This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

It is noted that after launching into the target orbit, the satellite was assigned the serial number Cosmos-2556.

On the morning of May 19, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.