Note to your attention — operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06.00 on May 18, 2022, regarding the Russian invasion of our country.

The eighty-fourth day has begun of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion.

The enemy is conducting fire impact along the entire line of contact and in the depth of our troops' defense in the Donetsk Operational District and on the Svyatoshin direction, using measures to strengthen its offensive grouping.

On other axes, the main efforts of the adversary are focused on holding previously occupied positions, conducting reconnaissance, engineering fortification of positions, replenishing supplies, as well as attempting to improve their tactical situation.

Russian invaders continue to inflict missile strikes on military and civilian objects throughout Ukraine's territory.

On the Volynian, Polesian, and Northern Directions units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus are carrying out tasks to strengthen the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. There remains a threat of undertaking from Belarusian territory missile and aviation strikes on objects of our state.

To demonstrate presence and tie down forces, the adversary continues to maintain units of the Russian Federation's armed forces in border areas of Bryansk and Kursk regions. In certain areas, the enemy is reinforcing anti-aircraft defense systems and engineering fortification of positions.

The enemy continues artillery shelling of our troops' positions and objects of civilian infrastructure in border settlements of Chernihiv and Sumy regions.

On the Kharkiv Direction the adversary is focused on holding occupied positions and preventing further advance of our forces. The aggressor carries out artillery shelling of populated areas of Tsykuny, Ruski Tikhy, Cherkaсky Tikhy, and Pitomnik.

On the Svyatoshin Direction the enemy is conducting an offensive on the populated area of Dolgoye. To support offensive actions in a designated area, units of rocket and artillery forces have been deployed.

With the aim of ensuring logistical support and re-equipping units that suffered losses, the aggressor is moving weapons and military equipment from the territory of the Russian Federation.

On the Donetsk Direction the enemy continues to conduct offensive operations on the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Kurakhove axes.

On the Lyman Axis the adversary is conducting an offensive with the aim of establishing full control over the populated area of Drobysheve and blocking Lyman from the north.

On the Bakhmut and Severodonetsk Axes for air support of offensive actions, the aggressor has concentrated up to fifteen helicopters in the Luhansk region.

In Mariupol the main efforts of the enemy are focused on blocking our units in the area of the Azovstal plant. Continues to inflict artillery and air strikes.

On the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia Axes the adversary is reinforcing troops for conducting an offensive towards Polohy — Orikhiv.

On the Southern Buzok Axis the enemy is focusing main efforts on holding occupied positions, conducting reconnaissance, and engineering fortification of positions. Conducts fire impact on our troops' units.

On the Mykolaiv Direction for fire impact on our forces Russian occupiers have deployed up to ten battalions of rocket artillery and up to eight — field artillery on firing positions.

On the Kryvyi Rih Axis Russian troops are conducting demonstrative actions aimed at tying down Ukrainian forces, improving engineering fortification, and replenishing supplies.

On the Bessarabian Direction the situation in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains tense with no significant changes.

Naval ships in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas continue to carry out tasks for isolating the area of combat operations, conducting reconnaissance, and fire support on the coastal axis.

Over the previous day, air defense units destroyed ten tactical-level UAVs, while air force anti-aircraft missile units shot down one UAV and four cruise missiles.

On the Donetsk and Luhansk Axes over the past day, twelve enemy attacks were repelled, three tanks, three artillery systems, six units of armored combat vehicles, and seven enemy vehicles were destroyed.

Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!