Iran supplies Russia with kamikaze drones, which the occupiers use to attack Ukrainian cities. Now Iran is planning to sell ballistic missiles to Russia
At night, air defense forces shot down 26 Shahed-136 drones over Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts. In the morning, 28 more such drones were launched towards the capital. In a few hours, 16 more cruise missiles were launched from the Caspian Sea in the direction of Ukraine
russians use these weapons not to hit strategic military targets. Instead, civilian Ukrainians suffer after each such launch
A few hours ago in the capital under the rubble of a building destroyed by an explosion, four people died, including a woman six months pregnant. Search and rescue operations continue
"russia deliberately rejects any real dialogue with us. russia wants to speak only the language of terror. This fact must be recognized at all levels: politically, legally and on the battlefield in Ukraine – by supporting our defense capabilities," said President Zelenskyy
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Tonight, the russian army shelled a school in Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast, where people were hiding. One woman was killed
Every day and every night, russia is shelling Ukrainian cities and villages, still holding 2,500 Ukrainians captive, and making the whole world live in danger as well
The President of Ukraine once again called on the authorities of Western countries, international institutions and every person in the world who values life to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism
The Zaporizhzhia NPP has been under the occupation of Russian troops for more than five months. Up to 500 Russian military personnel have been at the ZNPP site since the day it was captured 2/6
Ukrainian personnel of the station continues to work in inhumane conditions, taking all measures to ensure nuclear and radiation safety for Ukraine and the whole world 3/6
The world shuddered at the horrors committed by the Nazis and laid the foundations of international security. More than 70 years have passed. What have we come to? A full-scale war in the center of Europe, torture and shooting of civilians, unpunished war crimes. #armyhromadske
The cynical killing of Ukrainian soldiers in Olenivka is yet another terrorist attack on the part of Russia against the Ukrainian people. This is how the occupiers try to show their power over Ukrainians and hide the traces of torture of prisoners of war. #russiaisaterroriststate
"Olenivka is the new Auschwitz" – Ukraine demands from international organizations to provide security guarantees for the captured fighters of Azovstal.
Press service of the Russian ministry of justice says that the Russian court will consider the case of recognizing the Ukrainian Volunteer Regiment Azov as a terrorist organization on 26 May 1/4
In addition, the investigative committee of Russia claims it “will interrogate surrendered militants from Azovstal as part of the investigation into criminal cases of crimes committed by the Ukrainian regime against the civilian population of Donbas” 2/4
We are reminding that yesterday 53 wounded and 211 service members from Azov Regiment were evacuated (not surrendered) to the self-proclaimed DPR within a rescue operation initiated by the Ukrainian government whose goal was to save the lives of its military 3/4
Azov Regiment Commander, Denys Prokopenko, said on evening of May 16 that ‘Mariupol defenders fulfilled order of top military command and despite difficulties were delaying enemy forces for 82 days to allow Ukrainian troops to regroup.’ Prokopenko didn’t describe the order 1/4
A few hours later, Reuters witnesses reported that ‘about a dozen buses with Ukrainian troops’ were leaving Azovstal. The buses direction wasn’t specified either 2/4
On the afternoon of May 16, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it had allegedly agreed with the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal to take the wounded through a humanitarian corridor to the Novoazovsk hospital, which is under the control of the self-proclaimed DPR 3/4
During the inauguration ceremony on May 14, the newly elected President of Hungary — first female and youngest — Katalin Novák, pronounced ten points in which she expressed her position on Russia's war against Ukraine — @Telexhu
- We condemn Putin's aggression, the armed attack on a sovereign state.
- We will forever say "no" to all efforts to restore the Soviet Union.
- We Hungarians want peace here and in neighboring countries, we want peace, not war.
- We demand the investigation and punishment of war crimes.
- We are not neutral, we are on the side of innocent victims and the truth. We are fulfilling our commitments within the EU and NATO, but if Hungarian interests demand it, we will say no.