After a partial three-day lull, Russians launched over 3,170 attack drones, more than 1,300 KABs, and 74 missiles of various types across Ukraine during the week. The shelling resulted in 52 deaths and 346 injuries, including 22 children. In Kyiv, a missile strike destroyed an apartment building entrance, killing 24 people, including three children, under the rubble. A significant portion of the enemy strikes targeted railway and port facilities. Russians deliberately attacked humanitarian missions and volunteers in front-line Kherson: vehicles belonging to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Central Kitchen, and the NGO "Iskra Dobra" were attacked.
Chronicle of Russian Shelling from May 11 to May 17, 2026
As of the morning of May 11, there are dead and wounded across Ukraine. In the Mykolaiv region, three people were hospitalized following drone attacks; four private houses and the roof of an outpatient clinic were damaged. In Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and two were wounded; a 14-year-old boy was wounded in Kherson. A man wounded during the enemy attack on May 4 died in a Dnipro hospital; in the region, four civilians were wounded, two of whom were hospitalized in moderate condition. In the Chernihiv region, a woman was wounded after an FPV drone strike on a car and was hospitalized. Over the past day, three residents of the Donetsk region were killed and six more were wounded.
Overnight on May 12, Russians launched more than 200 attack drones across Ukraine, causing damage to energy and railway infrastructure facilities, apartment buildings, and a kindergarten. In the Sumy region, a police car burned down after being struck by an enemy drone, but the patrol officers managed to get out in time; four people were injured in the region, including a seriously wounded 13-year-old boy. The Chernihiv region was under attack by Russian drones throughout the night: residential buildings, dry grass, and one hectare of forest plantations caught fire; an out-of-school education institution, administrative buildings, residential buildings, a school, and a workshop were damaged. In Zaporizhzhia, houses were destroyed and civilians were wounded due to an airstrike and a UAV attack. In Kherson, residential neighborhoods were shelled, resulting in hits, fires, and casualties. The Kramatorsk community in the Donetsk region was attacked by FPV drones, fiber-optic drones, and airstrikes, damaging critical and residential infrastructure, a gas station, and cars; one person was killed, and one was hospitalized in moderate condition. Energy infrastructure in the Mykolaiv and Dnipro regions was under attack. In the Dnipro region, one person was killed and nearly a dozen were wounded, with Samara, Pavlohrad, and Kryvyi Rih coming under shelling. In Kryvyi Rih, a Russian UAV struck a private house in the evening, killing two people; a nine-month-old girl was hospitalized in critical condition, but doctors managed to save her injured leg; her 23-year-old mother is in the hospital in moderate condition, and four other people were injured. Private houses, two five-story buildings, a nine-story building, and a gas pipeline were damaged, temporarily leaving 34 houses without gas. Mandatory evacuation of families with children was announced for certain areas of the Nikopol region; all residents must leave one street in Marhanets and nearly 100 streets in Nikopol, totaling 1,145 people; all organizational matters and support will be provided by local authorities.
On the night of May 13, the Russian army struck residential and railway infrastructure in the Dnipro and Kharkiv regions, and energy facilities in the Poltava region. Throughout the day, the enemy attacked Ukraine with 753 attack UAVs of various types, totaling 892 enemy drones in 24 hours. Energy and railway infrastructure came under attack, including 23 strikes targeting railway facilities in western, northern, and central Ukraine. By morning, damage to enterprises and infrastructure was recorded in Kryvyi Rih, and infrastructure was devastated in Dnipro by evening. More than ten people were wounded in the region, including a 16-year-old boy in moderate condition; in the Synelnykove district, six people were killed and one man is in critical condition. Kherson was under a combined attack, with one shell hitting an apartment building, causing fires in the city; nearly thirty people were wounded and two were killed in the community, including two rescuers hospitalized after a repeat strike; a municipal route bus was also shelled, injuring six passengers and the driver. In Zaporizhzhia, a man was killed when Russians struck a farm with a guided aerial bomb; in the regional center, a UAV attack damaged an infrastructure facility and residential buildings. The enemy launched several strikes on the pedagogical university in Hlukhiv, Sumy region, wounding three people, including two children; the building's roof was pierced, causing a fire, reported the publication “Kordon Media.” In another drone attack, a minor boy sustained shrapnel wounds.
