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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 21, 2026
2026-05-22
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[Korrespondent] 23.59 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus stated that the Ukrainian drone had “destroyed the territory of Lithuania” this year. Vilnius having raised and called. The Lithuanian Ministry of Health wrote about this on platform X.

20.44 In Dnieper, the number of people injured due to the Russian attack has increased to 19. Among the victims, three children were killed. The head of OVA Oleksandr Ganzha told us about this.

"Up to 19 years old, the number of those injured due to the Russian attack on the Dnieper has grown. Among them are three children. A 6-year-old boy and a 9-month-old girl, after receiving medical care, are treated on an outpatient basis, a 13-year-old boy is hospitalized," - having designated vin.

19.35 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced on the 22nd of May communication with the partners of the European “Triika” (Great Britain, Germany and France) due to the pressure on the Russian Federation and the coordination of diplomatic efforts in this context. I told about this at the evening beast.

“Tomorrow will be a diplomatic day for us - I have planned communication with partners - E3. We will talk specifically about those so that our strong pressure and strong diplomatic work really influence the situation,” Zelensky said.

Under the E3 (European “Triika”) format, there is an informal diplomatic exchange between the three leading European powers: Great Britain, Germany and France. Most often, this term is used in diplomacy and security, focusing on key geopolitical issues. The format "Ukraine plus countries E3" is used to coordinate military, financial and political support, as well as negotiate security guarantees.

18.49 Estonia called out to Russia's timely agent, who conveyed the note through a “tragic disinformation campaign” directed against the Baltic countries. The press service of the Ministry of Health of the region reported this.

The Estonian department stated that it decides to condemn Russia’s expansion of untrue statements, threats and provocations towards Estonia and other Baltic countries.

The head of the Ministry of Health, Margus Tsahkna, said that Tallinn did not allow its territory to be conquered and open space for attacks in Russia.

18.49 President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the town of Slavutych on the evening of Ukraine on the threat from the side of Belarus. I told the evening animal about this.

18.23 The Kremlin does not take risks from the security of Russia by burning in connection with the suppression of oil refineries through UAV strikes. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitro Peskov stated this, reports The Moscow Times.

“No, the Kremlin does not accept such risks. In fact, in some areas you may soon experience outbreaks. This, to be sure, is associated with seasonal preventive measures. But in general, the entire balance of insurance policies - and may be necessary compensation system", - indicating vin.

18.04 Russian aggressors attacked the Dnipro area with strike drones and took two civilian buildings. It is known about 11 victims, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, a member of the OVA team, on Telegram.

17.42 Near the town of Druzhkivka, as a result of Russian attacks, four civilians died and five were wounded. The prosecutor's office of the Donetsk region reported this.

17.15 Law enforcement officials have uncovered a large-scale scheme for the allocation of budget funds for the purchase of food for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2022–2024.

Talk about the theft of over 71 million UAH from the delivered wholesale batches of products for the army. Zagalny agreement of contracts laid at the boundaries of the schemes, reaching a maximum of 400 million UAH.

The organizer of the equipment, according to investigators, is a senior employee of the Department of State Procurement of the Ministry of Defense. You have received the scheme from three core affiliated private companies.

17.07 The formal leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is ready to meet with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the problems of Belarusian-Ukrainian relations. ZMI Belarus was informed about this.

16.32 Since the beginning of the victory, the Russian army of occupation has attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 76 times on all 13 main directions. About this, the General Staff of the ZSU was informed at the operational level at 16:00.

Pokrovsky has become the most ardent again, where the ZSU is fighting off enemy assaults in the areas of 13 settlements.

16.01 President Volodymyr Zelensky met with NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine kernel Serhiy Koretsky to discuss work to attract Russia to financial relevance in various jurisdictions. The head of the state told about this on Telegram.

15.33 Nearly hundreds of Russian occupiers were devastated and injured as a result of the attack on the FSB headquarters in the immediate occupation of the territory of the Kherson region. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on Facebook.

14.45 Agents of the Atesh partisan movement carried out a successful operation in St. Petersburg (RF). The stinks were set on fire and the diesel locomotive was dismantled, the activities of the transported naphtha oils and the secured supply of industrial and energy infrastructure to the region. About this, please contact Atesh.

14.22 In Kharkov, a large-scale scheme of evasion due to mobilization has been liquidated. A malicious group was neutralized, which traded in fake opusion
…does the writer mean the women’s fashion clothing line?
over minors for a unique prize. The SBU was informed about this 21 herb. It appears that the defendants without any reason provided the thieves with single custody of their children. Even the fake “fathers are the same” submitted documents to the TCC for the removal of the line. Please inquire for the materials, the equipment was organized by the local lawyer. Before her illegal activity, she received two of her co-defendants and a deputy judge of one of the district courts of Kharkov.

