🔵20.05.2022
16:14 Novoye Vremya
Active combat in Ukraine’s territory is reducing air quality, polluting lakes and rivers, and ruining crops, negatively impacting the ecosystem of Eastern Europe and lowering Ukrainian life expectancy.
14:23 Oleksandr Sytaylo, Mayor of Malyn
As a result of a missile attack on the town of Malyn in the Zhytomyr region, an infrastructure object and almost 100 houses have been damaged; three people have been injured.
13:51 Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration
Russian troops fired a missile at the infrastructure facility of the Lubny community in the Poltava region.
13:24 Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment
Ukraine’s military leadership issued an order to stop the defense of Mariupol and save the lives of the military. According to Prokopenko, the process of evacuating the bodies of the dead soldiers is underway
11:20 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Russian invaders have effectively destroyed the town of Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast – not a single building has escaped damage, and many of them cannot possibly be restored.
10:27 Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Energodar
In the Russian-occupied Enerhodar of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a fire brigade had protested after enemy troops abducted their chief Vitaliy Troyan. The occupiers used force against rescuers.
9:37 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
12 civilians were killed in Sievierodonetsk and one more in Hirske amalgamated territorial community on Thursday, 19 May.
9:04 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration
On the night of May 20, 2022, Russian troops again opened fire on Velyka Kostromka, Dnipropetrovsk Region.
8:58 Prosecutor General’s Office
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 232 Ukrainian children have died, 427 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region.
7:27 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, RU enemy hit infrastructure and peaceful households with missile, artillery and mortar fire, and waged a counter-battery struggle. In the area of Novodarivka it suffered losses and retreated to its former positions.
1:31 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration
Russian troops failed to block the road to Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast; the Ukrainian Armed Forces repulsed the Russian attack.
0:15 Associated Press
Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paievska, better known as Taira, strapped on a bodycam when the war broke out to show the world the unfolding horror in Mariupol. After an Associated Press team got her footage safely out, Russian forces took her captive.
0:10 Ukrainska Pravda
On Thursday, 19 May, the Ukrainian Joint Forces repulsed 14 Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Luhansk fronts; fighting continues at 2 locations.
0:07 The New York Times
Witness testimony and videos show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha on March 4, a potential war crime.
0:05 John Kirby, Pentagon Press Secretary
The next security assistance package for Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Biden on Thursday, will include weapons and equipment totaling about $100 million.
0:02 TimeUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has won the 2022 TIME100 reader poll, in which readers voted for the people they thought deserved a spot on TIME’s annual list of most influential people of the year.
