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Joint Forces repulse 12 enemy attacks, destroy 8 tanks.
In the area of responsibility of the Joint Forces, Ukrainian defenders destroyed eight Russian tanks and seven unmanned aerial vehicles.
“As of 21:00, May 14, the Joint Forces continue to conduct a defense operation in a designated area of responsibility in Donetsk and Luhansk directions,” the Joint Forces posted on Facebook.
As noted, the situation is difficult but controlled.
Along the entire line of defense, Russian troops use combat aircraft, multiple launch rocket systems, heavy artillery, tanks, mortars of various systems, and launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential areas.
Read also: About 80 invaders, three tanks eliminated in eastern Ukraine
On Saturday, Ukraine’s Joint Forces repulsed 12 Russian attacks. Fighting with the enemy continues at six more locations.
As of 21:00, the Joint Forces destroyed eight Russian tanks, five artillery systems, nine armored personnel vehicles, and five vehicles.
Read also: Ukrainian army kills about 27,200 Russian soldiers since invasion
The air defense units shot down six Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles and one Eleron tactical reconnaissance drone in eastern Ukraine.
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Zelensky addresses NATO-Ukraine Council: We need at least seven more Patriot systems.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs seven more Patriot systems or similar air defense systems for defense, and this is the minimum number.
Russians shell Kherson again, killing elderly woman.
The Russian army shelled Kherson once again, killing an 80-year-old woman.
Defense forces repel 72 attacks in five directions, most of them in Avdiivka direction.
Ukrainian defense forces repelled 72 attacks by Russian troops in five directions over the past day, most of them on the Avdiivka axis.
Woman's body recovered from rubble of high-rise building in Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a woman's body has been recovered from under the rubble of a high-rise building damaged by a Russian missile strike.
Russians attack rescuers with drone in Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, rescuers were attacked by a drone while eliminating the consequences of Russian shelling.
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