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2026-05-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: May 27, 2026
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Korrespondent] 22.01 An air alert was declared throughout Ukraine on the evening of May 27 due to the takeoff of a MiG-31K. The Air Force reported this.
"Attention! All of Ukraine is a missile danger! MiG-31K takeoff recorded," the message says.
Later, the military reported a missile, probably aimed at Starokostyantyniv.
21:53 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following a meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky and the Chief of the General Staff Andriy Hnatov, announced new long-range operations against Russia. Zelenskyy said this in an evening address on May 27.
20 46 On May 27, Russian troops attacked a playground in the Korabelny district of Kherson. The injured mother and daughters were wounded, and the man was killed. This was reported by the head of the city military administration, Yaroslav Shanko.
"A playground in the Korabelny district as a 'military facility'... It was near it that Russian terrorists struck a devastating blow today. As a result of this cynical attack, an entire family suffered - a mother with two little daughters, 3 and 6 years old. The father, most likely, died," he sighed.
Shanko added that, according to preliminary information, Russian terrorists killed the father of the family.
As reported by the Kherson OVA, it became known about another victim as a result of today's Russian shelling of the Korabelny district of Kherson.
"A 50-year-old man suffered explosive and closed head injuries, concussion, and a shrapnel wound to the leg. The ambulance crew took the victim to the hospital in moderate condition," the report says.
20.12 The letter that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote to the head of the White House, Donald Trump, and members of the US Congress, referred to the Russian attack using medium-range ballistic missiles "Oreshnik". The text of Zelensky's letter was published by journalist Barak Ravid.
The letter notes that on the night of May 24, Russia launched a particularly brutal, massive strike on Ukraine.
Zelensky recalled that at that time the Russian Federation used 54 cruise, 30 ballistic, 3 hypersonic Zircon missiles and 2 Kinzhal air-to-air ballistic missiles.
"Russia also launched Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missiles - one of them hit the Kyiv region, and the other, according to available data, fell in the temporarily occupied territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine," Zelenskyy's letter states.
19:30 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that he had a telephone conversation with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, during which they discussed work on strengthening Ukrainian air defense, primarily anti-ballistic missiles.
"Europe has the appropriate capabilities, and we talked about this, in particular, within the framework of our work with the EU on the Drone Deal track. Thank you, Ursulo, for supporting this format. It is important that our teams are actively working, and there are already countries that are ready to join," the president noted.
The leaders also discussed Ukraine's European integration track.
18.55 Pope Leo XIV, after the attack on Kyiv on May 24, expressed concern about the intensification of massive shelling in Ukraine. This is reported by Vatican News. During a general audience held on May 27 in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, the pontiff said that he was following with concern the war in Ukraine, which had escalated significantly in recent days. He expressed his closeness to all those suffering from the consequences of the recent shelling, which was also directed against the civilian population.
18.37 In Odessa, the number of victims has increased to 11 people due to a Russian drone hitting a shopping center on the afternoon of May 27. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Oleg Kiper.
"Unfortunately, the number of victims as a result of the enemy attack on the Odessa region has increased to 11. Eight of them have been hospitalized," Kiper noted.
The head of the OVA specified that the victims suffered shrapnel wounds, burns, acupressure injuries, limb injuries, head injuries, as well as acute stress reactions. Currently, doctors assess the condition of three victims as serious.
18.29 The Russian leadership has set a task to increase the occupation contingent in Ukraine by at least tens of thousands. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram following a defense meeting.
18.26 In Ukraine, 579 Ukrainians convicted of collaborationism are serving sentences in prisons. More than 400 of them have expressed a desire to be sent to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange. This was discussed during a press conference with the participation of Deputy Head of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Andriy Yusov, Head of the Research Center for Penitentiary and Criminal Justice of the Penitentiary Academy Andriy Galay, Chief Researcher Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Professor of the Department of Psychology of the Penitentiary Academy Tetyana Danylchenko, at which they presented the study Criminological and Psychological Portrait of a Convicted Collaborator, Ukrinform reports.
18.03 Reports from Russian sources about the alleged capture of the village of Hraniv in the Dergachiv community of the Kharkiv region are not true. The 14th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has informed about this.
