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Monday, 25 May 2026, 09:56
Russian forces have attacked the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces 61 times since the beginning of the day, with the heaviest pressure reported in the Pokrovsk and Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors.
A person injured in the Russian attack on the Poltava Oblast on May 5 has died in hospital.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said after a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron that France is ready to cooperate in the field of countering ballistic weapons.
The Russian army launched a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, causing damage to industrial infrastructure.
Russian troops launched an artillery strike on the central part of Kherson, killing one man and wounding two others.
Russian troops in the southern operational zone are utilizing a main gas pipeline to transport assault units behind the Ukrainian Defense Forces' lines; some occupiers surrender after emerging from the pipeline.
Over the course of the week, Ukrainian defenders struck several targets deep behind Russian lines, including strikes on targets located nearly 1,000 km from the front line.
Russian troops attacked Kherson with drones and shelled the city with artillery early this morning, injuring eight civilians, including a 15-year-old boy.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 46 strikes on the Chernihiv region, wounding one civilian woman.
Three men were injured in Kharkiv as a result of a strike by an enemy Molniya drone.
Damage has been reported in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region following an attack by Russian drones.
Since Friday evening, the Russian army has attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 20 times, leaving one person injured.
Air Defense Forces shot down 269 of the 294 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since the evening of May 15.
In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, Russian troops killed a resident, and four other civilians were wounded.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 15, 263 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines.
Over the past 24 hours, one person was killed, and 23 others were wounded in the Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling.
Russian troops launched a massive attack on the southern part of the Odesa region overnight using combat drones, resulting in damage to residential and port infrastructure, with casualties reported.
Total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to May 16, 2026, amount to approximately 1,347,620 personnel, including 1,230 over the past 24 hours.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers launched 850 strikes on 53 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of the enemy’s attacks on Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia district, and Polohy district, one person was killed, and 21 were wounded.
The capital’s community has provided soldiers of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with another 3,100 drones of various types, bringing the total for this year to over 50,000.
A Russian drone hit a road in the central part of Kharkiv.
Ukrainian helicopter pilots are undergoing training in the United Kingdom as part of the multinational Interstorm Operation.
15 May 2026
The number of people injured as a result of the Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to three.
The Russian army shelled Komyshany in the Kherson Oblast with artillery, injuring two people.
Russian drones struck two districts of Kharkiv. A woman was injured in the Osnovianskyi district of the city.
The number of people injured as a result of a Russian drone strike on the Odesa region has risen to eleven.
Hits from Russian drones were recorded in two districts of Kharkiv. In the city's Osnovianskyi District, a woman was injured.
Following a nighttime drone attack in Ryazan that damaged one of Russia's largest oil refineries and caused an "oil rain" in the city, authorities declared a state of emergency on May 15.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the current frontline situation with Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton.