Foreign Ministry building damaged during massive attack on Kyiv
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry building sustained minor damage from nearby explosions during Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine on May 24.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry building sustained minor damage from nearby explosions during Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine on May 24.
Russian troops attacked the town of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region. As of 11:00, 12 people were reported injured.
Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the Tamannaftogaz oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, along with other military targets belonging to Russian invading forces in Russia itself and in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in Crimea.
At least 83 people have been injured since the start of May 24 as a result of Russia’s massive combined attack. Kyiv was the main target of the strike. Three Russian missiles were aimed at a water supply facility.
Russia launched an “Oreshnik”-type missile at the Bila Tserkva area in the Kyiv region; the missile was fired from the Kapustin Yar test site.
Air defense forces intercepted 55 missiles and 549 Russian drones used by the Russian military to attack Ukraine beginning on the evening of May 23, with Kyiv being the main target. A total of 16 missiles and 51 attack drones were recorded as having struck 54 locations.
Six people were injured in the Chernihiv region over the past 24 hours as a result of strikes by Russian UAVs.
In Kyiv, the death toll from the Russian airstrike has risen to two.
Over the past 24 hours in the Sumy region, one person was killed and more than 20 were injured, including a 12-year-old child; homes and infrastructure were damaged.
Two people were killed and six were wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours.
In Kyiv, the death toll from the Russian airstrike has risen to two.
Over the past day, there were 248 combat engagements between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian troops, 50 of them in the Pokrovsk direction, while the enemy was also highly active in the Huliaipole and Kostiantynivka directions.
More than 40 locations in Kyiv were damaged as a result of Russia’s massive overnight missile-and-drone attack on May 24.
During Russia's massive combined air attack on Kyiv, strikes and falling debris were recorded across multiple districts of the capital, sparking fires and leaving one person dead and 21 others injured.
Russia struck the Ancient Kyiv Historical and Architectural Preserve, and the National Chornobyl Museum was almost destroyed.
Total combat losses among Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to May 24, 2026, amount to approximately 1,355,920 personnel, including 1,110 over the past 24 hours.
In the Kyiv region, Russia’s combined attack caused damage in six districts, including strikes on residential buildings, warehouses, and a logistics center, while multiple fires broke out.
Damage was recorded in every district of the city following the large-scale attack on the capital.
The Kyiv region came under a massive Russian strike overnight, as the enemy attacked with drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, Ukrainian border guards destroyed an artillery gun, a vehicle, two Russian drones, and three shelters.
23 May 2026
Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out strikes overnight on May 23 against several key Russian military-related facilities, including the Sheskharis oil terminal, the Grushova oil depot, and a tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet.
In the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi in the Chernihiv region, a Russian drone attacked a police vehicle on Saturday morning, injuring three police officers.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces struck an enemy convoy, fuel tanks, and field ammunition depots in the Luhansk region.
The body of a woman was found in Kherson after a Russian drone struck a private home in the Korabelny district overnight.
One of the victims of the drone attack on a funeral procession has died in a hospital in Sumy.
The Security Service of Ukraine has struck a key Russian military enterprise, “Metafrax Chemicals,” which is part of the Russian chemical industry.
On Saturday, May 23, a Russian drone struck a funeral procession on the outskirts of Sumy, leaving several people injured.
On the morning of May 23 in Kherson, two civilians were injured in a drone attack in the Korabelny district.
Operators from the 413th Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces, “Raid,” struck a number of telecommunications infrastructure sites belonging to the Russian invaders at a considerable distance from the front lines in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.