[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that using the US-supplied Patriot anti-missile systems ensured his country’s forces had a 100 percent interception rate against Russia's long-range air strikes.
"When Patriots in the hands of Ukrainians ensure one hundred percent downing of any Russian missiles, terror is losing," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
He added: "With our [military] success [against Russia], our pressure, our Patriots we must and will continue to respond to all manifestations of Russia's evil. And we will destroy this evil."
Zelenskyy’s comments come after Russia bombarded Kyiv and other Ukrainian targets overnight and during the day using both missiles and drones, the latest in Moscow’s series of aerial attacks against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s chief of staff Valerii Zaluzhnyi said that Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv in the morning.
The Russian defense ministry said it launched a multiple strike by air-launched long-range precision weapons against Ukrainian military airfields, claiming to have destroyed all the targeted facilities.
The Russian attacks during the day followed the overnight bombardment with drones and cruise missiles. Kyiv’s military said Ukrainian air defenses downed 40 Russian targets.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter: "Russia’s drone and missile attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities cannot be seen as usual, no matter how frequent they grow."
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Little technical clarification.
On engaging an on coming aircraft, you can look, shoot, look to determine if you need a second shot cause the birds aren't moving that fast.
On engaging an on coming missile, you have to ripple fire one missile after the other, cause if you miss with the first one, you don't have time taken up by waiting to see if you hit.
Thus, technically, you can only get a 50% kill ratio with a shot on incoming missile.
However, count the entire engagement as an intercept then you could make 100%.
Kyiv, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Luhansk, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson regions were under attack.
At night, the enemy attacked the Kyiv region with drones and rockets. Air defense was working. There are no casualties. Several private houses and other structures (fence, garage, hangar) were damaged as a result of falling debris. There was a small fire in one of the houses. Debris damaged one apartment in a high-rise building – glass and the structure of the balcony were broken. In addition, in one of the educational institutions, the windows in the dormitory and the study room were broken. The information is being clarified, the operative groups continue their work, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
Lviv air defense forces shot down one cruise missile over the territory of Zolochiv district at night. As a result of falling debris, an outbuilding and a tractor burned down. There are no casualties. A gap appeared at the place where the debris fell.
At night, Russian troops struck the objects of the Khmelnytskyi region . One of them is military. At the moment, work on localization of fires in fuel and lubricant warehouses and storage of combat material assets is ongoing. Five aircraft were disabled. Restoration work of the runway has begun. Data on the victims are being clarified.
There were six shellings in Chernihivska during the day. The occupiers used mortars and artillery to fire in the Novgorod-Siverskyi and Koryukivskyi districts. Without victims and destruction.
In Kirovohradsk, a "shahed" was shot down at night, the roof of a residential building in the Novoukrainsky district was damaged by debris. The railway track was damaged. Previously, there were no casualties or injuries.
In Poltava , air defense forces shot down two rockets and an unmanned aerial vehicle at night. As of this morning, there were no reports of destruction.
In Sumy yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 14 shelling of the border. 49 explosions were recorded. The communities of Novoslobidsk, Velikopysarivsk, Esmansk, Znob-Novgorodsk, Shalyginsk, Yunakivsk, Myropilsk, Khotinsky, and Bilopolsk came under fire. Previously - without human losses and destruction.
During the night and morning, the enemy fired 10 rounds (63 explosions). From the territory of the Russian Federation, Glukhiv was fired from barrel artillery. Two apartment buildings, a school stadium, and a car were damaged.
In the Seredino-Budsk community: 17 explosions (barrel artillery) and shelling from mortars (10 explosions). A private residential building and a gas pipe of a street household gas pipeline were damaged. Information about the victims is being clarified.
In Zaporizhzhia, during the day, the enemy made 93 strikes on 20 settlements. Gulyaipol, Orikhov, Kamiansk and surrounding villages were shelled, Stepnohirsk, Malynivka, and Temyrivka were hit with rocket systems of volley fire, and Olgivsk was attacked with UAVs. Fortunately, people were not affected. 11 new destructions of private houses and other property of local residents were added.
In Dnipropetrovsk yesterday afternoon, the enemy struck with artillery in Nikopol district. Got to Myrivska hromada. And in the evening, the aggressor attacked the Marganets community with a kamikaze drone. There were no deaths or injuries.
In Luhansk, the Russians continue to open fire on our villages and positions of the Armed Forces. They hit Bilogorivka from aviation. During the day, the enemy fired 90 rounds (429 shells). In the so-called LNR, extremely low rates of passporting among the elderly are noted. As previously reported, to increase these indicators, field mobile teams and volunteers were introduced, who issue all the necessary documents at the address.
In Kharkivskaduring the day, the enemy shelled at least 16 settlements in the region. In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy launched airstrikes in the areas of Pletenivka and Vovchansky Khutori during the past day. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Liptsi, Gatishche, Pletenivka, Vovchansk, Mala Vovcha and Budarka. In the Kupian direction, the enemy has been conducting unsuccessful offensives in the area of Masyutivka for the past day.
Conducted an airstrike in the Kislivka area. Kolodyazne, Krasne Pershe, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Masyutivka, Kislivka, and Berestov came under enemy artillery and mortar fire. Last night in Bohuslavka, Izyum district, a residential building was damaged as a result of artillery shelling. A 49-year-old civilian was injured. In Kucherivka Kup'
In Donetsk, the Russians carried out 31 shellings in nine populated points during the day: Karlivka, Chasovoy Yar, Yasnohirka, Velika Novosilka, Yuzhnoy, Skudny, Novoocheretuvatoy, Avdiyivka, Kurakhiv. Three residential buildings were damaged. Other data on the consequences are being clarified.
At night, a "Shahed-131/136" kamikaze drone was destroyed over the Odesa region. As a result of the hit, a fire broke out in the port infrastructure of Odesa. It was quickly eliminated. Information about the scale of destruction is being clarified.
In Mykolayivska, during the nighttime massive missile-drone attack, the enemy directed kamikaze drones of the Shahed-131/136 type to the south of Ukraine. Three of them were destroyed in the sky over Mykolaiv Oblast. This morning, the enemy struck outside the settlement of Snigurivska hromada. There were no injuries or damage.
Yesterday, Ochakiv of the Ochakiv community came under enemy fire, as a result of which a fire broke out on the open territory of the coastline. There are no casualties. Also yesterday, the enemy carried out artillery strikes on the water area of Ochakivska hromada. In the evening, enemy shelling was recorded on the open territory of the Kutsurub community. No casualties.
The Russians fired 61 shots (300 shells) in Khersonska during the day, of which six shots (26 shells) were fired at Kherson. The occupiers targeted the districts of 23 settlements of the region; the territory and building of the hospital and factory in Beryslav district. An 86-year-old woman was injured as a result of enemy shelling of Kherson.
Around 11 a.m. on May 29, Russia again struck Kyiv and the region.
Turned out to be cannibalized parts donors. The Ukrainian air force operates dispersed. Otherwise 5 Su-24s would be a big loss since they are the Storm Shadow missile launchers that are causing the Russians large losses.
