In the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region, 5 people were wounded, including an 11-year-old child, as a result of Russian shelling from Grad multiple launch rocket systems.

On May 19, 2001, at about 2 pm near the food market in the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny (not far from the crossroads of the road from the city center to the village of Staraya Sunzha), a white VAZ-2107 car was fired upon from a passing convoy of Russian military men.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Ukraine has begun using British long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles capable of striking at a distance of up to 290 kilometers.

On May 18, 2001, at 0500, Russian units cordoned off the entire perimeter of the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district. Armored vehicles were posted near each intersection in the village. Having finished the preparations, the military began to enter in advance, apparently, the planned houses and grab their tenants. At the same time, weapons were used at least once.

At night, Russia again fired cruise missiles at Kyiv. The Ukrainian Armed Forces reports 29 missiles shot down by air defense forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system during the shelling of Kyiv. The Ukrainian military does not confirm this information.
In Crimea, a train carrying grain derailed as a result of sabotage.
Prominent Chinese diplomat Li Hui visited Kyiv.

On May 17, 2001, 13 local residents were detained during “cleansing operations” in the Vedeno district, 11 of them were released in the following days. Three did not return home, including a young woman. All the “disappeared” are natives of the village of Dyshne-Vedeno.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that the Ukrainian army recaptured a dozen positions near Bakhmut and captured many Russian soldiers from various units.

The security forces seized almost 400 barrels from underground gunsmiths in 44 regions, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, KBR and Stavropol. In particular, 399 firearms of domestic and foreign production were seize.

On 17 April 2001, Ochs-Ahmet Alsultanov and his accompanying children, son Islam and nephews Shamkhan and Shahid Umarhajiev, disappeared near the village of Alleroi. The son at that time was 14 years old, and the nephews turned 13, and the other - 11 years. In the morning they went to pasture public cattle, and then disappeared. As it turns out, for a while... 

On May 16, 2001, at 4 am, five Russian military men, two of whom were wearing masks, broke down the door of apartment 46 in building 21 on Novatorov Street in Grozny.