Combat medic and public activist Iryna Tsybukh was killed while on rotation near the front in Kharkiv Oblast, just a few days before her 26th birthday, Hospitallers Medical Battalion said on social media on May 30.
Russian forces are increasing the number of troops near the villages of Strilecha and Lyptsi, as well as the city of Vovchansk. But this amount is not enough to carry out a new offensive, according to Syrskyi.
Moscow's troops also launched eight S-300/400 missiles against Kharkiv Oblast, the Air Force said.
Russian forces launched an attack on the city of Kharkiv overnight on May 30, injuring six women and one man and damaging critical infrastructure, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.
Russian forces may undertake attacks in the northwestern part of Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov told journalists on May 29.
Last week, I wrote in this newsletter that the biggest problems business leaders said they were facing in Kharkiv weren’t Russian attacks, but mobilization. And just like that, Russia launched missile attacks at a publishing house and a building materials hypermarket in the city. In the first of the
Search and rescue operations after Russia's attack on the "Epitsentr" hypermarket in Kharkiv have ended, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on May 29.
The man had suffered severe burns over 50% of his body as a result of the strike and ensuing fire, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
The aftermath of Russia’s May 23 attack on Kharkiv’s Faktor Druk printing house shocked Ukrainians: mountains of charred Ukrainian books covered its blackened floor. The strike had destroyed over a quarter of the company’s warehouse. The 4,000 square meter building is owned by the Faktor group
Russian attacks against Ukraine over the past day killed at least five people and injured at least 32, regional authorities said on May 28.
A 70-year-old man was injured and has been hospitalized. The attack also caused fires at two homes and a post office, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Key developments on May 27: * Ukrainian drone strikes Russian early-warning radar 1,800 kilometers away * France to send instructors to Ukraine to train Ukrainian soldiers, Syrskyi says * NATO Parliamentary Assembly supports Ukraine's right to hit targets inside Russia using Western arms * Ukraine, Spain sign bilateral security agreement * Russia claims capture
Investigators found a third aerial bomb around 80 meters from the hypermarket as operations to recover bodies from the burned wreckage of the building continued. If the bomb had exploded, "there could have been many more victims," the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said.
The industrial area of the Kholodnohirskyi district reportedly came under fire. Russia attacked a local civil enterprise, damaging production facilities, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on May 27 that its forces had captured the villages of Netailove in Donetsk Oblast and Ivanivka in eastern Kharkiv Oblast.
Syniehubov said that the number of those who were killed had risen to 18 as of around 3:30 p.m. on May 27, while 48 people were confirmed injured.
There were 16 killed and 45 injured as of May 27. Five people are still missing, while 13 out of the 16 killed people were identified.
There has been a sharp increase in Russian troop activity in the direction of Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on May 26.
Key developments on May 25-26: * Russia strikes hypermarket in Kharkiv, killing 16, including a child * Russia launches another attack on Kharkiv, hours after deadly hypermarket strike, injuring 25 * Zelensky, Kuleba, other officials call for more air defense after Kharkiv strike * Zelensky: Russia forming another grouping of forces near Ukraine's northern
Russia typically uses laser-guided or satellite-guided KAB bombs, with payloads ranging from 250 to 1,500 kilograms, against Ukrainian military and civilian targets.
The attack killed a 72-year-old woman and a nine-year-old boy was one of the two injured residents.
The death toll of Russia’s May 25 strike on a building materials hypermarket in Kharkiv has risen to 16, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on the afternoon of May 26. Over 40 people are confirmed to have been wounded, and over a dozen more are considered missing, the National Police reported earlier the same day.
"Russia is preparing for offensive actions also 90 kilometers northwest from here – they gather another group of troops near our border... The one who does all this doesn't want peace," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address to the world leaders recorded in Kharkiv on May 26.
"These systematic Russian crimes against civilians and civilian infrastructure stress again the need for Europe to urgently ramp up support for air defense."
"Intentionally directing an attack against civilian infrastructure is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law," Denise Brown, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, said on May 26.
After a Russia strike that killed at least four and injured at least 38, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Ukraine's partners to "provide Ukraine with additional air defense and support for Ukrainian strikes on military targets in Russia" in a post on X on May 25.
Mere hours after a deadly strike on a hypermarket in Kharkiv, another strike on the city's center injured 25 people.
After a deadly Russian strike on a buildings material hypermarket in Kharkiv, Zelensky called for world leaders to supply more air defense protection in a video post on X on May 25.
The death toll in Russia's May 25 attack against a hypermarket in Kharkiv has risen to 12, with 43 people reported injured.
Speaking to the Kazakh outlet Vlast, Zelensky said the figure shows Russian dictator Vladimir Putin "has absolutely no regard for human life."
According to the court document, investigators said the 125th Brigade and its subordinate units "did not properly organize the defense of positions on the border of Kharkiv Oblast" due to a "careless attitude to military service."
"The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
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