Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🟡26.05.2022

21:37 Ihor Klymenko, head of the National Police 

The death toll from the May 26 shelling of Kharkiv has risen to eight. Among them – a five-month-old child and her father, the mother is in serious condition 

18:55 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Seven people have been killed and another 17 civilians wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the city of Kharkiv on May 26

18:17 Suspilne

Lukashenko announced the creation of an operational command in the Ukrainian direction. This was stated by the self-proclaimed president of Belarus at a meeting of the Ministry of Defense on military security 

18:10 Petro Andriushchenko, Mariupol mayoral adviser

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers have installed 12 TV sets showing Russian propaganda near the points of issue of the humanitarian aid, points of registration of various papers and places of access to water. 

16:55 Oleksiy Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Between May 19 and 26, the Russian invaders launched 63 missile strikes and 41 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine, mostly aimed at railway transport infrastructure.

14:39 Petro Andriushchenko, Mariupol mayoral adviser 

Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol have canceled the summer break in the city’s schools, in order to prepare students for Moscow’s curriculum

12:13 Center for Strategic Communications and Information SecurityTwo people were killed, and two more were wounded as a result of attacks on the settlements of the Mykolaiv region by the Russian armed forces on the night of May 26

9:37 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry

Russian troops are regrouping their forces in the south of Ukraine, trying to gain a foothold in the already occupied territories 

8:24 Serhii Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration

Three civilians were killed in the Russian shelling of the city of Lysychansk and its outskirts. In Severodonetsk, an agricultural business and many residential buildings were damaged.

7:17 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the occupiers are focused on taking full control of Lyman and attempts to improve the tactical situation near Sievierodonetsk and Avdiivka

6:34 Ukrainian delegation to the UN

Russia abducts Ukrainian children and deports them to its territory aiming to destroy the Ukrainian nation. This is underscored in the statement of the Ukrainian delegation to the UN

5:23 Reuters

As of May 26, the European Union has frozen about €23 billion in Russian central bank assets. 

0:55 Operational Command “South”

A small armored artillery boat of the Ukrainian Navy, captured by the Russians in Berdiansk at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was spotted near Zmiinyi Island. The Operational Command “South” considers that the enemy may try to use the boat for provocations

0:30 The TelegraphBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will on Thursday address the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and warn against the West’s attempts to “appease” dictator Putin