Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡21.05.2022

10:44 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration 

In the morning of May 21, 2022, Russian troops shelled Sumy Region with artillery systems from the territory of Russia. No casualties were reported.

8:33 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Fighting with the Russian occupiers is taking place on the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region. In just one day on May 20, six civilians were killed in the region as a result of attacks by the occupiers

6:57 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russian invaders plan to resume offensives towards the towns of Yampil – Siversk by crossing the Siverskyi Donets river.

1:17 Reuters

The Pentagon said on Friday there were no indications that Russia had used laser weaponry in Ukraine, following claims by Moscow that it was fielding a new generation of powerful lasers there to strike enemy drones.

0:37 Suspilne

Russian media published a video with the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, Serhii Volynskyi, callsign “Volyna”, who left Azovstal. In the video, he said that there were no more Marines on the territory of the plant 

0:10 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

On 20 May, 3 more civilians were killed in the course of Russian operational activity in Donetsk Oblast, and 400 people are known to have been killed since the invasion began.

0:05 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General The prosecutor’s office identified the company commander of the 64th separate Motorised Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation who ordered the killing of civilians in the Kyiv region.