17.34 Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Russia's war against Ukraine should not be expected to end anytime soon. She said this on the WDR podcast.
According to Merkel, she hopes that in ten years the war will end and Ukraine will remain an independent, free and sovereign state.
17.33 The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that a meeting was held with the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svitlana Tikhanovskaya and her team. The foreign delegation was briefed on the main areas of the Coordination Headquarters' work, the mechanisms for searching, identifying and returning prisoners of war and missing persons, as well as the peculiarities of interaction with international organizations.
Secretary of the Coordination Staff Dmitry Usov told the delegation how Belarusian citizens are recruited into the occupation forces and how many of them have already died at the front. The delegation spoke with prisoners of war Belarusian citizens who fought on the side of the invaders.
The actions of these prisoners, according to Tikhanovskaya, do not reflect the position of the lion's share of Belarusian society. Therefore, oppositionists are actively working to prevent the Kremlin from dragging Minsk into a full-fledged war.
17.28 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a letter to US President Donald Trump and the US Congress regarding the shortage of air defense systems. This was stated by the Head of State's Communications Advisor Dmytro Lytvyn, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
16.44 Since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 65 times. The enemy focused more than half of the attacks on two key areas, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary.
16.06 In temporarily occupied Sevastopol, after the Ukrainian attack, a fire broke out in the building where, according to ASTRA OSINT analysis, the headquarters of the naval aviation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is located.
15.39 Ukraine is launching a separate Logistic Lockdown program to scale up middle strike and systematically destroy the capabilities of the Russian army at operational depth. This was announced by Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov on Facebook.
15.05 Law enforcement officers uncovered a scheme to embezzle UAH 2.7 million of budget funds for the construction of an Armed Forces command post on the territory of one of the military units in the Zhytomyr region. The SBU reported this.
14.54 A Russian drone attacked the territory of a farm in the Koropsky territorial community of the Novgorod-Siversky district of the Chernihiv region. A fire broke out in the farm building.
Rescuers quickly extinguished the fire. A woman died and a man was injured in the attack.
A video of a Russian drone hitting the ground just a few meters from a tractor driver working in a field appeared on social media. The ammunition hit the ground about two to three meters from the agricultural machinery.
14.19 Russian aggressors launched a drone strike on the civilian infrastructure of the Odessa region. Four people are currently reported injured, the head of the OVA, Oleg Kiper, reported on Telegram.
14.00 Vinnytsia City Court sentenced local blogger Oleksandr Shavlyuk to three years in prison for insulting CCK servicemen and fundraising fraud.
The regional prosecutor's office disagrees with the court's decision and will file an appeal. They stated that the blogger's actions should be qualified as obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations during a special period. The sanction of this article provides for five to eight years of imprisonment.
According to the investigation, the man used his own media resource, a YouTube channel, and a Telegram channel with an audience of many thousands to systematically discredit mobilization events.
In publications and speeches, he called the CCC "illegal," urged citizens to ignore state demands, evade mobilization, and not perform military service. He also spread personalized insults against the CCC military.
A separate episode of the case concerns fraud. The blogger posted an announcement on his channel about allegedly collecting funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For transfers, he indicated his mother's bank card details. Later, he spent the money received from citizens for his own needs.
13.52 The information from the British magazine The Economist that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly instructed to prepare for war for another 2-3 years is not true and is a hoax. This was stated by the head of state's communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
13.11 Since September 2022, Ukraine has received almost 6,000 radar satellite images thanks to the "People's Satellite" project. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense.
12.31 An indictment was sent to the court against the head of a group of one of the departments of the Kovel District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, who, together with his colleagues, used force against a 60-year-old man.
According to the investigation, on March 20, in the village of Zabolottya, Kovel district, three employees of the CCC in Volyn approached a 60-year-old local resident who was fishing. Despite the fact that the man was no longer subject to conscription due to his age, while trying to detain him, they broke his arm behind his back and fractured a bone with displacement.
One of the soldiers then used a taser and sprayed pepper spray in his direction, causing chemical burns to his eyes. The CCC officers also damaged the wheels of the car so that it could not move.
As a result of the beating, the man received moderate injuries.
