In April, an ex-policeman from North Ossetia, Vadim Tekhov, who killed his ex-wife, was pardoned by presidential decree as having served in Ukraine for six months in the Storm Z unit. This explains the fact that the relatives of the victims saw him walking freely on the streets of Vladikavkaz.

At the European summit in Iceland, Georgia joined in the creation of a damage register for Ukraine. This agreement will allow accumulating information about the damage inflicted by the Russian authorities on Ukraine and demanding compensation and reparations in the future.

Azerbaijan supported the sovereignty of Ukraine and continues to provide humanitarian assistance to it. This was announced by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov at the Council of Europe summit in Iceland.

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 18, 1944, a criminal operation began in the USSR to forcibly deport Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland to Central Asia. In the first years of deportation, from 20% to 46% of the settlers died from hunger and disease.

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.

Eyewitnesses spotted former policeman Vadim Tekhov on the streets of Vladikavkaz. In 2019, he was sentenced to 16 years for the murder of his ex-wife. However, in the fall of 2022, the killer was released to participate in the war against Ukraine as part of the Wagner PMC.

The European Court of Human Rights has published judgments in the cases of three Azerbaijani journalists and a religious activist, ruling to pay them compensation. They complained about the groundlessness of their detention.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunya Mijatović expressed concern about the situation in the field of human rights in Azerbaijan. She called unacceptable the ongoing pressure and persecution of journalists, human rights activists and representatives of civil society.