Burning Russian equipment on the Mariupol-Melitopol highway.
Burning Russian equipment on the Mariupol-Melitopol highway.
Burning Russian equipment on the Mariupol-Melitopol highway.
Zelensky said Ukrainian intelligence has information that Russia is preparing another mass strike. He said partners must know Moscow still relies on missiles and war, not diplomacy, making faster air defense delivery and stronger sanctions essential.
Ukraine’s HUR, SBU and Navy shut down a Russian arms smuggling route across the Black Sea. For more than a year, services tracked a scheme moving contraband, weapons and Russian UAVs from occupied Abkhazia through civilian boats near Zmiinyi Island. In the final stage, participants were detained and 1,800 boxes of cigarettes, weapons, communications gear and a combat drone were seized.
Ukraine’s drones hit Russian targets across operational depth, including an ST-68 radar under a radome in Feodosia and a Pantsir-S1 near Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea. Other strikes hit fuel rail tanks in Makiivka, a logistics depot in Mariupol, an ammo depot in Rubizhne, a mobile fire group in Khriashchuvate and logistics across Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk.
❗️Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said the EU needs a special envoy to represent its interests in any Ukraine-Russia peace talks, but not as a neutral mediator. He said Europe backs Ukraine and has interests that overlap with Kyiv’s but go beyond them.
❗️Romania found another drone in the north of the country near Băsești commune, TVR reports. The UAV had no explosive device, while the local mayor said it was large, with a wingspan of about 3 meters.
Ukraine’s Border Guard says Belarus is not increasing troops near the border, but provocations remain possible as Russia presses Minsk to join the war more actively. Spokesman Andrii Demchenko said a future invasion cannot be ruled out.
Russian analyst Rybar says Ukraine is systematically disrupting Russian supply across the southern occupied regions, not just Crimea. He says Hornet drones are most active on the Mariupol-Melitopol route, long-range FPVs are hitting Donetsk and its ring road, while Hornet and Bulava drones strike routes in occupied Luhansk. Rybar warns the impact goes far beyond fuel and goods shortages.
Ukraine’s HUR says its operators have placed sections of the Berdyansk-Melitopol-Dzhankoi route under fire control, blocking Russia’s Crimea-Donetsk logistics corridor. The affected stretch runs through occupied territory between Sokolohirne in Kherson region and Yakymivka in Zaporizhzhia region. Footage shows Russian fuel tankers, trucks and a heavy equipment transporter burning after RAM-2X and ...
Ukrainian drones struck fuel storage facilities in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, with two tanks burning at the Yaroslavl-3 oil pumping station. Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said industrial fuel-storage sites were hit, while emergency crews worked to extinguish the fire.
A Ukrainian FP-1/2 drone hit Russia’s Admiral Essen Project 11356 frigate at Novorossiysk naval base on May 23.
❗️Unmanned Systems Forces commander Magyar said SBS drones raided Novorossiysk port and the Grushovaya Balka oil storage site overnight into May 23. He said the Admiral Essen frigate and a Project 1239 missile hovercraft were inside the strike zone, though…
❗️A Russian Shahed drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, injuring 2 people, according to local authorities. Romania’s Defense Ministry confirmed the UAV was of Russian origin. In a statement, NATO condemned Russia’s “recklessness” and said the alliance will continue strengthening its defenses against all threats, including drones.
Ukraine’s Navy said Russia deliberately struck the Turkish-owned dry cargo ship ANT with a UAV as it sailed from an Odesa region port to Turkey under Vanuatu’s flag. A fire broke out after the hit, and 2 wounded crew members were evacuated by Ukrainian Navy boats.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Volgograd oil refinery and the area of the Yaroslavl refinery overnight. Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka processes over 15M tons of oil annually and produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel.