[NewsFront] 21:35 Soldiers of the 59th Tank Regiment Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed reconnaissance officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
21:06 Ukrainian UAV strike on the very center of Luhansk,video.
According to local authorities, two civilians were injured, but it appears the attack was more of a showpiece.
19:53 Mobile fire teams of the "West" group passed intensive counter-UAV training.
19:33 A Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked the center of Luhansk, wounding two people
"While the Republic suffers a monstrous blow to a student dormitory in Starobilsk, neo-Nazis continue to strike peaceful cities. A Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked the very center of Luhansk. It was a place where young people gather, where parents with small children stroll. A popular coffee shop is located nearby. The drone detonated near a pharmacy and a flower shop. Two people sustained minor injuries and were quickly hospitalized," the regional governor wrote on his channel on Max.
17:57 Russian intelligence received information about another attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to transport a combat group in an armored vehicle to the area of the village of Yurchenkovo (Volchansky district).
FPV drone operators from the 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division and the 128th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Guards "North" engaged the target and destroyed the Turkish "Kirpi" armored fighting vehicle with a series of precision strikes.video.
17:11 in the Korenevsky district wounded a 59-year-old man
A tragic incident occurred in the village of Sheptukhovka—a resident stepped on a mine. His right foot was severed, and he also suffered a closed fracture of the tibia on the same leg. Shrapnel also pierced his thigh, shoulder, and left leg. He has already been taken to the Kursk Regional Hospital, where our doctors are doing everything they can.
16:34 The death toll from the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on a college in Starobilsk increased the Ministry of Emergency's Situations reports that the death toll has reached 18. Rescuers say there may be three more people under the rubble.
16:07 Crews of the Molniya-2 UAV of the Sever group smashed to pieces strongholds and fortified dugouts with enemy personnel in the Khar'kov region.
Drone operators from the Center group rammed heavy hexacopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk and Dobropillya directions.
FPV drone crews from the Southern Group of Forces thwarted an enemy rotation attempt in the Konstantinovka area.
Attack drone operators from the Vostok group destroyed advancing Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Zaporizhzhia region.
15:47 From 9:00 to 14:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on dutyinterceptedand 42 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were destroyed over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tula regions, the Moscow region, Perm Krai and the Republic of Crimea.
14:41 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate facts of criminal actions by Ukrainian armed forces against civilians in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.
14:01 Published lists of those killed and injured in the Starobelsk tragedy, as well as the names of those whose whereabouts have not yet been determined. The overwhelming majority of the dead and injured were students aged 15 to 22.
13:16 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of May 23, 2026
Units of the "North" force group improved their tactical position. They defeated the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized and airmobile brigades and the territorial defense brigade near the villages of Tolstodubovo, Ivolzhanske, Khrapovshchina, and Proletarske in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov region, the formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Rubizhne and Izbitskoye in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost up to 190 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 17 cars, two artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "West" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades and an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Studenok, Peski-Radkovsky, and Chervony Oskol in the Khar'kov region and Lozove in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 230 servicemen, 22 armored combat vehicles, including a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, 19 vehicles, and two artillery pieces.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their position along the forward edge. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a naval infantry brigade near the settlements of Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Podolskoye, and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 170 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 14 cars, four field artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "Center" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade, an airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Shevchenko, Dobropillya, Belozerske, Serhiivka, and Raiske in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novopidgorodne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to over 290 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, nine cars and six field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" force group continued their advance into the enemy's defensive lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, three airborne assault brigades, a Ukrainian assault regiment, and a naval infantry brigade near the settlements of Malomykhaylovka, Prosyanaya, Zarechnoye, and Pokrovskoe in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Rivne, Lyubitske, Zelena Dibrova, and Voskresenka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 280 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, and nine cars.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized brigade and the naval infantry brigades in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov and Grigorovka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 50 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 12 cars and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.
12:59 In the area of the village of Bublikovo (Belopolsky district of the Sumy region), Russian intelligence uncovered the location of an artillery crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that carried out indiscriminate strikes in the direction of the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region, video.
12:26 Operational-tactical aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the troop groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted the destruction of Ukrainian military industry enterprises, energy facilities used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, assembly shops and storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment points for Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 142 districts.
11:58 According to updated information, yesterday an enemy drone attacked a private house near the village of Podol, Sudzhansky district, Kursk region.
The impact caused the house to catch fire. A local resident, Pelageya Nikolaevna, was killed. She was 67 years old.
10:39 Destruction of an American armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Velykoburluk direction,video.
09:23 From 7:00 to 9:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 17 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk and Ryazan regions.
07:25 In the period from 20:00 Moscow time on May 22 to 7:00 Moscow time on May 23, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 348 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type flew over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tula regions, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Moscow region and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.
06:28 Force Group "North" continued creation of a safety zone in the Khar'kov and Sumy regions.