May 2022

No shipment of Western weapons was damaged, – Arestovich/Office of the President

The Russians are doing their best to cut off the supply lines of our heroes. The hopes of the enemy were again in vain.

Rashists made several attacks on the Ukrainian railway. They wanted to interrupt the supplies of the Ukrainian army, especially they hoped to prevent the weapons that Western partners provide us from getting into the hands of our defenders and defenders at the front.

Weapons of Western partners – unscathed

According to Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President's Office, the enemy's plans to damage Western weapons during transportation failed, like many others.

Not a single shipment of Western weapons was damaged during transportation. Russians tell a lot of fairy tales, but this is a complete lie. There were several “arrivals” to the warehouses, but the transportation system works perfectly,” Arestovich said.

He also added that how quickly it gets to the front depends on the type of weapon and the skills of our heroes. Our soldiers have already mastered many types of weapons, including abroad. In this case, she immediately goes to the war zone.

The use of some weapons requires additional training, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine first get acquainted with these weapons at the training grounds.

Assistance to Ukraine from partners

The United States of America has allocated $40 billion for weapons and other assistance to Ukraine. They are already actively transferring funds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the effective destruction of Russian infidels.

Also, following the online meeting of the defense ministers of partner countries, 20 more countries announced the provision of assistance packages for Ukraine.

Russia's war against Ukraine: latest news

The Rashists fail to break through the line of defense of our soldiers, and in every attempt to attack the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they suffer losses. Therefore, the command of the Russian occupiers began to talk about how they would reduce the intensity of offensive operations. The enemy has to conserve the remnants of his forces, because his attempts to make up for losses and recruit new “cannon fodder” have failed. In addition, the morale of the Russian army is falling every day, Russian soldiers began to worry about the possibility of saving their lives.

Russians are equipping strongholds in the territory of the Bryansk region/Photo from the Facebook of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukraine continues to fight the invasion of Russian invaders. In addition to active hostilities, the enemy also commits various provocations.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported regular news about the operational situation at the front. The data was published as of the evening of May 24.

The General Staff on the Seversky direction

Despite the fact that the Russian infidels retreated from the North of our states, they continue their provocations. In particular, they are shelling border areas on the territory of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions. They even tried to break through the border, but our military stopped them courageously.

According to the General Staff, in the Seversky direction, the enemy continues to take various measures to cover a section of the Ukrainian-Russian border.

Also, Russian invaders are equipping strongholds in the territory of the Bryansk region there. The enemy again launched air strikes on civilian and military infrastructure in the Sumy region.

Situation at the front

• The threat from Belarus has not gone anywhere either. The chances that Belarusian troops will directly invade our country are minimal. But from there, shelling of our territory can continue, as it has been, and can continue. This is confirmed by the fact that the aggressor deployed the Iskander-M missile system 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. And on the section of the border with Volyn and Zhytomyr region, the Belarusian military cover the border.
• The hottest points of the front are the East of our state. The enemy is actively advancing there, but the armed forces are reliably holding the line. At the same time, Russian infidels slightly improved their position near the village of Vasilievka in the Bakhmut direction. And in the Kharkiv region, they are trying to gain a foothold in the western and northern environs of Ternova.
• Also, the Russians still believe that they will be able to force the Seversky Donets River. They have already been smashed more than once near Belogorovka, which has become almost the second Chernobaevka. In general, the situation in the direction of Severodonetsk is very difficult for our troops. The enemy wants to encircle our units once again. Ukrainian forces are doing everything possible to prevent this from happening.

Yermak and Fogh Rasmussen will lead a group that will promote Ukraine's security guarantees/Channel 24 Collage

Proposals for security guarantees for Ukraine will now be handled by an international advisory group. It will be headed by Andriy Yermak and the former Secretary General of NATO.

Leading figures of the world can join the group

On the creation of this group, the Head of the Office The president spoke during his speech at the International Economic Forum in Davos. This happened on May 24 – exactly 3 months after the start of the war.

I am pleased to announce that together with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, we are establishing an international advisory working group. Its goal is to develop certain recommendations on reliable and effective security guarantees for Ukraine,” Yermak said.

He invited leading politicians, scientists, diplomats and security figures to join this group. Yermak hopes that friends of Ukraine will take part in the work of the advisory group and offer knowledge and experience for the effective implementation of this initiative.

“Our goal is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, preparing the future for a sovereign and free Ukraine,” said official.

Yermak spoke remotely at the International Forum/Photo from the telegram channel of the head of the OPU

< h3> Yermak told what security guarantees should be

• The agreement between Ukraine and the guarantor states should be a legally binding document and ratified in accordance with the legislation of the guarantor states.
• Ukraine must expand its ability to resist the aggressor.
• The guarantor states must provide the armed forces of Ukraine with modern conventional weapons and military equipment without any restrictions and politically motivated obstacles. They can also commit to sharing intelligence information with Kyiv.
• Ukraine will need annual financial assistance to rebuild the country and develop the defense sector.
• Sanctions against Russia should last at least until until the aggressor withdraws its troops from Ukraine.
• The agreement should provide for the introduction of preventive sanctions in the event of a real threat of aggression.
• Ukraine should be attached to multilateral formats that will improve its integration with the international community. First of all, they talk about joining the European Union.

