Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported in his speech, in particular, that in three months (and today it is exactly three months since the beginning of the large-scale invasion) the russian army has struck Ukraine with 1,474 missiles, using 2,275 different missiles. The absolute majority of them were aimed at civilian objects. The coming weeks of the war will be difficult, but we have no alternative but to fight and win, Zelenskyy stressed.
On Monday evening, during a talk at the Ukrainian House in Davos, the president of Ukraine also revealed that russian troops now have 20 times more equipment in the Donbas than our defense forces. He stressed that Ukraine needs long-range equipment and once again appealed to international partners: "You have everything you need to keep people safe. Just hear me out."
The highest level of combat activity is observed in the Donetsk operational area, specifically near Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, according to a report by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Four people were killed in Severodonetsk as a result of russian shelling, according to Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk RMA.
Late in the evening, russian missiles struck railway infrastructure in the Pavlograd and Synelnykivsk districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk RMA.
And in the morning, russian troops shelled the Zelenodolsk community of the Dnipropetrovsk region with Uragan MRLS. There is destruction, people, fortunately, were not injured.
Explosions at night were also heard in Mykolaiv, in the Kirovohrad region shot down the missile in the evening. The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Ternopil, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.
The report of the General Staff of the UAF stated that during the three months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, russia had lost about 29,350 personnel, including 150 in the past 24 hours. From the same news Lb.ua you can also learn about other enemy losses.
According to Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, the russian commander who ordered to open fire on civilian settlements in the Kharkiv region has been identified. The commander of the 138th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 6th All-Arms Army of the Western Military District of the russian Armed Forces, Sergei Maksimov, ordered his subordinates to use a heavy flamethrower system TOS-1 "Buratino" on the residential areas of the Mala Rohan and Vilkhivka settlements. He is suspected of violating the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder. Yesterday, on May 23, the Solomianka District Court in Kiev sentenced russian serviceman Vadim Shishimarin to life imprisonment for the same crime.
Interesting statistics were reported by the press service of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale russian attack on Ukraine, fifty congregations have already withdrawn from subordination to the Moscow Patriarchate and followed the OCU's Tomos on autocephaly, passing under the direct leadership of the Primate - His Beatitude, Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
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