Ukrainian air defense destroyed over 4,500 Russian drones, missiles in May — Air Force
Ukraine's air defense forces destroyed 4,051 aerial targets launched by Russia in May 2025.
01 June 2025
Ukraine's air defense forces destroyed 4,051 aerial targets launched by Russia in May 2025.
Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander, Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, has submitted his resignation.
Over the last 72 hours days, Russian troops have shelled the settlement of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region more than 1,000 times.
The Russian army launched a missile strike on a training unit of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, causing deaths and injuries.
The Russian army continues to press Ukraine’s defenses near the border in Sumy region, using small assault groups.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha of Ukraine says Russia, despite claims of preparing for meetings to discuss peace, continues to attack Ukraine.
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Zaporizhzhia, striking the city with at least seven Shahed drones, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
On May 31, Ukrainian forces engaged in 166 combat clashes with Russian invaders, with the heaviest fighting reported along the Pokrovsk and Kursk axes.
The soldiers of the 65th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Velykyi Luh" are using a self-propelled artillery system 2S19 "Msta-S" captured from Russians in the Kharkiv region to perform combat missions in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to June 1, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amounted to about 988,560 people, including another 1,230 people over the past day.
31 May 2025
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to visit Washington next week for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump — his first since taking office as head of the German government.
The Russian military launched two strikes with guided aerial bombs on the village of Verkhnia Tersa, Zaporizhzhia region, and a 52-year-old woman was injured.
Ukrainian Patriot air defense and F-16 and Mirage fighter jets will connect to a single digital system, NATO's so-called "military Wi-Fi".
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Julie Davis, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko and National Police Chief Ivan Vyhivskyi visited the site of a Russian combined attack in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv on April 24.
Authorities have ordered the mandatory evacuation of residents from 11 additional settlements in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region due to the ongoing threat posed by Russian attacks on border communities.
Ukrainian air defense forces successfully intercepted 69 out of 107 Russian drones and shot down three guided Kh-59/69 missiles during a large-scale overnight attack.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 191 combat clashes with Russian troops on May 30.
Combat casualties suffered by the Russian invasion troops since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been estimated at 987,330, including 1,250 killed or wounded in action in the past day.
As a result of a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, fires broke out in two districts of the city, the roof of an enterprise building was hit, and one person was injured.
A 9-year-old girl died and another boy was injured as a result of a Russian strike that targeted a front-line village in Zaporizhzhia region’s Polohy district.
The Russian missiles targeted Sumy region overnight Saturday, causing damage to residential buildings and warehouse premises.
30 May 2025
Russian forces launched a missile strike on the village of Vasyshcheve in the Kharkiv region, injuring two people.
During a UN Security Council meeting, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, presented Moscow’s conditions for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
During an air raid involving Russian drones against Odesa region on May 29, Ukraine’s Defense Forces destroyed the latest jet drone, launched by Russian invaders, using an anti-aircraft missile system developed by specialists from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense (HUR)
The Russian summer offensive of 2025 is a repeat of last year's campaign, with some changes in conditions and effectiveness, including due to Ukraine’s growing defense capabilities and support from the West.
Following a Russian drone strike on a trolleybus depot in Kharkiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the U.S. and Europe not to bargain with the aggressor but to pressure Russia into stopping the killing.
A woman who was severely injured in the Russian attack on Krasyliv, Khmelnytskyi region, on May 25 has died in hospital, bringing the death toll to five.
In Khmelnytskyi region, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained and formally charged an agent of the Russian special services who had been directing missile and drone strikes on the aviation infrastructure of Ukraine’s Defense Forces in the western regions.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out nearly 100 shelling attacks on communities in Sumy region, damaging civilian infrastructure and residential homes.