Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🔵29.05.2022

23:27 Ukrainska Pravda

On 29 May, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed five UAVs, two cruise missiles, a company-tactical group and an ammunition depot belonging to the invaders.

22:54 Ukrainska Pravda

Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, has said that Russia’s absolute priority in the war against Ukraine is to capture Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts; he added that people who live in other Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine will have to “decide their future” themselves.

13: 46 Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol

For the second day in a row, Russian looters have been loading Ukrainian rolled metal products in the trade port of temporarily occupied Mariupol onto a Russian cargo ship

17:54 State Border Guard Service

Russian troops have opened fire on border areas in Chernihiv Region and Sumy Region 10 times over the past day.

16:47 Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv

Shelling of a residential quarter in Mykolaiv resulted in the death of one person – another two were injured, and three high-rise buildings were damaged.

16:18 Ukrainska Pravda

A patriotic rally in support of Ukraine was held in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, on Sunday

14:48 Liudmyla Denisova, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights

Over the past week, the Russian military have forcibly removed nearly 3,000 Ukrainians, including more than 300 children, to a filtration camp in the village of Bezimenne. 

After the filtering measures, the occupiers are forming groups of Mariupol residents, who are first deported to the Russian city of Taganrog, and then to the depressed regions of Russia.

11:31 Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv

On the morning of 29 May, the Russian occupying forces shelled the residential quarter of Mykolaiv, and there were casualties.

11:06 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

On May 28, the Russian military fired artillery at Huliaipole again. It is known about one injured person as of now

9:00 Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Russians lost about a third of their modern tanks in the war with Ukraine. According to UA official, T-34 tanks, which Russia can take from long-term storage for the war with Ukraine, “will not drive far.”

8:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the occupied Crimea, hospitals were ordered to prioritize Russian wounded soldiers over civilian patients.

8:03 Suspilne

Over the past 24 hours, the shelling of the Russian military has damaged about 60 houses in the Luhansk region, killing two people in Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk, said the head of the regional military administration Haidai

8:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Southern Buh direction, the occupiers suffered losses as a result of offensive actions of Ukrainian units and took up unfavorable defensive positions near the settlement of Kostromka. 

5:46 Security Service of Ukraine

In Russia’s Belgorod region, which serves as staging grounds for Moscow’s invasion force, a sharp uptick in instances of rape has been recorded in recent months, according to an audio intercept published by the Security Service of Ukraine

5:11 South Operational Command

Russia is attempting to retrieve its sunken Raptor boat from the Black Sea

3:30 Institute for the Study of War

RU forces pressed the ground assault on Sievierodonetsk and its environs, making limited gains. Russian forces in Kharkiv continue to focus efforts on preventing a Ukrainian counteroffensive from reaching the international border between Kharkiv and Belgorod. 

3:05 Bloomberg

Russia is back in default countdown, with another bond payment in question: as of Friday evening, coupon payments in euros and dollars worth about $100 million hadn’t landed in investors’ accounts, kicking off a 30-day grace period.

1:05 NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

The Japanese government has decided to grant Ukraine additional $1,7 million to transport humanitarian aid. 

1:00 Kyiv School of Economics

As of May 25, the total amount of direct damage to Ukraine’s economy from damage and destruction of residential and non-residential buildings and infrastructure reached $105.5 billion, or over UAH 3.1 trillion

0:47 Oleksii Kuleba, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration

All is calm near the border with Belarus in the Kyiv region, but the region remains under constant threat of Russian invasion.

0:07 Donbasenergo power generation company 

The operation of Sloviansk thermal power plant (TPP) in Donetsk Oblast has been suspended due to constant hostilities in the area

0:06 Vadym Boichenko, mayor of Mariupol 

There is a threat of infectious disease outbreaks in Mariupol this summer.