The war in Ukraine by a daily update — 21.5.2026

From local time 08:30 to 17:00 of May 20, the Russian Federation launched 84 UAVs of various type, including jet powered, against Ukraine.The air attack was repelled, and by available data, as of 17:00 of yesterday, the Ukrainian air defense shot down/suppressed 75 Russian UAVs.There were hits of 6 attack UAVs.On the night from local time 18:00 of May 20, the Russian Federation launched an Iskander-M missile from the region of Rostov and 116 attack UAVs, including jet powered, from the Russian regions of Kursk, Bryansk, Oryol, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk and from Gvardiyske, in the occupied Crimea.The air attack was repelled. By available data, as of local time 08:30 of today, the Ukrainian air defense shot down/suppressed 109 Russian drones.There were an hit of the missile and 5 hits of drones, at 5 locations, as well as the fall of fragments of downed aircraft at 4 locations.In the region of Sumy, a Russian drone attacked a civilian truck in the Buryn community, a man was seriously injured.In the past 24 hours, a person was killed and 15 were injured by Russian attacks on the region of Sumy. A Russian attack in the Novgorod-Siversky district of the region of Chernihiv killed a person and injured 2, a car and a warehouse on the territory of an agricultural enterprise caught fire, which was extinguished.A Russian drone struck a truck in the Kharkiv region, causing casualties, the exact number of fatalities was not disclosed.About 30 attacks by Russian aerial bombs and drones were carried out in four districts of the region of Dnipro…