Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡30.05.2022

22:34 Suspilne

In the Donetsk region, 115 miners who remained underground due to the power outage on May 29 were raised to the surface, Vasyl Shcherban, the head of the Toretsk trade union committee.

22:30 Institute for the Study of War

Mounting casualties among Russian junior officers will likely further degrade Russian capabilities and lead to further morale breakdowns. Domestic dissent within Russian military circles, claiming that the Kremlin is not doing enough to win the war, continues to grow. 

21:47 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Three people were killed and four injured as a result of Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast on 30 May.

21:31 National Guard of Ukraine

In Zaporizhzhia Region, a National Guard conscript has shot down three enemy attack aircrafts over one and a half months.

21:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

During the successful offensive of the defense forces, the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka, Kherson region, stirring panic among servicemen of other units of the Russian Armed Forces

20:09 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

An attempt to evacuate civilians from Luhansk Oblast has been halted after a French journalist documenting the operation was killed by Russian shellfire.

18:08 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

In the Donetsk region, as a result of the fighting, the Tolyatti – Odesa ammonia pipeline was damaged; an ammonia cloud was moving towards Bakhmut, but there was no threat to the city.

16:00 Office of the Prosecutor General The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has opened the first case of rape during the war: a Russian serviceman, who tormented Ukrainians in Kyiv region, will be tried.

14:30 Suspilne

On the morning of May 30, the Russian armed forces again shelled the residential quarters of one of Mykolaiv’s districts. As a result of the shelling, one person was injured and 21 houses were damaged.

13:22 Suspilne

The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that Russia had sent troops and additional weapons to the region bordering the Sumy region of Ukraine.

12:36 Ukrains’ka Pravda

The Security Service of Ukraine has established that Russian special services have carried out a series of provocations in the temporarily occupied areas of southern and eastern Ukraine to discredit the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

12:19 Ukrains’ka Pravda

Lviv paratroopers destroyed a platoon of the 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment from the Pskov region of Russia.

11:14 Ukrinform

Russian invaders have opened fire on a car with two volunteers inside, and three doctors have gone missing in Sievierodonetsk.

11:05 The New Voice of Ukraine

Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadym Denysenko said that in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia directions, the Ukrainian military managed to advance by 8-10 kilometers.

10:31 Suspilne Zaporizhzhia

On the morning of May 30, a powerful explosion took place in the center of the temporarily occupied Melitopol. Acc. to preliminary information, a man and three women were injured, incl. the niece of the “governor” appointed by the Russian occupiers Yevgeny Balitsky, local media reported.

9:46 Ukrains’ka Pravda

Serhii Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, said that fighting in Sievierodonetsk is now taking place on the city’s streets.

9:00 Ukrains’ka Pravda 

Between 00:00 and 08:00 on 30 May, Russian troops opened fire four times on border-adjacent areas in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

8:13 Ukrainska Pravda

In Luhansk Oblast, heavy fighting for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk continues. According to the head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, Russian troops have entered the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk.

6:15 Ukrinform

In the southern direction, the Ukrainian defenders eliminated 67 Russian aggressors, an enemy command post, and a large number of military equipment over the past day.

1:00 CNN

Ukrainian prosecutors’ investigation into Russia’s infamous 64th motor rifle brigade has led to the identification of 11 suspects accused of war crimes, CNN reports from the crime scenes.

00:30 Institute for the Study of War

New reports confirmed that Ukrainian forces conducted a successful limited counterattack near the Kherson-Mykolaiv oblast border on May 28, forcing Russian forces onto the defensive.