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[Regnum] Brief rain, showers, and thunderstorms are expected in Moscow on Friday, May 15, according to the Russian Hydrometeorological Center.
"From 6:00 a.m. Moscow time, brief rain, occasional downpours, and thunderstorms are possible in the capital. The expected precipitation amount could range from 3 to 8 mm, with up to 15 mm in some places," forecasters told TASS.
Hail is also possible in Moscow and the Moscow region. During thunderstorms, southeasterly wind gusts may reach 16 m/s. Daytime temperatures in the capital will be 20–22°C, while in the Moscow region, they will range from 19 to 24°C.
The first precipitation in the region may begin between 3:00 and 6:00 AM Moscow time. Forecasters do not rule out thunderstorms in the next three hours. Thunderstorm activity is also expected between 12:00 and 6:00 PM Moscow time.
The Hydrometeorological Center added that unstable weather will persist in Central Russia throughout the day. Atmospheric fronts and wave cyclones moving across European Russia from south to northwest will bring short-term rain, occasional thunderstorms, and winds gusting to 13–18 m/s to most regions.
According to Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, Moscow temperatures are expected to reach 28 degrees Celsius on May 16 and 17. This warmth is consistent with long-standing midsummer temperatures.
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[Korrespondent] 23:30 The Russians hit a residential building in Kyiv with a Kh-101 missile, which was manufactured in April-May of this year. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky during an evening video address.
22.39 As of the evening, the number of victims of the night Russian strike on Kyiv has sharply increased to 16 people. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
"There are already 16 dead from the Russian strike in the Darnytsia district of Kyiv, including 2 children," the report said.
Rescuers continue to clear the rubble and search for people. Information is being updated.
21.49 UK Defense Secretary John Healy has ordered the acceleration of the supply of air defense systems and anti-drone equipment to Ukraine after the latest massive shelling.
Gili called the massive attacks by the Russian Federation shocking.
"I instructed to accelerate the supply of air defense systems and anti-drone systems to Ukraine as quickly as possible," he noted.
21.17 New fires broke out in the Chernobyl zone due to Russian shelling on May 14. This was reported by the State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the Exclusion Zone (SAZV).
Only the day before rescuers and employees of enterprises under the management of the State Agency for the Elimination of Nuclear Power Plants managed to extinguish a large-scale fire that lasted several days, when the territory of the Chernobyl zone came under attack again.
Thus, as a result of the shooting down of a Russian Geran-2 UAV on Thursday, new ignition sources appeared on the territory of the Opachytskyi Environmental Protection Research Department of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve.
20:45 According to preliminary data, a residential building in Kyiv was hit by a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, produced in the second quarter of this year. This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"This means that Russia is still importing components for missile production, necessary resources, and equipment, circumventing global sanctions," the head of state said.
Zelensky stressed that stopping Russian sanctions circumvention schemes should be a realistic goal for all partners.
"We are preparing steps that can intensify our joint counteraction: sanctions should be more painful for Russia," the president said.
20.39 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned Russia's latest massive attacks on Ukraine, which demonstrate Moscow's lack of genuine readiness for negotiations. He stated this during a speech in Aachen at the International Charlemagne Prize award ceremony, Ukrinform reports.
"We strive to help end this terrible war as soon as possible. However, the nightly shelling indicates completely different intentions of the aggressor. Readiness for negotiations requires mutual desire on both sides," he stressed.
20.21 The number of victims of the night Russian strike on Kyiv has increased to 12 people, including two children. Another 46 people were injured. 20 injured are currently in hospital in the city hospitals.
Search and rescue operations in Darnytsia district are ongoing. Psychologists and three dog teams of the State Emergency Service are working. In total, 170 rescuers and 51 pieces of equipment are involved.
19.19 The court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention until June 5 for People's Deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky, who is already on trial for treason and who, while in pre-trial detention, continued active anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
18.44 Water supply to consumers was fully restored in Kyiv after a massive night strike by Russia. Currently, uninterrupted water supply is ensured in all districts of the city.
17.48 The Security Service detained two more Russian agents who were correcting air attacks on the Kyiv region and Zaporizhia. Local residents recruited by the Russians, who were waiting for the complete occupation of Ukraine, were engaged in directing enemy attacks.
On the instructions of the Russian curator, the person from Kyiv monitored the location of radar stations and anti-aircraft missile systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To identify the coordinates of Ukrainian air defense, the agent went around the territories adjacent to the capital and marked the probable positions of the military on Google Maps.
Another detained correction officer worked as a driver at a post office in Zaporizhia. While delivering parcels around the region, he recorded the geolocations and directions of military columns of the Defense Forces.
SBU officers documented the agents' crimes and detained them. During the searches, smartphones containing evidence of their employment with the Russian FSB were seized from the suspects. Security Service investigators informed them of the suspicion.
