May 11, 2024
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 03:35 Governor: Dead in Ukrainian attack on oil storage facility near Luhansk +++
According to the Russian governor there, three people were killed in the Ukrainian attack on an oil depot in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region. Six people were injured by the explosion and two suffered smoke inhalation, wrote Governor Leonid Passetschnik on the Telegram short message service. A major fire broke out in the oil storage facility. Passetschnik suspects that Ukraine used US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), without citing any evidence. There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian side.
+++ 02:20 Russia: Drone attacks on the Belgorod and Kursk oblasts +++
On May 10, Ukraine launched drone strikes on the Russian regions of Belgorod and Kursk, according to Russia, damaging agricultural buildings and equipment, according to Russian authorities. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, air defense units fired 17 Vampire rocket launchers, 13 drones and five guided air bombs over Belgorod Oblast. According to Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, one of the drones fell on a farm, damaging three buildings and two pieces of equipment. The governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, also reports that on May 10, 12 settlements in the region were attacked by drones. A drone damaged an infrastructure facility, he said.
+++ 00:53 Zelenskyj: “Fierce fighting along the entire front” +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announces a strong response from Ukraine in the face of the latest Russian offensive. “There is fierce fighting along the entire front,” Zelensky said in a video message published on online services. “We will inevitably destroy the occupier in such a way that all Russian offensive plans will be thwarted,” he added.
+++ 23:46 Fire apparently broke out in the oil storage facility near Luhansk as a result of an attack +++
The Russian news agency Tass reports an attack on an oil depot in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region. A fire broke out there as a result of a Ukrainian attack. Ukrainian bloggers report that the depot in the town of Rovenky was hit.
+++ 22:14 US government calls Kremlin offensive “certainly worrying” +++
The US government is watching the new major Russian attack near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with concern. “We expected Russia to launch an offensive against Kharkiv, and it now appears to have begun,” said National Security Council communications director John Kirby. In the months after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia tried desperately to take the city, but was unsuccessful. “In fact, it was the failure to take Kharkiv that prompted Mr. Putin to withdraw his troops across the border,” Kirby said. The current actions of the Russian military there are therefore “very interesting and certainly worrying.”
+++ 21:51 Zelenskyj: “What really helps are the weapons that are actually being brought to Ukraine” +++
According to President Zelensky, the Ukrainian armed forces need timely aid supplies from abroad to counter the Russian army’s new offensive in Ukraine. “What really helps are the weapons that are actually brought to Ukraine, and not just announced packages,” he says in his nightly video address. The Russian offensive did not come as a surprise. “We know the strength of the occupier’s troops and see their plan,” says Zelensky. “Our soldiers, our artillery and our drones are responding to the occupiers.”
You can read all previous developments here.