NewsFront] 21:45 FPV drone calculations at the Rubicon Centeramazed: temporary deployment points for Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, fortifications, dugouts and firing positions, automobile and armored vehicles, artillery guns, ground-based robotic systems, elements of the communication system, enemy drones.
21:34 In the period from 8:00 Moscow time to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type flew over the territories of the Belgorod region, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
20:16 Mobile fire teams of the BARS detachment in the Samara region protect civilian objects and infrastructure of the region from enemy drones.
19:12 Operators of attack UAVs of the Vostok group destroyed strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Drone crews from the Center group maintain air superiority in the Dobropillya and Dnipropetrovsk sectors. Drone operators rammed enemy drones, eliminated an enemy reconnaissance group, and disrupted a rotation.
17:02 Military personnel of the "North" group continue expand the security zone in the Sumy region.
15:32 Strikes against long-range UAVs. The drones were heading for targets located deep within Russian territory. VIDEO
15:13 Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Vasily Osmakov spent meeting with the Secretary General and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Air Vice Marshal (retired) Sampath Thuyakontha.
12:52 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of May 26, 2026
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the "North" military group have actively established control over the settlements of Zapselye and Ryasnoye in the Sumy region.
The manpower and equipment of two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Pisarevka, Ivolzhanskoye and Obody in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov region, formations of the mechanized, motorized infantry and airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Bugayevka, Ternovaya, Bely Kolodez, Granov and Izbitskoye in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost up to 195 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 20 cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the "West" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Yegorovka, Novonikolayevka, Druzhelyubovka, Velyka Shapkovka, and Podliman in the Khar'kov region, and Krasny Liman, Svyatogorsk, and Prishyb in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 190 service members, an M113 armored personnel carrier, and two US-made HMMWV armored fighting vehicles. Eighteen vehicles, a field artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.
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, a motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a naval infantry brigade near the settlements of Kurtovka, Rai-Aleksandrovka, Druzhkovka, Tikhonovka, Artema, Nikolaevka, Kramatorsk, and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost more than 85 servicemen, two US-made Stryker armored personnel carriers, three armored combat vehicles, 16 vehicles, two artillery pieces, and a Grad multiple launch rocket system combat vehicle.
Units of the Center Group of Forces occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Kutuzovka, Dobropillya, Novonikolayevka, Zolotoy Kolodez, Kucherov Yar, Belitske, and Vasilevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Ivanovka, Vodolazhske, and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 310 servicemen, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, 12 cars, and a field artillery gun.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, two airborne assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Timoshivka, Lesnoye, and Nezhenka in Zaporizhia Oblast, and Chaplino, Mechetne, Gavrilovka, Podgavrilovka, Vasylkivka, and Shyroke in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 240 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, five cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized brigade and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Balabino, Malokaterinovka and Maryevka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 55 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 10 vehicles, and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.
11:23 Attack aircraft with the call sign "Dorokh" told on the liberation of the village of Dobropasovo.
09:58 Servicemen of the Eastern Military District travelled to Laos by train special units of the Lao People's Army as part of the Typhoon 2026 course and participate in the Laros 2026 joint exercise.
09:09 The operator of the FPV drone "Provod" flew into the anti-drone tunnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Pokrovsky direction and destroyed a British pickup truck along with the crew and guards, -video.
07:08 During the past night, in the period from 20:00 Moscow time on May 25 to 7:00 Moscow time on May 26, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 59 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Novgorod, Smolensk regions and the Republic of Crimea.
05:05 122mm D-30 crews of the 11th Army Corps of the North group destroyed strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.
Artillerymen of the Center group fire from the 152mm 2S19 Msta-S using high-precision Krasnopol projectiles.amazedenemy stronghold in the Dobropolsky direction.
122mm D-30 howitzer crews from the Vostok group struck enemy UAV control points in the Zaporizhzhia region.