May 29 is the 460th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
08:00 . At night, Russia attacked Ukraine, simultaneously using the Shahed UAV and cruise missiles :
Air defense destroyed more than 40 air targets in the Kyiv region. As a result of the fall of debris in the Podolsky district of Kyiv, the roof of a residential building was pierced, without casualties;
explosions thundered in the Khmelnytsky region;
Odessa and the region were attacked by Shahed-131/136. Air defense destroyed 1 drone in the sky over the Odessa region. Hit on the port infrastructure facility in Odessa. The fire was quickly extinguished;
one of the Russian missiles was shot down over the Lvov region: fragments fell on a wooden outbuilding, the building burned down. A nearby tractor also burned down. There were no casualties.
09:00 . Ukrainian defenders destroyed 37 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles and 29 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs. At night, Russian troops attacked military installations and critical infrastructure in Ukraine with cruise missiles and attack drones. This time, the Russian Federation fired up to 40 Kh-101/Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles and about 35 attack drones.
Khmelnitsky region. At night, Russian troops hit targets in the Khmelnytsky region: one of them was a military one. Disabled five aircraft. Work continues to localize fires in warehouses of fuel and lubricants and storage of combat material assets. Restoration work on the runway has begun.
11:00 am . Kyiv region. PPO works in Kyiv. Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced the fall of rocket fragments on the roadway in the Obolonsky district.
11:30 am . Air defense works over the Chernihiv region.
11:50 am . Kyiv region. It is reported about the fall of debris in the Podolsky district of Kyiv, resulting in a fire on the roof of a 2-storey building. The fire is contained, but there is a wounded person. Air defense works in the Desnyansky district of the capital.
12:00 . Kyiv region. In the Podolsky district of Kyiv, fragments of a rocket fell on the roadway. In one of the districts of the region, an economic house was damaged as a result of an attack by the Russian Federation. There were no casualties.
In total, six fragments of rockets were found in Kyiv:
Obolonsky district: near the gas station; on the road surface with fire;
Desnyansky district: on the territory of one of the parks;
Dneprovsky district: on the road surface in different places.
13:00 . Dnipropetrovsk region. The Russians hit the Pokrovskaya bulk of the Sinelnikovsky district: there is a dead person . Nine people were injured, including an 11-year-old child. Destroyed private house. The fire is extinguished.
14:00 . Kharkov region. Russia bombarded Kivsharovka with an Iskander rocket: 6 people were injured, including two children and a pregnant woman . The dormitory building, two private houses and a gas pipeline were damaged.
15:00 . The air defense forces shot down all 11 Iskander-M and Iskander-K missiles, which attacked the Kyiv region in the morning, said Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:00 . Kharkov region. It is known about nine wounded as a result of the strike on Kivsharovka . Previously, the Russians dropped KAB-250 on the village.
17:00 . Kherson region. Russian troops from artillery fired at the village of Kazatskoye: a 61-year-old man died . The Russian army also attacked Zolotaya Balka: shells damaged a private house and outbuildings.
20:13 . President Volodymyr Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, at which they discussed new deliveries of missiles and air defense. "I just completed the Headquarters. Important questions. Important decisions. The main thing is the timing. And most importantly, there are answers regarding the timing," the president said.
21:42 . The Ukrainian military near Avdievka, Donetsk region, bypassed the tank of the invaders from the rear and destroyed it with a shot from the NLAW anti-tank missile system. After receiving information about the location of the enemy tank, the MTR group advanced to the indicated coordinates. It was decided to carry out the destruction of equipment at night. After that, the group successfully returned to the base to prepare new "surprises" for the enemy.
22:53 The Russian volunteer corps said that its fighters again successfully crossed the "leaky state border" with the Russian Federation. "The purpose of our transition will become known in the near future," the RDK added.
22:45 On May 25, patriotic Russian military correspondents began to report on the mass desertion of Wagner PMC mercenaries near Bakhmut. According to propagandists, about 30 militants fled with weapons in their hands, and before that they shot three Russian soldiers and several civilians. During the day, 110 soldiers deserted from the units of the Russian army. More details - in the material Angry and armed .
22:19 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a meeting with international officials today: "We are preparing new joint steps with partners to strengthen our protection. And for our active actions. There is and will not be an alternative to the complete liberation of our land."
22:08 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte: "He reported on the intensification of missile terror against Ukraine by the Russian aggressor. They talked about an aviation coalition, about strengthening our air defense. I appreciate the leadership support of the Netherlands, including in terms of security. I am sure that it will continue to grow."
The President also congratulated Erdogan on his victory in the elections: "Noted the personal role of the President of Turkey in extending the grain initiative, which is an important component of world food security. Cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey is important and effectively contributes to the well-being of our peoples and international stability. We will continue to develop it. And work together to strengthen the security of the region, Europe and the world."
21:14 Russia has changed tactics. After prolonged, exclusively night attacks, the occupiers attacked peaceful cities during the day. On Monday, May 29, the enemy attacked the capital of Ukraine twice. These were the 15th and 16th attacks on Kyiv in May alone. More details - in the material Revenge will be soon .
20:52 Airborne troops of the Russian Federation and motorized rifle units are entering Bakhmut to replace the Wagnerians, said Sergei Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, he noted that all these units took part in the war from February 24, 2022 and suffered significant losses, therefore they were understaffed with mobilized ones.
20:35 Borrell believes that Moscow will not sit down at the negotiating table without first trying to win the war in Ukraine, so a new Russian military offensive can be expected in the coming months. "I am not optimistic about what will happen in Ukraine this summer ... Russia still has power, we should not underestimate it," the European diplomat said. He also stressed the need to increase military spending in order to meet the defense challenges facing Europe.
19:48 Poland announced that from June 1 it will ban the movement of trucks registered in Belarus and Russia across its border.
19:32 Podolyak said that the key theme of the post-war device should be the establishment of fuses in order to prevent a repetition of aggression in the future. According to him, in order to ensure the real security of the residents of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporozhye, Lugansk and Donetsk regions and protect them from shelling, it will be mandatory to create a demilitarized zone of 100-120 km on the territory of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Rostov regions of the Russian Federation. "Probably at the first stage with a mandatory international control contingent," he added.
19:22 The General Staff clarified that during the night attack, 36 out of 40 Kh-101 / Kh-555 cruise missiles and 30 out of 38 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs were destroyed. During the day, the enemy used cruise and ballistic missiles of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system against civilian and critical infrastructure in Kyiv. Forces and means of the Air Force 11 out of 11 missiles were destroyed.
19:19 Zelensky announced that he had held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: "Important questions. Important decisions. The main thing is timing. And most importantly, there are answers in terms of timing."
The meeting participants listened to reports by Zaluzhny, Syrsky, Tarnavsky on the general operational situation and individual areas. The second issue is the recruitment of new offensive brigades and the provision of fast logistics. Another question is new contracts for the supply of additional missiles, additional air defense systems, an analysis of the work of air defense in recent days, and an assessment of the damage done. "Appropriate decisions have been made on all points," the president added.
19:12 Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit said that the local "volunteer vigilantes" switched to round-the-clock duty.
18:27 As a result of the Russian strike on Toretsk, Donetsk region, two people were killed and eight injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. The enemy hit the city twice with aircraft - FAB250 high-explosive aerial bombs. Gas stations and a multi-storey building were damaged.
