In the Donetsk Oblast, the russians shelled 10 settlements in a day, there are dead and wounded, - reported by the National Police of Ukraine.
Russian troops struck at the following settlements: Mariupol, Lyman, Avdiyivka, Pokrovsk, Siversk, Svyatogorsk, Yarova, Novomykolayivka, Ocheretyne, Shevchenko.
At least 33 civilian facilities were destroyed - houses, children health facilities, schools, critical infrastructure objects.
The enemy fired on the civilian population with aircraft, Grad MLRS, tanks, heavy artillery, and cruise missiles.
Police opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The United States has "highly reliable" intelligence information that russia will try to annex Donetsk and Luhansk regions "sometime in mid-May." Moscow has a similar plan for Kherson.
At the same time, according to Kirill Budanov, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Putin has not yet made a final decision on whether to try to join Donbas to russia territory or leave it as a separate territory.
