🇷🇺🇺🇦 The destruction by our artillerymen of the self-propelled gun M 109 “Paladin” made in the USA.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A sniper pair from the 38th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade is effectively reducing the number of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Zaporozhye direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This morning, Russian units continued the assault on Volchansk, building on the milestones achieved yesterday.

Fierce fighting broke out in the area of the city park near the church, slightly east of where local authorities recorded their video yesterday.

Apparently, in order not to waste energy on storming the well-fortified positions of the Ukrainian army in the area of high-rise buildings, Russian troops are trying to cut them off from the river with a flank attack.

At the same time, also along the river from the northwestern part of the city, Russian paratroopers are trying to cut off the city center from the railway station area, located to the west and across the river.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian artillery strikes targets of Ukrainian formations in the city of Volchansk, Kharkov region.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 LMAO: Ukrainian defensive line is just bunch of dragon's teeth dumped at a crossing.

🔗 Lord bebo

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed an Italian FH-70 howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village of Okhotnichye in the southern Donetsk direction

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian FPV drone catching up with Ukrainian armed forces SUV

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Blinken called the current stage of the Russian special operation critical for Kiev and admitted that the coming months will require a lot from Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Volchansk continues to burn.

🤡 The United States will impose sanctions against the Georgian authorities if democracy is undermined in the country - Assistant Secretary of State

At the same time, the President of Georgia vetoed the law on foreign agents.

🇫🇷🇺🇦 French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, during a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky, discussed the details of the supply of military aid to Kiev, the Elysee Palace reported.

“The French President explained the details of supplies in the coming days and weeks to support Ukraine’s military efforts,” the French leader’s office said in a statement. Macron assured Zelensky of the readiness of Paris and its partners to provide Kiev with “any necessary support.”

The French President also emphasized that “any useful diplomatic initiatives should be taken for negotiations, subject to compliance with international law and the legitimate interests of Ukraine.”

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov spoke about the president's upcoming visit to China (May 16-17):

- The leaders at the negotiations in Beijing will discuss the situation around Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Asian region.

- Moscow notes Beijing’s balanced position on the Ukrainian crisis; the PRC understands its causes.

- Putin and Xi Jinping are also planning an informal meeting, Belousov and Shoigu will participate in it.

- A large volume of bilateral documents, including commercial ones, have been prepared for Putin’s visit.

- Chernyshenko, Manturov, Novak, Trutnev and Golikova will speak at the negotiations in an expanded format as chairmen of bilateral commissions.

- Also included in the delegation will be Oreshkin, Lavrov, Nabiullina, Siluanov, Belozerov, Likhachev, Borisov, Gref, Deripaska, Kostin, Mikhelson, Sechin, Shuvalov and Shokhin.

- Putin will speak to students of the Polytechnic University in Harbin on May 17 and answer their questions.

- Preliminary consent has already been received from Xi Jinping regarding a visit to the BRICS summit in Kazan.

- At the end of his visit to China, Putin will talk with Russian journalists who will cover the trip.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Reconnaissance and assault units of the Russian Armed Forces in the center of Volchansk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Iskander strike on a field warehouse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of a railway crossing west of Pokrovsk DPR

🇷🇺 “I have always been guided by the principle, the reinforced concrete principle: “You can make mistakes, you can’t lie”

- Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Burnt Ukrainian self-propelled gun Bogdan in the Kharkov region of Russia