Mutual accusations of shelling, sanctions against US citizens and an interview with Zelensky. The main thing is to May 21

All aspects of the conflict speak of shelling of their territories. The Russian Foreign Ministry included Morgan Freeman's sanctions list. Zelensky said that the number of Ukrainian troops reached 700 thousand people. The main thing about hostilities in Ukraine by the evening of May 21.

Shelling

• The Ukrainian side said that the Russian military fired at the Kharkov , Rivne and Chernihiv regions . According to Ukrainian officials, 20 people were injured near Kharkov, six victims in the Rivne region.
• Representatives of the LPR said that the Ukrainian military fired at Pervomaisk, there is no information about the victims. The DPR announced that the rocket was shot down over the Ilovaysky, as a result of which two local residents were injured.
• The governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit also spoke about the shelling of the territory. According to him, from mortars and artillery guns, the village of Popovoi was fired in in the Glushkovsky district of the region. There are no injured and serious destruction.

Other military operations

• At the morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov said that Russian high-precision missiles destroyed fuel storage facilities in the Odessa region, “weapons from the USA and Europe” in the Zhytomyr region and other goals.
• The head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Sergei Gaidai, said during the Ukrainian telemarathon that the Russian army "abandoned all his strength" to storm Severodonetsk. Gaidai expressed hope for the re -equipment and regrouping of Ukrainian troops in this area.

Sanctions

• The Russian Foreign Ministry for banned the entry of 963 to the country of US citizens. The sanctions list included President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, director of the FBI Christopher Ray and other American politicians, as well as journalists and actor Morgan Freeman. The Foreign Ministry explained that in 2017, Freeman accused Russia "of a conspiracy against the United States."
• Personal sanctions were imposed on Canada citizens. Entrance to Russia was closed for the wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as Canadian military and entrepreneurs.

Policy

• President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky gave an interview to ICTV. He stated that the total number of Ukrainian army today is 700 thousand people. “Victory will be very complicated. It will be bloody, it will definitely be in battle, but the ending will definitely be in diplomacy, ”he said.
• US President Joe Biden signed the law on the allocation of Ukraine of military, economic and humanitarian aid. Its total amount will be about 40 billion dollars.
• Portugal will also provide assistance to Ukraine, which will transfer to Kyiv up to 250 million euros. The appropriate memorandum signed the premieres of Portugal and Ukraine Antoniu Koshta and Denis Shmygal.
• NATO countries are discussing the possibility of military assistance to Moldova in order to "protect it from Russian invasion." This was stated by the head of the British Foreign Ministry Liz in an interview with Telegraph.
• Since May 21, Russia has stopped supplying gas to Finland. Gazprom explained this decision by Helsinki's refusal to pay for gas in rubles.

Charges against Russian soldiers

• The Ukrainian court considers the case of the Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, who is accused of murdering civilian in the Sumy region. Shishimarin pleaded guilty, the prosecutor's office requires life imprisonment, Ukrainian media write . The verdict will be announced on May 23.
• The SBU said that the department has “indisputable evidence” of Russia's involvement in the shelling of the railway station in Kramatorsk on April 8. As a result of this shelling, 61 people died. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the station was fired by the Ukrainian military.
• According to the publication “ Important Stories ”, 37-year-old Genghis Atantaev, a resident of Pskov, may be involved in the murder of nine people in the Ukrainian buch. There is no official confirmation of this information.

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