14.14 In the coming month, the Ministry of Defense will focus on three key areas. The department's official, Mikhailo Fedorov, said this in an interview with journalists, reports Interfax-Ukraine.

13.52 Latvia has been raising alarm for the third day since the drone threat. The blame for NATO has risen in the wind.

At least one drone is in the windy expanse of the region. Through this, NATO missions were lifted from patrolling the windy expanse of the Baltic.

The threat was voiced in the Ludza, Rezeknensky, Kraslavsky and Augshdaugavsky districts, which are under the threat. The blacks were called upon not to go out into the streets, as soon as possible they would have a safe place and follow the rules of two walls.

Together with NATO allies, Latvia's military forces are constantly monitoring global trends and are ready to respond promptly to any threats.

“We have strengthened the capabilities of the PPO at the same cordon, having received additional support,” said the Latvian Armed Forces.

13.10 Minister of Defense Mikhailo Fedorov stated that 27 Ukrainian companies have already reached the experimental project of private anti-aircraft defense, the software groups of two enterprises have already completely begun to retire from the military zavdannya Interfax-Ukraine reports this.

"Before the experimental project, 27 enterprises of various forms of government from rich corners of Ukraine have already joined. The project has no geographical boundaries. Zokrema, Kharkivska, Odeska, Kievska, Zaporizka, Poltavska, Zakarpattia and other regions of the Ministry of Defense gave them the status of upgraded orders for anti-aircraft defense. they began to organize the government PPO group,” indicating vin.

12.59 The Russians have not been able to find a permanent replacement for Starlink satellite communication systems. The leaders of this ZSU took away critical advantage on the battlefield. Minister of Defense Mikhailo Fedorov said this in a meeting with journalists, reports Interfax-Ukraine.

12.55 Military counterintelligence The Security Services, the State Bureau of Investigation and the National Police, in cooperation with the Minister of Defense, have discovered another scheme for illegally charging bonuses for any participation in battles on the front line.

Before organizing the registration scheme, one of the military units was assigned to work with the participants in combat operations. He promptly issued thousands of additional payments to military services in the amount of 100 thousand hryvnias and one-time bonuses of 70 thousand hryvnias, transferred for direct participation in military operations. In exchange for this - by removing the values ​​of the “hundreds” from the schemes.

In fact, the military withdrawals of these payments did not occur in the areas under threat and did not eliminate the daily tasks on the front line. As a result of such actions, five military servicemen were summarily defrauded of a maximum of 2.6 million hryvnias from “combatants.”

The organizer of the scheme - the head of the group for work with participants in combat operations of the military unit - was informed about the suspicion.

12.47 The Russian military launched a massive attack on Sumy, injuring three people. The head of the Sumy MBA Sergey Krivosheenko told about this.

“Sumi under the mask of a magical blow. The appearance of the armor is being established,” he said.

An incident was recorded in a private residential building near the Kovpakivskyi district of Sumy, as well as in infrastructure facilities.

12.12 Ukrainian troops attacked the Syrian oil refinery plant of the Rosneft company near the Samara region of the Russian Federation. This was reported to the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the ZSU.

11.53 Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine collected before the International Criminal Court in Haazi the evidence base about Primus movement and illegal diversion in the colonies of Russia over 1800 Ukrainian connections from Kherson. Mykolayiv region.

At the end of the fall of 2022, the Russian military primus moved these people through the time of occupation of Crimea to the colonies of the Russian Federation. Prove to prove that this operation was immediately organized: from the burial of Ukrainian military supplies to the extermination of people on the territory of Russia.

According to the investigation, in the Russian colonies, Ukrainian bonds are running, rolling around, subject to psychological pressure, threatening with executions and agitating until the alarm of the military fortifications. They are imposing the vastness of the Russian Federation in a primus-like manner, illegally erasing the line of punishment after completion, or erasing it again.

11.46 Over the past few months, Ukraine has doubled the number of kills of Russian drones of the Shahed type, as well as the development of a system of “small” software and the scaling of over-the-top drones. Minister of Defense Mikhailo Fedorov said this in an interview with the media, Ukrinform reports.

11.25 A Russian drone-dragon was captured from thermite madness over Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. The Khizhak brigade at the Ukrainian Patrol Police Department reported this.

During the hour of combat, a fighter of the mobile fire fighting group of the Khizhak brigade on the stationary "Django" spotted such a drone in the wind.

“I didn’t understand at first what it was. They thought it was phosphorus. It was burning, it was pulling the train behind it. It was like that at first.

He fights by opening the fire and first shooting the suspension from the firecracker, preventing the drone from completing the task. After finishing this, the pilot himself achieved it.

The Russian military uses Molniya drones with a thermite mix to burn out anti-drone nets and positions.

11.18 Law enforcement officers were pursuing the 23-river Kiyan, who, in response to the agreements of the Russian special services, was planning to set fire to the banking branch. The metropolitan department of the National Police reported this.

The unknown people have reconfirmed the man who is working against the aggressor country. And in order to achieve uniqueness, you need to light the separate jar where you use the girl’s bedspread.

11.07 For the sake of 17 thousand dollars, the deputy of Kharkiv Municipality organized a “tour” to Romania for a military-related person, and was handed over to suspicion.

10.52 The Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces are conducting enhanced security operations in the southern regions of the state. The SBU reported this. An unprecedented number of forces and special forces have been obtained in the territories bordering the Russian Federation and Belarus, the special services have identified.

10.45 Russian troops hit a vintage car with an FPV drone in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the attack, the 40-river water disappeared.

As a result of the accident, a civilian car overturned and caught fire. The warriors promptly liquidated the fire.

10.21 In four nine regions of Ukraine, the light began to be turned off due to new Russian attacks and troubles. Ukrenergo reported about this. The situation in the Kharkiv region is complicated, both through shelling and misfortune.

10.07 The State Bureau of Investigation informed about the suspicions of the military forces, who were trying to be debarred from serving in the department of detailed evidence of disability of the squads.

One of the men will be called up for service in the spring, and the others - in the other half of 2025. The military personnel served, especially in the territory of the Rivne region, but they still decided to leave the ZSU front as a path to deception. In the end, they added fictitious evidence about the establishment of group II disability for their squads, which they received before the report on the discharge.

Doubts about the veracity of family situations arose among the soldiers, and after verification it became clear that the signatures of the “doctors” were not actually processed in the installation on the form on which it was prepared document.

In this case, one of the military mobilizations was made after the recent failure of the crossbar at the cordon.

09.43 Russia has already delivered nuclear ammunition to field storage points on the territory of Belarus. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus reported this.

“Video fact: delivery of nuclear ammunition from the beginning to the field points for preserving the positional area of ​​the missile military unit in the Republic of Belarus,” reads the document under the published report video.

The video shows cars driving around the forest area, as well as missiles on launchers. The Russians reported that in the development of nuclear forces in Belarus they fired up the Iskander-M with special ammunition.

09.16 On November 21, Russia attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 116 attack UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas types and simulator drones of the Parody type.

The anti-aircraft defense shot down/suppressed 109 hostile UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types at night, day and night. The presence of a ballistic missile and five attack UAVs was recorded at five locations, as well as the fall of downed people (tricks) at four locations.

09.00 Russian troops ordered a drone strike on the Novgorod-Siversky district of the Chernihiv region. A car caught fire and a warehouse was on fire on the territory of an agricultural enterprise. As a result of the Russian blow, one person died and two more were injured.

08.35 During the last battle, 233 combat operations were recorded at the front. Aircraft, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit five areas of concentrated Russian troops and one artillery system.

08.25 Near the Russian town of Sizran, Samara region, as a result of a night attack by drones, there was a fire at the oil refinery plant.

The governor of the Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, announced the shock of the wind alarm in the region around 4:00. Through the attack of drones throughout the entire territory of the region, the Kilim plan was transmitted, which closes the open space for watering.

Shortly after being stunned by the overwhelming anxiety, the residents of Sizran felt at least 10 vibrations. Drones attacked a naphtha refinery. Footage published on social media confirms that after the attack, a fire began in the territory of the oil refinery.

Monitoring channels write that one of the naphtha processing units at the refinery is burning. Thick black smoke rises over the place.

Fedorishchev later reported that the UAV attack left two dead and injured.

07.38 On November 21, Russian troops attacked the Dnieper. A 58-year-old woman was injured. The doctors gave her help at the scene.

The blow destroyed the apartment on the fifth floor of the fifth-overhead building. By Vibukhova's deterioration, a number of daylights were damaged - the windows there were wilted.

07.26 From May 24, 2022 to May 21, 2026, the military’s military spending in the special warehouse of the Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,352,980 people (+910 per additional).

04.25 Last night, the Ukrainian military in the occupied town of Snizhne, in the Donbass, established a school for UAV operators with a special warehouse, drones and combat units before them. As part of one operation, 65 cadets were relieved.

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