Mariupol

On May 18, one person was killed and another wounded as a result of Russian shelling in Donetsk region, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration said.

Over the past day, three people were killed and five others were wounded in Russian shelling in the Donetsk region.

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.

The Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol are dismantling and repairing the building of the drama theater, which they bombed in 2022, when hundreds of families with children were hiding in its basements in an attempt to hide their war crime.

Russian forces wounded 5 more civilians in Donetsk region on May 16, bringing the total number of civilians killed in the region since February 24 to 1,962 and the number of wounded to 4,895.

According to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, on May 15, Russian troops killed two civilians in Karlivka, Donetsk region.

The russians are transporting tanks through Mariupol by rail, probably using the newly built Mariupol-Rostov railroad line on the temporarily occupied territories.

Ukraine's women's beach volleyball team won all six matches without losing a single set and reached the final of the CEV Nations Cup.

Mykhailo Drapaty, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has replaced Yuriy Galushkin as commander of the Kharkiv operational and tactical group of troops.

Residents of occupied Mariupol complain about sewage leaks that have been flowing into the Sea of Azov for a month, causing environmental damage to the city's ecosystem.

In Donetsk region, 2 civilians were wounded in Novoselivka Persha and Mykolaivka as a result of the occupants' terrorist aggression.

Explosions have occurred in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, Ukraine, the details of which are currently unknown.

Russian occupants are transferring ammunition and manpower from Mariupol to Volnovakha, including at least 23 trawls with tracked vehicles - tanks and infantry fighting vehicles - that are likely to be redeployed to the Volnovakha-Vuhledar-Kurakhove area.

President Zelensky thanked the Ukrainian units that are destroying the Russian occupiers, stating the need to disrupt Russia's offensive operations and regain the initiative.

In Donetsk region, russian troops killed 2 civilians and wounded 3 others over the past day.

Iryna Kobeleva, a 16-year-old girl from Mariupol, won 5 medals, including 4 gold and 1 silver, at the European Wushu Championships in Stockholm.

In the temporarily occupied Mariupol, 10 Russian soldiers were wounded after explosions last night.

More than 54,000 applications for compensation for damaged housing were satisfied, and more than 6,000 certificates for compensation for destroyed housing were issued under the Ukraine Recovery Program in its first year.

Explosions were heard in occupied Mariupol, and occupation channels reported "smoke" and "damage" in the city center.

In the occupied Mariupol, the Russian invaders are forming a register of "undesirable" residents who will be banned from living in the city, while bringing in ethnic Russians and Central Asians to change the demographic composition.

Through a pro-russian youth movement operating in the occupied territories, the Kremlin is recruiting Ukrainian students, including minors, to intern at a factory in russia that assembles Iranian kamikaze drones used against Ukraine.

A petition calling on the Ukrainian government to help lift the U. S. ban on arms supplies to the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade has received more than 25,000 votes, enough support to continue consideration.

Russian occupation forces are building and expanding a military base with new defensive structures near the captured city of Berdiansk in Donetsk region, according to satellite photos and a report from the mayor's advisor in Mariupol.

The Russian occupiers came up with a scheme to transfer ownership of the Avdiivka Coke Plant, one of the largest coke plants in Europe, to a Russian "investor" in order to legalize the theft.

ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigative reporting exposing the lavish gifts and free trips that billionaires have given to Supreme Court justices over the years. The Pulitzer Prize also honors work in journalism in 15 different categories. This year there is a special award for journalists covering the war between Israel and Hamas.

On May 6, one person died and four others were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the Donetsk region.

A teacher at a Kyiv school verbally abused and threatened a displaced child, calling her a "separatist. " The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights took the case under her personal control and demanded an impartial investigation of the teacher's discriminatory actions.

Russian servicemen of the 38th separate motorized rifle brigade opened "friendly fire" at each other while drinking alcohol on Easter near Pologi, resulting in 5 occupants sustaining gunshot wounds, two of them in serious condition.

Russians are looting scrap metal from the destroyed coke plant in captured Avdiivka and taking it to the port of Mariupol to make money.

Russia plans to hold a draft in the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region for the first time since its illegal annexation in September 2022, but the effect is likely to be limited because a large part of the population has left the region.