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Monday, 25 May 2026, 09:56
A total of 216 combat clashes between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops were recorded over the past day, with the fiercest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Thirteen civilians were injured in the Sumy region over the past day as a result of Russian aggression.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to May 23, 2026, have reached approximately 1,354,810 personnel, including 950 troops killed over the past day.
An administrative building in the city of Mykolaiv was damaged on May 22 as a result of a Russian drone attack.
During the first four months of 2026, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies opened 2,010 criminal proceedings over Russian attacks involving short-range drones, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Facebook.
22 May 2026
On May 22, as many as 166 combat clashes were recorded between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders, including 29 enemy attacks on the Pokrovsk axis.
Rescuers in four communities of the Sumy region extinguished fires caused by Russian attacks during May 22.
Ukrainian positions on the front lines have recently strengthened significantly, and since the beginning of the year, the Defense Forces have liberated approximately 590 square kilometers of territory.
The State Border Guard Service has demonstrated the combat operations of a mobile fire group from the “Oberih” air defense unit of the “Pomsta” brigade against Russian attack drones.
Russian forces struck the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region with a drone. There is one casualty and one fatality.
Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces on May 21 and overnight into May 22 struck Russian ammunition depots, air defense systems, command posts, and personnel of the Russian Federation army in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and inside Russia.
Ukraine’s northern border area is sufficiently fortified, making a large-scale enemy offensive unlikely, although strikes on border regions or various acts of sabotage aimed at tying down Ukrainian forces cannot be ruled out.
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 13,300 cases of the use of chemical munitions by the Russian army have been officially recorded on the battlefield.
Russian forces shelled the Korabelnyi district of Kherson at around 09:00, injuring three people.
Ukrainian forces carried out an overnight strike targeting an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, about 700 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.
In Dnipro, the number of people injured in a Russian drone attack yesterday evening has risen to 20; seven of them are in hospitals in moderate condition.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russian casualties on the front lines since the beginning of the year have totaled 145,000: nearly 86,000 killed, at least 59,000 seriously wounded, and more than 800 Russian servicemen taken prisoner.
In Mykolaiv over the past 24 hours, windows at a hospital administration building were damaged by strikes from enemy Shahed-type drones and falling debris, and a fire broke out at an industrial facility.
Over the past 24 hours, Kharkiv and 17 other settlements in the Kharkiv region came under Russian attack; one man was killed and another was injured.
In the Donetsk region, Russian troops killed four civilians and wounded 11 others over the past 24 hours.
There were 253 combat engagements between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops over the past 24 hours, with the highest intensity of fighting recorded in the Pokrovsk sector, where Ukrainian defenders repelled 52 enemy assaults.
Russian troops attacked an enterprise in the Myrhorod district of the Poltava region with drones overnight.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, through May 22, 2026, have reached approximately 1,353,860 personnel, including 880 troops killed or wounded over the past 24 hours.
In Ukraine’s Donetsk region, police officers evacuated several families from the frontline town of Druzhkivka in the Kramatorsk district while under attack by enemy FPV drones, and also rescued civilians who had fled on foot from Kostiantynivka.
Since the beginning of the year, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have regained about 400 square kilometers of territory after thousands of Starlink terminals used by Russian troops were deactivated.
The Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit another series of Russian military targets in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Ukrainian forces are regaining tactical initiative across multiple sectors of the front line, according to a new assessment by the Institute for the Study of War.
Agents of the partisan movement ATESH disabled a diesel locomotive in Saint Petersburg, disrupting oil logistics in northwestern Russia.
21 May 2026
A Russian drone struck an area near a shopping center in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv.