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Friday, May 22
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,353,860 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The number includes 880 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Ukraine has struck Russian oil refineries over 150 times since start of war, media reports
Ukraine first began conducting regular strikes on Russian oil refineries in 2023, with strikes growing in both magnitude and frequency since. In the first five months of 2026, Kyiv has recorded 32 strikes, nearly surpassing the total number of refinery strikes recorded in 2024 at 34, the outlet noted.
Trump announces additional US troop deployment to Poland
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States will send more troops to Poland, saying the decision was based on his relationship with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.
Thursday, May 21
Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko receives 2026 Georgiy Gongadze Prize
The annual award, named in honor of the late investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, recognizes journalists committed to independent and principled reporting.
The anniversary of Russia's long-forgotten genocide
For millions of Europeans, the era of Russian domination over the nations east of the former Iron Curtain remains a vivid, living memory. But while the Kremlin's tide receded across most of Central and Eastern Europe, others remain stuck within Russia's borders, yearning for the freedom of national expression that has yet to materialize. European history is littered with tales of one nation's brutality towards another, but very few nations have experienced what can truly be called a genocide —
Ukraine war latest: Russia's Syzran oil refinery hit by 'another long range sanction'
Key developments on May 21: * 'Another long-range sanction' — Ukraine strikes Syzran oil refinery, more than 800 kilometers from border * Russia allegedly delivers nuclear warheads for joint exercises with Belarus * Ukraine strikes Russian FSB headquarters in occupied Kherson Oblast, killing and injuring nearly 100 troops * Ukraine developing new low-cost way to down Russian Shahed-type drones * Russian drones hits apartment buildings in Dnipro injuring 15, including 13-year-old boy Ukrai
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The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which covers 31,974 square kilometers (12,348 square miles) in central-eastern Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's population is approximately 3.2 million, and its administrative center is Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city and major economic hub. Ukrainian forces use the region as a logistics base for operations in the eastern and southern fronts.
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Kyiv will have to improve its revenue collection and how efficiently it spends money, the European Commission said in a press release on May 20, if it wants to access more than $8 billion of the loan.
