Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Here is the gist of this Monday, May 25, 2026, on the 1,552nd day of the conflict.
Fact of the day
It will (again) fire on the capital. Russian diplomacy on Monday called on foreign nationals living in kyiv, including diplomatic staff, to leave the Ukrainian capital before further bombings by the Russian army.
This announcement comes after particularly massive Russian strikes targeting Ukraine this weekend, particularly kyiv, leaving several dead and around a hundred injured. Russia even fired a latest generation missile, the Orechnik, for the third time since the start of the conflict.
New “strikes will be carried out on decision-making centers” and “companies of the military-industrial complex” in kyiv, warned the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release, without giving a precise time frame before these attacks.
Today’s statement
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Yes, you won’t hear anything, just like Vladimir Putin. The call to stop the “carnage” in Ukraine launched at the Cannes Film Festival by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev to Vladimir Putin will not be transmitted “by anyone” to the Russian president, the Kremlin spokesperson declared on Monday.
“The only person who can put an end to this butchery is the President of the Russian Federation. Put an end to this carnage, the whole world is waiting for it,” said the filmmaker on Saturday when receiving the Grand Prize for his film “Minotaur”.
When a journalist asked him during a briefing on Monday if this call had been relayed to Vladimir Putin, his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declared: “For my part, I will not do it. I don’t think anyone will.”
“The only thing that matters to me,” he continued, “is that Zvyagintsev never condemned the bloody massacre perpetrated by the kyiv regime in Donbass since 2014, when the war began. If he had done so at the time, he would undoubtedly have had his say. But he no longer has this right,” said Dmitri Peskov.
The number of the day
Six peopleincluding two children, were killed Monday in Ukrainian strikes in Russia and in an area of the Ukrainian region of Donetsk (east) controlled by Moscow, local authorities said.
«A drone attacked a vehicle in the city of Graïvoron», to be declared in a communiqué by the authorities of the Russian region of Belgorod, at the front of Ukraine, in explanation of this « civil ait été tué ».
In the Russian region of Bryansk, also bordering Ukraine, a man was killed in a Ukrainian strike in the town of Belaïa Beriozka, the acting regional governor, Iegor Kovaltchouk, wrote on Telegram.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
Ukraine regularly targets Russia and the occupied territories in retaliation for the daily Russian bombings to which it has been subject since the start of the large-scale Russian offensive in February 2022.
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