18:04 The number of victims of Russian shelling in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region has increased to ten, including an 11-year-old child. Three are in serious condition, the rest are in moderate condition. One person died, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak.
17:49 Near Gomel in Belarus, "dragon's teeth" and other fortifications stretched for 2 km, Radio Liberty reports with reference to satellite images from Planet Labs. Military buildings are located near the village of Kalinina, 20 km from the border with Ukraine. Most of the trenches were dug in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings.
The fortifications appeared immediately before the start of the meeting "on the security and defense of the Republic of Belarus" with the participation of Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin. In particular, one of the points of the meeting was a review of these structures.
17:18 The Russians launch rockets at civilian targets in the center of Kiev for psychological purposes - primarily to intimidate, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "Kyiv for Ukrainians is not just a capital, but a symbol of invincibility and resistance. Therefore, hitting Kiev for the enemy - this is to show the vulnerability of our symbol of resilience. The enemy seeks to subconsciously give Ukrainians the impression that the capital is defenseless."
Malyar also drew attention to the fact that in parallel with the missile attack, a few hours before the launch, an information and psychological attack began in the form of discrediting the military-political leadership. "The enemy information strikes at those who enjoy the confidence of citizens. For what? Just like with rockets in Kyiv - to sow a sense of defenselessness," the deputy minister said.
16:47 In Kiev, two men were detained who filmed the work of air defense during a missile attack. Currently, they have been transferred to the SBU, the National Police reported.
16:16 Denmark increases funding for the Ukraine Support Fund by $2.6 billion, Zelensky said.
16:13 The Rada supported the President's bill, according to which May 8 will become an official holiday - the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945, and May 9 - Europe Day.
The parliament also approved two bills to support the production of drones in Ukraine and voted to impose sanctions against Iran for 50 years.
16:05 As a result of the Ukrainian strike on Yuryevka, Donetsk region, about 100 Russians were liquidated, more than 400 were hospitalized with varying degrees of injuries in hospital No. 2, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. The communications and electronic warfare station was also destroyed.
The blow was inflicted on the former health complex Yalta. A five-story building was destroyed, where up to 650 Russian soldiers could be located. According to information from the Mariupol resistance, four buses of manpower were brought there the day before.
15:53 The Russians dropped air bombs on Toretsk, Donetsk region, one of them hit the local gas station, as a result of which its employee was killed and eight people were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The second bomb fell on the administrative building, another person was wounded there. The premises of the bank, educational institution and vehicles were damaged.
The Russians also fired artillery at a settlement in the Novokakhovskaya community of the Kherson region: one person died, residential buildings were damaged.
15:38 During a night attack, a National Guardsman shot down an enemy missile flying to the capital from the Igla-1 MANPADS, NSU reported. This is the same 20-year-old National Guardsman who on May 9 also neutralized a Russian missile near Kyiv from the Igla MANPADS.
15:23 Putin signed a law that allows holding "elections" in the occupied Ukrainian territories. The law also fixes the right of the authorities to deport residents from the territory where martial law has been introduced to areas where there is no martial law.
14:59 Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law on the creation of the State Commission for the Investigation of Russian Influences in Poland in 2007-2022. According to Duda, Russian influence in Europe has caused turbulence on the continent, resulting in Russian aggression against Ukraine, energy and other problems. "In my opinion, such a commission, this type of body should be created at the European level in order to investigate the influence of Russia also in European institutions," Duda stressed.
14:44 China, following the tour of its Special Representative to Eurasia, Li Hui, will continue to build trust and consensus on the "Ukrainian crisis" with all interested parties, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said: "In the next stage, China will strengthen dialogue and interaction with all parties, constantly will strengthen consensus and mutual trust. China will contribute to the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis."
According to her, all the parties met by the special envoy of the Chinese government during the trip, "exceedingly positive comments on China's efforts to promote the peace process and facilitate negotiations."
14:08 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, thanked for the principled position of supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and for the training of Ukrainian demining specialists by Cambodia.
13:56 During the daytime attack on Kiev, the air defense forces destroyed all 11 enemy missiles , Zaluzhny said. He clarified that the enemy attacked the Kiev region with ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles from the Iskander OTRK. 11 Iskander-M and Iskander-K missiles were fired from the northern direction.
13:21 Drones that attacked an oil refinery in the Tver region of the Russian Federation on May 27 were launched from Russian territory, Mash reports. According to investigators, the UAV was allegedly launched from the neighboring Toropetsky district. Now the Interception plan has been announced there - law enforcement officers are looking for a car in which drones were transported.
13:14 The Russians struck, previously with an Iskander missile, at the village of Kovsharovka, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region. Six people were injured, including a pregnant woman, a 14-year-old teenager and a ten-year-old child. The dormitory building, two private houses and a gas pipeline were damaged. Also, one person was injured in the shelling. Glushkovka, Kupyansky district, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
12:45 Preliminarily, all air targets during the attack on Kiev were destroyed, no hits on Kiev facilities were allowed, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. A fall of debris was recorded in different districts of the city: in Obolonsky - three cases, in Desnyansky and Dneprovsky - one each. There were no critical damage.
12:36 The Russians hit the Pokrovskaya community of the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region: nine people were injured, among them an 11-year-old child, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak.
12:33 The intensity of the offensive operations of the enemy in the Bakhmut direction has significantly decreased, as he is replacing the Wagnerites with regular units and is trying to stabilize the defense in this direction, Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister, said. At the same time, according to her, the intensity of enemy artillery shelling has not decreased.
In Bakhmut, the Wagnerites withdraw their units, and the regular army enters in their place. Ukrainian troops control the neighborhood of Bakhmut in the southwestern part in the Airplane area. In the north of the suburb of Bakhmut, enemy units are also being replaced. To the south of Bakhmut, the enemy is making attempts to strengthen and build up army units. As of yesterday and this morning, the advance on the flanks is not being carried out due to other tasks, Maliar added.
12:22 According to preliminary information, Russia attacked Kiev with missiles that flew along a ballistic trajectory - probably Iskander, said Yury Ignat, speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He clarified that these missiles come in various modifications: "Iskander-M is a ballistic missile, and there is Iskander-K, which is a cruise missile. What type of weapon was used - we will clarify later."
12:14 According to The Washington Post, 16 US volunteers have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. At the same time, it is not known how many of them serve in total. The publication notes that they all went to fight in Ukraine as individuals, despite official warnings from Washington about the danger.
12:06 Putin signed the law on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
12:00 In the Obolonsky district of the capital, rescue and fire services are extinguishing the fragments of a downed rocket that are burning on the roadway, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. In addition, debris fell in the Podolsk region, a fire broke out on the roof of a two-story building. One person was hospitalized.
11:32 In Kiev, there is an air raid again, air defense is working, local authorities report.
11:14 As a result of the night attack by missiles and drones, the energy infrastructure has not suffered new damage, Ukrenergo reported. The grid currently produces enough electricity to cover consumption, but citizens are asked to consume electricity sparingly during the evening hours.
Today, at night, with low consumption, electricity was exported to Poland. Imports from Slovakia will continue throughout the day, but during the evening peak of consumption, their volume is negligible.
10:59 The Ministry of Defense announced that it is developing changes to the Regulations on the passage of military service by citizens of Ukraine in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The changes are based on NATO personnel management standards.