The group leader will be tried for intentional bodily harm of moderate severity. The sanction of the article provides for up to three years of imprisonment.
12:00 In Chernihiv, during a night attack, Russian drones struck several enterprises. The attack damaged warehouses, an administrative building, equipment, and cars.
Five summer houses were also destroyed. Six high-rise buildings were damaged - windows were broken.
The head of the regional military administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, added that Russia had massively struck Chernihiv and neighboring communities with drones. "Many explosions. Hits in various locations. There is destruction," he noted.
The Russians damaged summer houses in the Novobilouska and Kulykivska communities, a woodworking enterprise, a logistics company, and critical infrastructure in Chernihiv. A warehouse, special equipment, cars, and a truck were damaged.
11.45 Russian aggressors have shelled settlements in Donetsk region 18 times over the past 24 hours. Six civilians were killed, the head of the Donetsk Oblast's Armed Forces Vadym Filashkin reported on Telegram.
10.48 Counterintelligence officers detained in Odessa an agent of Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), who coordinated a double strike on Odessa in March 2024. This was reported by the SBU. It is indicated that this is a priest of one of the churches of the local diocese of the UOC-MP. The cleric came to the attention of racists when he published pro-Kremlin comments in Telegram channels.
10.22 On Wednesday morning, five regions of Ukraine recorded new power outages due to attacks by Russian aggressors and bad weather. This was reported by Ukrenergo. The situation is currently difficult in the Sumy region, where there are outages due to both Russian shelling and bad weather.
09.12 On the night of May 27, Russia attacked Ukraine with 163 Shahed, Gerber, Italmas attack UAVs and Parodia-type simulator drones.
Air defenses shot down/suppressed 150 enemy Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas UAVs and drones of other types in the north, south, and east of the country.
Eight strike UAVs were recorded hitting seven locations, as well as downed UAVs (fragments) falling at four locations.
08.56 On the morning of May 27, a fire broke out at the 325th aircraft repair plant in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Residents reported a series of explosions in the city. Smoke began to rise from the aircraft repair plant.
Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar said that Russian air defenses allegedly shot down a missile over Taganrog this morning. As a result of the "falling debris," several cars on Tsiolkovsky Street allegedly caught fire, with at least two injured.
It is on Tsiolkovsky Street that the 325th Aviation Repair Plant is located. The 352nd Aviation Plant is also located next to the enterprise.
In the morning, it was also reported about explosions and arrivals in the Russian city of Voronezh, Krasnodar Territory. Before that, an air alert was declared in the region due to the missile and drone danger. After the explosions, black smoke rose over the city. According to preliminary data, the attack could have occurred at the airfield or airbase of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Baltimore.
In addition, social media is reporting an attack on Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory. Footage of the affected oil depot posted online shows a large-scale fire and thick smoke.
08.21 Over the past 24 hours, 296 combat clashes were recorded on the front, in particular, in the Pokrovsky direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped 53 assault actions of the Russian invaders. Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of enemy manpower, one gun and one other important object.
07.53 On the night of May 27, explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied Crimea. It was loud in Simferopol and Sevastopol, writes the Telegram channel Crimean Wind.
It is reported that the building of the headquarters of the Air Force of the Russian Black Sea Fleet - the main control body after the destruction of the main headquarters - was attacked. A fire broke out. In addition, drones attacked airfields and military units on Cape Fiolent.
First, it became known about powerful explosions on Cape Fiolent, then reports began to appear about explosions in Simferopol, where the occupiers' air defenses were operating at the Tavria CHP.
Later, Krymsky veter reported shooting and explosions on the northern side of Sevastopol. There was also noise in the area of the Kacha and Belbek airfields.
In the morning, explosions began to sound again in Simferopol, and in Sevastopol, after four powerful explosions, something started to smoke in the area of Sevastopol Bay and Sapun Gora.
07.25 From February 24, 2022 to May 27, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,358,950 people (+1,000 per day).
03.56 Social media is reporting a new drone attack on Tuapse. A fire is reported near an oil depot.
03.20 About 15 explosions were heard in Chernihiv. Local authorities reported a massive UAV attack. One of the city's enterprises was damaged.
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