17.47 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Russia is mocking international efforts to end the war. This is how she commented on another massive attack by the Russian Federation.
According to her, the night attack was one of the longest and most brutal using drones against Ukraine.
"Last night, the Russian Federation carried out one of the longest and most brutal drone attacks on Ukraine. Another night of death and destruction. And indiscriminate strikes on civilians. While Russia openly disregards diplomatic efforts, we continue to strengthen Ukraine," von der Leyen wrote in X.
16.39 Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban held a conversation with Russian Ambassador Yevgeny Stanislavov, expressing protest over the shelling of Transcarpathia on May 13. The head of the ministry published a corresponding statement on Facebook.
This is the first time since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion that Budapest has officially summoned the Russian ambassador over the shelling of Ukrainian territory.
The conversation with the diplomat lasted about 30 minutes.
16.06 During Russia's massive nighttime attack on the Kyiv region, parts of a combat missile flew into the apartments of a residential building in the village of Chabany. It was only by a miracle that the missile did not explode inside the high-rise building, as this could have led to a large-scale tragedy and numerous casualties.
The remains of the missile were removed from the second and third floors by rescuers from the State Emergency Service using special equipment and techniques. The most dangerous situation was in the apartment on the first floor, where the warhead of the missile was located.
Thanks to the coordinated actions of rescuers, detonation and large-scale consequences for the residents of the building were avoided.
15.49 Russian ombudsman who handled prisoner exchanges, Tatyana Moskalkova, is resigning. Yana Lantratova, who is accused in Ukraine of deporting children, has been appointed as the new human rights commissioner in the Russian Federation.
After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Lantratova began traveling to the occupied territories. In Ukraine, she and Inna Varlamova, the wife of State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov, are accused of deporting children under protection and violating the laws and customs of war.
According to the investigation, at the end of August 2022, under the guise of an official visit, they arrived in occupied Kherson and took two children from the regional house - a 10-month-old girl and a two-year-old boy. Later, Mironov and Varlamova adopted the girl kidnapped in Kherson and changed her name. The boy's whereabouts are unknown.
Lantratova is under sanctions by the US, the European Union, the UK, Canada, and Ukraine.
15.18 Ukraine has begun deploying its own satellite network. This was reported by the Financial Times newspaper, citing the co-founder and chief designer of Fire Point, Denis Shtilerman.
15.13 In the Kherson region, a mandatory evacuation of children with their parents from the villages of Naddnipryanske and Molodizhne of the Kherson community has been announced. This was reported by the Kherson MVA following the results of a meeting of the regional Defense Council.
15.12 The Security Service and the National Police blocked five new schemes for evading mobilization and detained the organizers of the deals. For amounts ranging from $5,000 to $35,000, the dealers offered conscripts to avoid conscription through forged documents or helped them escape abroad beyond checkpoints.
14.33 The number of victims of the Russian strike on a residential building in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv remains at five. But the number of missing people has increased to 20, the State Emergency Service reported.
14.26 The quasi-minister of the occupied part of Luhansk Oblast - the so-called "LPR" - has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for organizing the seizure of Ukrainian agricultural assets worth over 3.1 billion hryvnias. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported this on its Telegram channel.
14.09 The former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine was reported suspicious. After mobilization, he served as an officer in the planning group of the headquarters of one of the military units and did not perform his duties for a long time, the State Bureau of Investigation reported.
The report does not name the former minister, but Interfax-Ukraine claims that it refers to Volodymyr Omelyan.
13.53 On Thursday, May 14, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a draft law that provides that military levy will go exclusively to provide financial support to servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The document provides for the creation of a special fund within the state budget for the targeted use of funds. If the draft law is adopted in its entirety, from January 1, 2027 and for three years after the end of the war, the military levy will be fully credited to this fund and directed to payments to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This will allow us to accumulate over 200 billion hryvnias each year and spend these funds exclusively on the salaries of military personnel.
13.26 The bodies of two people were found under the ruins of a residential building in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. This brings the total number of victims in the capital as a result of the Russian attack to five, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram.
13.23 After Operation Spiderweb, Russia protects nuclear submarines with anti-drone nets even in Kamchatka - 7,400 km from Ukraine.
Images from the Rybachy naval base on the Kamchatka Peninsula show anti-drone nets above at least two Borei and Borei-A class nuclear submarines.
Rybachy is the main base for nuclear submarines of the Russian Pacific Fleet. It is from there that the submarines go on long patrols in the Pacific Ocean.
Each boat carries 16 RSM-56 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles. Cruise missile carriers are also based there.
12.42 Russian troops continue to attempt to attack Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, from the north, but their pressure is weakening. This was reported by the spokesman for the Joint Forces Group, Viktor Tregubov.
