Wednesday results in the occupied territories of Donbas. The highlights

In the area of the Joint Forces Operation on May 12, three violations by the Russian occupiers were recorded, - the JFO headquarters reported. The mercenaries opened fire with 82 caliber mortars near the settlement of Novhorodske. The enemy fired from anti-tank missile systems not far from the village of Myrne. The enemy fired from grenade launchers in the area of Avdiivka. Our defenders returned fire to the enemy shelling. There are no combat losses among the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

There are almost 28 thousand Russian militants in the occupied Donbas at the moment. This was stated by commander of the Joint Forces Operation Serhiy Nayev. According to him, formations and military units of the 8th army of the southern military district are located at the military ranges of the Rostov oblast (Russia) for the possible strengthening of the 1st and 2nd army corps of the occupation groupings. In addition, he noted that more than 900 groundless provocative attacks from the enemy were recorded this year in the JFO zone, of which more than 200 attacks were carried out with the use of heavy weapons.

The practice of recruiting and attracting minors in CARDLO into the illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation has been flourishing since 2014. Moreover, they are also participating in hostilities against Ukraine, - Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Gyunduz Mamedov stated. According to him, the occupant financially supports military camps and pseudo-patriotic clubs through the controlled administrations. Children are trained here for military operations and imposed on the ideology of separatism and the Russian World, hatred for Ukraine is laid in their unformed children's heads. "Within the framework of criminal proceedings, more than 10 so-called "military-patriotic clubs" have been established in the occupied territory of Donetsk oblast alone: Young Guard of Donbass, Amazones, where girls are involved as well,Patriot in Horlivka and Makiivka, Bastio and Steppenwolves". "We have information that 54 underage citizens of Ukraine were convicted for participation in the illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation during the entire period of the armed conflict. Some of them were trained in such military-patriotic clubs, which arose spontaneously in 2014-2015, and later began to work in a centralized manner", - the Deputy Prosecutor General stated.

There are 4810 residents in CADO on treatment for COVID-19 (inpatient and outpatient) and 1868 patients with "usual" pneumonia. This was announced by the so-called "Ministry of Health of the DNR". The occupiers did not conduct research on the COVID-19 disease during the day of May 11, since the only laboratory was being sanitized. In total, 34 495 cases of COVID-19 infection and 2583 deaths were detected in CADO. The mortality rate is off scale - 7.5%. 71 cases of pneumonia were identified over the past day, of which 41 people were hospitalized. "A total of 1868 patients with pneumonia are being treated, of which 734 are on oxygen support (+25 over the day)", - the "DNR Ministry of Health" reported.

Doctors registered two deaths from COVID-19 in the occupied Luhansk region over the day, separatist media wrote. Thus, since the beginning of the pandemic in CALO, doctors have registered 414 deaths of patients who have been diagnosed with coronavirus.

There was a fatal road accident in occupied Donetsk. This was reported by eyewitnesses in the local segment of social networks. The townspeople wrote that a man was hit in the area of Donetsk-City. "A man was hit at the intersection of Tamanskyi Ave and Universytetska St.", - the report said. It was also noted in the comments that the man was walking along the pedestrian crossing, and the "military" were driving the car. "The "military" (black numbers) hit the man, after which a man came out and took the numbers away", - eyewitnesses wrote. The pedestrian reportedly sustained a fatal head injury.