This is a special issue of the Russian Military Digest dedicated to the Russo-Ukrainian War, composed on the basis of numerous open sources. You can see older issues of the Digest here.
Kursk-Sumy Area
Fighting in the area continued without major changes.
Kharkiv Area
West of Vovchansk, Ukrainians pushed Russians further back in village Starytsya.
East of Vovchansk, Russians likely took village Volokhivka.
Kupyansk-Lyman Area
Russians pushed forward a little on the eastern outskirts of Lyman.
Kramatorsk-Slovyansk Area
Fighting in the area continued without major changes.
Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka Area
Intense fighting continued in the city of Kostyantynivka.
Pokrovsk-Novopavlivka Area
North of Hryshyne, Russians pushed forward in the space east of village Vasylivka.
Zaporizhzhia Area
In the east, Russians pushed Ukrainians out of Novohryhorivka, and advanced from there towards Verbove.
Nearby, Ukrainians completed re-taking Kalynivske.
Russians advanced within Verkhnya Tersa, and entered Huliaipilske from the east.
Ukrainians pushed Russians out of villages Mala Tokmachka and Bilohirya.
In the west, Ukrainians advanced within Stepnohirsk and Prymorske.
A static shot from the Russo-Ukrainian War interactive map. The southern front in the Zaporizhzhia area by the afternoon, 22 May 2026. All information on the maps is approximate.
Black Sea-Dnipro River Area
Fighting in the area continued without major changes.