On 24 May, French President Emmanuel Macron warned Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka against involvement in Russia’s war on Ukraine, AFP reported. The call was the first since 26 February 2022, days into Russia’s full-scale invasion. It came as Russia hit Ukraine with another massive missile and drone strike, including its third Oreshnik launch.Continue Reading
Russian troops staged a fake “capture” of Borova settlement in Kharkiv Oblast and reported it to the Russian General Staff, after which General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov publicly announced its “liberation,” Militarnyi reported. OSINT analysts geolocated the staged footage far from the town. Borova remains under Ukrainian control. Amid the ongoing invasion ofContinue Reading
Terrorism poses a significant threat to the European Union, and a leaked EU assessment lists the spillover from Russia’s war on Ukraine among the rising risks, according to a document reported by RFE/RL. The report rates the overall threat as high and names Islamist and jihadist terrorism as the bloc’s main concern.Continue Reading
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) have begun firing unguided aviation rockets from long-range drones deep inside Russian-held territory, the force’s commander Robert Brovdi, call sign Madyar, announced on 17 May 2026. The drones now add a stand-off rocket strike to their kamikaze role, a profile built to destroy the mobile teamsContinue Reading
Ukrainian forces carried out a massive overnight strike on military-industrial and fuel sites across Moscow Oblast on 17 May 2026. The attack set fires at several facilities and briefly disrupted a Moscow airport. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) confirmed it was behind the strikes. Ukraine’s President called it a justified answerContinue Reading
Kramatorsk dismantled some of its monuments and shipped them outside Donetsk Oblast on 13 May, the city council announced. The decision came as the front line approaches and Russian attacks on the city continue. Specialists are now studying whether additional heritage objects can also be moved. Russia bombs and loots Ukrainian heritage at scale. For years, Moscow has focusedContinue Reading
A bipartisan US House group forced a vote on Ukraine aid and Russia sanctions, Axios reported on 13 May. The breakthrough bypasses Speaker Mike Johnson and triggers a procedural clock for a floor vote by the end of May. Enactment remains unlikely with a Republican-controlled Senate and White House opposition. US PresidentContinue Reading
Kyiv pitched EU foreign ministers in Brussels on a “mutual airport ceasefire” with Russia, Politico reported. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha framed the proposal as a narrow first step, given that broader peace efforts have stalled. He argued Moscow has an incentive to engage as Russian airports become vulnerable to Ukrainian long-rangeContinue Reading
Russia broke Ukraine’s unilateral ceasefire, starting just past midnight on 6 May, hitting Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kryvyi Rih, and later killing a woman at a Sumy kindergarten, according to a Telegram statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia had spent the previous days demanding that Ukraine observe a unilateral ceasefire on 8-9Continue Reading
A Russian relay balloon crossed into Ukrainian airspace from Belarus on the evening of 2 May, Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service confirmed on 3 May. The balloon was identified as a signal-boosting station for Russian airborne strike weapons. This is the “specific activity” on the Belarus border that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned about the dayContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) destroyed two Russian air defense systems and two radars across occupied territories in the first two days of May 2026, the SBS commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi reported on 3 May. The 1-2 May haul follows a 38-unit April for the same forces — a tally that hasContinue Reading
Ukraine’s General Staff added a new line to its tally of estimated Russian losses on 3 May 2026: ground robotic complexes. The category, published for the first time, showed 1,306 Russian ground robots destroyed since the start of the full-scale invasion, with 12 added in the past 24 hours. The disclosureContinue Reading
A Russian drone targeted a petrol station with a bus there that had been carrying about 40 children near a petrol station in Krynychky community, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on the morning of 3 May 2026, the regional administration reported. The children had stepped off the bus seconds earlier to use the petrol stationContinue Reading