The main thing at the moment

  • Polish President Andrzej Duda addressed the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - the first of the world leaders since February 24.

    "After Bucha, Borodyanka, Mariupol, there can be no business with Russia as usual, gentlemen presidents and prime ministers," Duda said, addressing world leaders in absentia.

  • The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine extended martial law and general mobilization for 90 days until August 23.

  • The head of the Russian occupation administration was blown up in Energodar.

  • Medinsky declared readiness for negotiations and their freezing by Ukraine.

  • Ukrainian military reports shelling of Chernihiv region.

  • Russia has deployed launchers of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system in the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine report.

  • Ukrainian General Staff: Point-U, Tornado and 7 battalions missile deployments deployed in Belarus, threat of missile bombings and artillery shelling from Belarus persists.

  • According to the latest UN figures, 3,838 civilians have died in Ukraine since the start of the war.

    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights believes that the actual figures are much higher.

Territorial control of Ukraine on May 11, 2022

Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.

What happens on May 23rd

Zaporozhye regional administration: robbery in the occupied part of the region, division of business, increase in the number of invaders

According to the Zaporozhye regional military administration, in the village of Navagorovka, Vasilevsky district, Zaporozhye region, residents report an increase in the number of Russian occupiers.

The Russians settled in a school and a house of culture.

The situation is the same in the village of Engineering of the Polog district.

In Husarka, Russians settled in abandoned houses.

On May 21, they conducted a detour, after which they looted the houses from which the Ukrainians left.

In Vasilievka, the number of Russian servicemen already exceeds the number of locals.

The occupiers continue to rob civilians.

In occupied Berdyansk, the Russians are trying to seize local business and divide it between themselves and their collaborators.

"The owners of cafes and restaurants who left the city and refused to cooperate with the enemy were left without property: the Russians decided to take it in favor of the so-called" city administration ", - said in a statement.

What is happening in Russia

Russia has banned Joe Biden and 962 other US citizens

The list includes US President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, CIA Director William Byrne, members of the House of Representatives from the Republican and Democratic parties, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, journalists, politicians, entrepreneurs, judges, lawyers, security forces and military. et al.

A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the sanctions were imposed "in the context of measures in response to the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the United States."

The State Duma of Russia has proposed to abolish age restrictions for military contractors

The State Duma has introduced a bill to abolish the upper age threshold for the first military contract.

Now the first military contract can be concluded by a Russian under 40 and a foreigner under 30.

The authors of the bill propose to abolish the age limit for citizens of working age.

For men it is 65 years.

Belarus' participation in the war

Belarus has allowed Russia to use its territory to attack Ukraine from the north;

Russians use Belarusian airfields for flights and Belarusian sites for rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

At the same time, Belarusians are fighting on the side of Ukraine in various formations.

A battalion named after Kastus Kalinouski has been created.

Ukrainian General Staff: Point-U and Tornado complexes deployed in Belarus

Two missile divisions of the Tochka-U tactical missile system and the Tornado multiple rocket launcher division have been deployed at separate test sites in Belarus, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening report on May 20. has not disappeared.

Belarusian army near the border with Ukraine

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus

Viktor Gulevich

announced the beginning of the second stage of the inspection of the rapid reaction force.

According to him, as part of this stage, battalion-tactical groups have moved to the Western and North-Western operational areas, and air defense units, missile forces and artillery units will be strengthened to ensure their combat operation.

According to Gulevich, units of special operations forces were deployed in three tactical directions of the southern direction (to the border with Ukraine. - RS).

How the world reacts

Biden has signed a bill to provide $ 40 billion in aid to Ukraine

On May 21, US President Joe Biden signed a bill to provide Ukraine with $ 40 billion.

The package provides $ 6 billion in security assistance, including training, equipment, weapons and support.

Another $ 8.7 billion is expected to be used to replenish US equipment sent to Ukraine, $ 3.9 billion for US European Command operations, and $ 11 billion can be used by Biden to transfer items and services from US stockpiles without congressional approval.

The United States will hand over another $ 100 million in weapons to Ukraine

The package will include 18 155-mm howitzers and 18 tactical vehicles to transport these howitzers, the equivalent of an artillery battalion, Pentagon spokesman

John Kirby

said .

Also in the aid package will be 36 anti-artillery radars ANTPQ.

The day before, at a briefing in Washington, an unnamed Pentagon spokesman told reporters that 79 of the 90 US-supplied howitzers had already been deployed to Ukrainian troops and used in combat.

European Parliament: All EU sanctions against Russia should apply to Belarus

On Thursday, MEPs adopted a resolution condemning the Lukashenko regime's support for Russia's war against Ukraine and calling for all sanctions against Russia that have already been imposed and will be imposed on Belarus.

The resolution also calls for an investigation into the crimes of the Alexander Lukashenko regime against the Belarusian people, calls on EU countries to actively apply the principle of universal jurisdiction and to prepare lawsuits against Belarusian officials, including Lukashenko, responsible for violence and repression in Belarus.

The European Parliament has backed a tribunal to try Russia for war crimes

Members of the European Parliament supported the resolution calling on the EU to support the establishment of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine and provide it with the necessary resources and support, said Urkaina Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.

The European Parliament has decided to abolish import duties for Ukraine for a year

The European Parliament has called for the abolition of tariffs on imports into the EU from Ukraine in order to support the country's economy.

515 deputies voted for, 32 against and 11 abstained. This benefit will be valid for a year.

The abolition of duties on exports of industrial products, fruits and vegetables, as well as anti-dumping duties on steel imports.

The decision of the European Parliament will take effect after it is published in the Official Journal of the EU, after which it will come into force the next day.

This is expected to happen in June.