The daytime enemy attack on May 13 targeted the western regions of the country. At least six people were killed and dozens were wounded, including children. In Smila, Cherkasy region, three men were injured and hospitalized; 24 residential buildings, a kindergarten, and an out-of-school facility were damaged in the community. In the Rivne region, three people were killed, two of them railway workers who were not at their workplaces; six more people were injured. In Ivano-Frankivsk, a fire broke out in a nine-story residential building due to a UAV strike. In the Nadvirna district, falling debris damaged residential buildings, an outbuilding, and a power line. Two women were hospitalized in the Zhytomyr region, and the company “Naftogaz” reported an attack on its facility.
On the night of May 14, the enemy continued the attack, launching a missile and drone strike on Ukraine, using a total of 731 means of aerial assault: 56 missiles and 675 UAVs. The main target was Kyiv, with the Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions also affected. In total, 180 sites across the country were damaged, over 50 of them residential buildings. As a result of the massive attacks over two days of shelling, four Ukrzaliznytsia locomotives were damaged, the company reported. In the Donetsk region, two residents of Druzhkivka were killed in a day due to a Russian airstrike on the private sector. In Kherson, Russians attacked with FPV drones a vehicle belonging to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, carrying the head of the mission and eight employees, who were quickly evacuated. They also attacked a vehicle of the World Central Kitchen organization, resulting in no casualties. In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, four people were wounded, including a child, and one person is in moderate condition.
In Zaporizhzhia on May 15, Russians launched several strikes on an industrial facility, damaging a fuel and lubricants tank, which then caught fire; they also targeted transport infrastructure in Vilniansk and Polohy district, killing one person and injuring 21. In the Kherson community, two people were killed and 12 were wounded; the enemy struck an apartment building with a drone overnight, and in the morning attacked a vehicle belonging to the NGO “Iskra Dobra,” which provides hot meals to local residents, injuring two volunteers, one of whom is in critical condition. In the Dnipro region, an administrative building and two medical vehicles were damaged. The enemy dropped an aerial bomb on a residential area and struck an enterprise with a drone in Kramatorsk, damaging apartment buildings and sparking large fires. A mother and daughter were injured and hospitalized in the Chernihiv region; there were also casualties in the Sumy region.
In the Kherson community on May 16, one person was killed and 23 more were wounded; throughout the week, there have been constant reports of enemy remote mining of the city's territory. Over the past day in the Donetsk region, one person was killed and four more were wounded, with damage to residential buildings, administrative buildings, infrastructure, and cars. Infrastructure in Ochakiv, Mykolaiv region, was damaged by a drone attack. The enemy attacked Kryvyi Rih with “Shaheds” and missiles, causing destruction to industrial infrastructure; Synelnykove was also shelled; in the Nikopol region, one person was killed and over a dozen were injured, including two children, with two adults hospitalized in moderate condition. In the Chernihiv region, there were hits on critical and transport infrastructure facilities, residential buildings, and a store. Casualties were reported in the Sumy region. Serhiy Klymenko, a 59-year-old Naftogaz employee who was severely wounded during the night attack on May 5 in the Poltava region, died in the hospital. The number of company employees killed has risen to four, with seven employees currently in the hospital. In Zaporizhzhia, destruction from Russian attacks was recorded in two districts over the past day: two private houses were destroyed, an apartment in a multi-story building was demolished, and 25 more private houses were damaged.
