“All fields are littered with military wreckage. Somewhere less, somewhere more. There are fields we haven’t even stepped on because it’s too dangerous.” The full-scale war has completely upended the entire farming business run by the family of Nataliia and Serhii Kaushan from the village of Kyselivka in Mykolaivska Oblast. Their fields stand overgrown with grass, densely mined, and generously strewn with ammunition.

14-year-old Pavlo, who was in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast, has been returned to Ukraine, reported the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories. In April 2023, Anastasia appealed to the Ministry of Reintegration with a request to help return her 14-year-old brother Pavlo from the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast.

The Russian forces continue to focus their main efforts on attempts to fully occupy Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Over the past day, June 7, 30 combat engagements took place, reported the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Over the past day, the Russians launched 5 missile and 48 air strikes, fired 70 times from multiple launch rocket systems. Civilians were injured and infrastructure was destroyed.

The order to blow up the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was given in russian. Like all other orders issued by the occupiers since 2014.
The language whose day the United Nations celebrates today. The russians have caused an environmental disaster — about 80 settlements may be flooded, and there are reports of animals dying in the local zoo. The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is completely destroyed. It is impossible to restore it.

The Ukrainian military did not enter Russia's Belgorod Oblast during the operation of Russian volunteers, reported the New York Times with reference to a senior Ukrainian official. According to him, the Ukrainian military played a supporting role in the operation: they defended Ukraine's border in case of a Russian counterattack. At the same time, no Ukrainian soldiers entered Russian territory.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine has convened a plenary session in connection with the corruption case involving the head of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, according to a broadcast of an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Court Plenum on May 16. Supreme Court Plenum sec Dmytro Luspenyk read out the court's statement that the institution assumes full responsibility "for the events taking place in connection with the alleged corruption of its individual representatives," and that the judges are "shocked by these events."

The State Bureau of Investigation has pressed treason charges against one of the leaders of the 501st Separate Marine Brigade, whose actions caused 277 soldiers to be taken prisoner during the defense of Mariupol, reported the State Bureau of Investigation. Since the end of February 2022, the military of this brigade had been defending Mariupol. In April of the same year, Russian propagandists spread information that the marines of the 501st Brigade had allegedly voluntarily surrendered in the besieged city.

In the early hours of May 16, an air raid alert was declared in all regions of Ukraine. A series of explosions occurred in the capital at around 3:00 a.m. Debris fell in several districts of the capital, including the territory of the zoo. There are victims. At 03:25 a.m., Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote that several explosions had occurred in the Solomyanskyi district of the city. And in the Shevchenkivskyi district, missile fragments fell on the ground of the zoo.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expects that during the July summit of the Alliance, the allies will express their readiness to continue to help Ukraine and accept it into NATO in the future, writes Ukrinform. According to Stoltenberg, during the July summit in Vilnius, the allies should "send a very clear message of support for Ukraine" and confirm that they will support Ukraine, including politically and militarily.

Mother's Day in Ukraine today is different from other countries. When we were preparing this post, we realized that here are just a few of our texts, and the texts contain only a small part of what has happened over the 8 years of war in Donbas and more than a year of full-scale war. Read more about stolen motherhood in the article

The United States has reprogrammed its HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, which it gave to Ukraine, so that they could not be used to fire long-range missiles into Russian territory, @WSJ reported with reference to unnamed US officials. According to the newspaper, the Biden Administration says that this is a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of war between Washington and Moscow.

Since June, the United States has transferred 20 HIMARS systems and a large number of missiles to them with a range of ~80 km.

This is a cemetery of Russian shells that were fired at Kharkiv since February 24.

#armyhromadske #russiaisaterroriststate Ukrainian law enforcement officers are recording all the remnants of ammunition, their locations and GPS coordinates.

Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova "adopted" a child who was abducted by the Russian army from Mariupol. The woman also confessed to facilitating the illegal adoption of about 350 more children from the occupied Donbas The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stressed that the removal of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and their subsequent "adoption" violate the Geneva Convention and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

russians continue striking the energy infrastructure of Ukraine

#armyhromadske #russiaisaterroriststate Mass missile attacks have already damaged about 40% of the energy infrastructure. Because of this, Ukraine has stopped exporting electricity to stabilize its own energy system

Iran supplies Russia with kamikaze drones, which the occupiers use to attack Ukrainian cities. Now Iran is planning to sell ballistic missiles to Russia

#armyhromadske #metastopblockukraine #russiaisaterorriststate 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

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

Russia is blackmailing the whole world. What is currently happening at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe captured by the occupiers? 1/6

#armyhromadske #ZNPP #Zaporizhzhia 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

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

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

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

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.