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News by the Ukrainian Women’s Guard Ukrainian Daily Wins May 17, 2022

Yesterday, 52 badly wounded soldiers from the besieged Azov steel works to the occupied territory. According to vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk, when their condition stabilizes, they will be exchanged for russian prisoners. Later the news broke out that 211 defenders were evacuated to Olenivka through the humanitarian corridor. They will return home to the Ukrainian-controlled territory by prisoner exchange.

✅ Russian invaders sustained losses and retreated in the area of Severodonetsk, the settlement of Syrotyne. They didn’t have any success in a couple of other directions.

✅ Yesterday, 52 badly wounded soldiers from the besieged Azov steel works were transported to the occupied territory. According to vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk, when their condition stabilizes, they will be exchanged for russian prisoners. Later the news broke out that 211 defenders were evacuated to Olenivka through the humanitarian corridor. They will return home to the Ukrainian-controlled territory by way of prisoner exchange.

✅ The Armed Forces of Ukraine already eliminated almost 28K russian soldiers! Russians lost 3K armored fighting vehicles, 201 aircraft and 1235 tanks.

✅ Citing the Pentagon, Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detsch claims that Ukraine threw 74 out of 90 US howitzers into the battle with russia. They are being successfully used on the battlefield.

✅ On May 18, the European commission plans to ratify the document calling upon the EU member states to fast-track preliminary steps for “complete halt in russian gas supply”.

✅ On Monday, the majority in the US Senate cast vote for a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine during the procedural voting.

✅ Moreover, the US senators are elaborating the bill draft which will ratify taking up war crime cases even if any party is not the US citizen.

✅ The EU council approved allocating the fourth 500 million Euro financial aid package to Ukraine to purchase weapons and other defense expenses.

✅ The EU high representative Josep Borrell claims that the EU is working on helping export grain, blocked by russian invaders, by trains using “solidarity corridors”.

✅ The Councilor of the President Administration Head Mykhailo Podoliak confirms that the talks with russia have been paused due to a bunch of reasons. One of the reasons behind this is that russia is still using propaganda as a tool to create tensions and stir up the situation domestically and the political elite is intimidated to reveal the truth. Specifically because they have to pull out of the war ‘under different conditions than initially declared.’ ‘To my mind, russians’ strategic objective is ‘make it or break it’. This is why it does not make sense to prevent this weird empire from collapsing.’

✅ The EU announces that gas companies will violate the sanctions by opening bank accounts to pay for russian gas in rubles.

✅ The Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko reassures that Ukraine will by all means host the Eurovision-2023.

Ukrainian Women’s Guard