recap – “20 Minutes” takes stock for you every evening on the conflict in Ukraine. This Saturday, May 23, 2026, the toll rises in the Ukrainian drone strike against a professional high school and Norway is preparing its population for the worst
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 Saturday, May 23, 2026, on the 1,550th day of the conflict.
Fact of the day
A fire broke out in an oil depot in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea in southern Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack, the city’s mayor announced on Saturday. “Falling debris from drones caused a fire at the oil depot. Several technical and administrative buildings caught fire. Fragments of drones also fell on the site of the oil terminal,” Mayor Andrei Kravchenko wrote on Telegram.
The attack left two people injured, he added, specifying that emergency services and specialized services were at work on site.
Located at the end of several pipelines from the oil fields of southern Russia and the Caspian Sea, the Novorossiysk oil terminal is one of the main hydrocarbon export points in Russia.
Today’s statement
Without Ukraine, there cannot be a fully completed European project, and Ukraine’s presence in the EU must also be fully achieved – with full membership rights.
Message from Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks this Saturday, while earlier in the week, faced with the slowness of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, had suggested a stat(…)
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