Russia-Belarus nuclear drills end with simulated launches; targets not made public
Russia and Belarus jointly released a video on 21 May showing nuclear munitions arriving at field storage points.
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“Human safari” and double strikes on medics: Ukraine’s UN envoy lays out the case to boot Russia from the Security Council
Civilian casualties in Ukraine rose 93% in 2026 compared to 2024, making the first four months of this year the deadliest for Ukrainian civilians since the war began
Latvia issues drone alert over three eastern municipalities, deploys additional air defense
Latvia's military told residents in the Ludza, Krāslava, and Rēzekne municipalities to follow the two-wall principle and call 112.
Poland’s defense minister tells Kyiv: be “more precise” with drone strikes
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz delivered the message from a press conference in Estonia, blaming Russian electronic warfare for redirecting Ukrainian flight paths and warning that Moscow is mining each Baltic incident for propaganda.
Merz proposes interim EU “associate member” status for Ukraine
Berlin's plan would extend the bloc's mutual defense clause and partial budget access during wartime, with a snap-back clause if rule-of-law standards slip.
Ukrainian forces seize tactical initiative across frontline, Syrskyi says
Ukrainian counterattacks have liberated more than 400 square kilometers of southern Ukraine in winter and spring 2026, with further gains in Kupyansk and Zaporizhzhia.
Russian overnight strikes kill two in Kharkiv and Chernihiv oblasts
Ukraine's Air Force said it intercepted 109 of 117 weapons launched; the missile and five drones struck targets across the country.
Fire breaks out at Syzran oil refinery as drone attack hits Samara region
One processing unit was burning at the plant, which is involved in supplying Russia's armed forces, Telegram channels reported.
Russia is preparing new campaign through 15+ Western “proxy outlets” to undermine Ukraine’s external support, Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence says
EU media monitors have documented one of the named outlets calling Ukraine "a puppet state founded and run by the CIA."
After more than 1,200 Russian strikes on Ukraine’s railway, Ukrzaliznytsia says this summer will be hardest
Since the full-scale invasion began, roughly 17,300 railway infrastructure facilities and pieces of rolling stock have been affected.
360-degree armored capsule, V-shaped anti-blast underbody, thermal night-vision: Ukraine gets 20 Roshel Senator MRAPs
Russia's drones are hunting demining crews now, not just buried ordnance. This batch comes in an MRAP variant Ukrainian feedback helped design.
Russia is holding about 1,000 Ukrainians in indefinite detention and offering only one horrible way out
Russia stopped deporting foreigners in 2022. Around 1,000 Ukrainians now sit in indefinite detention.
Ukraine’s new Stinger training simulator lets crews drill without firing missile that costs $120,000–150,000
Global stocks are aging, too. The simulator means crews can train without firing one.
Russia’s drone-air-defense arms race now includes depleted uranium — Ukraine found it in Geran-2 warhead
Depleted uranium is widely used in Russian conventional munitions. The change is mounting it on a drone to kill the helicopters defending against the drones.
Six of ten Russian refineries hit by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces in May have stopped operating
Tuapse is indefinitely closed.
Russia has five scenarios for its potential offensive from north of Ukraine, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine is tracking five Russian scenarios for expanding the war via the northern border and reinforcing its forces in the area.
Drones strike Lukoil’s Kstovo refinery, hitting primary crude unit
The plant is among Russia's largest fuel producers and supplies the Moscow region; it was also targeted on 18 May.
Ukraine must choose strike targets more precisely, Polish defense minister says
Kosiniak-Kamysz spoke a day after Estonia shot down a drone of likely Ukrainian origin near Lake Võrtsjärv
Every paid-for PURL weapon is reaching Ukraine, including air-defense interceptors, NATO’s top operational military commander says
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich told reporters in Brussels on 19 May that the program now totals nearly $5.5 billion in allied pledges.
Lithuania scrambles NATO jets and shuts Vilnius airport over drone from Belarus
It is the third Baltic air alert in four days, after a Romanian jet downed a stray Ukrainian drone over Estonia on 19 May.