On Sunday, May 25, 2018, this is the situation:
Fighting
- After Russian forces “massive night attack” forces attacked Kyiv and surrounding areas, killing at least four people and injuring 16 others, including three children. According to officials, the strikes also caused damage to homes and other structures.
- According to Sergiy Tyurin, deputy head of the regional military administration, at least four people have been reported dead and five others have been injured in the western Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine.
- Three children were killed in a Russian attack in the northwestern Zhytomyr region of Ukraine as a result of Moscow’s overnight airstrikes, according to emergency services. Emergency services reported that 10 more people had been hurt, with 10 more among the victims, ages 8 and 12 and 17.
- According to the emergency services, a man was also killed in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv when a drone struck a residential building.
- As Russian drones hit three city districts in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that at least three people had been hurt. Explosions destroyed windows in apartment buildings.
- Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin reported the intercept of 12 drones heading for the Russian capital. According to Rosaviatsiya, the Russian civilian aviation authority, restrictions were placed on at least four airports, including the main hub Sheremetyevo.
- Since Tuesday, Ukraine has targeted it with at least 788 drones and missiles, according to the Russian military’s report on Saturday.
- Two settlements in the Donetsk region and one in Sumy, Ukraine’s northern region, have been seized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, according to a statement from the ministry of defense.
diplomacy and politics
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, reiterated his call for increased sanctions after he claimed Russia’s attacks indicated Moscow was “prolonging the war.”
- In exchange for as many Russian servicemen who are being cared for in Belarus before returning to Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it would release an additional 307 Ukrainian prisoners of war.
- Russia made it known that it would send Ukraine its peace settlement terms once the “1,000-for-1, 000” prisoner swap was finished, but it wouldn’t say what those terms would be. On Friday and Saturday, between the two nations, there were at least two prisoner exchanges.
- Since their invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has announced that it has begun inquiries into the alleged executions of 268 Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces. The 268 alleged killings are the subject of 75 criminal charges, according to the prosecutor general of Ukraine.
Source: Aljazeera
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