According to him, Russian troops are trying to break through to the city through Golubivka. However, this is not having the effect that the occupiers were hoping for.
"They are trying to push the city from the north, to put pressure on it through Golubivka, just now with less efficiency than they could have hoped for before. The situation in this regard remains stable, it's just that the efficiency is falling," Tregubov said.
According to the spokesman, small groups of Russian troops are still located directly in Kupyansk. Pressure on the city from the north continues.
12.33 An international criminal group has been exposed, which, at the request of Moscow, was engaged in the purchase of sea vessels for the so-called "shadow fleet" of Russia. This was reported by the SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office.
12.27 A search and rescue operation is underway in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. There is information about more than 10 missing people. Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko reported this on Telegram.
12.20 Three more children were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine from the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.
These are two boys and a girl aged 15 to 17. Among those rescued is a 15-year-old girl who refused to go to a Russian school for two years until the occupiers began threatening to deprive her mother of parental rights. Due to fear and prolonged isolation from her peers, the girl's health deteriorated.
The 16-year-old made the final decision to leave the occupation after a summons to the Russian military enlistment office was brought home.
The children are now safe, in Hope and Recovery Centers, where they receive psychological support, assistance with documents, housing, and care.
11.44 Counterintelligence officers detained an FSB agent who was coordinating enemy air strikes on Kharkiv. The SBU reported this. The agent turned out to be a recruited local resident - the husband of an enemy informant who was exposed in January of this year.
11.15 The death toll from the massive Russian strike on Kyiv has risen to three, the State Emergency Service reported. The number of injured in the Ukrainian capital has risen to 40. Most of them are in hospitals.
10.59 The number of victims of the morning strikes on Kharkiv has increased. As of 9:43, it reached 20 people. This was told to journalists by the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
10.51 As a result of a massive attack by Russian invaders, power outages were recorded in Kyiv and 11 regions. There are also power outages due to bad weather, Ukrenergo reported. Emergency restoration work in each region began immediately after the security situation allowed it.
10.42 Russia launched one of the largest strikes on Ukraine during the full-scale war on the night of May 14. The enemy used the entire range of available means; the main direction of the strike was Kyiv. Yuriy Ignat, a spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this on the air of the United News.
9.30 Over the past 24 hours, 241 combat clashes took place on the front. The Russians attacked the most in the Pokrov direction, where the Defense Forces repelled 36 assaults, and in the Hulyaipil direction - 32 attacks. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Telegram.
9.16 Air defense forces neutralized 41 missiles and 652 drones, with which Russian invaders attacked Ukraine since the evening of May 13. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Telegram.
8.56 As of 7:30 a.m., it is known that a total of 31 people were injured in Kyiv as a result of the Russian combined strike on the night of May 14. This was reported by the spokesman for the Kyiv State Emergency Service, Pavlo Petrov, on the air of the news marathon and Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Telegram.
7.58 The Russians launched a combined strike on the Kyiv region on the night of May 14. Seven local residents, including a child, were injured in the attack. The State Emergency Service reported this on Telegram and showed the consequences of the strike.
7.41 The Ukrainian Defense Forces killed and wounded 1,060 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on its Facebook page.
07.01 As a result of a massive combined attack by Russian troops on Kyiv that occurred on the night of Thursday, May 14, as of 6:40 a.m., one person was killed and the number of injured increased to 16.
06.02 Russia attacked the capital at night with numerous strike drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. Previously, four people were injured as a result of the massive attack. This was reported by the head of the city's military administration, Timur Tkachenko.
"A search and rescue operation is underway in the Darnytskyi district, where the structures of a residential building have collapsed and people are trapped under the rubble," the report says.
05.28 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte proposed that the Alliance member states allocate 0.25% of their GDP to support Ukraine. He announced this initiative at the end of April at a closed meeting of Alliance ambassadors, which was timed to prepare for the NATO summit scheduled for July 7-8 in Turkey. However, Rutte's proposal did not receive unanimous support: France and the United Kingdom expressed their disagreement. In addition, some states insist on taking into account their participation in the European credit package for Ukraine, which provides for financing in the amount of 90 billion euros.
03.30 On the night of Thursday, May 14, Russia carried out another massive attack on Kyiv. Explosions were heard in the city. As reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the enemy was hitting Kyiv with UAVs and ballistic missiles. A fire broke out on the roof of a five-story building in the Dnipro district, where an enemy drone hit.
02.01 On the night of Thursday, May 14, an air alert was declared in all regions of Ukraine due to the threat of a combined attack by UAV groups and ballistic missiles. After a cruise missile was detected in the Poltava region, the head of the OVA, Vitaliy Dyakivnych, reported an attack on the region, but he did not provide details.
