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Ukraine

Ukraine War Situation Update: 17 - 23 May 2025

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In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued to advance east of Pokrovsk and north of Velyka Novosilka, where they seized a village. Russian forces also made significant advances in the offensive on Kostiantynivka, capturing a village east of the town.

Russian forces captured two settlements north of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region and consolidated their gains at the international border in the Sumy region.

ACLED records at least 24 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in Kyiv city and the Kyiv region, as well as the western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk and Zhytomyr.

Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 34 civilians in the Sumy, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes reportedly killed four civilians in the Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Kharkiv regions.