On the night of May 17, the enemy attacked Sumy. An enemy UAV struck the ground next to a shopping center, shattering glass in the center and damaging a nearby house, reported “Kordon Media”; at another location, an administrative building was damaged, and the enemy used a UAV with shrapnel. Over the past day, Kherson was under enemy shelling: the enemy attacked a minibus in the city center with a drone, and the driver was hospitalized; a fire broke out on the balcony of an apartment building after a drone hit; two people were killed in the city, including a 22-year-old girl; among the wounded are a 15-year-old boy in moderate condition and a 35-year-old man in critical condition. The enemy attacked Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih: in Dnipro, an enterprise and private houses were damaged, fires broke out, three people were injured, one woman is in critical condition; in Kryvyi Rih, four people were injured, three are in the hospital, two of whom are in critical condition. A man was wounded in the Synelnykove district. Seven people were wounded as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia and the region; two were injured in the Mykolaiv region, one was hospitalized; one person was killed in the Donetsk region.
Odesa Region
Over the week, Russians launched several massive attacks with strike UAVs on Odesa and shelled the region almost every night.
On the afternoon of May 13, UAV debris was recorded falling onto the roof of a nine-story residential building in Odesa’s Kyiv district; nearby parked cars caught fire, and two people were injured. In total, seven apartment buildings were damaged. On the night and early morning of May 14, the enemy attacked Odesa with several waves of strike drones, but there were no hits or casualties.
On the night of May 13, the region's industrial infrastructure was shelled: warehouse and utility premises were damaged, and localized fires occurred. In the afternoon in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district, falling debris damaged the roof of a three-story residential building, which then caught fire. On the night of May 14, drones attacked port infrastructure, damaging equipment, property, and cargo transport, and causing fires that rescuers quickly extinguished. On the evening of May 14, 32 settlements in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district were temporarily left without electricity due to damage to an energy facility.
On the night of May 15, hits were recorded on civil and transport infrastructure facilities in the region, causing fires and injuring two people. In the morning in the Odesa district, enemy UAVs struck the territory of a private residential area and a garden cooperative, damaging ten residential buildings and infrastructure facilities; a localized fire occurred on one of the plots.
A total of 11 people were injured, six were hospitalized, and two are in critical condition.
On the night of May 16, residential and port infrastructure in the south of the Odesa region was again shelled. A drone hit a five-story building, damaging the facade and window glazing, and balconies and a car parts store on the first floor caught fire. A one-story residential building was also damaged, injuring two people there; debris fell onto the territory of an educational institution. In the port, a warehouse and administrative buildings were damaged.
Kyiv Region
On May 12 in the Kyiv region, a kindergarten, residential buildings, and agricultural machinery were damaged as a result of a night attack. In the capital's Obolon district, drone debris fell onto the roof of a 20-story apartment building. On the afternoon of May 13 in the Kyiv region, a fire broke out in a private house due to an enemy attack; UAV debris fell in an open area in the capital’s Obolon district.
On the night of May 14, Russians treacherously attacked the capital with drones and missiles, causing the destruction of an ordinary residential building in a city sleeping district and the death of people. In the Darnytskyi district, a residential apartment building was hit, causing the building's structures to collapse and destroying 18 apartments. 27 people were rescued from the building, and search and rescue operations lasted continuously for over 28 hours. The deaths of 24 people have been confirmed so far, including three children: girls aged 12, 15, and 17. 48 people were wounded in the attack, including two children; 24 people are in hospitals. Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that, according to preliminary data, the building was hit by an Kh-101 missile, produced in the second quarter of this year. Ekonomichna Pravda, citing the British publication Financial Times, reports that the missile contained over 100 components originating from Western countries. May 15 was declared a Day of Mourning in Kyiv.
At another address in the Darnytskyi district, debris fell onto the territory of a gas station, where a fire broke out. In the Obolon district, debris fell in an open area and onto a parking garage and a business center building; at another location, debris fell onto a 12-story building and a 25-story unfinished construction. The Dnipro district also had several locations affected by the attack: the roof of a five-story building was on fire, a UAV hit a five-story building and struck a private house, and garages and a car caught fire. Debris was also found in the Holosiivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts; in the Solomianskyi district, a parked car was on fire. Several city districts experienced interruptions in water supply.