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[NewsFront] 21:41 UAV operators of the Vostok group destroyed self-propelled gun "Bogdana" in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Operators of the Lancet loitering munitions of the Yuzhnaya group burned an enemy 122mm D-30 gun in the Slavyansk direction.
FPV drone crews from the 11th Army Corps of the North group struck temporary deployment points and rammed enemy drones in the Khar'kov region.
Drone operators from the Center group destroyed enemy equipment, drones, and manpower in the Dobropillya direction.
19:41 The ZALA UAV crews provided destruction manpower, equipment and fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:11 The 203mm 2S7 Malka crew of the 385th Artillery Brigade destroyed a stronghold in the Dobropolsky direction.
Servicemen of the 400th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment inflicted a massive attack on the concentration of manpower and equipment in the Dnepropetrovsk direction.
18:24 Volchansky district. Northern assault units cleared a pocket north of Izbitskoye, MAP.
15:38 Sappers of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Dnepr group cleanse roads from mines with the help of the NRTK "Courier" (Zaporizhzhia region).
13:20 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the Special Military Operation (as of May 14, 2026).
Over the past 24 hours, in response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike using long-range, land-, air-, and sea-based precision weapons, including Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, targeting Ukrainian defense industry enterprises, military airfields, and fuel and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.
Units of the "North" force group improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian Border Service near the settlements of Khoten, Mala Rybitsa, Zapselye, Bachevsk, and Kondratovka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov region, manpower and equipment of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Ukrainka, Ryasnoye, Volohovka and Chaikovka in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost over 215 servicemen, 14 vehicles and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "West" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Prishib, Krasny Liman, Tatyanovka, and Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Podliman, Shiykovka, Petrovka, and Druzhelyubovka in the Khar'kov Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 150 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 26 vehicles, and two field artillery pieces. Five electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the village of Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Formations of two mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovka, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Khimik, Piskunovka, Tikhonovka, Artema and Rai-Aleksandrovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 115 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 12 vehicles and five artillery pieces.
Units of the Center Group of Forces occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, a Jaeger brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Dobropillia, Kryvorizhzhia, Annovka, Torskoye, Vasilevka, and Serhiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novopidgorodne and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 300 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, 12 cars, two field artillery pieces, and five electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated the personnel and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault, and assault brigades, as well as two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, near the settlements of Otryshki, Aleksandrovka, Dobropasovo, and Kolomiytsy in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Lyubitske, Lesnoye, Zarnitsa, Vozdvizhevka, Charivne, and Verkhnyaya Tersa in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The enemy lost over 350 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, nine cars and a field artillery gun.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novooleksandrivka, Kamyshevakha, Zheltaya Krucha and Malokaterinovka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
13:16 Units of the Southern group of forces as a result of decisive actions released settlement Nikolaevka, Donetsk People's Republic.
11:03 In a forested area east of the village of Vokhovka in the Vovchansky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces set up a mortar crew position. The targetworked outFPV drone operators of the 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Guards "North" destroyed a carefully camouflaged enemy weapon with several UAV strikes.
10:30 On frames: The recent attack by Geranium rockets on the production facilities of the ArcelorMittal metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region.
08:56 122mm D-30 gun crew destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds, and rocket operators covered enemy UAV control points with fire from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS.
07:31 Changes on map over the past 24 hours:
Advance east of Rai-Aleksandrovka
07:18 From 21:00 Moscow time on May 13 to 7:00 Moscow time on May 14, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type flew over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Novgorod, Rostov, Smolensk, Tver, Tula regions, the Moscow region and the Republic of Crimea.
05:07 Crew of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS of the 34th Separate Guards Mountain Motorized Rifle Brigade of "North" group destroyed fortifications and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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[Regnum] Police and FSB officers discovered an arsenal of weapons, ammunition, and explosive devices planted more than 30 years ago on the grounds of an abandoned canning factory in North Ossetia. This was reported on May 14 by Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Irina Volk.
A large cache was discovered by operatives from the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs' Center for Combating Extremism, together with the regional FSB office, with the support of the Russian National Guard, during a search of the former enterprise. The weapons were hidden behind a false partition.
"A total of six items resembling firearms, 18,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers, and 84 explosive devices were seized. These included hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, grenade launcher rounds, and fuses. A resident of Vladikavkaz is suspected of illegal arms trafficking," Volk explained to MAH.
According to investigators, the suspect set up a hiding place in a warehouse belonging to him in 1990. All seized items have been sent for forensic analysis. Criminal cases have been opened under Articles 222 and 222.1 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Illegal trafficking of weapons and explosives").
Earlier, an abandoned suitcase containing an arsenal of weapons was found in a park opposite the Mosfilm studio in Moscow. It contained six pistols and over 350 rounds of ammunition. A criminal case has been opened for illegal arms trafficking, which carries a prison sentence of up to five years.
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