Timeline: day 93 of Ukraine's defense against russia's aggression
Today is May 27. russia's military attack on Ukraine has been going on for 93 days. We're reporting on the current news. The article will be constantly updated.
What about today?
Key points
The Ukrainian army is fighting for every section of the front, and every settlement. "We're grateful for the international technical assistance provided. At the same time, we are in dire need of weapons that will be able to strike at the enemy from a great distance. And it cannot be delayed because the price of the delay is measured by the lives of people who defended the world from ruscism," said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
The East operational and tactical group reports. In the last 24 hours, the enemy lost:
- personnel – 87;
- IVF – 5:
- artillery systems – 3;
- mortars – 2;
- AT-T – 3;
- helicopters – 1;
- UAV – 1.
The service members of the Joint Forces destroyed:
- 1 tank;
- 5 artillery systems;
- 5 units of combat armored vehicles;
- 5 enemy vehicles;
- 1 multi-purpose helicopter Ka-52;
- 1 cruise missile;
- Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle.
The fighting continues.
Over the past day, the occupiers fired on about 50 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and destroyed and damaged 60 civilian objects, including 55 houses, a school, a mining company, an administrative building of the recreation center, and a fire department.
As a result of these shellings, 9 civilians were killed, and 14 others were wounded and injured.
"Pressure on russia is literally a matter of saving lives. And every day of holdup, weakness, various disputes or proposals to 'pacify' the aggressor at the expense of the victim, newly killed Ukrainians. And it's new threats to everyone on our continent," Zelensky called on the EU to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against russia.
Intelligence reports that the Kremlin dictator doesn't want to give up his position and abandon plans. According to analysts, the war will be long-lasting, the representative of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, Vadym Skibitskyi, said in an interview with Radio Svoboda. "This war will drag on. How long the active phase will last, it will be September, or it will be October or the end of the year. It depends on our resistance, the state of our defense forces, and the help they give us."
30 leading world lawyers called russia's actions genocide and an attempt to destroy the Ukrainian people. The report prepared by the US Institute of Strategy and Policy of Newlines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Center was signed by more than 30 leading law scientists and genocide experts who accused the russian state of violating the UN Convention on Genocide. The document compilers warn that there is a serious risk of inevitable genocide in Ukraine. There is a long list of evidence, including examples of mass killings of civilians, violent deportation of people, and inhuman anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, which are resorted to by the highest officials of the russian federation. The report should be published on Friday, May 27, and its copies will be sent to parliaments, governments, and international organizations around the world.
Who's going to Ukraine?
About financial and information aid, weapons and politicians
The US Department of Defense officially reports that "US Army military personnel load M113 armored personnel carriers on the trailers of trucks in Fort Stewart, Georgia, as part of military assistance to Ukraine in April 2022."
Ukraine may receive MRLS from the United States. CNN reports, referring to sources. According to the TV channel, next week, the United States will announce a new military assistance package, which will include MRLSs. The authorities of Ukraine have long been asking for the supply of such weapons. Still, earlier, the United States refused to fulfill this request because of fears that Ukraine could use it to shell the territory of Russia, which could lead to an escalation of the conflict.
According to CNN sources, another option may be to provide Ukraine with smaller missile systems. Well, we are waiting next week and the final decision from Washington. The training of Ukrainian military management with American weapons will take about two weeks.
The Czech Ambassador to Ukraine, Radek Matula, returned to Kyiv. The Czech Foreign Ministry assured that the country would continue to provide comprehensive assistance to Ukraine and support to gain the status of a candidate for EU members. "Our goal is to restore the activity of diplomatic mission before the beginning of the six-year presidency of the Czech Republic in the EU Council since July 1," said the Czech Foreign Ministry, Jan Lipovsky.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has advocated the supply of Ukraine's multiple-rocket launching systems, Bloomberg says. He stated that Ukraine needed further military support amid russia's offensive in the Donbas.
Helping refugees and internally displaced persons
In Estonia, the most popular magazine among children of 4-10 years, Täheke published a special issue in Ukrainian. Ukrainian children forced to flee from the unleashed war will receive it through schools and kindergartens. "When children from Ukraine began to arrive, every day more and more, it was evident that literature in Ukrainian about Estonia was very little. The book was difficult to publish, the circulation was not so great, and Täheke's literary magazine was still more compact. And it has a more operational form," said Täheke editor-in-chief Ilona Martson. The circulation of a special issue of 3.5 thousand copies. It was published with the help of donations.
News from partners
The US State Department has expressed the official position of Washington after the statement of the former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the forum in Davos: "We are firmly convinced that only Ukraine has the right to decide its future. We do not know when this war will end, but we know one thing: Ukraine will come out as a winner. The United States will stand with Ukraine until it is needed." Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stated at the forum in Davos that Ukraine "should give in a part of the territory to russia. The US and the West should not count on russian defeat in the war."
And Boris Johnson suggested that Volodymyr Zelensky create a new international alliance against russia and alternative EU, the Italian edition of Corriere Della Sera reports. Ukraine has not yet responded to this proposal.
The World Health Organization has approved a resolution with russia's condemnation. The document says to Moscow "to immediately stop all attacks on hospitals and other health care institutions" in Ukraine and protect medical staff, sick and injured per the Geneva Conventions. China, russia itself, Algerus, Belarus, Burundi, Eritrea, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua, and Syria voted against the resolution. Serbia and Hungary did not vote. It turns out that the above countries consider the bombing of hospitals suitable.
Sanctions on the aggressor!
russian "nationalized" (i.e., stolen) Boeings are forbidden to land in China. The document on banning airlines was sent this week. Planes can only fly over China in transit, without landing.
