00:05
Ukrainian band KALUSH ORCHESTRA qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Here is the link to enjoy the performance of the Ukrainian music group.
01:10
On the evening of May 10, Russian aircraft launched two missiles at the settlement of Voronizh, Sumy region, causing significant damage to civil infrastructure. Fortunately, there were no casualties among the civilian population.
08:20
The Russian military launched a missile strike on Slovyansk, Donetsk region. Two districts of the city were affected. There is no information about human casualties yet.
09:05
The US House of Representatives has voted to provide another $ 40 billion in aid to Ukraine after President Joe Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act. The Senate is due to vote on the decision later this week.
09:35
The Russians attacked the infrastructure near the city of Zaporizhia. The missile was shot down by Ukrainian air defense, but its wreckage fell on a civilian object, causing significant damage.
10:00
The Russians shelled a boarding school for children with disabilities in the city of Hirske in the Luhansk region. The Ukrainian authorities managed to evacuate the children in advance. In total, on May 10, Russian troops shelled residential areas and infrastructure of the region 15 times.
10:35
Serhiy Volyna, the commander of the Marines trapped at Azovstal, once again appealed to the world community calling for an extraction procedure for Ukrainian military personnel. “If world civilization still has common spiritual values and ideals, if people can feel the pain and suffering of others, if words of help force us to act, then I call for fighting for the Mariupol garrison!”
11:05
226 children died and 417 were injured because of the Russian aggression. Such data were published by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.
11:45
The occupiers are clearing the rubble of the drama theater in Mariupol. Residents are forcibly involved in clearing the rubble. Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies are also involved. Bags containing the bodies of the dead are taken to the outskirts of the city on tractor trailers and buried in mass graves. In this way, the Russian authorities are trying to hide the traces of their crimes against the civilian population in Donbas.
11:50
Donbas is on fire. The occupiers continue to fire on settlements
Luhansk region
- Russians fired on Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Popasna, Gorskoye, Zolote, Orikhove, Belogorovka, Voevodivka, Toshkivka, Nyzhne, and Vrubivka.
- At least 16 civilian buildings were destroyed – residential buildings, a special school, a community center, and a hotel building. There are wounded.
Donetsk region
- Occupiers fired on Mariupol, Avdiivka, Siversk, Bakhmut, and Kostiantynivka.
- 45 civilian objects (residential buildings, enterprise, administrative buildings) were destroyed. There are dead and wounded.
Source: National Police
11:50
According to Azov, strategic bombers of the Russian Federation launched attacks on Azovstal 4 times.
Over the past 24hrs, Russian aircraft have flown 38 sorties, including 4 sorties by strategic bombers, over the territory of the Azovstal plant, which is protected by the defenders of Mariupol. Enemy tube artillery and tanks continue firing. According to the report of Azov, the enemy has not given up its attempts to capture the Ukrainian fortress and continues daily assaults supported by infantry.
12:35
Ukraine continues to hold the leading position at the Deaflympics and sets its record.
Currently, Ukraine has 103 medals, followed by the US with 41 medals, Suspilne reports.
13:05
Russia has cut off Ukraine’s gas supplies to the temporarily occupied territories in the east
13:05
A touching photo was published by journalist Andriy Kulikov: an 83-year-old woman who was in besieged Leningrad donated 50 hryvnias to the Armed Forces.
“She knows what Nazism is and how to fight it“.
14:05
The first phase of the war ended in victory for Ukraine, because the Russians did not achieve any of their goals and suffered heavy losses, said the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
15:05
Patron is already a world star. The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau spoke about the sapper dog on Twitter.
“Meet Patron. He helped Ukrainian forces detect about 200 explosive devices.”
16:15
Ukraine has regained control of 1,200 kilometers of the border within Kyiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv oblasts
Two-thirds of this section constitutes the border with Russia, according to the State Border Guard Service.
The difficult situation remains on the border with Moldova in the Transnistrian region. All checkpoints were closed there.
17:05
An estimated 4.8 million jobs have been lost due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by the International Labour Organization.
They predict that in the event of an escalation of hostilities, employment losses could rise to 7 million jobs. Should the war immediately end, 3.4 million jobs could be restored, the organization said.
According to the report, 43.5% of working-age refugees from Ukraine (1.2 million people) were previously employed and have lost or left their jobs, and another 3.6 million are those who now live in Ukraine and are currently unemployed.
18:30
During the day, the Russians shelled the Zelenodolsk community in the Dnipropetrovsk region three times. They targeted Zelenodolsk and Velyka Kostromka; there was destruction, but no casualties, said the head of the regional military administration Valentyn Reznichenko.
19:10
Kyiv remains Russia’s strategic goal, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Oleksiy Gromov said at a briefing.
According to him, “the next probable successive actions of the enemy” are attempts to take control of the territory of Odesa, Mykolaiv, and partly Zaporizhia regions, as well as the creation of a land corridor to the Transnistrian region, the capture of central Ukraine, capture of Kyiv and orchestrating re-elections of legislative and executive bodies.
19:50
In Odessa, during fortification work, the military found ancient amphorae dating back to about IV-V centuries BC. They were transferred to the Odesa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
19:50
Today, on May 11, the troops of the Russian Federation launched at least 10 missiles at a residential area of the settlement of Komyshuvakha of the Zaporizhia region, reports Suspilne. Information on whether there were any dead or injured is currently being clarified.
20:25
As a result of Russian shelling of evacuation convoys, 33 people died, including five children, said the head of the department of organizational and analytical support of the National Police, Oleksii Sergeyev. 45 such shellings have been recorded since the opening of the “green corridors”, and 74 criminal cases have been opened.
21:05
Ukraine has proposed to Russia an exchange of Russian prisoners of war for severely wounded Azovstal defenders, but no agreement has been reached yet, as Iryna Vereshchuk writes.
She added that it is currently impossible to unblock Mariupol by military means, and the Russians do not agree to the extraction procedure.
21:10
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 788 cruise and ballistic missiles were launched from the territory of Russia and Belarus on the territory of Ukraine, said Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff Oleksiy Gromov at a briefing.
In total, the Russians carried out 487 missile strikes. In May alone, 49 missile strikes were launched from the territory of Russia.