Operational information as of 18:00 05/21/2022 regarding the Russian invasion

Video (spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun) The eighty-seventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues. The enemy's greatest activity continues to be concentrated in the Eastern operational zone. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not undergone significant changes. In the Siversky direction, the enemy shelled the settlements of Semenivka, Bleshnya, and Girsk in the Chernihiv region. It launched missile strikes on objects in the Zhytomyr and Poltava regions. In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to conduct combat operations in order to hold the occupied borders. In order to prevent our troops from reaching the state border, it launched air strikes and artillery shelled the areas of the settlements of Chornoglazivka, Prudyanka, Dementiivka, and Ternovo. The occupation forces are preparing to resume their offensive in the Slavyansk direction. During the day, the enemy carried out artillery shelling in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Komyshuvakha and Dovhenke in the Kharkiv region. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is trying to break through the defense of our troops and reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk region. It inflicted fire damage with the entire spectrum of weapons, including aviation, on the positions of the Defense Forces units and civilian objects along the contact line. In addition, it carried out air strikes on civilian infrastructure facilities in the areas of the settlements of Vrubivka in the Luhansk region and Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. The enemy continues to prepare for an offensive in the Lymansk direction. With the support of aviation and artillery, it conducted assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Lypove, Vasylivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region, but was unsuccessful. Airstrike on the settlement of Mykilske, Volnovakha district, Donetsk region. The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia directions. It carried out shelling of civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Vremivka, Donetsk region, Olhivske, Zatyshshya, Gulyai-Polye, Orikhiv, Novodanylivka and Kamianske, Zaporizhzhia region. The occupiers did not conduct active combat operations in the South Buzh direction. They focused their main efforts on holding the occupied borders, conducting reconnaissance and measures for engineering equipment of positions. They continue to shell settlements directly close to the contact line with mortars and artillery. The command of the occupation forces of the Russian Federation continues to conduct covert mobilization measures to replace servicemen who suffered losses outside the territory of Ukraine. Work is underway to recruit into the armed forces of the aggressor troops individuals who are temporarily occupied by the occupiers of Ukraine. To strengthen the groups, the enemy is forming reserves from the 36th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District and is actively using military transport aviation to transfer manpower and material and technical resources to the border areas with Ukraine. At the same time, the occupation authorities are working on the so-called “nationalization” of telecommunications service companies. The enemy is suffering numerous losses in the war on the territory of Ukraine. The defenders of our State continue to heroically defend our land. Together we will win! Glory to Ukraine!