10:42 Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky said that he had visited the forward positions of the Ukrainian forces in the Liman direction and announced active offensive operations. "Our units and subunits continue to steadfastly hold their lines and positions, repel all enemy attempts to move forward in the areas of Belogorovka, Disputed, Novoselovskoye, Torskoye. They inflict significant losses in personnel and equipment," he wrote.
During the trip, Syrsky met with the commanders of units and subunits performing tasks in the most hot spots of the front. We discussed possible scenarios for the development of events in this area and the current situation at the front. "Noted that the time will soon come when we will move on to active offensive operations, and defined specific tasks for preparing for them," the commander added.
10:20 a.m. British intelligence said that the exercises that Russia conducted on May 24 near the Crimean bridge included the creation of a smoke screen that partially masked the bridge. Russian doctrine considers the use of smoke as part of the camouflage, which is heavily emphasized. At the same time, in practice, Russian camouflage has been generally ineffective in the war against Ukraine, "probably due to the lack of a strong central planning function and poor low-level combat discipline," analysts say.
09:58 Children are being evacuated from the border areas of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. According to him, first of all, children will be taken out from Shebekino, also from Grayvoron and the border villages of the Grayvoron district.
Answering a question about how to solve the problem of shelling in the border areas, Gladkov said: "Kharkov is annexed to the Belgorod region. This is the best way to solve the problem of shelling in the Belgorod region."
09:39 At night, Russian troops hit the objects of the Khmelnytsky region, one of them is a military one. Currently, work is underway to localize fires in warehouses of fuel and lubricants and storage of combat material assets. Five aircraft have been put out of action, and the runway is being restored, the IVA said.
09:17 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured, in Kherson - one person, according to the OVA.
09:06 The Russians took out the dead, the wounded and the remnants of manpower from the place of impact in Yuryevka all night, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. He clarified that they were taken out by Urals and Kamaz trucks, since there were not enough ambulances. According to Andryushchenko, not only the BC depot, a large number of equipment and a control center were located at the site of the defeat, but also communication and electronic warfare systems were located.
Andryushchenko added that the Russians "surprisingly" managed to avoid a wide public discussion of the defeat in Nikolskoye, where the enemy also suffered heavy losses.
08:57 In the Kiev region, as a result of a night attack, several houses and infrastructure facilities were damaged, there were no dead or injured, said the head of the regional police Andrei Nebytov. According to him, almost all enemy targets have been destroyed.
The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, said that in the Zolochiv district, as a result of the fall of debris from a downed rocket, a wooden utility building and a tractor burned down, and no one was injured.
08:42 Air defense forces destroyed 37 cruise missiles, 29 attack drones and one reconnaissance UAV at night, the Air Force command said. The Russians attacked military installations and critical infrastructure facilities - they fired up to 40 Kh-101 / Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles from nine Tu-95ms strategic aviation aircraft from the Caspian Sea region. From the northern and southern directions, the enemy attacked with Iranian Shahed-136/131 UAVs, in total they used about 35 attack drones.
08:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 29.
personnel - about 207,030 (+430) people liquidated,
tanks - 3801 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 7467 (+11),
artillery systems - 3435 (+10),
MLRS - 575 (+1),
air defense systems - 331 (+2),
aircraft - 313 (+0),
helicopters - 298 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3054 (+61),
cruise missiles - 1056 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6207 (+15),
special equipment - 453 (+2).
08:29 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled 19 enemy attacks, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
07:47 During the night massive attack, the enemy sent Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones to the south of Ukraine - three of them were destroyed in the sky over the Nikolaev region, one more - over the Odessa region. As a result of falling into the port infrastructure of Odessa, a fire started, it was promptly eliminated. Information about the scale of destruction is being specified, OK Pivden reported. Speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk added that fragments of a downed drone got into the port infrastructure.
05:12 At night, the Russians attacked Kiev again. According to preliminary information, the enemy used Shahed loitering ammunition and, almost simultaneously, cruise missiles, probably Kh-101/555. The attack on the capital was combined from different directions, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko.
In total, more than 40 air targets were detected and destroyed by air defense forces, attacks on Kyiv were not allowed. As a result of the fall of debris in the Podolsky district, the roof of a residential building was damaged, people were not injured.
The scandal surrounding the words of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, which raged over the weekend, was replaced by a new one on Monday night.
Reuters reported that in fact, the US senator at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky did not at all declare that the "death of Russians" is the "best investment" of American money. In a video released by the Office of the President of Ukraine , these words were edited to give the impression of a single thought, but in fact they were taken out of context and referred to different parts of the statement.
Reuters wrote that the agency saw the full version of the video (it was not made public) and the senator's words about the "best investment" of American funds actually referred to Washington's military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $38 billion. Lindsey Graham, of course, is a noble Russophobe, and even if he really said that, it is not much better.
However, it seems that the original version of his words is really distorted and fake. Or rather, even worse, because if the Reuters information is true, the Kyiv video is a forgery and falsification at the state level.
In principle, there is nothing new here - otherwise we have not seen anything like this before. One story with the "murder" of Arkady Babchenko is worth something. But still, the Kiev fake about Lindsey Graham is something different and much worse - primarily for the West.
This story has become another confirmation that the perception of the Ukrainian authorities as weak-willed puppets of Washington or London is deeply erroneous. In fact, they are full of their own ideas, interests, initiatives and plans, which guide their actions. And the ability of transatlantic partners to manage them is quite limited. Kyiv easily ignores and circumvents the limits set for him, as happened with Graham, whose words were stupidly distorted in accordance with his own ideas about beauty.
Neither the senator nor the West as a whole has much of an opportunity to put Zelensky and Co. in their place. It's not about the figure of a specific president - Zelensky can be replaced, only the Ukrainian elites are wholly and completely like that, and on both sides of the Atlantic this sad fact is already fully aware.
One can only guess what words Lindsey Graham and his team used for the last two days against the framing senator of Kiev, but they were forced to do this only behind closed doors, since Ukraine is the main stronghold of the fight against Russia, and President Zelensky is the hero leading this fight . Kyiv's lie had to be disavowed through Reuters, and there is a suspicion that the Western media will try to bury this story as quickly as possible, pretending that it did not exist at all.
But the US senator is a mere trifle compared to what topics the Ukrainian authorities can influence. These are, among other things, issues of war and peace, the relationship of the great powers in the most acute geopolitical crisis in many decades. In such a situation, having a fool with the initiative as a key trump card in the fight against Moscow is a peculiar choice of the West.
But he did it himself and diligently pumped Kyiv up to the current level of self-conceit and confidence that everyone owes him everything and everything is possible for him.
Well, what the US senator actually said in Kyiv, let the competent authorities that opened a criminal case and put him on the wanted list sort it out. Life is long, and the Earth is round - you see, Lindsey Graham and his lawyers will have to personally explain to the citizen investigator what exactly he had in mind then.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
21:40 Nazi special forces "Da Vinci Wolves" under fire from the Russian army: militants showed how the wounded are constantly evacuated over US armored vehicles
▪️On the footage, an armored personnel carrier and an off-road vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a survivor, were evacuated.
▪️The Da Vinci Wolves special unit of the Gonor group was created by ideological Nazis from the Right Sector.
