Russia War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,177 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

These are the main events per day 1,177 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is the place where things stand on Friday, May 16:

Fighting

• The fighting continues along the 1100 -km of confrontation (683 miles), as the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces acquired two settlements near the Moscow’s long -term goals. Russia has claimed that it took Novouleksandrivka, a rural village near Boucrovsk, a logistics center in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, as well as the city of Torske, which is located near the cities of Slovinsk and Karmorsk.
• The Ukrainian army admitted that Novouleksandrivka was under attack, but he did not mention Torske in its latest report.
• Oilxander Serski, the Supreme Military Commander in Ukraine, said in a telegram that “Russia has turned its aggression against Ukraine into a war of attrition and uses a combined force of up to 640,000 soldiers.”
• Ukraine lost the first F-16 fighter plane on Friday due to a “unusual situation on the plane”, but the pilot was successfully expelled, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

cease-fire

• Turkish envoys, Russians and Ukrainians will hold tripartite talks in Istanbul, although hopes are low in any penetration after Russia sent a minimum delegation to the meeting, which was hoped. The meeting is the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine since a meeting in 2022, which was also held in Istanbul.
• Turkish Foreign Ministry sources told Reuters that Torke will participate in two three -side meetings on Friday as part of renewable diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
• A meeting will be held between Turkish officials, the United States and Ukrainian and is scheduled to be held at 10:45 am local time (07:45 GMT), followed by talks between Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian delegations at 12:30 pm (09:30 GMT).
• The Ukrainian delegation will now be led by the Minister of Defense, Rustum Umerov, instead of the President of Uloodymyr Zelenskyy, who met with Turkish President Ragab Tayyip Ardogan in Ankara on Thursday.
• “We cannot run all over the world, we are looking for Putin,” Zelinski said after an Erdogan meeting. “I feel unresolved from Russia. There is no time to meet, neither agenda, nor a high-level delegation-this is personal lack of respect. To Erdogan, to Trump.”
• US President Donald Trump said an agreement between Russia and Ukraine is not possible without his first meeting Putin. “I don’t think anything will happen, whether you like it or not, until we meet,” Trump told reporters in the Air Force.