Sunday, May 24, 2026

Payback With Fury: Russia Hammers Ukraine With Oreshnik, Iskander and Kinzhal Missiles


Sputnik



The Russian army unleashed a massive retaliatory strike with Oreshnik ballistic missiles, against military command facilities, airbases, and defense industry enterprises of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
"In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks against civilian facilities on Russian soil, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a massive strike using Oreshnik ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, Zircon cruise missiles, air-, sea-, and ground-launched cruise missiles, hitting unmanned aerial vehicles, military command facilities, airbases, and Ukraine’s arms factories," the ministry's report stated.
The objectives of the strike have been achieved, and all designated targets have been hit, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized.


Ukraine lost over 265 soldiers in combat against Russia's Vostok battlegroup, over 175 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated by Russia's Sever battlegroup, over 305 by the Tsentr battlegroup
Up to 180 Ukraine's servicemen were neutralized by the Zapad battlegroup, up to 90 by the Yug battlegroup, and over 50 by the Dnepr battlegroup


Over 50 Reporters Head to Site of Brutal Ukrainian Attack on Starobelsk College Dormitory
Twenty-one students died and dozens more were injured as a result of the Ukrainian drone attack on a high school building and a dormitory in Starobelsk, the Lugansk People's Republic, on Friday night. 
More than 50 foreign journalists have headed to the scene of the attack carried out by the Ukrainian military on a college dormitory in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
“Today, media representatives from 19 countries have arrived in the Lugansk People’s Republic: Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the United States, Turkiye, Finland, and France.

"Tokyo prohibited its journalists from taking part in the trip. The BBC officially declined. CNN is on vacation”, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
On the night of May 22, Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory at the Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. There were 86 students and an employee in the building at the time.


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