Overview

• Ukrainian forces engaged in 164 combat clashes with Russian troops on May 20, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing 44 repelled assaults, the most intense fighting on the front lines.
• Russian forces launched 70 airstrikes, dropped 116 guided bombs, and deployed over 3,000 kamikaze drones, targeting both military positions and civilian areas.
• A ballistic missile strike in Kryvyi Rig killed at least 12 people, including three children, and injured over 50, marking a devastating escalation in attacks on civilian infrastructure.
• Ukrainian air defenses intercepted or jammed 93 of 108 Shahed-type and missile-armed drones launched at regions including Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Zhytomyr, and Donetsk.
• A Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region injured five members of a family, including three children, as strikes on civilian areas continue to cause widespread harm and destruction.