Russian military forces continued their campaign of aerial and artillery assaults on Ukrainian cities and towns, inflicting civilian casualties and damaging critical infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Donetsk regions overnight and into May 26–27.
In Dnipropetrovsk region, two people were injured as a result of a nighttime drone attack. According to Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Ukrainian air defense units shot down five drones over the region during the night. Despite this, a strike on the Samarskyi district resulted in a man being wounded and fires breaking out in a private home and an outbuilding.
Meanwhile, in the Nikopol district, Russian forces carried out artillery shelling, launched FPV drone attacks, and dropped munitions from UAVs. Communities in Nikopol, Marhanets, and Pokrovska came under fire. An ambulance and a passenger vehicle were damaged in the attacks.
In Kherson region, eight civilians, including two children, sustained injuries on May 26 due to Russian shelling and airstrikes. Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, reported that numerous settlements were targeted, including Kherson, Antonivka, Sadove, Prydniprovske, Komyshany, Bilozerka, Stanislav, Veletenske, Poniativka, Beryslav, Novovorontsovka, and others.
The strikes damaged multiple civilian properties, including apartment buildings, private homes, a gas pipeline, a mobile communications tower, and several private vehicles.
In Donetsk region, one person was killed and two others were injured on May 26. Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said the fatality occurred in the village of Rozkishne. He also noted that the total number of civilians killed by Russian aggression in the region has reached 3,225, with 7,182 more injured — figures that do not include the besieged and heavily damaged cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Early on May 27, Russian forces conducted three airstrikes on Kramatorsk, targeting both private and multi-story residential areas. According to the city’s military administration chief, Oleksandr Honcharenko, the attacks damaged private homes, garages, apartment buildings, a trolleybus power network, vehicles, a transformer system, and other infrastructure. No injuries were reported at the time of writing.
In parallel with the physical destruction, Russian propaganda continues to spread disinformation. Kremlin-aligned sources are now falsely claiming that Ukrainian forces are preventing civilian evacuations in Kramatorsk to use residents as "human shields."
These latest attacks underscore the ongoing danger to civilians in frontline and near-frontline regions of Ukraine, as Russian forces escalate their use of drone warfare and indiscriminate bombardment.