Pay attention! President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine will return to negotiations with Russia only after Kyiv returns all the territories, occupied after February 24, 2022.

Russia will not survive this war: there is only one reasonable solution for the Kremlin/Getty Images

No one imagined on February 24-25 that Russia's aggression against Ukraine would continue for so long – three months have passed, and there is no end in sight. At that time, almost all analysts, and indeed the Russian government itself, were waiting for the surrender of Ukraine in a few days.

Nothing of the kind happened. Russian troops had to retreat, having completely cleared the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions at the end of March.

The Kremlin had to abandon plans

The retreat from Kharkov, which began at the end of April, continues. Nikolaev failed to take. Odessa – even more so. The plans to occupy the area between the Dniester and the Danube (Izmail, Akkerman) and develop military success in Transnistria, covering Odessa from the West, apparently had to be abandoned due to a lack of forces and the dominance of Ukrainian anti-ship systems over the sea.

Mariupol fell after 84 days of defense, but this success, expected on the third or fourth day of the war, changed little strategically.

Active and very heavy fighting is going on in the Donbass. These battles are either reminiscent of the Kursk-Oryol Bulge, where the German offensive fizzled out and failed, or the endless battles in northeastern France during the four years of the First World War – battles that bled the Central Powers and ended in their crushing defeat on foreign territory. Germany signed the Compiègne capitulation when not a single Entente soldier was on her soil.

Russia will not survive this war

There is no reason to expect that Russia, already exhausted by the war and in complete isolation, will withstand this difficult positional war and, moreover, achieve victorious success in it. The anti-Putin coalition of countries supporting Ukraine is growing. Now there are 47 of them. And Putin's only ally is Lukashenka.

Mainland China is deathly afraid of falling under sanctions as devastating as those already under Russia. These sanctions would mean for China the closure of thousands of Western factories located in China and, accordingly, unemployment for tens of millions of citizens.

Popular uprisings for the Celestial Empire are a common thing, as well as the change of dynasties. And the Chinese Communists know this very well. So they are cautious, and they are only one-third of Russia's ally. The unanimity of the democratic world in confronting Russia in Ukraine forced “Chairman Xi” to shelve plans to annex Taiwan. If the West had been divided and indifferent to aggression in Ukraine, Taiwan would most likely have lost its independence by the end of May.

Rejection of Russian oil, and it is likely to happen among democratic states in the coming days , will hurt the Russian economy, which receives up to one billion dollars a day from these sales. There is nowhere to expect compensation.

The war against Ukraine was a mistake, Zubov emphasized/Photo by Getty Images

NATO expansion in the northeast is unlikely to seriously affect the current war, but will certainly become another political loss for Russia, which has suddenly lost its old and reliable economic partners and friends – Finland and Sweden.

It is unlikely that Erdogan will be able to prevent the expansion of NATO. Rather, he will greatly damage his reputation by showing indifference to the security of his potential allies and extreme selfishness at a time when other peoples sacrifice a lot to support Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible.

Even if Putin influenced Turkey's position, promising her in exchange for a veto regarding the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, some preferences in Syria, which Russia is still unable to keep further due to the need for forces and means on the Ukrainian front, then, facing an alternative – Syria or NATO, Erdogan will solve it, as always, elegantly, “in the Ottoman way” – he will take Syria – where should Putin go – and will not break with NATO, in the end agreeing to expand the organization.

Even more, the same can be said about Orban and the EU. Russia is now too unattractive to sacrifice membership in important and promising organizations for its sake.

3 months of war

And so, after three months of the war – heavy fighting in the Donbass, huge losses and complete isolation. Victory prospects, both military and diplomatic, are not visible. Even local successes – the withdrawal of Russian troops to the western borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions – do not give anything strategically.

The second line of defense of the Ukrainian army has been prepared for a long time and is being improved every day, new and more powerful weapons arrive in Ukraine from the West, reservists undergo intensive training. And the motivation to fight the aggressor does not disappear among Ukrainians in the exhaustion of the war, but only intensifies.

It will not be possible to fix an eternal truce on the ceasefire line – as in Korea and largely due to the sad experience of Korea – here it will not be possible. Moreover, in Korea there was still a civil war, but here it was a classic interstate war, and the aggressor had long been condemned by the UN General Assembly.

Now I see for Russia not the prospect of victory, but the prospect of extreme depletion of both human, military and economic resources without hope for their early renewal, even if the Ukrainian army does not go on the offensive in the foreseeable future in the Donbass.

And if, having quickly accumulated the resources necessary for the offensive, he will switch? If the current Donbass turns into the Kursk-Oryol arc, and not endless battles on the Marne? Then the danger of defeat and even collapse of the military-political mechanism of Russia increases many times.

