"The Russians are losing ground" : Ukraine claims a major strike against an FSB headquarters located in occupied territory

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for a dazzling drone attack on Thursday May 21.
• This would have targeted a headquarters of the FSB, Russian intelligence.
• There were around a hundred dead and wounded among Russian soldiers.

A very spectacular attack took place in the Kherson region. This Ukrainian area occupied by Russia housed a headquarters of the FSB, Russian intelligence, which was targeted by a Ukrainian drone strike, as President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed by publishing the images on social networks.

According to the latter, around a hundred deaths and injuries were counted. “kyiv also claims to have destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft defense system, the Pantsir system, which is normally supposed to protect Russian ground positions against drone or cruise missile attacks.“, explains on LCI our editor-in-chief of international news, Grégory Philipps, in a sequence to be found in the video at the top of this article.

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For the moment, Moscow has confirmed neither the occurrence of this attack nor its deadly toll. If it were true, it would come at a time when the Russians are in difficulty on the front.

“For the first time since the summer of 2023, the Russians are losing ground. No progress in March 2026. And in April, it is the Ukrainians who are progressing, with a gain of 120 km² last month“, concludes Gregory Philipps.