The former power minister was sentenced to 75 years in jail in absentia earlier this month.

Following a drone attack in Russia, fires broke out at the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Kstovo and at the Azot chemical plant in Nevinnomyssk.

Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 131 strike drones out of the 154 launched by Russian invaders since the evening of May 19.

Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops engaged in 250 clashes during the previous day, with 43 occurring in the Pokrovsk direction. The enemy also showed high activity in the Huliaipole sector.

In the Sumy region, four people were killed and nine wounded in Russian attacks over the past 24 hours.

Total combat losses among Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to May 20, 2026, amount to approximately 1,352,070 personnel, including 920 over the past 24 hours.

As a result of the Russian drone attack on Odesa, residential areas, warehouses, and critical infrastructure were damaged.

Ukraine has the right to continue striking Russian oil facilities, despite calls from the West to limit such attacks, as the survival of the state is at stake.

Two people were killed and six were wounded in a nighttime attack on Dnipro.

Four people, including two children, were injured and a private home was destroyed as a result of an attack on Vilniansk in the Zaporizhzhia district.