▪️This gang suffered heavy losses in the battles for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), where the head of the group, Dmitry Kotsyubaylo, was also destroyed.
20:05 Captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tell show he was mobilized and sent to the war zone without preparation.
A detachment of unfired military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was immediately sent to combat positions. Russian troops began shelling the Ukrainian unit and went on the offensive. As a result of the actions of the Russian troops, the Ukrainian fighters realized that they would not wait for support from their command, and, in order to avoid an inglorious death, they voluntarily surrendered.
Soldiers of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade approach the enemy position and throw grenades at it. The Ukrainian soldiers sitting in the trenches take to flight and the stronghold passes under the control of Russian motorized riflemen.
17:49 Drones hunt for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansky forest
Drones are working on the identified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, delivering accurate air strikes.
17:48 An air alert was announced in Kyiv and the region for the third time in a day, according to the official resource for alerting the population
16:57 BOBR detachment destroys APU equipment using FPV drones in the Zaporozhye direction
15:38 New briefing by the RF Ministry of Defense:
🔹The RF Armed Forces launched a strike with air-based high-precision weapons at the airfields of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the objects were destroyed.
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 145 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 140 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an ammunition depot in the DPR in a day in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
🔹Russian troops destroyed up to 55 soldiers and self-propelled guns "Gvozdika" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two warehouses with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Maksimilyanovka in the DPR.
🔹The high-precision weapon also hit command posts, aircraft, storage facilities with weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces hit the command and observation post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdiivka in the DPR.
🔹Russian air defense systems intercepted three Storm Shadow missiles, 13 HIMARS MLRS shells, shot down 14 APU drones in a day.
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 65 soldiers, three vehicles and two howitzers.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces hit a hangar with weapons and military equipment of the 126th Terodefense Brigade in the Berislav area of the Kherson region.
🔹In the Kupyansk direction, the actions of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped.
15:37 Belarusian Nazi Miroslav Lozovsky was liquidated near Artemovsk. He was the founder of the Belarusian Zmagar “White Legion”.
14:50 on May 18, 2023, it became known about the liquidation in the area of the settlement of Kurdyumovka, a supporter of ISIS, Alexander Zhdanenko (call sign Ansar), who fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Zhdanenko is from Ukraine. He converted to Islam in 2015 and even managed to fight for a short time in Syria on the side of radical Islamists.
In 2017, after returning from the Middle East, he joined the battalion. Sheikh Mansour, in which he fought after the start of the NWO.
In an interview with the media, Zhdanenko repeatedly said that he strongly hates the Russians and Russia. Videos have been preserved on the network in which an Islamist fires from a mortar at residential buildings of civilians in the DPR.
13:37 Artillerymen of the Southern Military District destroy temporary accommodation points and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction
12:22 Zaporozhye direction, Temirovka settlement. According to the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine applied artillery strike.
12:21 Crews of the 10th Brigade coverenemy infantry in the Avdeevsky direction
The Ukrainian infantry is trying to hide from the well-aimed fire of the crews of the 10th detachment of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps in the Avdievka direction. Due to the high accuracy of tank guns, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer losses in killed and wounded.
12:00 Russian Armed Forces struck at the Patriot air defense system in Kyiv
According to "Come and See", the strike was carried out on the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in Kyiv.
"Patriot was at Zhuliany airport. They knock out air defense," said the source of the channel.
Earlier, the RF Armed Forces were already able to destroy one of the American installations in Kyiv.
11:59 An air alert has been declared in western Ukraine
After powerful explosions in Kyiv, in particular, near the Zhuliany airport, sirens began to work in the western part of Ukraine.
11:59 Mayor Klitschko confirmed explosions in Kyiv
Explosions occurred in the central districts of the city, he said.
11:55 Powerful explosions in Kyiv. There is an air raid in the city.
10:35 A military facility was damaged in the Khmelnytsky region, five units of aircraft were disabled - Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration
10:35 AFU shell Shebekino and Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region
In 30 minutes there were already at least 13 arrivals. At the moment, there is no information about the victims.
10:35 According to information, from a source from the close circle of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tonight in the industrial area of Kherson, an artillery strike was carried out on the industrial zone, where the parking of weapons and military equipment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was located, as a result of which: 10 units. automotive equipment destroyed; 14 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of, 10 were seriously injured
10:34 TCC employees in Ukraine apply various methods of detaining evaders
09:54 Video- Artillery of the 127th Motor Rifle Division struck at the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Temirovka Zaporozhye region.
09:24 Video– The tank battalion of the DPR covers the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka
Ukrainian militants are trying to hide from the well-aimed fire of the crews of the 10th Detachment of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps. Due to the high accuracy of tank guns, the Ukrainian Nazis suffer losses in killed and wounded.
09:04 Liquidated Azerbaijani mercenaries in the SVO zone.
08:32 The founder of the Belarusian neo-Nazi underground "White Legion" Miroslav Lazovsky was liquidated near Bakhmut.
08:13 A militant of the 2nd infantry battalion of the DUK “Right Sector” ideological Nazi-Bandera Pyotr Babak with the call sign “Barber” from Ternopil was eliminated in the Kremennaya area and sent to do intimate haircuts to Bandera.
21:03 Ukrainian troops fired four rockets from the MLRS in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - DPR representative office in the JCCC 19:55 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 29 to condition at 19:00 additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - on the street. Ashkhabadskaya, 10, a boy was wounded - a teenager born in 2006.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
- damage was recorded to the building of the Ozeryanovsky rural administration on the street. Richter;
- Fixed damage to the building of the temple on the street. Richter;
- st. Richtera, 17/2 - a private residential building;
- st. Kokorinova, 4 - a private residential building, the gas pipeline was also damaged.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
19:47 Video- Western missiles again fell on Gorlovka. This time the housing estate "Komsomolets" was under fire. Alas, again destruction and wounded among civilians. A small News Front report from the scene of the shelling.
19:34 Video- Russian Bakhmut - a special report by Readovka with a real picture from the liberated city. 18+
19:00 Video- Our tankers are in the NVO zone.
18:44 More consequences of shelling Toretsk/Dzerzhinsk DPR.
According to updated information, as a result of the shelling, two people were killed and eight people were injured.
18:34 Video - Hardcore personnel trench battle. Ukrainian stormtroopers are trying to take the trench with Russian fighters, crushing them with fire and bombing from a copter.
At some point, our fighters get injured and the enemy decides that this is a chance to capture the position. Coming up to full height for easy prey, two Ukrainian attack aircraft are cut off by a line of Russian machine gunners, who covered the trench all this time and did not give himself away, and the grenade prepared by our desperate fighter for himself is now going to finish off Ukrainian soldiers.
18:16 Video– A captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tells how he was mobilized and sent to the combat zone without preparation.
A detachment of unfired military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was immediately sent to combat positions. Russian troops began shelling the Ukrainian unit and went on the offensive. As a result of the actions of the Russian troops, the Ukrainian fighters realized that they would not wait for support from their command, and, in order to avoid an inglorious death, they voluntarily surrendered.
17:45 Ukrainian TG channels report missiles flying in the direction of the Khmelnytsky region.