“The rescue operation at the house in the Darnytskyi district finished a few hours ago. The news of this terrible war crime reached us on our way from London, at the border with Ukraine. At that moment, our 5-month-old son went down to the shelter for the first time in his life with his grandmother. And I cannot convey my feelings from viewing the first photos from the strike site, and from realizing that nothing and no one can truly protect our children from this bloody war. Today, neighbors and simply concerned Kyiv residents are bringing flowers. 24 dead, three of them children. Like their parents, they were just sleeping in their beds. They are innocent”, — Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov, who visited the scene of the tragedy after the search and rescue operation concluded, wrote on their Instagram.
In the Kyiv region, seven people were injured as a result of the Russian night attack, including one child; two people with shrapnel wounds were hospitalized. Damage and fires were recorded in six districts of the region, affecting private houses and apartment buildings, warehouses and office premises, vehicles, power lines, and critical infrastructure facilities.
In the Boryspil district, emergency workers evacuated 30 residents from a damaged apartment building. In the Bucha district, rescuers extinguished a fire in a two-story office building covering an area of 450 sq.m. In the Fastiv district, a non-detonated part of an enemy cruise missile was removed from a residential building.
On May 16, the consequences of an enemy attack were recorded in the Vyshhorod district, damaging a private house and the territory of a municipal enterprise. The blast wave damaged seven vehicles — a tractor, trucks, and passenger cars.
Kharkiv Region
Throughout the week, the enemy attacked Kharkiv and the region, with significant destruction and damage recorded in the Bohodukhiv, Kupiansk, Izium, Kharkiv, and Lozova districts. One civilian death, injuries, and casualties were reported. The enemy continues to attack the region's railway and critical infrastructure. On May 13, an enemy drone damaged a “Naftogaz” gas production facility; on May 14, a shunting locomotive was hit in the region, with no casualties reported.
On May 14, mandatory evacuation of the population from 12 settlements was announced in the Shevchenkove community of the Kupiansk district, reported Suspilne Kharkiv. Mandatory evacuation of families with children has been ongoing in the community since May 6.
Since the beginning of the week, enemy UAV attacks have damaged residential infrastructure in the regional center: on May 11, a private house in the city was damaged, and on May 12, a drone hit the technical floor of an apartment building. On May 14 in Kharkiv, a garage cooperative and three cars were damaged by a drone attack. In the morning, the Russian army once again deliberately attacked civilian infrastructure in the Shevchenkivskyi and Saltivka districts. 28 casualties were reported, including three children. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, 15 people sustained blast injuries, 12 people were hospitalized, three of whom are in critical condition. In the Saltivka district, ten women were injured—two with blast injuries, glass cuts, and contusions—along with three children: a 13-year-old girl and boys aged 8 and 12, all suffering from acute stress reaction. Seven apartment buildings, two dormitories, three catering establishments, a kiosk, a public transport stop, and cars were damaged in Kharkiv.
On May 15, the Russian army attacked the regional center and suburbs, with three hits recorded, causing fires, the largest of which was at a civilian enterprise in the village of Kotliary. On May 16, the enemy attacked five districts of Kharkiv with UAVs; one woman was injured and hospitalized. Hits in the city damaged a civilian enterprise, railway infrastructure, an apartment building, three public transport stops, a store, three subway entrances, the overhead wire system, an educational institution building, and windows in adjacent buildings. In the Kyiv district of the city, enemy UAV debris fell onto a children's playground.
As of the morning of May 17, the consequences of another enemy attack were recorded in the Industrialnyi, Kyiv, Osnovianskyi, Saltivka, Kholodnohirskyi, Nemyshlianskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts of Kharkiv, injuring four people. Two apartment buildings and two private houses were damaged, along with the windows of a higher education institution, two garages, and ten cars; the street lighting power grid was also damaged.
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Topic Researcher, Text Author: Yana Yevmenova
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