The International Federation of Hockey forbade russia and Belarus' national teams to participate in the 2023 World Cup.
The US confiscated a russian tanker with 100,000 tons of Iranian oil.
Life with hostilities
The chairman of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Anton Drobovych, spoke at the Davos Forum from the trenches.
Ukraine launched the portal "Tell the truth." Each witness to the enemy's crimes on Ukrainian land will be able to leave information about them by filling in the form on the site. There are also examples of violations and other crimes. The website will hand over the evidence to Ukraine's representation in the European Court of Human Rights and the UN International Court of Justice. Don't be silent about the crimes of the enemy. The more evidence, the more punished!
As part of the selection for the World Championships-2022, the national team of Ukraine will meet with Scotland. Scottish fans decided to support Ukraine at a difficult time. They will perform the anthem of Ukraine together with our fans during the game. Interestingly, the Duolingo app will help the fans study the anthem and give everyone a phonetic transcription.
Kyiv and region
In the village of Sytniaki, near Makariv and Moshchun, experts found and exhumed 14 bodies of killed soldiers and officers of the russian army. "Despite russia's arrogant large-scale invasion into the territory of our state, Ukraine shows a humane attitude to the dead military army of the russian federation. Every day, searches from the group of civilian-military cooperation find numerous bodies of those fallen in this war," the statement said.
Donetsk region and Luhansk region
The situation in the Luhansk region is complicated. The russian army threw all its forces to take the Luhansk region; there has been heavy fighting on the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk. "They eradicate the city, shell it daily; there are no big pauses between the shelling. The defense line is kept in the Zolote area, Katerynivka. Near Tomashkivka, we pushed back the ruscists, the Armed Forces fixed positions. The number of forces and means thrown by the russians to capture the area is much greater than our military," the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Serhii Haidai, informs.
The head of the Sievierodonetsk city administration, Struk, said that the russians seized the Myr Hotel on the northeastern outskirts of the city, but "the Ukrainian forces withstood." Now the town is fighting. Four civilians were killed in Sievierodonetsk yesterday. More than 60% of homes were damaged by shelling.
In the Donetsk region, the intensity of shelling increased. On May 26, russian invaders fired at 11 settlements in the Donetsk region. Six people were killed, one person wounded, and 94 civilians destroyed.
Even without active fighting, russia continues to kill Ukrainian children. In Mariupol, a russian Grad projectile killed a 12-year-old boy. Mariupol's mayor says an unobtrusive projectile detonated and killed a child in the territory of the school №30.
Kharkiv region
At 1 am, in the city of Liubotyn, the enemy damaged the school with shelling. As a result of the shelling of Chuhuev, they damaged residential buildings. There are no casualties.
Sumy region
On May 27, the military was firing the Sumy region again. From 4:30 am, every hour, they fired on the territory of the Shostka district from mortars. Private homes are damaged on the outskirts of Seredyna-Buda.
The russian military carried out shelling from russia's territory. At about 6.30 am, the outskirts of Stari Vyrki of the Belopil community were fired at with self-propelled artillery. There are no victims, Regional Military Administration chairman Dmytro Zhyvytskyi reports.
Dnipropetrovsk region
A restless night and a restless morning were in the region. There were several hits in the Dnipropetrovsk region; the destruction was severe. Rescuers disassemble the rubble and seek people, Valentyn Reznichenko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, said.
Zaporizhzhia region
The Zaporizhia military administration said that the occupiers are transferring personnel and military equipment, including Grad MRLS, from Crimea to the Zaporizhia region.
The ruscists are also removing 50-year-old T-62 tanks from long-term storage, British intelligence reports. According to the British, Soviet tanks are being moved to the area of responsibility of the Southern Grouping. The intelligence is convinced that the T-62 will be particularly vulnerable to modern anti-tank weapons. It also indicates that the ruscists are running out of modern combat-ready equipment.
At ZNPP, the orcs intensified repressions because of the inscriptions that the station's patriots made on one of the walls of its technological building: "Azov!" Energoatom reports.
Kherson region
In Kherson, educators gathered to meet with the so-called "military-administrative authorities." Ukrinform reported this, citing an anonymous source. The meeting was attended by slightly more than 20 representatives of schools from 61 city educational institutions in Kherson. Protesters of the occupiers offered cooperation and "protection." Educators were told that they should work on russian programs and switch to russian as the language of instruction. After hearing these "suggestions," teachers asked if they could leave if they disagreed with what they heard. Almost everyone got up and went, having received the answer that they cat.
The occupying "authorities" of Skadovsk say they are starting to rebuild the seaport so that grain can be taken out of it. "We will bring it to readiness, and here in the fall, it will be possible to load grain and send it," said the head of the military-civil administration of the Skadovsk district, Shvaiko, appointed by russia. You will already be sitting in jail in the fall, a traitor!
Mykolaiv region
Day and night, russians shell the Shyroke community of the Bashtanska district. In the evening, as a result of the shelling of the village of Parutyne in the Kutsurub community, a residential building was destroyed. There are no victims or injuries.
Odesa region
In Odesa, they reacted to russia's decision to open a "humanitarian corridor" from Ukrainian ports blocked by the russian Black Sea Fleet. The Odesa regional military administration speaker, Serhii Bratchuk, called it the enemy's "information and psychological operation." According to him, the entire Odesa area is mined by russia, and no ships can pass there (russia claims that Ukraine mined Odesa's sea approaches). Bratchuk believes that statements about "grain corridors" are being made to accuse Ukraine of food shortages. The speaker stated that russia did not agree with Ukraine on the work of such corridors, and Kyiv will not react to this.
Chernivtsi region
At night, a Ukrainian Air Force fighter jet completed the work on an enemy target in the sky over the Chernivtsi region.
