Russia attacks Ukraine: live update, May 2022

🔵07.05.2022

22:45 Ukrinform citing the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukraine is preparing the second stage of the evacuation mission from Azovstal for the wounded and medics. Work is also underway to remove the military from the plant.

21:43 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians dropped an air bomb on a school in Bilohorivka. There were about 90 people in the school. About 30 people have already been rescued from the rubble. The rescue operation continues. According to preliminary information, 60 people died.

20:20 Energoatom

One of the flasks with radioactive material stolen by Russian troops, which they took out of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant during the occupation, was found in Bucha.

20:01 Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russians fired on Pryvillia with BM-21 Grad. Two children died. A woman and two other children were seriously injured.

19:11 Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk

All women, children, and the elderly were evacuated from Azovstal. This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation has been completed.

15:15 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian aircraft fired on the Sumy region and the territory of the Russian Federation.

14:16 The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine

The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine launched a digital platform that displays in real-time the territories that are temporarily occupied, as well as those that are surrounded (blocked) and where active hostilities are taking place.

06:35 Ukrinform

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi supports Ukraine’s appeal to Congress to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism

“Putin is a coward. He’s fighting – instead of fighting a war, he’s fighting against civilians. He’s fighting against children. He’s using that as a weapon of war. So I think, absolutely, that they should be on that list of state-sponsored terrorists, and I’m hoping that will happen,” said Pelosi.

01:40 SuspilneThe National Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Skovorodynivka, Zolochiv district, Kharkiv region, was destroyed by a direct hit of a Russian missile.