17:40 Curfew in Melitopol reduced. It now starts at 9pm and ends at 5am.
17:25 Putin has briefed his CSTO colleagues in detail on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine; the question of the use of CSTO forces in Ukraine was not raised at the summit, the secretary-general has said.
17:02 An 84-year-old local resident was killed during shelling of the outskirts of Kherson from Smerch MLRS. The shelling came from the direction of the Mykolaiv region and was carried out with cluster munitions.
In this way, the Ukrainian armed forces have once again confirmed that they do not consider Kherson to be part of Ukraine and that it is an enemy city with a hostile population to which they will take revenge for the fact that they failed to establish a “second Mariupol” there.
13:19 A missile strike has destroyed a former tourist base in Odessa. Ukrainian servicemen most likely converted it into a barracks.
11:35 The Russian Defence Ministry has published footage of Russian mortars in action. The crews conduct reconnaissance of enemy positions using drones, after which they open fire almost immediately. The 12 millimeter ammunition can destroy firing positions and strongholds at a range of more than seven kilometres.
11:31 Another Belarusian Nazi nicknamed Pavel “Volat”, who came to Ukraine to kill Russians, is killed.
11:12 Washington deliberately “obfuscates” its military-biological activities in Ukraine – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
11:04 Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry
High-precision airborne missiles of the Russian Air Force hit two command posts, including the command post of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade near Tsapovka in Kharkiv Region, 16 areas where manpower and military equipment are concentrated, eight long-term firing points and five rocket and artillery weapon depots in the areas of Krasny Liman in Kharkiv Region, Vladimirovka and Konstantinovka in Donetsk Region, and Berestove in Luhansk People’s Republic overnight. As a result of the strikes, over 360 nationalists were destroyed and 78 pieces of military equipment were put out of action.
Three command posts, 104 areas where manpower and military equipment were concentrated and two fuel depots were hit by tactical and army aviation.
Rocket and artillery forces hit 325 areas where manpower and military equipment are concentrated, 14 command posts and 24 artillery batteries in firing positions.
Russian air defence assets in the areas of Yevgenovka, Mykolayiv region, and Velyka Kamyshevakha shot down two Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian air force in the air.
Additionally, one Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft was shot down near Snake Island. Ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including two Soviet-made Tu-143 Reis jets, were destroyed over the settlements of Novostovetlovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic, Dementievka, Izyum and Malye Prokhody in the Kharkiv region, Donetsk, Vysokoye and Kalinovskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In addition, 18 Smerch multiple-launch rockets were intercepted in the districts of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Snezhkovka, Shpakovka, Ivanovka in the Kharkiv region and Chornobayevka in the Kherson region.
A total of 168 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 889 drones, 307 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3108 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 381 multiple rocket launchers, 1529 field artillery guns and mortars, and 2949 pieces of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
11:00 Seven Americans involved in fighting on the side of Kiev have been killed in Rubizhne, an aide to the Chechen head of state Alaudinov said.
10:52 The air defence system in Kherson went down. Seven Uragan missiles were shot down.
10:04 Another batch of 155mm/39 light towed M-777 howitzers from BAE Systems to Ukraine is dispatched (loaded onto a C-17) from the USA.
09:38 The Russian Armed Forces launched another strike near Zatoka in the Belgorod-Dnistrovsky district of the Odessa region. According to local residents, another tourist base coveted by foreign “tourists” has been calibrated.
09:30 The main results of the SSO in Ukraine for 15 May 2022:
The Russian Armed Forces hit a foreign weapons depot near Lviv.
The offensive near Izyum from Pashkivka to Husarovka continues, fighting for the Slavyansk – Barvenkovo road is ongoing.
The control zone near Severodonetsk is expanding, fighting for Voronovo has begun.
The clearing of Toshkivka continues, as does the offensive against the Ukrainian armed forces’ positions near New York. There is positional fighting in Avdiivka, Novobakhmutivka, Peski and Novomikhailivka.
09:15 In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces struck near Ochakov: one of the barges blocking the entrance to the Dnieper estuary in the section Ochakov – Pervomaysky Island – Kinburn Spit was hit. The last time the barges were hit was on May 10.
09:05 Economic convoys to send cargo have started to form in Kherson Region. – Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration.
08:31 TASS: Ukraine starts opening criminal cases against Kherson doctors and teachers who continued working after region was liberated by Russian Armed Forces
08:22 Kherson region set for full cooperation with Russian regions on agricultural products
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