the ramp north of the tank park and the third in the area of primary oil refining AVT-1.
Learning satellite images of results Attacks at the airfield in Yeysk in the Krasnodar Territory, committed by the Ukrainian SSO May 15, the project “KiberBoroshno” confirms Defeat The Be-200 aircraft.
The Insider found out that a resident of the village of Consent in the Bryansk region died on January 12, 2025 not as a result of a Ukrainian strike, as the Russian authorities claimed, but because of the hit of a Russian missile fired from the Pantsir-S1 air defense system. Governor Alexander Bogomaz said about the “attack of Ukrainian terrorists”. However, according to the decision of the Karachevsky district court, published by the project “KiberBoroshno”, during the repulsion of the attack of the UAV, one of the four missiles fired deviated from the trajectory and hit a residential building on Victory Street. The decision says that the criminal case was not initiated. Meanwhile, the court partially satisfied the claim of the son of the deceased to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on compensation for moral damage and decided to recover from the department 1 million rubles of compensation. The Insider was able to confirm some of the data contained in the published court decision.
According to CIT volunteers, for the day from 20:00 on May 14 to 20:00 on May 15 Known At least 11 dead civilians and 130 injured in shelling and strikes in Russia and Ukraine, including in the occupied territories. Over the weekend, 24 civilians were killed (1, 2), another 133 were injured. Also CIT publish (1, 2) Reports of attacks on energy infrastructure during the same period.
Losses
528 bodies of dead soldiers were returned to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War was returned to Ukraine. Earlier it was reported about the return of 526 bodies. 41 bodies were transferred to Russia. Pro-Russian OSINT-channel “Creaming whim” gives a schedule for the exchange of bodies since May 2023.
Voenblogger Kirill Fedorov said that one of the Russian military, injured during the raid of Ukrainian drones at the field airfield of helicopters in the Voronezh region, died from his injuries.
Armaments and Military Equipment
Po Data Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, The German government over the past two years has allocated almost € 900 million for “Czech Initiative”. German Aid to Ukraine Notes, which was previously known about the allocation of only € 576 million, which means that another € 300 million were allocated non-publicly. According to the calculations of the resource, this amount is enough to pay 94 thousand 155-mm artillery ammunition.
The Ukrainian military is undergoing a course in the UK training of instructors in helicopter piloting as part of the Interstorm operation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov said that the tests of the first domestic guided bomb have been completed in Ukraine and a trial batch for the APU Air Force has already been ordered. According to him, the development of an air bomb with a mass of a warhead of 250 kg lasted 17 months.
In 2023-2025, engines for helicopters and assemblies were supplied to Russia from Ukraine through a number of intermediary firms in various countries, including in Laos and Uganda, the People of Baikal newspaper reported. We are talking, in particular, about the Zaporozhye plant “Motor-Sich”, whose director Vyacheslav Boguslaev is in custody on charges of collaboration.
The German company Global Trade for four years supplied dual-use technology from the EU to Russia, according to the investigation of the German Prosecutor’s office. Among the shipments were electronic components, ball bearings and microcontrollers.
The manufacturer of synthetic sapphires “Monocrystal” is preparing to file for bankruptcy. The company, whose products are used, including for missiles and drones, associate their financial situation with damage to capacity in the Belgorod region during the Ukrainian strikes and the closure of the European market.
On the main events of the war on May 15, 2026 – in the previous summary: Units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are increasing activity on the Dobropolsky section north of Pokrovsk, raiding the Ryazan Refinery. What’s Happening at the Front