17:20 Operational linesThe DPR JCCC for May 29, as of 16:30, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): - on the street. Blucher, 59, a man born in 1992 died, a woman born in 1991 was injured.
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kiev region): - st. Menzhinsky, 2 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
17:03 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 05/28/2023 to 00:00 05/29/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 43 facts of firing by the AFU.
- In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 14 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
- On Gorlovsky 23 artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm.
- On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
- On Volnovakha three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
- At Mariupol 1, the attack of Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
By releasing 250 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of nine settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Vladimirovka, Staromlinovka, Krasnaya Polyana, Yurievka (Mangushsky district).
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of five civilians in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and the previously liberated Krasnaya Polyana.
A total of 14 residential buildings were damaged in Kievsky, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
In the previous day, 30 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
16:41 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
- In the South-Donetsk direction, an American-made ANT/PQ 37 counterbattery station in the Novouspenovsky area and a mortar crew in the Vodiane area were destroyed by artillery fire.
- In the Zaporizhia direction, the crews of 240mm self-propelled mortars "Tulip" hit enemy strongholds in the areas of the settlements of Pyatikhatki and Novodanilovka.
- In the Kamenskoye area, two mortar crews of militants were destroyed by artillery fire.
16:20 Video- They write that it is possible the remains of a Patriot anti-aircraft missile.
15:50 Video- "Mama's pie" head of the GUR MOU Kirill Budanov accuses Russia of terrorist attacks (he's talking about missile attacks on military targets) and threatens that Muscovites will regret seeing the answer. Apparently, new terrorist attacks. It doesn't even make sense to comment. PR clown.
However, since he decided to record the whole video himself, it means that the calibrations were very successful.
15:27 Video– Tula paratroopers destroy enemy equipment in the Artyomovsky direction
- On the northern flank of the Artyomovsky direction, units of the Airborne Forces operate. At their positions, they equipped an extensive network of strongholds with minefields. Every day, day and night, military personnel perform a variety of combat missions.
So, with the help of an unmanned aerial vehicle, Tula paratroopers detected the movement of an enemy tank. To destroy it, an armored group on the BMD-4M advanced to the indicated area. Upon arrival, the servicemen opened fire from a closed position. Correcting the shooting with the help of a drone, they destroyed a tank of the armed forces of Ukraine with an accurate hit.
15:14 Our fighters planted such an enemy Mavic3 in the Kherson region.
Well, all these “NOT FOR SALE” usually go through corruption schemes. Just remember the large number of humanitarian aid that was sold in retail stores in Ukraine.
So don't be surprised if you suddenly see an advertisement for the sale of such copters on the Internet - it only means that Mykola wanted to get money for free
15:00 Video– Yevgeny Prigozhin showed the champagne factory in Artemovsk before handing it over to the Russian armed forces.
14:42 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (05/29/2023)
- Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with long-range precision weapons, air-based, against enemy targets at airfields.
The target has been reached. All assigned objects have been destroyed.
As a result of the strike, command posts and radar posts, as well as aviation equipment, storage facilities with weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.
- In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of forces hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Novomlynsk, Kislovka, Glushkovka of the Kharkov region and Stelmahovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
- In the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kharkiv region and Rozovka, Lugansk people's republic, the actions of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped.
During the day, up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the group of forces "Center" defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Makeevka, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of active actions of units, air strikes and artillery fire of the "Southern" group of forces, up to 145 Ukrainian military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed during the day.
In the area of the settlement of Orlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar was destroyed.
- Two warehouses with ammunition of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Maksimilyanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, air strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Malinovka, Belogorye and Kamenskoye of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day, up to 140 Ukrainian servicemen, ten vehicles, as well as two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in these areas.
- In addition, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Otradnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, three pickup trucks, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery installations were destroyed during the day.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation over the past day hit 87 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 124 districts.
- In the area of the village of Berislav, Kherson region, a hangar with weapons and military equipment of the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade was hit.
- In addition, in the area of the settlement of Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the following units were hit: the command and observation post of the unit and the warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Air defense systems intercepted three Storm Shadow cruise missiles and 13 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers during the day.
- In addition, 14 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamenka, Novodruzhesk, Pshenichnoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Yasnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vasilyevka, Lyubimovka and Konstantinovka of the Zaporizhia Region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 429 aircraft, 235 helicopters, 4,371 unmanned aerial vehicles, 424 anti-aircraft missile systems, 9,324 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,100 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,934 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 10,527 units of special military vehicles.
14:22 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group
- In the Krasno-Limansk direction, assault detachments and aviation of the "Center" group of forces inflicted fire damage on the areas of concentration of manpower, firepower and enemy strongholds in the areas of Serebryanka, Kremennaya, Chervonaya Dibrova.
- As part of the counter-battery fight, the positions of nationalists concentrated in areas of more than fifteen settlements were hit by cannon and rocket artillery of the group.
- In the area of Serebryansky forestry, assault groups on armored combat vehicles of the 67th Mechanized Brigade and the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made three attempts to attack in order to regain lost positions. As a result of an air strike by assault and army aviation, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and equipment.
14:06 Gerashchenko said that arrivals were ballistic missiles. That is, these are Iskanders or Daggers. And as we know from the words of the Ukrainians themselves, “knocking them down is almost impossible.” Well, considering that in numerous photos and videos in the air there were explosions only from missiles, without undermining the targets themselves, we can say that the arrivals were where they needed to be 100%
13:54 Video- The wreckage of missiles fell on the car of a Kiev woman.
This happens when you shoot in all directions from the air defense system.
Old missiles X-55 of Russia with a warhead simulator, used as false goals.
They completed their task.
13:52 In the Kherson region, in the area of dachas, there was undertaken an attempt to disembark from boats of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were two boats.
They write that only boat drivers sailed away from there. The rest are KIA.
13:40 Video– Footage from the center of Kyiv this morning.
13:27 Video– Effective tandem: combat work of artillery units and crews of the Orlan-30 UAV
Artillery units of 120mm self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona" of the Airborne Forces, in the course of carrying out fire missions, destroyed an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group, and also inflicted defeat on points of temporary placement and storage of weapons and military equipment of Ukrainian nationalists.
Reconnaissance and targeting were carried out by the crews of unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-30". After receiving the data, the gunners occupied advantageous firing lines and fired high-precision projectiles.
Having completed the fire mission, the servicemen quickly changed positions and departed for the waiting area to receive new tasks.
13:05 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the “South” group
- Artillery units of the "Southern" group of forces attacked the point of temporary deployment of the battalion of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Verkhnekamskoye, enemy ammunition depots in the areas of Belogorovka and Orekhovo-Vasilyevka.
- As part of the counterbattery fight, two 122mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika" were destroyed at the firing positions of Ukrainian units in the areas of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and Aleksandro-Shultino.
- The crew of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system of the radiation, chemical and biological defense unit of the Southern Military District destroyed the accumulation of manpower of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area.
- The units of the grouping repulsed two attacks of enemy sabotage assault groups in the Alexander-Artemovsky and Avdeevsky directions.
12:40 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Zapad group
- In the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the RCB units of the protection of the group of troops "West" with strikes from the TOS "Solntsepyok" destroyed to a platoon of enemy servicemen from the 103rd Arr of territorial defense in the area of the settlement of Novoselovskoye.
