Crimea

Political prisoner Rustem Seitmemetov suffered a heart attack due to inadequate conditions of detention in a Russian prison, where he is serving a 13-year sentence.

The Artek International Children's Center in the annexed Crimea plans to install a system for detecting and electronically countering unmanned aerial vehicles with a budget of 97. 8 million rubles and at least 10 employees for its operation.

The invaders in Crimea have already distributed 1,500 land plots belonging to the local indigenous population among the participants of the war of conquest in Ukraine.

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

Due to the dry spring, the Russian authorities in Crimea are forced to use the resources of the Belogorsk and Taigan reservoirs to fill the North Crimean Canal, which indicates an acute problem of water shortage earlier than expected.

The occupation authorities in Sevastopol have made this year's state exams voluntary for schoolchildren due to the threat of rocket attacks on the city.

The russians exhumed and reburied 80-90% of the bodies in Mariupol, and new mass graves are known to be located in Mariupol, at the Starokrymske cemetery, and in the villages of Mangush and Vynohradne.

The occupation judge was served a notice of suspicion for the illegal deportation of a Ukrainian citizen from Crimea and faces up to 12 years in prison.

Illegally imprisoned Crimean Tatar activist Rustem Osmanov is being tortured in a Russian detention center, severely beaten and threatened with death.

Russia may have lost its last Cyclone cruise missile carrier ship in Crimea, leaving only less strategically important military units there.

A powerful explosion occurred in the temporarily occupied Luhansk, sending a column of smoke over the city.

The Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian minesweeper Kovrovets and inflicted heavy losses on the Russian occupiers, including 16 tanks, 35 armored vehicles and more than 1,200 personnel.

Unidentified drones attacked and damaged a military airfield and an oil refinery in russia's Krasnodar Territory at night.

Russia claims to have repelled a massive missile and drone attack over two regions and occupied Crimea, destroying 60 UAVs and 9 US ATACMS missiles.

Explosions occurred in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

Zelensky said that the evil of genocide has resumed its form and has turned against Ukraine, starting with Crimea, recalling the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars 80 years ago, which killed up to 42% of them.

On May 18, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the genocide of Crimean Tatars through forced deportation in 1944, when up to 425,000 people were deported and up to 42% of them died.

The temporarily occupied port in Berdiansk is barely functioning due to an acute shortage of workers, as most locals do not trust the russian troops.

Ukraine is holding Russia accountable for its aggression by using drones to carry out precision strikes on Russian military targets.

Russian security forces conducted searches in the office of the Crimean Tatar newspaper Kırym, detaining its editor and founder on charges of discrediting the Russian army and spreading false information.

On the 80th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, Ukraine honored its victims by raising the Crimean Tatar flag with a mourning ribbon on the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, attended by government officials and Crimean Tatar leaders who condemned the ongoing repression and forced deportation of Crimean Tatars by Russia.

On May 17, a number of military facilities of the aggressor state in Novorossiysk, Tuapse in Russia and the temporarily occupied Sevastopol in Crimea were damaged as a result of joint actions by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine.

Russia claims to have destroyed and intercepted 102 drones over the territory of the Russian Federation and Crimea, as well as six unmanned boats in the Black Sea on the night of May 17.

In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, there was a partial power outage due to a downed drone hitting the equipment of the Sevastopol substation.

Explosions were heard in the russian-occupied Crimea.

A monument to the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people through mass deportation in 1944 will be unveiled in Ukraine in the first half of this year.

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was fined for publishing about the illegal conscription of students with a deferment from military service.

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University suggests that if Vladimir Putin decides to choose a successor, his aide Alexei Dyumin is likely to be the best candidate.

The temporarily occupied Crimea was densely populated with aviation, and the Russians, unable to patrol the coastal waters with ships, used the air component more.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported overnight attacks on the Belgorod, Kaluga, Bryansk and Tula regions and Crimea, claiming that 11 UAVs, 2 shells and a Tochka-U missile were shot down.