The heaviest fighting took place in the Pokrovsk, Huliaipole and Lyman sectors. The enemy is also active in the Slobozhanskyi and Kostiantynivka sectors. A total of 267 combat engagements were recorded over the past 24 hours.

In Kharkiv, law enforcement officers are investigating the circumstances of an accident involving the city’s deputy mayor, Ivan Kuznetsov. A 43-year-old motorcyclist was killed in the crash.

On the night of May 28, 2026, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of key targets belonging to the Russian occupiers in Crimea, as well as UAV command posts and ammunition and military equipment depots in the occupied territories.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have eliminated 1,361,070 Russian invaders.

During a UN Security Council meeting, Russia rejected the US demand not to attack Kyiv and announced possible new strikes on command posts. Washington described such actions as dangerous and escalatory.

On the night of 29 May, Russian drones attacked the dry cargo ship ANT, which was sailing under the flag of Vanuatu (the ship’s owner is Turkey) from a port in the Odesa region to Turkey with a cargo on board.

On the night of 29 May, in the Romanian border town of Galați, a drone crashed into a high-rise building and exploded. Two people were injured.

On the night of 29 May, a major fire broke out at the Lukoil oil refinery in Volgograd following a drone attack.

On the night of 29 May, a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia caused a fire and damaged a multi-storey residential building.

The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill exempting supplies of unmanned ground systems from VAT for the duration of martial law.