- Artillery fire from 152mm Msta-S and 122mm D-30 howitzers destroyed two mortar crews in the area of the settlements of Starye Virki, Novoselovskoye and a field depot of artillery ammunition in the area of the settlement of Stelmakhovka.
- In addition, a group of special forces with anti-tank weapons, in cooperation with a mortar crew, destroyed a group of enemy servicemen in three pickup trucks in the area of the settlement of Kudeevka.
- Crews of Su-34 multipurpose fighter-bombers carried out missile and bomb strikes on temporary deployment points and areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade.
12:25 Video– A captured fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “We are sent here like cannon fodder”
The Ukrainian serviceman urges not to be led to the provocations of military registration and enlistment offices and not to go to a fratricidal war. He is sure that the Western elite has already divided Ukraine, and the Ukrainian people are acting as slaves, who are not sorry.
The serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes the good attitude towards him in captivity. “I am treated politely, fed, drunk, allowed to smoke, everything is fine,” he says.
12:07 Just air defense knocked downd rone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the village of Martyanovka, Klintsovsky district, Bryansk region. Previously, no casualties.
11:43 Information is spreading that it is there were Western air defense systems, including Patriot.
11:38 Report that smoke is visible in the area of the Kyiv Zhuliany airport.
11:33 Russian army inflicts sudden massive attack on Kyiv
There have been 12 explosions in the capital in the last three minutes.
A powerful blow to Kyiv is delivered by hypersonic and ballistic missiles, it caught the air defense by surprise.
11:22 “The attack on Kyiv continues. Don't leave your hiding places!"urgedMayor of Kyiv
Klitschko said that emergency services left on a call near the center of the capital.
10:50 Enemy leads artillery attack of Shebekino, Belgorod region, a column of smoke over the city after shell explosions.
10:47 In Kharkov aerial anxiety.
10:24 Video- The Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov, on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel, called the annexation of Kharkov and the Kharkov region to the problem of artillery attack the territories of the region.
10:02 Video- The RF Ministry of Defense publishes footage of an interview with the platoon commander of the Shturm-S anti-tank missile system, as well as footage of the combat operation of this vehicle.
09:50 Kherson direction
The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Korsunka fired nine rounds;
-- 12 rounds were fired at Novaya Zburyevka;
-- seven rounds were fired at the Solontsy settlement;
-- n.p. Peschanovka fired eight rounds;
-- n.p. Kardashinka fired nine rounds;
-- Dnepra fired 19 rounds;
-- n.p. Naked Pier fired nine rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 11 rounds;
-- n.p. Sagas fired seven projectiles.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Vasilievka, Kardashinka, firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
During the day, artillery fire in the area of the settlement. Chernobaevka was destroyed by 122mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of five people and ammunition
At night, an artillery strike was carried out at the parking lot of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the industrial zone of the city of Kherson, as a result of which: 14 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed; 10 - received injuries of varying severity, 10 units. automotive equipment - disabled.
09:24 Photo- Consequences of the artillery attack of the Kyiv region.
09:03 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/29/2023
- In the Vuglodar sector, Russian artillery shelled Bolshaya Novosyolka, Shakhtyorsky, Prechistovka, Novoukrainka and the city itself. The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on Yuryevka on the shores of the Sea of Azov.
- On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations in Maryinka, in the direction of Pervomaisky and Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka). Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Avdeevka and Severny (a settlement north-west of Gorlovka). The Ukrainian army struck at Donetsk and Gorlovka.
- On the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced towards Kleshcheevka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked near Khromovoe. Artillery hit the positions of the Ukrainian army in Predtechina, Stupochki, Ivanovsky, Chasovoy Yar, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Kramatorsk, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Privolye, Vasyukovka, Disputable and Verkhnekamensky. APU fired at Bakhmut.
- In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops, with the support of artillery, managed to advance towards Belogorovka. This time from the northeast. Thus, they are trying to encircle the Ukrainian garrison in this settlement.
Also, after artillery strikes, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations from Masyutovka. No progress here. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Torskoy, Nevsky, Berestovoy, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka, Zapadnaya, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka, Krasny Pervoi and Kolodeznoy.
08:34 Video- The command post, together with the very command of one of the battalions of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, in the area of Berestovoye, was destroyed by the FAB-500 with the UMPC.
08:10 Summaryon the morning of May 29, 2023
- At night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered massive strikes with missile weapons and Geran UAVs against enemy targets in Kiev, Lvov, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Odessa, Nikolaev, Vinnitsa, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Poltava regions. By 6 am, most of the air alerts were canceled, but breaks began in Snigirevka, Mykolaiv region, which is used as a logistical point for the transfer of the Armed Forces to the Kherson direction.
- On the Avdeevsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces stormed Pervomaiskoye, took up positions in the south of the village. In Marinka, fighting continues on the western outskirts.
- In the east of the Zaporizhia Front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using the HIMARS MLRS in our near rear areas. At night, in the front-line villages, one of the blows hit the civilian population, there are dead. Displays cannon artillery to LBS. In order to disrupt logistics, the Russian Armed Forces strikes with Storm Shadow missiles at Mariupol, but our air defense does not allow the enemy to hit the target.
- Enemy drones and DRGs are active in the Kherson direction. South of Davydov Brod, the enemy is concentrating forces in plantations and small villages, forming a rear foothold for a strategic reserve from among the units of the 10th Army Corps, the main part of which is being brought to the LBS on the Zaporozhye Front
– The enemy continues chaotic massive artillery attack of the Belgorod region. Under fire Bezlyudovka, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belyanka, Murom and Shebekino. In the neighboring Kharkiv region, there is a hidden accumulation of enemy troops.
- In the LPR, it was fired at the settlement. Diamond from MLRS HIMARS (3 missiles of the M31 and M30A1 GMLRS types). Three civilians were killed, incl. male, born in 1953 and a woman born in 1955 7 civilians were injured of varying severity, including a ten-year-old child. One residential building was destroyed, 7 one-story residential buildings were damaged.
The enemy fired 250 rounds of ammunition into the DPR. Gorlovka, Shirokaya Beam, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Vladimirovka, Staromlinovka, Krasnaya Polyana, Yurievka are under fire. Five civilians were wounded.
Moscow , May 29, 2023, 13:13 - IA Regnum. Western countries must remove obstacles to the access of Russian agricultural products to world markets. This was announced on May 29 following the results of the presidential elections in Turkey by Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander Grushko.
The diplomat noted the positive role of Turkey in this issue in the grain deal and added that political statements from the United Nations (UN) are no longer enough.
"The ball is on the side of those countries that imposed illegal sanctions against Russia," Grushko explained in an interview with TASS .
According to him, if these states are interested in the existence of some mechanisms for the delivery of grain, they must fulfill their obligations and remove all obstacles for the entry of Russian food products, primarily grain, into global markets.
"We expect concrete actions in this direction," the representative of the Foreign Ministry said.
As IA Regnum reported earlier, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the grain deal was extended due to special relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, Turkey adheres to a balanced approach, which was very useful in the situation with the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
The fact that Russia agreed to extend the grain deal, which expired on May 18, for another 60 days, Erdogan announced on the day of the negotiations - May 17.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the day after that Russia supported the extension of the grain deal with the clear understanding that the next two months would be decisive.
