🔵09.05.2022
19:50 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been holding the line of defense in Rubizhne and Voievodivka, Luhansk region, and remain in control of Sievierodonetsk, a city where the Russian invaders “never set foot.”
19:10 Ukrinform referring to PM Denys Shmygal
The Russian military continues to strike Odesa, including during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal
18:05 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine
According to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Russia has used up around half of all the missiles in its existing arsenal but still has the capacity and component parts to produce new ones
17:47 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
In the city of Popasna, Luhansk Region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are keeping the defense at the new fortified positions.
“Reinforcements have arrived, and we will be gradually clearing settlements nearby,” the region’s military governor Haidai noted
17:26 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol
In Mariupol, the Russian army is trying to blow up the bridge where the evacuation took place
17:21 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Ukrainian military are clearing Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region of the enemy troops, where they crossed the pontoon bridge, said Haidai, head of the regional military administration. More than 40,000 people still remain in the controlled territory of the Luhansk region
17:10 Ukrinform
On May 8, 2022, the Russian military launched a missile strike on a hotel and restaurant complex, which is situated on the coast in the city of Odesa. Ukrinform’s photojournalist paid a visit to the scene in the recreational space
17:08 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian aggressors have forcibly deported almost 1,2 million Ukrainian citizens, including 200 thousand children, to the Russian Federation
16:21 Ukrainska Pravda
Oleksandr Lashyn, Councilman from Mariupol, said, citing his sources, that Russian occupation forces are planning to deploy chemical weapons in an attack on Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steel works on 11 May
15:43 Oleksandr Motuzianyk, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
As of 9 May, Russia has doubled the number of Kalibr-type sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM) carriers in the Black Sea – their total arsenal is up to 50 missiles.
13:45 Ukrainska Pravda
The Russian military failed to gather residents of occupied Melitopol to celebrate 9 May, said Mayor Ivan Fedorov, adding that people continue to flee the occupied city, even though it is difficult to do so
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13:34 Novoye Vremya
Russian invaders launched a “Victory Day” parade in destroyed Mariupol, while mass graves of civilians they murdered are still being filled with new and new corpses. Mariupol mayor’s advisor has reported the occupiers were celebrating while Russian forces were bombing AzovStal
11:04 Odesa City Council
On May 9, Russian troops attacked the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with four Oniks cruise missiles fired from the temporarily occupied Crimea.
10:31 Ukrainska Pravda
During a Victory Day parade on Monday, May 9, President of Russia Vladimir Putin delivered a propagandistic speech justifying the full-scale war against Ukraine, but did not announce a full-scale mobilization
9:36 Suspilne.Kherson
In occupied Kherson, the Russian military held a celebration on May 9. A small group of people with red flags gathered in the Park of Glory. Everything was being filmed for the Russian media. Earlier it was reported that people from Crimea would be brought for this purpose
9:30 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Russian army is attempting to “cut” the Luhansk Region “off” from the rest of Ukraine by seizing control over the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway. Russian military equipment has already managed to cross the Siverskyi Donets river.
9:13 Office of the Prosecutor General
A total of 226 children have been killed and 415 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started on February 24. Among the recently reported cases – death of a 13-year-old girl who was killed while in a convoy of private cars in the Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region, on May 4
9:03 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
The Russian occupiers, with the support of aircraft and artillery, focused their efforts on trying to take control of Rubizhne and preparing to continue the offensive in the direction of Lysychansk – head of the Luhansk regional military administration
8:54 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol
In Mariupol, the occupiers resumed the assault on Azovstal. After the UN evacuation convoy left the Donetsk region, the Russians attempted to break through the bridge which was the gate of the evacuation
8:42 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration
Two volunteers from the Zakarpattia region, Nazar Dychuk and Dmytro Byts, were killed in an air strike on a school in Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast
8:00 Sviatoslav Palamar, Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment
The situation at the Azovstal metallurgical plant has become critical as wounded soldiers are dying with no proper medical assistance available.
3:10 Press service of the British government
The UK’s government has imposed new sanctions against Russia: the ban on the import of Russian platinum and palladium products, as well as, the ban on the export of chemicals, plastics, and rubber to Russia
1:50 “Pivden” (South) Operational Command
On May 8, in defence of Ukraine’s southern front, Ukrainian defenders exposed and thwarted an attempt by the Russian forces to take out a reconnaissance team, as well as killing 51 invaders and destroying their equipment
1:03 Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
The Canadian government is imposing new sanctions against Russia. In particular, the new sanctions list includes 21 oligarchs and supporters of the Russian regime, as well as 19 people from the Russian defense sector. The Canadian government is also abolishing import duties on Ukrainian goods for 12 months –
0:39 ZN.uaIn Russia, covert mobilization may have already started. Call-up papers received by Russians of the military age are widely published on Russian social media
