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26 May 2025
During the large-scale prisoner exchange in the "1,000-for-1,000" format on May 23–25, Ukraine succeeded in securing the release of soldiers from 46 military units from which Russia had previously returned no captives.
During a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, President Volodymyr Zelensky commended the professional work of Ukrainian pilots who intercepted a substantial number of cruise missiles during a recent large-scale Russian missile attack.
Representatives of Ukraine's Economy Ministry and a World Bank mission have reviewed key areas of economic development, including the implementation of the balanced entrepreneurship initiative.
Sweden has allocated 4.8 billion SEK (over 502 million USD) to bolster Ukraine’s defense.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has strongly condemned Russia’s indiscriminate attacks against Ukraine’s civilian population carried out over the past 48 hours. He also expressed support for President Trump’s urgent efforts to stop the fighting and reiterated the Alliance’s commitment to standing with Ukraine throughout the challenges ahead.
An informal meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic countries took place in Finland on Monday, during which European leaders discussed, among other things, the situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine considers it crucial to be represented at the NATO Summit in The Hague and to contribute to its success — both through top-level personal participation and through strong decisions adopted at the Summit.
On May 26, Russians attacked a car with a drone in Komyshany, near Kherson, injuring two boys aged 7 and 15.
The recent large-scale attacks on Ukraine carried out by Russia prove that Moscow is not interested in peace.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Germany, Britain, France, and the United States have removed restrictions on the use of long-range weapons delivered to Ukraine.
Last week, Russian forces deployed an FPV drone armed with an RPG-based warhead to strike Kharkiv for the first time since the full-scale invasion.
On the morning of May 26, the Russian army conducted an air strike on the village of Myrne, Kupiansk district, injuring two people.
In the early hours of Monday, May 26, Ukraine's air defense forces shot down seven Russian cruise missiles and neutralized 82 Shahed attack drones in the Khmelnytskyi region.
Austria's new ambassador to Ukraine, Robert Mueller, visited the Walnut House, a comprehensive support center for women in crisis, during his trip to Lviv.
Twenty residential buildings in Mykolaiv were damaged in a Russian drone attack involving Shahed-type UAVs, with three floors completely destroyed in one of them.
Germany’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Martin Jaeger, expressed confidence that Russia’s strategy of exhausting Ukraine with missile terror in an attempt to force it into capitulation will not succeed.
As many as 83 cases of hepatitis A have already been registered in Kyiv.
Twenty residential buildings in Mykolaiv were damaged in a Russian drone attack involving Shahed-type UAVs, with three floors completely destroyed in one of them.
The world should respond to the growing number of Russian strikes on Ukraine by strengthening sanctions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
U.S. President Donald Trump believes that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "has gone absolutely crazy" by killing people for no reason.
On May 25, Russian forces carried out 119 attacks on the border areas of Chernihiv, parts of Sumy, and Kharkiv regions, resulting in a total of 267 explosions.
U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his disapproval of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's actions, particularly Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.
In exchange for military support, Russia is providing North Korea with missile and space technologies, and there are indications that this may also include technologies related to nuclear weapons or their enhancement.
Russia wants to buy time to regroup and prepare for another attack.
On the night of May 25, Ukrainian Air Defense Forces successfully repelled a large-scale Russian air attack, downing nine Kh-101 cruise missiles and neutralizing 288 of 355 drones.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 630 children have been killed due to military aggression.
A Russian airstrike caused significant damage in the Khmelnytskyi region, affecting four enterprises, 18 residential buildings, and a power line.
Russia’s plans on the battlefield remain unchanged - to capture the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, while creating a 5-10 km buffer zone in the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.
On May 25, 180 combat clashes were recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders along the frontline.
On the night of Monday, May 26, a series of fires and destruction occurred in private households across the Odesa region following Russian drone strikes.