🟡08.05.2022
19:29 Ukrinform
The invaders failed to force the abducted former head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Andrei Putilov, to recognize the temporarily occupied Crimea as Russian. This was reported by the local media Most.
18:46 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi
There was a missile attack on the territory of the Shostka district of the Sumy region.
18:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 of May 8, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlo Kovalchuk).
The seventy-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.
The Russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
- The Russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
- The main focus of the Russian enemy’s efforts was to destroy the airfield infrastructure in order to prevent the actions of Ukrainian aircraft, including the Bayraktar UAV, to support the actions of air units in the area of responsibility of the Joint Forces and the Black Sea Operational Zone. Increased the intensity of operational and tactical aviation over the northwestern Black Sea.
- In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. Until May 27 this year, a training meeting of territorial defence units will be held in the Minsk district with the involvement of conscripts who are in reserve.
- There is a possibility that the units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation will launch missile and bomb attacks on the infrastructure of Ukraine from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.
- The Russian enemy did not take active action in the northern direction. Intensified units of the Border Guard Service, as well as units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to be detained at checkpoints and in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions.
- Further fire damage to our troops and infrastructure in the border areas is not ruled out.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy is concentrating reserves in the Belgorod region for hostilities near the state border of Ukraine. The deployment of separate units from the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District has been confirmed in these areas.
- Russian occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations in the Kharkiv direction. The main efforts were focused on preventing the advance of Ukrainian troops. The group of Russian enemies was strengthened by relocating units from the Western Military District from the area of recovery. Military and civilian infrastructure continues to be shelled.
- In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy regrouped its units, replenished its reserves in order to increase its offensive capabilities, and conducted air reconnaissance with the use of the Orlan-10 UAV in order to clarify the positions of Ukrainian troops.
- In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy is fighting to restrain the actions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
- During the last day, the Russian enemy intensified hostilities. It is trying to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Carried out regrouping, replenishment of losses, and increased air defence systems and logistics, presumably in order to intensify hostilities in the settlements of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.
- In the Lyman direction, separate units of the 90th Tank Division tried to take full control of the settlement of Oleksandrivka, as well as, with the support of artillery, gain a foothold in the northern outskirts of the settlement of Shandryholovo. It was not successful.
- In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the Russian enemy is trying to seize the settlement of Rubizhne, but without success.
- In the Popasna direction, the Russian enemy is trying to take up positions in the settlement of Popasna and take control of the section of the Popasna-Bakhmut highway.
- The Russian enemy is advancing in the direction of the settlement of Novoselivka, it has no success, and the fighting continues.
- In the Kurakhiv direction, the Russian enemy is trying to improve the tactical situation in the direction of the settlement of Novomykhailivka but has had no success.
- In the Mariupol direction, the intensity of hostilities has been reduced.
- In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, the Russian enemy intensified air reconnaissance in the areas of the settlements of Orikhiv, Huliaipole, Komyshuvakha, and Yasna Poliana.
- In the South Buh area, the Russian enemy is trying to hold positions with forces of up to 15 battalion tactical groups. It does not carry out active hostilities. It fired mortars, artillery, and rocket-propelled grenades at the positions of our troops. Carried out replenishment of losses. It used military aircraft in the area of the town of Careyerne.
- Measures of the administrative-police regime in the temporarily occupied territories are underway. Thus, there is an intensification of filtering measures by Rosguard units in the areas of Heroiske, Hola Prystan, and Kherson settlements.
- There is a possibility that assault operations will be carried out in certain areas in order to improve the tactical situation, bind our troops and prevent the transfer of reserves.
- The moral and psychological condition of the Russian occupiers remains low, there is a systematic use of alcohol and desertion. The personnel of the Russian enemy’s units complain about the ineffectiveness of their attacks on the position of the Defence Forces of Ukraine in the Huliaipole area.
18:21 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration
The enemy continued shelling the settlements of the Kharkiv region. As a result of fire strikes of occupiers, 5 people were wounded, and 3 died.
In the city of Bohodukhiv and the district, 3 people were injured, and 2 died. In the Kharkiv district, 2 people were injured, and 1 person died.
17:45 European Pravda
The US Embassy has announced the return to Kyiv of Chargé d’Affaires Kristina Kvien and other US diplomats, according to a press release issued by the US Embassy in Ukrainian media.
17:09 Office of the President of Ukraine
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President of the Norwegian Storting Masud Gharahkhani who paid a visit to Ukraine.
16:40 European Pravda
Hungary has once again blocked the approval of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which provided for the gradual introduction of an oil embargo on petroleum products.
16:31 Irpen Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn
The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau visited Irpin.
16:22 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for the Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova
“Dozens of corpses of civilians are found under each dismantled house. Therefore, there are well-founded suspicions that the official figures for human losses in Mariupol will be much higher than 20,000.”
15:19 Zakarpattia Regional Council
US First Lady Jill Biden is currently visiting Uzhhorod.
14:55 European Pravda
The Croatian Embassy resumes work in Kyiv.
14:04 Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov
According to law enforcement agencies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers plan to shoot civilians, disperse protesters, do everything possible to provoke chaos and panic during the May 9 celebrations, and then accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:36 Operational Command South
During the night, the enemy continued to launch missile strikes on the Odesa region. Two missiles were shot down by air defence forces. Another 6 were hit at various sites in the region. Including damage to private homes of civilians, and critical infrastructure. There are victims among the locals.
At the same time, 44 combat missions were completed by the forces and means of our units, in particular with the use of the Bayraktar UAV.
With skillful actions, Ukrainian units prevented the naval landings on the island. The enemy tried to do it with 3 speedboats. After hitting and damaging one of the boats, the other two fled from the island as far into the sea as possible under the threat of a strike from the Bayraktars.
12:13 Suspilne
Bärbel Bas, President of the German Bundestag, pays an official visit to Kyiv. She will take part in commemorative events dedicated to the end of World War II.
8:59 Suspilne
The Russian military kidnaps Crimean Tatars in the Kherson region and sends them to the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre.
8:55 European Pravda
Biden and Trudeau coordinated steps to respond to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“We focused on Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and our ongoing coordinated response. We’re committed to supporting Ukrainians and holding the Russian regime accountable – and tomorrow, we’ll speak about that more with other G7 leaders,” wrote Trudeau on Twitter.
