Since the start of the day, 63 combat engagements have taken place between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian occupying troops. The enemy is applying the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk direction.
Fighters of the Hart border brigade are eliminating small assault groups of Russian invaders attempting to cross the state border in the north of the Kharkiv region.
Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, commenting on a recent drone incident over Estonian territory, has said that Ukraine has full legal and moral right to strike Russian military targets.
Finance ministers of the G7 countries have reaffirmed their support for Ukraine and agreed to maintain sanctions pressure on Russia to prevent it from generating critical revenues to finance its war effort.
Germany has already provided more than EUR 1.2 billion in emergency support to Ukraine's energy sector, making it the largest bilateral donor in this field.
Operators of the Raid regiment of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces have struck a command post of the 9th Motor Rifle Brigade of Russia's 51st Combined Arms Army in the temporarily occupied city of Pokrovsk.
The death toll from a Russian ballistic missile strike on the central part of Pryluky has risen to three, including a 15-year-old boy who died in hospital, while 29 people were injured.
Ukraine has apologized to Estonia over an unintended drone incident caused by Russian electronic warfare systems, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said.
Ukrainian forces on May 18 struck a Russian command and observation post near Tyotkino in Russia's Kursk region, along with several other enemy targets in the Kherson, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions.
Russian forces attacked the settlement of Shevchenkove in the Kupiansk district with a drone strike, killing a woman and leaving three others suffering from acute stress reactions.
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.
A total of 195 combat clashes were recorded between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders along the front line as of 22:00 on May 17, with the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors remaining the hottest.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has condemned a drone attack near the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates, calling any strike that endangers nuclear facilities "utterly unacceptable."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held talks with European Council President Antonio Costa on the involvement of European countries in future peace negotiations.