Reports from the Ministry of Defense, testimonies of military correspondents, reports from the field
Several unmanned aerial vehicles tried to approach the territory of the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory. All of them were neutralized, the infrastructure of the plant was not damaged.
Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that he came under fire at the entrance to the city of Shebekino. On Saturday, during the shelling of the Shebekinsky District by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one person was killed, three more, including two teenagers, were injured, seventy apartments, six private households, two enterprises and three commercial facilities were damaged.
Russian group of troops «Vostok» stopped the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the Yuzhnodonets direction — two mortar crews, an anti-tank crew, manpower, as well as strong points in the areas of Novopolya and Novoselka were destroyed /
Follow with us the most important events of Sunday, May 28, 2023. Online of the previous day can be read here.
Photo: Video frame of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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throughout Ukraine.
Vladimir Rogov reported explosions in Odessa, Uman, Kremenchug, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine.
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Air raids announced in Zhytomyr, Odessa and Kharkiv regions.
Online map of the Ministry of Digital Development of Ukraine: In Kiev, Kirovohrad, An air alert has been declared in Mykolaiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
The DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had shelled the territory of the republic more than 40 times over the past day.
The Ukrainian agency Strana.ua reports, with reference to the data of the Kiev city military administration, that air defense is operating near Kiev.
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Official representative of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty explained the disappearance of Bakhmut from operational reports by the fact that «actions in the city are kept to a minimum».
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The DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka, firing 11 shells of 152 mm caliber.
The DPR representative office at the JCCC reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Yuryevka using two Storm Shadow missiles.
Another set of the Russian S-400 air defense system has arrived in Belarus, which will take up combat duty in the coming days. This was announced on Sunday by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.
Andriy Yermak, head of the office of the Ukrainian President, said that Ukraine's membership in NATO would help end the conflict.
“NATO membership should become the main guarantee for Ukraine,” he said.
Ukrainian Armed Forces completed the selection of pilots for training in the management of F-16 fighters. This was stated by the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov.
An air alert was announced on Sunday evening in the eastern regions of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the telegram channel «Map of air alerts».
Sirens sounded in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk regions, as well as in the territory of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Kiev.
Russian air defense systems worked at least eight times over Mariupol, the Izvestia newspaper reports.
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Ukrainian troops shelled Staromlinovka, Yasinovataya and Vladimirovka, firing 18 shells of the «NATO» caliber of 155 millimeters, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
The air defense system repelled a missile attack from Ukraine on Berdyansk in the Zaporozhye region, local authorities report.
A builder of defensive structures on the border of the Kursk region received a shell shock during shelling from Ukraine, said the governor of the region Roman Starovoit.
An air raid alert has been declared in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine and the Kiev-controlled part of Kherson, according to the data of the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
A granary in the Belgorod region was attacked from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the employees were not injured — they were taken to a safe distance, said the head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. The incident occurred in the village of Murom, Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Region.
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A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops, the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko said.
«Several settlements of the Shebekinsky district are under shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at once. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties. ⠀
< p>In Shebekino, shell fragments damaged the fence and buildings of one of the enterprises. A fire broke out on the territory. Fire brigades are already at the site, they have started extinguishing.
In the village of Bezlyudovka, an arrival to the territory of the recreation center was also recorded. The shell hit one of the buildings, resulting in smoke. Operational services are on the way.
In the village of Belyanka, an unknown object was parachuted down near a private residential building. The place is cordoned off, the investigation team is working,» Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel.
Two people were killed during the shelling of a residential sector in the city of Almaznaya, Acting Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik said.
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Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced a new shelling of the Shebekinsky urban district on Sunday.
«Several settlements of the Shebekinsky district are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to preliminary data, there were no victims. In Shebekino, fragments of shells damaged the fence and buildings of one of the enterprises. A fire broke out on the territory. Fire brigades are already in place, they have started extinguishing,» the head of the region wrote in his telegram channel.
Ukrainian troops fired ten rockets from the MLRS at the Kievsky district of Donetsk, the DPR office in the JCCC reported.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, that the NMD in Ukraine is just a detail in the global confrontation for a multipolar world, and if it began later, the consequences for Moscow and Minsk would be worse.
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a summary for Sunday, May 28:
◾️In the Donetsk direction, up to 340 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in a day;
◾️Russian troops destroyed up to 65 soldiers and self-propelled guns «Acacia» of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolymansky direction in a day;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed warehouses ammunition brigade of the defense and foreign legion in the Chernihiv region;
◾️In the area of the city of Bogodukhov, Kharkiv region, the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries was hit;
◾️Command and observation posts of the 24th and 65th units 1st Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit in the DPR and Zaporozhye region;
◾️Russian troops in the Zaporozhye region destroyed the ammunition depot of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Georgievka and Kramatorsk in the DPR, including the Ukrainian group «Liman»;< /p>
◾️Russian troops destroyed over 100 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
◾️Russian air defense systems intercepted 3 Storm Shadow cruise missiles and 6 HIMARS MLRS rockets during the day;
◾️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 30 servicemen in the Kupyansk direction and an armored car;
◾️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 10 servicemen in the Kherson direction in a day.
The goals of the Special Military Operation have not changed, they must be fulfilled, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the footage was posted on his telegram channel by journalist Pavel Zarubin.
In the Belgorod region, the arrival of 241 shells from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded per day, the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday in his Telegram channel.
Peskov said that there was a war against Russia, and urged to maintain sobriety of thinking and force.
The words of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milli that Ukraine cannot yet count on the return of its territories within the borders of 1991 is a step towards understanding the reality of the West, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov .
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Lavrov called plans to supply fighter jets to Ukraine an unacceptable escalation. He added that there are reasonable people in the West who understand this.
The head of the regional administration, Vitaliy Bunechko, wrote in his telegram channel that during an air raid in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, one of the infrastructure facilities was damaged «.
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