According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the issue of returning Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system and unblocking the export of Russian fertilizers and food continues to be discussed.
Washington , May 29, 2023, 19:01 - IA Regnum. US Senator Lindsey Graham expressed extreme joy at the "anger" of the Russian authorities after his words in support of Ukraine. He announced this on Twitter on Monday, May 29.
"Knowing that my commitment to Ukraine has caused anger brings me great joy," he wrote on the social network.
As IA Regnum reported, Graham said earlier that Washington had never spent money "so successfully" as in the process of the death of Russians in Ukraine . A video of his words spoken at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky circulated online over the weekend.
The Kremlin immediately reacted to Graham's words: Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of Russia, said that it was hard to imagine what could be a greater shame for the country than such statements by its senator. In turn, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to open a criminal case because of Graham's Russophobic statements.
Soon there were reports that the senator did not call the death of the Russians a good waste of money. This, as reported by the Reuters agency, is allegedly evidenced by a full video recording of his meeting with the President of Ukraine. In the shortened version of the video, Graham's phrases about the death of Russians and the waste of money by the States follow each other, but they were said at different times, and the words about "good luck" implied the general support of Ukraine from the United States.
However, the Russian Foreign Ministry considered shameful statements that Graham's words were taken out of context. In a statement, the agency noted that widespread outrage over his remarks simply forced the Western media to try to rectify the situation. The Foreign Ministry noted that they had no doubt that Western opponents in such a situation would “turn on a fool.”
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Political scientist Voiko: Ukraine specially published a video with the words of Senator Graham about the murder of Russians
Moscow , May 29, 2023, 14:00 - IA Regnum. Moscow’s wanted list of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and the Kremlin’s sharp criticism of his statements is a wave of reactions that the Ukrainian government was counting on when publishing a video from the U.S. Senator’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This opinion was shared in an interview with IA Regnum by an associate professor of the Department of Political Science at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, political scientist Evgenia Voiko.
Earlier, a US senator from South Carolina said at a meeting with the Ukrainian president that the death of Russians during the conflict in Ukraine is the most successful waste of money by Washington. A record with a statement by Lindsey Graham appeared on the Internet resources of the Ukrainian leader.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put US Senator Graham on the wanted list, against whom the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to initiate a criminal case for Russophobic statements. Later, Reuters, which received a full video recording of the meeting, suggested that the words of the US senator were edited and fragments of quotes were taken from various topics of discussion.
According to political analyst Voiko, the Ukrainian government, by publishing a video with Graham's Russophobic statement on its resources, made an attempt to take power over its Western curators and give them an even more negative image. In addition, as the political scientist noted, if the video is really edited, this is a deliberate provocation by Kyiv, aimed at Moscow's reaction and escalation of the conflict.
"This story is going on as voiced earlier. But if earlier only the Ukrainian leadership, such as Budanov, allowed itself to do this, now it is also presented as the opinion of the Americans. And quite high-ranking US officials. The video is orchestrated to raise the stakes and escalate, to get Russia to react. In addition, this is an attempt to manage their curators," Voyko believes.
The political scientist noted that the words of Lindsey Graham could cast a shadow on the entire Republican Party, which previously, in contrast to the Democrats, on the contrary, proposed to reduce military assistance to Kyiv. Now, according to the political scientist, the incident could lead to the resignation of a no longer young senator, if he does not reproach Ukraine for falsifying his words.
"The question is how it will be served in the States. If the information is hushed up, then there will be many questions for the senator. The sediment will remain in any case, and the shadow falls on his Republican party. With this video, Kiev, as it were, emphasizes that not only the Democrats, but also the Republicans are on the side of Ukraine," said the political scientist.
Evgenia Voiko also drew attention to the fact that the current Ukrainian leadership is former artists and representatives of show business. Therefore, as the political scientist noted, media content and information stuffing are actively used by the Ukrainian authorities in politics.
After the publication of a video with a Russophobic statement by Senator Graham, sharp criticism of him from the Kremlin followed. So the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova , recalled that American banks and companies were actively cooperating with Nazi Germany and were a key force for the prosperity of fascism. She stressed that one of their investments led to World War II and the Holocaust.
The Foreign Ministry also, in its commentary, called Reuters data that Graham's words were allegedly taken out of context as a ridiculous and shameful excuse. The agency indicated that it was no longer possible to wash off such words, even if they were uttered separately.
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called the words of the senator a shame for the United States. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev invited the American to remember the sad fate of a number of US politicians, including senators, starting with Robert Kennedy .
London , May 29, 2023, 02:00 - IA Regnum. Full footage of US Senator Lindsey Graham's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shows that the US politician did not call the death of Russians a good use of money. Reuters received the video footage from Kyiv.
In the shortened version of the meeting, Graham's phrases "Russians are dying" and "we've never spent money so well" follow each other, changing angles. Initially, it was not clear that they were made at different times of the conversation.
In fact, it turned out that the remarks were said in a different context. The phrase “good use of money” meant, in general, support for Ukraine from the United States.
The remark about the death of Russians by Graham was uttered in a dialogue with Zelensky. The senator remembered the times when Americans fought to the last man, wanting to be free or die. Zelensky replied that Ukrainians are now free and will continue to be so. Then Graham noted that "the Russians are dying too," the speech of the Ukrainian leader continued with the phrase: "Yes, but they came to our territory. We don't fight on their territory."
As IA Regnum reported , Senator Lindsey Graham's incomplete statement was criticized in Russia. Thus, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, recalled that American banks and companies were actively cooperating with Nazi Germany and were a key force for the prosperity of fascism. She stressed that the same “good investment” by Washington led to horrific consequences.
In the Kremlin, Graham's words about "investing in the death of Russians" were called a shame for the United States.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev recommended that Graham recall the sad fate of a number of American politicians, including senators, starting with Robert Kennedy.
Kyiv edited a video in which a US senator called the death of Russians the “most successful” waste of US money, writes Reuters.
As the agency notes, in a published by Zelensky's officeIn the video, Lindsey Graham's words are taken out of context and it seems that both phrases are uttered together, but in fact they are not.
In a conversation with Zelensky, Graham is said to have noted that Ukrainian "resistance" reminds him of how Americans once fought in the past, choosing between freedom and death.
Zelensky replied to this: "Now you are free - and we will." Graham added: "And the Russians are dying." At the same time, the full recording of the meeting was never shown.
✔If Senator Graham believes that his words are taken out of context, then he himself can make a statement on this matter and comment on the situation, Maria Zakharova said.
“He can take the phone, turn on the video camera, point it at himself and record a short video. And only then will we all find out what really happened,” said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Graham gives a speech, Ukraine edits it to what they think is the correct message, but what is the ugliest stereotype of the last 20 years of US Foreign Policy , and Graham is like That's Fine, maybe even better than what I said?
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Here's Miss Lindsey making promises to Ukrainians that Biden is now struggling to keep. Of course, he has his nose so far up McCain's butt that he probably doesn't even know where is. Gotta wonder how many of those men he's addressing are still alive.
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It's bad juju to be one of War Drums Johnny's "friendssssssssch...."
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Confirmation that we don't actually vote people into office.
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