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Hundreds of Ukrainians marched done the superior connected Friday (May 22, 2026), demanding that the authorities veto a measure that families of missing soldiers accidental could pb to their loved ones being prematurely declared dead.
The protesters gathered to reason Bill No 13646, which addresses the ineligible presumption of missing persons. Participants said that definite provisions of the authorities could let courts to state missing Ukrainian subject unit legally dormant earlier their destiny has been confirmed.
“Today each the families came retired truthful that the missing are not equated with the dead,” said Mariana Yatselenko, 27, who took portion successful the Kyiv march.
Elusive peace: On the Russia-Ukraine war
More than 90,000 radical are listed arsenic missing successful Ukraine's unified registry of persons who disappeared nether peculiar circumstances, according to Artur Dobrosierdov, the country's commissioner for missing persons.
The missing day backmost to 2014
Neither Russia nor Ukraine people regular casualty numbers successful the war, though analysts estimation hundreds of thousands of casualties successful the fighting.
The Ukrainian registry covers radical who went missing during combat, arsenic a effect of equipped aggression oregon successful occupied territories, mostly aft Russia's all-out penetration began connected February 24, 2022. But immoderate cases day backmost to 2014, erstwhile Russian soldiers invaded the Crimean Peninsula and pro-Russia forces started warring successful eastbound Ukraine.
The registry began operating successful May 2023, and astatine that point, accusation astir some subject unit and civilians from erstwhile years was entered into it.
Similar demonstrations person been held antecedently implicit the bill, reflecting increasing unit from relatives of soldiers who are missing.
Russia says Ukraine struck a dorm, sidesplitting 4
Ukrainian drones deed a assemblage dormitory gathering successful Starobilsk, a metropolis successful Ukraine's Russia-occupied Luhansk region, sidesplitting 4 radical and wounding 39 others, Russian authorities said. Up to 18 radical could beryllium buried nether the rubble, officials said.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denounced the onslaught arsenic a “heinous crime.” Ukrainian officials made nary contiguous comment.
The Russian Defence Ministry connected Friday (May 22, 2026) said that it intercepted 217 Ukrainian drones implicit aggregate Russian regions, including the Moscow portion and St Petersburg, the country's second-largest city.
For the 4th clip this month, Ukraine struck Russia's Yaroslavl lipid refinery, astir 700 kilometres from the border, successful an overnight operation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday (May 22, 2026).
Ukraine has been pounding Russian lipid facilities successful an effort to contradict Moscow backing for its invasion.
Russian barrages arsenic Ukraine makes battlefield gains
Ukraine's aerial unit said that it changeable down oregon jammed 115 of 124 Russian drones that were launched overnight, successful regular bombardments of civilian areas that successful caller months person escalated.
Eleven people, including a child, were wounded successful Russian attacks crossed the bluish Sumy region, the National Police said. Also, a antheral was killed by a Russian drone successful the metropolis of Kherson, successful confederate Ukraine, according to the region's subject medication chief.
The fig of Ukrainian civilian casualties verified by the United Nations accrued by 21% successful the archetypal 4 months of this year, compared with the aforesaid play past year, with 815 civilians killed and 4,174 wounded.
In Washington, the Trump medication approved a humble $108 cardinal arms merchantability to Ukraine that volition assistance the state prolong its midrange aerial defence rocket system.
The U.S. State Department announced the merchantability of ground-to-air Hawk rocket components, spare parts and logistic enactment precocious Thursday. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, Washington has slashed subject enactment for Ukraine.
On the battlefield, Ukrainian counterattacks person driven the Russian service retired of much than 400 quadrate kilometres of confederate Ukraine since the extremity of past year, Western analysts say.
Those successes are attributed to Ukraine's progressively homegrown drone and rocket technology, arsenic good arsenic Russian forces being denied entree to Starlink outer services utilized to steer drones toward targets.
Ukraine keeps a wary oculus connected Belarus
Zelenskyy said that Russia could beryllium readying caller attacks connected bluish Ukraine, launched from Belarus.
Moscow “is anxious to gully (Belarus) deeper into this war,” Mr. Zelenskyy said connected societal media, informing that “there volition beryllium consequences” for the Belarusian government, if it provides a level for strikes connected Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha alerted allies astatine a NATO gathering successful Sweden astir what Ukrainian quality services accidental are increasing threats from Belarus.
Mr. Sybiha urged partners to instrumentality unspecified deterrence measures against Minsk. Russia and Belarus held associated atomic exercises earlier this week. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based deliberation tank, underscored “Russia's quality to leverage Belarus for aboriginal Russian subject operations and Russia's deepening de facto power implicit Belarus.”
