Russia Launches 124 Drones at Ukraine as Air Defenses Down 115

6 articles · Updated · Institute for the Study of War · May 23

Ukrainian officials said Russia fired 124 drones and missiles overnight, with 115 intercepted but seven still hitting five locations and debris falling at five others.
Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv oblasts reported strikes on civilian and administrative sites, while Ukrenergo said attacks on energy infrastructure caused outages in Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
A May 20 Russian strike on a UNHCR warehouse in Dnipro killed at least two people and caused more than $1 million in damage to aid and shelter supplies bound for frontline regions.
The barrage came as Western officials increasingly say Ukraine is slowing Russian advances, and as Ukrainian long- and mid-range strikes raise costs for Russian logistics, oil refining and rear-area operations.

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