In these circumstances, I would consider it the only reasonable thing for the current leadership of Russia (whom I do not sympathize with at all, but I wish the best for my country) to recognize the decision to start a war with Ukraine as erroneous, immediately sit down at the negotiating table and be ready to make big concessions in order to save the rest.

This is what any reasonable ruler in any country in any era would have done. This is what Stalin's successors did in the Korean War, starting a conversation about peace already at the funeral of the tyrant, this is what Alexander II did when he was convinced at the end of 1855 by wise advisers that the continuation of the war with a coalition of powers would turn into a complete disaster for Russia.

In both cases, it was the right decision that opened the way for reforms, the return of our country to the world community and, more broadly, to a decent existence for both the state and its citizens, as far as the system allowed.

Stubborn defending an erroneous decision has never brought anyone to good. It will not lead to anything good this time either. There are also historical examples of this, including in Russian history.

Two people were evacuated from Belogorovka/Sergei Gaidai's telegrams

The Russians keep rowing madly around Severodonetsk. The enemy cannot break into the city, so he decided to raze it to the ground.

The Russian occupiers continue their attempts to seize the entire territory of the Lugansk region. They are shelling our cities and do not stop trying to storm the positions of our heroes.

Dead Ukrainians in the Luhansk region

According to the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai, During the day on May 24, as a result of shelling and bombing carried out by Russian invaders, 5 Ukrainian civilians were killed.

Rashists continue to hit Severodonetsk with all possible weapons, there are practically no safe areas in the city. Two Ukrainians were evacuated from Belogorivka.

Every life that was saved from the deadly Russian invasion is worth its weight in gold. We will fight for every inhabitant of the region. While there will be an opportunity to evacuate, – Gaidai assured.

The situation in the Luhansk region

The Russian occupiers are doing everything possible to completely occupy the Luhansk region. Their attempts to storm the positions of our defenders and defenders failed, so they decided to simply level everything they see with the ground.

According to Sergei Gaidai, Severodonetsk is gradually turning into Mariupol – the enemy is firing on the city with all possible weapons. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the line and preventing the rashists from realizing their plans.

The war of Russia against Ukraine: a brief summary of the latest events

• The Russian occupiers began to throw messages into their information space that slow down the pace of the offensive, allegedly taking care of the civilian population. In fact, the Russians are not able to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and insane losses make them save the remnants of the forces that they still have. As for the civilian population, they shell Ukrainian cities with all possible weapons, and terrorize civilians in the occupied territories.
• In Crimea, the Russians began to form reserve units. They are preparing to throw fresh “cannon fodder” into the war against Ukraine. At the same time, Kirill Budanov, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said that the reserves of the rashists are not as large as they hope, so by the end of the year there may already be a Ukrainian flag on the peninsula.

Maxim Marchenko/Photo from open sources

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the head of the Odessa OVA and the former commander of the Ukrainian Aidar battalion Maxim Marchenko. The official reacted to this news as a joke and stressed that Ukraine still “makes nerves” for Russia.

Maxim Marchenko called the decision of the Russian court on his arrest “childish attempts to scare , which cause only laughter”.

He assured that he didn't understand why they were looking for him, because he never disappeared.

Come and try to arrest . But I warn you – I will defend myself, – Maxim Marchenko said.

The official believes that such attention from the infidels means that the Ukrainians are working efficiently and making the Russians nervous. “It's enough to disgrace yourself even more, your “second army” has already disgraced the whole world,” Marchenko replied.

The head of the Odesa District Military District added that everything is calm in the region so far, there were no shelling that day.

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< strong _ngcontent-sc87="">On the morning of May 24, Russian invaders entered Svetlodarsk in the Donetsk region. Our Armed Forces were forced to retreat in order to regroup forces.

This was stated by the head of the Donetsk Police Pavel Kirilenko in a comment to Donbass.Realii journalists, Channel 24 reports.

Kirilenko emphasized that the withdrawal of our troops is this is a forced regrouping.This was logical and correct in order to save personnel and in the future not only hold the enemy, but also the opportunity to clear the territory.

This is an exceptional regrouping and the right logical decision to save lives . I understand where our Armed Forces are located on the map. And I can say that this is not a retreat,” he stressed.

Also, according to the head of the Donetsk OVA, more than 10,000 residents remained in Svetlodarsk. Only about 30% left.

Departure from Svetlodarsk – maneuvering defense strategy

As Viktor Andrusov, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, explained, there is no “treason” in the retreat of our Armed Forces of Ukraine from Svetlodarsk and Mironovsky. Andrusiv stressed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine use mobile defense. This means that our fighters do not hold on to specific settlements, but strive to inflict maximum losses on the enemy while maintaining our forces.

“This means that sometimes you have to retreat from lines that are not of a strategic nature< /strong>, to avoid encirclement or significant losses. Therefore, there is no change in this. Just such a retreat took place yesterday from Svetlodarsk and Mironovskoye. The goal was to avoid possible encirclement and significant losses. . There will also be a few more retreats to level the front. Also without treason,” the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs noted.