On May 22, 2001, at about 2 pm, the Russian military, using weapons, committed a robbery attack on the building of the Ministry of Education of the Chechen Republic, located on Pobedy Avenue in Grozny.

The Russian army struck the Dnepropetrovsk region, wounding at least eight people.

On May 21, 2001, the Russian military seized the shepherds: Avala Dakaev, born in 1941, and his 27-year-old son Musa Avaluevich Dakaev, who lived at 3 Rostovskaya Street in the village of Goity, Urus-Martan District.

On the afternoon of May 20, the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the complete capture of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.

On May 20, 2001, employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies (it is not known who exactly the Human Rights Center “Memorial”) took Khas-Magomed Tsugaev from his home in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Urus-Martan District.

In the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region, 5 people were wounded, including an 11-year-old child, as a result of Russian shelling from Grad multiple launch rocket systems.

On May 19, 2001, at about 2 pm near the food market in the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny (not far from the crossroads of the road from the city center to the village of Staraya Sunzha), a white VAZ-2107 car was fired upon from a passing convoy of Russian military men.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Ukraine has begun using British long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles capable of striking at a distance of up to 290 kilometers.

On May 18, 2001, at 0500, Russian units cordoned off the entire perimeter of the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali district. Armored vehicles were posted near each intersection in the village. Having finished the preparations, the military began to enter in advance, apparently, the planned houses and grab their tenants. At the same time, weapons were used at least once.

At night, Russia again fired cruise missiles at Kyiv. The Ukrainian Armed Forces reports 29 missiles shot down by air defense forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system during the shelling of Kyiv. The Ukrainian military does not confirm this information.
In Crimea, a train carrying grain derailed as a result of sabotage.
Prominent Chinese diplomat Li Hui visited Kyiv.