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The situation in the areas of military operations remains difficult, but is controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, with intense fighting concentrated in the Donetsk region, especially in the Pokrovsky direction, where the enemy made 23 unsuccessful attempts to break through the Ukrainian defense line.

The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has found corruption offenses in 8 of the 541 officials of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers it has checked so far.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, 1604 medical facilities have been damaged and 211 completely destroyed as a result of Russian attacks and shelling.

Russian troops conducted kamikaze drone attacks in the southern regions of Ukraine, but Ukrainian air defense successfully shot down 20 drones each over Odesa, Kherson, Dnipro, and Mykolaiv regions without any losses.

Overnight, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 28 of 29 Russian attack drones in different regions of Ukraine.

At night in Dnipropetrovs'k region, Ukrainian air defense shot down two attack drones, the wreckage of which damaged commercial buildings, and in Nikopol district, houses, buildings and infrastructure were damaged by enemy shelling.

On May 20, Russian troops shelled Dnipropetrovs'k region 27 times, wounding a 42-year-old man and damaging an apartment building, 18 private houses, 5 outbuildings, a garage, a dozen cars, a medical facility, an infrastructure facility, a grocery store, gas pipelines, power lines, and 17 solar panels.

After russian troops blew up the dam, a dense forest of white willow grew on 150,000 hectares of dried soil of the former Kakhovka reservoir in the Dnipro region.

The court imposed a measure of restraint in the form of detention without bail on a border guard who fatally wounded a civilian who was trying to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Romanian border.

In the first quarter of 2024, women created a record 43,554 new sole proprietorships in Ukraine, accounting for 59% of the total number of new registrations.

Ukrainian defenders have established strong positions in the Kharkiv region, while Russian forces are not achieving their goals, President Zelenskiy said.

russian artillery strikes damaged a sanatorium, houses, outbuildings, a scooter, power lines and a gas pipeline in Dnipropetrovs'k region, but there were no casualties.

According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy drones were spotted in various regions of Ukraine, including Chernihiv, Sumy, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, and Dnipro, moving in different directions.

The Ministry of Defense has started testing an electronic queue system for territorial recruitment centers and unified recruitment offices in 19 centers in several cities, which allows pre-registration and receipt of a scheduled date and time of visit.

Ukrainian air defense successfully shot down all 13 russian Shahed drones during a night attack over several regions.

Russian troops carried out 9 kamikaze drone strikes and shelled Dnipropetrovs'k region with artillery 5 times, damaging houses, buildings, power lines and a gas pipeline, causing fires.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned of an enemy missile heading toward Dnipro.

The SBI detained a border guard who shot and killed a 39-year-old man from Dnipro while he was trying to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Romanian border in Zakarpattia region.

In Dnipro, a deadly fire broke out in a residential building on the territory of the church, claiming the life of a woman born in 1960, while a man born in 1951 was saved.

The Ukrainian Air Force has warned of a high-speed target heading toward Dnipropetrovs'k region, prompting an air alert in several eastern regions.

DTEK has warned consumers in several regions that stabilization blackouts will be applied from 19:00, but there should be no power outages until then.

On the night of May 17, the occupiers attacked Dnipropetrovs'k region with kamikaze drones, damaging an apartment building, a five-story building, and a car, but fortunately there were no casualties.

Air defense systems are operating in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovs'k region to combat enemy drones, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported.

Ukrainian athlete Anna Ryzhykova won the 400-meter hurdles at the Challenge Series tournament in Savona, Italy, with a time of 55. 83 seconds.

A group of "shaheds" from Zaporizhzhia region is heading to Dnipro, according to the Air Force.

Due to the chronic shortage of electricity production and imports for the current level of consumption in Ukraine, additional emergency blackouts were introduced as morning peaks proved to be more difficult than expected.

Tomorrow, stabilization outages are possible in Kyiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk regions from 00:00 to 09:00 and from 16:00 to 00:00.

Emergency power outages have been introduced in Kyiv and Dnipro, and consumption limits have been set for tomorrow with stabilization outages in case of exceeding them to avoid overloading the grid.

On May 15, from 19:25 to 22:00, Ukrenergo introduced controlled emergency power outages for industrial and residential consumers in all regions of Ukraine.

Due to the difficult situation in the power grid caused by the recent shelling and falling temperatures, emergency power outages were introduced in several regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv, Kyiv region, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk regions. On May 14, about 10% of Kyiv residents experienced an emergency power outage.